[thechat] disappointed with SimCity4
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Mon Jul 14 00:54:44 CDT 2003
I get one video game or less per year as I recognize my weakness.
SimCity3000 ate up a lot of my time in late 1999, loved it ... it was
after that that I made my "one a year" rule. I did my best to get
SimCity4 ASAP, which involved canceling a (delayed) amazon.com order
and buying it at the Apple Store (my 1998 Windows box works great for
what I need it for - playing games is not one of them)
I'm so far very disappointed in SC4: it does not seem significantly
different than I remember SimCity3000 except:
pluses:
- the messages you get while a city is being loaded into RAM are great
(favorite I've seen so far: "initializing election fixing matrix")
- I like the ability to create disasters
- being able to play your own music (I assume this works on the Mac
version but haven't tried it)
minuses:
- once the city starts getting mid-sized buildings, the game CRAWLS
when zooming in or out or scrolling across city. This makes it plain
old frustrating to play
- new "feature" of getting free streets when zoning. A meticulous Mayor
like me wants to decide where streets go and should not be penalized
for diligence.
- all in all, the greater difficulty in getting large buildings does
not outweigh the greater realism of managing a city. After playing a
game for several days with consistently high approval and managing the
budget well, I think I deserve to see some big buildings.
unimpressed with:
- ability to place Sims in city
It seems that the consensus is that SimCity4 isn't worthy of attention
as I can't find a single good SimCity4 fan site ... have been wondering
if reading tips from other players would make the game more engaging,
but have not seen a single tip that was news to me. So I assume it's
just slower paced and harder, which is not an astounding advance from
SimCity3000.
Anybody else here a fan of SimCity300 and also played SimCity4? What's
your take? Do I forget about it and pretend it wasn't actually my "one
game" this year? That is kinda what I'd like to do at this point.
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