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Poor ExtraNoise about had an emotional breakdown over starting a stupid thread in the Games forum, that's how bad we all and this game are...
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Modding was only ever mentioned to quell the rage-fires of angry fans prerelease. In reality, as soon as "always online" was agreed on in design meetings, that threw any possibility of modding directly out the window.
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May 1, 2013 19:53
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AnoMouse posted:Sorry if this has been answered, but Scoping a game down to a solid, polished set of core mechanics and systems is generally good design. Look up the term feature creep for more info. I haven't watched the guy's presentation, but given the fact that he was talking to a room full of developers at a game developers' conference leads me to believe that this is what he was talking about. Out of context, though, people are enjoying making him out to be the sole force behind all of simcity's issues, which is fun, but silly.
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May 1, 2013 23:34
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I actually think that city specialization is a bad design choice for a city sim game, but they made a resource management game so nevermind.
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May 2, 2013 22:53
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ExtraNoise, your new title is adorable.
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May 3, 2013 08:26
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Y'alls are wanting different things from this game, obviously. In this game, there are some blatantly bad design decisions, some objectively good decisions, a LOT of downscoping and missteps due to who knows why (budgetary concerns, lack of foresight, disconnect with core audience, suit meddling, etc), and a shitload of bugs. As this is an internet forum, we are all going to choose where to point our magnifying glass to produce the image that satisfies our needs the most, be it "this game is actually pretty fun all things considered" or "this game is a cesspool".
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May 3, 2013 17:30
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MLP is a pretty solid show, although not good enough to explain the whole brony movement. I just watched the first season of the Trim Uprising series and that was really fun. Better characters than either of the movies by far. Also, Phineas and Fern is awesome. I made the P&F art set for Disney Infinity 
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May 4, 2013 09:52
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SimCity 2000 is nothing but good, clean fun.
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May 14, 2013 21:07
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Haha, you can't seem to get rid of ponies.
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May 15, 2013 08:08
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FreelanceSocialist posted:They'll market it as DLC that fixes 33% of the bugs in your city! As long as I can stack multiples to get up to 99%.
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May 16, 2013 23:56
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Well now I want a mod that deletes the restraints on different types of agents and just makes the game treat them all the same. Like that story early on when they switched some lines around and cars were driving along power lines. Back when there were power lines.
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May 18, 2013 23:09
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What? no. It was all about new, unreleased games. The last thing they'd do at the biggest press conference of the year is call attention to their biggest biff of the last year.
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Jun 11, 2013 23:05
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I'm sure that a businessman worth an estimated 1.5 billion dollars has a couple guys who have covered the appropriate bases.
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Jun 24, 2013 22:37
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lol @ Valve being a co-op. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2012/03/07/valve-gabe-newell-billionaire/ quote:Newell, 49, owns more than 50% of privately-held Valve, which he co-founded in 1996 after cashing in stock options earned over a decade producing software for Microsoft. I edited my post above, I was misremembering and hyperbolizing, apparently.
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Jun 24, 2013 23:47
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Phlegmish posted:I was clearly referring to xzzy's post. It's 'the', obviously. http://www.amazon.com/Music-Jilted-Generation-Prodigy/dp/B000003Z3W This is what I learned it from way back in the day...
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Jun 25, 2013 18:11
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Did y'alls miss those leaked screenshots of this DLC back when the game first came out?
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Jun 26, 2013 20:12
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This post is from mid-March: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3536634&pagenumber=267&perpage=40#post413657322 I think more likely is the DLC people planned a balloon DLC like a year ago while the programming people screwed the pooch on the traffic system and neither of those groups cared about what the other group was doing because that's generally how game dev works.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:24
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SimCity 5 threads are the best threads.
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Aug 26, 2013 20:20
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Brightman posted:There was some prototype someone was toying around with like a year or two ago that just had roads and zoning working. I think buildings too, but they were just boxes, but that works. Synekism, most likely. http://www.synekism.com/ You can download and play the current builds there. I had some email talks with the guy last year and he seems excited, but like most indie/side projects it's been slower than slow-going, so don't hold your breath. It's neat in a tech-demo kind of way, but aside from, you know, there not really being a game there, there's also no character or personality, which is a huge part of the SimCity equation, I think. mutata fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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Oct 2, 2013 22:08
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Y'alls should form up into a Robotech super-coding robot and make a city builder for me.
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Oct 8, 2013 23:07
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Away all Goats posted:Basically 3000 was to 2000 that we wanted Simcity 5 to be to 4. Agreed.
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Oct 11, 2013 19:30
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Shibawanko posted:It could look a ton better if they'd only put some work into it, but welp. As much as you and all of us wish it was better, this is not a fair statement and betrays your lack of knowing what you are talking about. I mean, take issue with the style and art direction all you want, but there are constraints and limitations driving these decisions that you or I could not even dream of and I'm willing to bet the artists did the best drat job they could. Full disclosure: I'm an environment artist in the video game industry.
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Oct 14, 2013 17:12
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ToastyPotato posted:The art style would have been perfectly fine had the cities been as big as they were in SC4. With them being so tiny, the game merely looks decent at best. Some people are more creative with their screenshotting and can make the game look a bit better as a result. I can get behind this statement.
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Oct 14, 2013 20:01
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Wipfmetz posted:Sure about it beeing a work-in-process thing? SimEarth had a Mars scenario. There was a SimMars in production for a while around the Sims 1/SC4 days.
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Dux Supremus posted:There was even a video ad for it on the SimCity 3000 disc circa 1999, if I remember right. I was so disappointed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wu3RVqVGDw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimMars
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