Beamed posted:

The FAQ says the game is fun despite the earlier warnings. So, well: is it?

ClemenSalad posted:

but its an internet thread no need to actually feel bad about owning goons with a bad game

Martytoof posted:

I turned on two lamps and my electrical pressure dropped

And then someone flushed the toilet and my TV turned off.

The life of a Sim.

hobbesmaster posted:

These days this is all "AAA" games.

Tardcore posted:

Why is Master Chief on the Star Wars billboard?

Cubemario posted:

Funny you should mention that, apparently they've gutted the idea of continuing the class stories. I assume it's because they didn't think about how they can't get all those same voice actors back every time they want to record some lines for an expansion or patch.

WHAT A GOOD DOG posted:

These <enemies> are giving us trouble, they <colloquialism of Star Wars expressing hyperbole>. <person> went off to do <action> and hasn't returned. I'm worried about <person>, will you find <person> for me? And while you're there will you <action>?

A: Response (dark side + 100)
B: Response
C: Response (light side + 100)




That was a good game.

MrBims posted:

Can it really only be those? Can't be just someone having ironic humor at EA's expense?

Rent posted:

Just picked this game up for cheap, but haven't installed it yet; running low on hard drive space! The past 100 pages are all just bitching about EA.

Is this GAME actually any fun? I like Sim Citys of the past, but I'm not an uber nerd about them.

The Sharmat posted:

On the topic of game longevity, doesn't playing a modded game also screw up how Steam tracks playtime somehow? Because supposedly I've only played EUIII for two hours.

Police Automaton posted:

Remember those times where gaming magazines actually held a lot of power over game publishers and developers with their reviews? Those were the days..

quote:

Stuart's open letter to the games industry

December, 1994

Rise Of The Robots, eh?

How has this happened? Clueless buffoon that I am, I really thought that the days of huge, ridiculous hype campaigns leading to the release of unutterably dreadful rip-off games were finally dead and gone. Never again, I thought, would poor unfortunate gullibles fork out six months' pocket money on a game so desperately awful it would quite conceivably (and rightly) put them off the idea of ever buying another one for the rest of their lives. Who among us, in all honesty, could blame some burnt-fingered adolescent for resorting to the car-boot sale and the dodgy market stall for ever, sending every other format the way of the ST and all the 8-bits before it, if they'd just blown anywhere between 40 and 60 quid on a stinking, rancid pile of shite like Rise Of The Robots?

How can it be possible for a game to take so long to come out, have so many apparently talented people working on it, and still be such a stagnant pool of horse wank? We're talking here about a two-player beat-'em-up, after all, in which it's literally impossible for player two to win a game if player one holds down a certain direction on the joystick. We're talking about a beat-'em-up in which holding down that certain direction results in the defeat of every computer opponent on all but one of the four difficulty settings. We're talking about a game in which thousands of hours of artificial intelligence development have resulted in a computer opponent who cowers in a corner at the player's first move and stays there, immobile, until it is defeated. We're talking about a game that a seven-year old can complete within 11 minutes of first loading it up. Without looking at the screen.

I mean, a lot of people work for Mirage/Time Warner. Didn't anybody loving NOTICE? Didn't it strike anyone as a bit off that in a game genre where the two-player versus mode is everything, only one player actually ever had a chance (and a 100% chance at that) of winning? Am I being stupid here? Does it really not matter? In all that time of artificial intelligence work, didn't it occur to anyone to see if maybe, just maybe, holding down fire and the up-right diagonal resulted in the defeat of every single opponent? Anyone AT ALL? Maybe some of Mirage's playtesters could write in and explain to us all exactly what the gently caress they've been doing for the last 18 months? I, for one, would be interested. For professional reasons.

PART 2, AS IT WERE

And while we're here, how come this slimy turd from a dead dog's arse managed to score more than one 90% review? Didn't any of the reviewers notice either? Or has the single word "Exclusive" really come to represent the entire text of the reviewers' Holy Bible? How, in 1994, can a game score 3%, 5%, 19%, 20%, 33% and 35% in six reviews in very different magazines covering five different formats, and 90% and 92% in two other ones? "Personal opinion" really doesn't cover it in this instance, does it? I won't name the reviewer who, when I quizzed him about the surprising nature of his high score, gave the response "Arms were twisted... let's leave it at that," but perhaps the practice of reviewing games at the publisher's office with the entire PR department looking over the reviewer's shoulder is becoming a little, shall we say, unreliable? Or is it just paranoia on my part to think that there's maybe something a little sinister going on when the supposed release of the year isn't shown to any magazines before it hits the shelves, save for one or two "arm-twisted" exclusives, coincidentally generating scores five to 30 times those of most other reliable reviews? Scared of something, are we?

PART 3, YOU MIGHT SAY

Maybe I'm wrong, of course. Maybe it IS just me. Maybe come the spring, when everyone's read all the reviews and had a chance to see the game for themselves, it'll still be riding high in the charts. Maybe everyone's sales figures will still be buoyant as happy software purchasers storm the shops looking to blow huge wads of cash on another instant classic. Maybe they really do wish all their games were this great. Maybe nobody really does give a gnat's cock for games being any bloody good any more. But who cares, eh? Long-term future, schmong-term future. I've already got my flashy sports car, after all. Mirage and Time Warner, I sincerely and truly hope you all die.

Stuart Campbell
Saffron Walden, Essex

gibbed posted:

Car Crossover mod (not by me):

Humans Among Us posted:

But you can make a city and come back...

Away all Goats posted:

Reading your history in this thread makes post loving delicious

WeaponBoy posted:

I dunno, that seems pretty true to life, it just takes less time in SimCity.

WeaponBoy posted:

I never bothered with them, do they actually explode or just unleash clouds of nuclear fallout?

Cojawfee posted:

Just delete the road leading to it and the radiation agents won't be able to get to the rest of your city.

Endorph posted:

Don't be sad, man! There are thousands of great games you haven't played, thousands of wonderful books you haven't read, thousands of amazing movies you haven't watched. The world is your oyster! Go forth, and leave SimCity behind! The time to expand your world is now!

TheAbortionator posted:

I have always loved Maxis games and I had a bunch of amazon gift cards so I figured "eh why the gently caress not?"

TheAbortionator posted:

I read a bunch of reviews on Meta Critic, and most of them were favorable.

Kanish posted:

Where the gently caress are you supposed to put that?!

explosivo posted:

God damnit, this looks great. If we only had the ability to build outside of the borders from the start a bunch of us probably wouldn't have been quite so disappointed. I love how the modding community is still churning out stuff despite being shunned by EA for fixing their game.

FreelanceSocialist posted:

Doesn't the current EA EULA have a class-action prevention clause?

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Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Heh, they should have told us so from the beginning.

Martytoof posted:

Dr.Oblivious posted:

SimCity: Cities of the Future Walkthrough

GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:

It's incredibly loving sad that EA can't just kill a good studio, it has to make them put out some abomination of a loving videogame first before they do it

It's like asking a guy to dig his own grave

Smoothrich posted:

Battlefield 4 were very successful with critics and audiences across all platforms