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Sim City (5)
- Thread starter Rhino172
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R26
Released a week today chaps (iirc).
Really looking forward to this, watched a load of videos from people playing the closed beta, looks epic!
I've even installed windows on my iMac as I don't want to wait for the OSX version which comes out much later.
Really looking forward to this, watched a load of videos from people playing the closed beta, looks epic!
I've even installed windows on my iMac as I don't want to wait for the OSX version which comes out much later.
seb
ClioSport Club Member
Clio trophy
Im going to have to unearth my old computer from the loft and rebuild it just for this game !
R26
Signed up to a VPN service today, so should be able to download this tomorrow as its released in the US.
It'll come handy when I'm abroad too when wanting to watch iplayer etc
It'll come handy when I'm abroad too when wanting to watch iplayer etc
http://www.twitch.tv/totalbiscuit/b/373197925
TotalBiscuit playing the full game. About an hour and a bit in his American girlfriend shows him how to play properly, lols!
TotalBiscuit playing the full game. About an hour and a bit in his American girlfriend shows him how to play properly, lols!
R26
FFS doesn't sound good.
I can't stand EA, anything to do with them and its bound to be s**t. Just hope the game lives up to the hype.
I've read a lot of people complaining about the small size of the map, and that you can't have massive cities like you used to be able to do.
I can't stand EA, anything to do with them and its bound to be s**t. Just hope the game lives up to the hype.
I've read a lot of people complaining about the small size of the map, and that you can't have massive cities like you used to be able to do.
Greeny.
ClioSport Club Member
440i + 182
EA/Origin is s**t granted, but im afraid to say it but they do have some awesome games, bf3 for example. Ill get getting Sim City, not for the Origin price though!
The focus is more on interconnected cities, rather than massive ones.
There have been rumours of much larger maps coming as DLC
R26
I'm really not looking forward to waiting while my shitty Internet connection attempts to download the 12GB file!!
I might even wake up very early in the morning, start it off then go back to bed lol!
I might even wake up very early in the morning, start it off then go back to bed lol!
Lots of early impressions doing the rounds, it sounds as though even though you can play completely on your own (looking after more than one city in your region), the game really isn't geared up for that, it's much better playing with other people in the region. The main issue from the people who have had press access for a while is that if somebody just leaves their city (but doesn't officially abandon it so someone else can take it on) it has a massive knock on effect to the other cities in the region to the point where it pretty much runs the other cities into the ground with little you can do about it. The city size just compounds the problem as there is very little room to dig yourself out a hole.
Tonnes of bugs as well, lots of messages about cities not being connected to the main transport links (even though that's the first thing you do in a new city), random buildings not receiving water despite being connected to a road in a city with massive overcapacity etc.
I'm waiting for the Mac release, but it sounds like pretty much the ultimate single player game has gone fully multiplayer.
Tonnes of bugs as well, lots of messages about cities not being connected to the main transport links (even though that's the first thing you do in a new city), random buildings not receiving water despite being connected to a road in a city with massive overcapacity etc.
I'm waiting for the Mac release, but it sounds like pretty much the ultimate single player game has gone fully multiplayer.
R26
Yup and that's a mighty shame.
This was the sort of game I'd love as a frequent traveller. Get it out in the hotel and have a blast for an hour or so. But if the hotel hasn't got wifi, I can't play it!!
I'm really excited about this game, I can see myself really enjoying it for a bit, then just leaving it after I get fed up with all the limitations.
But EA won't give a s**t, they've got my money, which is all that matters to them.
This was the sort of game I'd love as a frequent traveller. Get it out in the hotel and have a blast for an hour or so. But if the hotel hasn't got wifi, I can't play it!!
I'm really excited about this game, I can see myself really enjoying it for a bit, then just leaving it after I get fed up with all the limitations.
But EA won't give a s**t, they've got my money, which is all that matters to them.
Complete s**t storm by the sounds of things, the review sites can't even review it!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/gamers-line-up-to-play-simcity/#more-144319
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Orig...ease-and-Digital-Deluxe-Editions-334343.shtml
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/04/simcitys-always-online-functionality-trips-up-the-review-process/
http://kotaku.com/5988286/simcity-won-and-broke-my-heart-in-just-three-days
"More problematic (for me) was my home network set-up and a wi-fi router that has taken to dropping connections of late. If you lose an internet connection while playing SimCity will most likely stop and you will be forced back to the loading screen. Sucks to be whatever sims you may have been trying to help or rescue. If you do not have a connection when you try to start playing, the game will not start.While I did have one brief experience of being able to continue playing the game offline in a private server environment with no other invited players, in all other cases (about 8 separate times, over the course of three days) the game simply halted and waited, politely, for connectivity to be restored."
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/05/gamers-line-up-to-play-simcity/#more-144319
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Orig...ease-and-Digital-Deluxe-Editions-334343.shtml
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/04/simcitys-always-online-functionality-trips-up-the-review-process/
http://kotaku.com/5988286/simcity-won-and-broke-my-heart-in-just-three-days
"More problematic (for me) was my home network set-up and a wi-fi router that has taken to dropping connections of late. If you lose an internet connection while playing SimCity will most likely stop and you will be forced back to the loading screen. Sucks to be whatever sims you may have been trying to help or rescue. If you do not have a connection when you try to start playing, the game will not start.While I did have one brief experience of being able to continue playing the game offline in a private server environment with no other invited players, in all other cases (about 8 separate times, over the course of three days) the game simply halted and waited, politely, for connectivity to be restored."
Officially their servers are actually processing quite a bit of the game engine, so it simply won't work without being connected. They are selling the whole 'multiple users in a region thing', but I honestly don't understand why they couldn't have a single player offline version, surely the server side calculations aren't that taxing for a decent PC? It's going to take some serious work to hack it, as far as I understand.
Obviously everyone else just believes (probably correctly) it's a cynical attempt at blocking piracy, as well as being a nice way of tying it to an online marketplace.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
I don't understand this obsession with multiplayer in games? Just as DanPhoto says - at times its great to simply fire up the PC, have a blat for an hour and then shut it down. It your time choice and you're not buggering up the game commitments for the other players by dropping out early.
I partially blame the media for this. It's almost a given red-card when a pure single-player game gets released. The rather excellent Hard Reset is a prime example of this. A graphically great FPS game - but slated by the media for its lack of multiplayer. MP has its place - Forza, BF3, Company of Heroes, etc. But equally, so does SP. And to hinder an established classic like the SimCity franchise with that, is just plain stupid imo.
What next? No single player option for Civilization VI??
D.
R26
You will never stop piracy. Fact.
I've paid for this game, but if a cracked single player version comes out ill download it. EA can f**k off frankly.
I've paid for this game, but if a cracked single player version comes out ill download it. EA can f**k off frankly.
Well you can if you make it On-line only like MMORPG's, with the servers doing some of the work. Which is what they are looking to achieve I reckon.
It reminds me of most MMORPG releases - massive server queues and bug ridden gameplay.
Bums.
R26
You can't download it until Friday anyway iirc.
You can't even preload it which is s**t too!
You can't even preload it which is s**t too!
Greeny.
ClioSport Club Member
440i + 182
Very retarded that you can't preload it. This online DRM s**t really pisses me off, it hardly ever works properly for the first week and ends up down randomly at times, surely these company's making millions should get their fingers out and put some more resource in getting it to work first time!!
