I kinda wish Maxis would just make a more developped, more in-depth Spore 2 and drop SimCity. Or hand it to some other company or something.
A few months ago I told myself I would wait and see how the game comes out before throwing out judgement. And on this, At first I was like, what seriously, casual gaming. Then I thought well, you sort of lose but they let you still play to get it back on track. Which I think is a solid idea.
Now i'm kind of in the middle on this one. I like the game saying, "Dude, you fucking suck, give up." because I was scared of it and tried to avoid it. On the other hand, a game that lets itself fall deeper and deeper in debt is kind of... refreshing. You can make a US government that keeps paying debt with more debt.
There's no winning in Sim City. Only profit and loss in financial
Once they took out saving and re-loading your save, they said Shit, we have to make this where you can't lose
I don't care.
I'll still enjoy the fuck out of this because I'll never go bankrupt.
And if you dislike this, then just have a personal rule "If I go bankrupt, I'll delete the save"
Problem solved.
umm hasn't this been how every sim city game as been?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;38816021]umm hasn't this been how every sim city game as been?[/QUOTE]
IIRC you got kicked from being a mayor in Simcity 4 if you did really bad economically.
Dumbing down a well renowned game to cater to a casual audience, what's new here?
I don't really mind this.
If you see yourself as a "hardcore pro gamer" and hit the no cash line, then just quit yourself instead of continuing while thinking "Fucking casual game won't tell me it's game over"?
I don't think people are actually reading the article.
I think this is just fine. The game itself never [I]actually[/I] ends, it just gets [I]really really shitty[/I] to keep going.
[QUOTE=Pr0fane;38815999]I don't care.
I'll still enjoy the fuck out of this because I'll never go bankrupt.
And if you dislike this, then just have a personal rule "If I go bankrupt, I'll delete the save"
Problem solved.[/QUOTE]
Except you cant delete saves :v:
I don't think I ever lost SimCity, other than the scenarios, those were hard as shit.
Still looking forward to this, and like someone said, if you want your loss condition so badly just start over when you reach 0$.
I think people are taking this the wrong way. He says you can get into mountains of debt, which is worse than losing imo.
If anything that is better than what it was. Trying to recover from debt is more fun than being told "you fucked up, game over."
take cover and let your health regenerate
I don't really see this as intense casualization, I don't remember ever seeing an "end game" screen back when I played Sim City 2 or 3, but then again it's been years.
So basically you can't lose but you can get in situations where starting a new city would put you in a better position? Sounds alright to me, I don't get what all the complaining is about.
I first thought they added government bailouts.
[QUOTE=Pr0fane;38815999]
And if you dislike this, then just have a personal rule "If I go bankrupt, I'll delete the save"
Problem solved.[/QUOTE]
What if the save file was attached to your EA Origin account, and you couldn't edit it in any way.
Realism taken too far.
I think sinking into loads of debt is a helluva lot cooler than "game over try again fucker."
[quote]"In the worst case, if you run completely out of money, you can turn off all of your government buildings,"[/quote]
And the city gets overrun with criminals, raging fires go on unhindered and people die from having no medical facilities available.
Nice, I like this.
This game is a simulation game, that goes hand-in-hand with there being no hard win/lose scenario. People who play simulation games want to experiment and see what happens when they bankrupt the government, not be greeted by a game over screen.
It would be awesome if when the government shut down in a large city things became all anarchic and people started looting and burning buildings down and armed gangs started roaming the streets.
Don't see how this is casual unless you make a habit of forming opinions from titles of articles.
Its always fun losing in SimCity.. You actually learn from your losses and eventually make a city that is very successful
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;38816247]I think this is just fine. The game itself never [I]actually[/I] ends, it just gets [I]really really shitty[/I] to keep going.[/QUOTE]
Just like real America!!
This is more fun and more realistic. In the real world cities don't just say "game over", no matter how in debt a city or country is it always pulls through to some degree
Lmao this is basically how it was in every sim city, you pretty much just fucked your city over so much it was hard to recover from, and that in of itself was basically like "losing"
Of course the real shitty thing about this is that you can't just start over on a new city or load a different save game since its all connected to your account and thier social network. So basically you have your one shitty little city and the only thing you can do is bascially leave it like that forever and start a new one
It would be cool if it were like Dwarf Fortress, where you technically can't lose but you can get stuck in a hole so deep you can't recover and forced to start a new game.
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and your citizens go insane and start strangling each other
the question i have is will there be a detroit mode
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