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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #45 on: March 08, 2012, 01:05:29 am »
Quote from: Gauphastus on March 07, 2012, 06:12:58 pm
Also, yeah. Pat's right.
Ocean Quigley.

So Mr. and Mrs. ****ing Quigley decide to name their kid Ocean.
Alright.

In LadyM's Sims house my Sims had an alien baby named Ocean, who was named after him. Also for Some reason i recall Will Wright being there too.



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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #46 on: March 08, 2012, 01:55:50 am »
No, I only remember that I was there. And I was glorious!

Also that Sim City Origin page is probably fak- oh ****nuggets!! It isn't...


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lol nothing but concept art up and they've already got a pre-order link and 8 pieces of DLC.

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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #47 on: March 08, 2012, 07:51:01 am »
Professional.
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #48 on: March 08, 2012, 07:57:18 am »
From that page, under game features:
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    More Details
    Multi Player 1-16
    Online Only
    Genre: Simulation
    Release Date: 2013
    Developers: Maxis Emeryville
    Publisher: Electronic Arts

Well, goodnight everybody. This was fun for a little while.


(In all seriousness, I'm still gonna wait to see what Maxis has to say about this before I believe it completely...but I'm getting less and less enthused as time goes on.)
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #49 on: March 08, 2012, 11:30:14 am »
"Online only" means Origin. ::)
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #50 on: March 08, 2012, 12:19:40 pm »
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #51 on: March 08, 2012, 03:01:54 pm »
From the AMA:
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We’re making SimCity, not some dopey casual game.
The most important thing is the integrity of the simulation underneath it, the stuff that represents the systems that make up a real city. I don’t want to enforce sustainable design principles in the game – I want them to emerge as natural consequences of your interaction with the simulation.

This is good. Excitement restored.

(Look, I'm probably going to go back and forth on this a million times before the game is released, for which I apologize in advance.)
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Re: SimCity 5
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #53 on: March 08, 2012, 03:04:47 pm »
Yeah, that's the one aspect they seem to be avoiding giving a direct answer on.
But if the underlying game itself is solid, for now at least, I can see myself looking past it.
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #54 on: March 08, 2012, 03:24:45 pm »
Quote from: sgore on March 08, 2012, 03:01:54 pm
(Look, I'm probably going to go back and forth on this a million times before the game is released, for which I apologize in advance.)

Same here. I feel better about it now reading all these responses; still, in the back of my mind I can feel myself waiting, dreading when they say that thing, that ONE GODDAMN THING that just slays any and all interest I have.

I'm just a man, man. I have my limits.




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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #55 on: March 09, 2012, 02:45:04 am »
Some new Sim City 5 news reported by Space Oddity about the GDC 2012 Glassbox Demo videos.
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #56 on: March 09, 2012, 05:31:13 am »
Hi guys, how are you all doing?   8)

You might also like a  link to the slides of the GlassBox talk (https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=YW5kcmV3d2lsbG1vdHQuY29tfHd3d3xneDo3MWVmZmY5ZTMwNzYzOTNk&pli=1) to go with that. It looks like they could easily use that for other sim games as well. I would love to see an updated SimTower, SimAnt or SimEarth...

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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #57 on: March 09, 2012, 09:30:44 am »
That's all pretty neat. Thanks for the slides.
I had seen the videos earlier. Pretty short but amusing demonstrations of what exactly the engine does. Strikes me as something that would use a good bit of CPU power, which is nice because this quad core I have has been useless for three years.

And yeah, I'd like to see other things they can do with this.
I played SimAnt and SimEarth on SNES. SimAnt I could grasp and eventually beat (take THAT, you lawnmowing douche!), but SimEarth... ooof.
I'm sure there are other things we haven't even thought about though.

I like the idea of dealing with resources in these citybuilding games though. Cities XL had it and I thought it was marvelous, though frustratingly limiting and poorly executed at times.
Of course this makes me wonder how the SimCity 5 map editor will work now, or if there will even be one at all.
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #58 on: March 09, 2012, 10:05:02 am »
Well, they do show the layers of the map complete with coal at one point in the video, so I would guess that the game will have an editor. All of the Maxis versions of the game has one, if I remember correctly.

SimEarth was very difficult to master (non of my worlds became stable) which I find interesting in itself. Too hard for a modern game I guess, but that is part of the fascination: can something along the same lines be done, in a way that is less frustrating.  8)
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Re: SimCity 5
« Reply #59 on: March 09, 2012, 11:22:19 am »
I love this slideshow.
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