SimCity 4

[WillJ]

Boy, am I looking forward to SimCity 4! Too bad it's coming out in January, not in time for Christmas.

The main new features of SimCity 4 will include ways to personalize and "experience" your city more than ever before, including being able to place Sims from The Sims games in your city, the cities belonging to a region instead of being by themselves like in past versions (and being able to directly interact with the other cities), less building repetition due to extensive use of building props, night- and day-time, people/cars/buses,etc. moving along in the city according to the time of day ("automata scripting"), amazing looking graphics, and much more.

So how many of you CivFanatics are interested in the SimCity series? Are you going to get SimCity 4? I sure am. I've owned all the past SimCity versions and this one looks better than ever before...

And here's the link to the official SimCity 4 website: http://simcity.ea.com/.

 

[Dell19]

Theres quite an active Sim city forum at gamecatcher and they are currently running a competition as to who could build the best city on a particular map.
http://www.gamecatcher.net/fora/viewforum.php?f=5

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Dell19
Theres quite an active Sim city forum at gamecatcher and they are currently running a competition as to who could build the best city on a particular map.
http://www.gamecatcher.net/fora/viewforum.php?f=5

Thanks. I already knew about the site, but when I saw from your link the Sims Section Forum I decided to register. Looks like a pretty good site. Although I'll still stay here for Civ-related things, of course. And I hope they'll continue the tournaments for SC4, since I'm pretty much through playing SC3K.

 

[cgannon64]

I spent the downtime yesterday looking into SimCity 4, looks amazing. It comes out 8 days after my birthday, as of right now, so maybe I can get my mom to delay buying me presents.

I haven't played SC3k in a while, ever since I had to wipe my hard drive and didn't reinstall it. Now its acting funny when I try to reinstall...I guess I'll just have to wait for SC4.

I'm really looking foward to the MySims feature (will that work if you don't have the Sims? I hope so...), the day/night, less building repetions (no more damn Lick's ice cream! I had fields of that once... ), and the scripting automata. I'll probably spend half my Simcity time just watching the people roam around...like a stalker with a gods eye view...

CG

 

[munzy76]

I am interested in getting Sim City 4. Going to have to go to that link. Is there going to be multiplayer support in this version?

 

[Wolfe Tone]

It's not called Sim City 4000, suprising.

I liked the original Sim City, I also liked 2000. But I have 3000 but I never got into it.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by cgannon64
I'm really looking foward to the MySims feature (will that work if you don't have the Sims? I hope so...) ... less building repetions (no more damn Lick's ice cream! I had fields of that once... )

The MySims feature comes with several default Sims for people that don't have the Sims game. And yep, the building repetitions in the previous versions were really annoying and unrealistic.

 

[spycatcher34]

I drool at the videos and screens! I own every Sim game ever made!

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by munzy
I am interested in getting Sim City 4. Going to have to go to that link. Is there going to be multiplayer support in this version?

Uh...I don't believe so. SimCity multiplayer wouldn't be much different from single player, only I guess you can compare cities at the end. Which you can already to online with a screenshot.

CG

 

[Cantankerous]

I never owned the original Sim City or SC 2000, but I did find incredible fun with SC 3000 Unlimited.

I'm looking forward to Sim City 4 if nothing else because of the incredible terrain editor that it appears to have.

And having an active volcano in the middle of a metropolitan city should be hours of fun as well.

 

[Cantankerous]

Originally posted by munzy
I am interested in getting Sim City 4. Going to have to go to that link. Is there going to be multiplayer support in this version?

The Sim City series doesn't really lend itself to any kind of multiplayer aspect. There's no competition per se with other cities and you can't invade them.

Multiplayer with one person controlling one city and another player controlling a neighboring city wouldn't be any more interesting than just playing single player. I guess you could negotiate deals to sell or buy power, water, etc., but that wouldn't really add anything to the game.

 

[Dell19]

Of course you could add military to the game and allow players to invade each other but then you've made an RTS... It could be quite fun if you could build on the same map so that you could destroy part of the other person's city or try and expand to take up the most amount of land.

 

[Franklyn]

Originally posted by Dell19
Of course you could add military to the game and allow players to invade each other but then you've made an RTS... It could be quite fun if you could build on the same map so that you could destroy part of the other person's city or try and expand to take up the most amount of land.

Hmmm ... that sounds sorta familiar.

Sim City Central (http://www.simcitycentral.net) is another good fan site with forums and timely updates.

It seems to be shaping up as a pretty good game, though it's going to be rough on the ol' PC.

 

[MajorGeneral2]

One has to give these guys credit, each SC is better than the last. I have all of the previous three, though SC3K barely works on my dinosaur computer, and probably won't be able to play this at all. How sad...

 

[SunTzu]

I just bought Sim City 3000 Unlimited i can't wait to download SimCity4! errr "buy it"

 

[Dell19]

How much does unlimited actually add to the game because I don't know whether to buy it or not?

 

[Franklyn]

Unlimited doesn't add much - the scenarios are mildly interesting if you like that kind of stuff, and there are some new buildings and a few new city styles, I think. But I lost interest in SC3K shortly after I bought the add-on - other things to do, I guess.

That said, you could probably get Unlimited for cheap these days. It's certainly not worthless if you like the SimCity concept. Or you could hold out for SC4, which looks to be a much different - and hopefully much improved - game.

 

[Dell19]

I think I'll probably wait then if it doesn't add much and I don't really play scenarios anyway.

 

[Franklyn]

Well, save your money, then, Dell. SC4 will retail at 50$ US. Also, it looks like it will hog your system resources, so you might need to upgrade if your system specs are marginal. (Okay, *I* will need to upgrade; I won't dare speak for anyone else on that issue.)

Btw, Dell, you're going to have to update your sig soon. You'll have 5K posts in, what, the next five minutes?

 

[Dell19]

I like having outdated sigs so I'll probably leave it is until someone else complains about it. I should be able to run SC4 since I run Unreal Tournament 2003...