SimCity 5

[garbon]

Yeah that's dreadful but as you said makes me want to break out SC4.

[Syt]

The comment on Arstechnica mostly sums up how I feel about the game from what I've seen so far:

I find myself wanting curvy roads and bolt-on buildings, but everything else from SC4, with the Rush Hour expansion.

And a better view of how "big" cities are.

[Syt]

Actually, this is about the size I laid out the nucleus for most of my SC4 or SC2000 cities.

[Caliga]

Pass.  Sounds like another game designed by a committee of marketing tools instead of an actual game designer.

[mongers]

The comment on Arstechnica mostly sums up how I feel about the game from what I've seen so far:

I find myself wanting curvy roads and bolt-on buildings, but everything else from SC4, with the Rush Hour expansion.

And a better view of how "big" cities are.

....

Yeah, that's an interesting definition of big.

I vaguely recall SC2000 could be 10 times as big ?

[Liep]

So when's the DLC out for lot expansion?

[Tonitrus]

Pass.  Sounds like another game designed by a committee of marketing tools instead of an actual game designer.

Agree.  Pass here too.

Maxis is beyond saving...hell pretty much anything under EA probably is.

[Josquius]

I really want a new sim city though

[Barrister]

I dunno - I kind of want to get this. 

[Neil]

Theoretically I would be interested, but EA doesn't really make much in the way of games that I would ever want to play.  My tolerance for multiplayer and microtransactions is low.

[FunkMonk]

I could have lived with this game despite the small city sizes if not for the fact that cities are saved to EA's servers and will therefore be destroyed en masse by EA's incompetence. And without the ability to save it on my own HDD all that work on Funkville and its surrounding towns would be lost forever.

[Neil]

Yeah, but if you could save things to your hard drive, you might be tempted to pirate the game.

At any rate, expect bad games from EA forever.

[Barrister]

Holy Fuck - I've been trying for 20 minutes just to orde the fucking thing.

[Barrister]

30 minutes and I'm done.

What a god-awful online store.

fuck 'em.  With all the bad reviews this takes the cake.

[Syt]

Something that Arstechnica also pointed out: with old SimCity you could always save reload. At the end of a session I would often save, then raze the city with disasters, but reload the old save game to continue normally. Or sometimes you just want to try something, then go back to a previous save point.

Can't do that with the new one.

Also, like Diablo 3 there's some calculations for the cities going on server side, making this near impossible to pirate, because you'd need to find a way to emulate the server side of things.