[PC] Boycott SimCity 5 (Societys)

You're off your rocker if you thought SC4 sucked. Had a few things that were kinda iffy, but it was still overall an improvement.

As for SC Societies, the Kotaku highlight was a little interesting, glad to hear I can be Big Brother but I still have my grave doubts. And from the press release they had I just don't know how they can slap "SimCity" on this project, according the the press release

Quote:

"This SC is not a realistic urban simulation," he bluntly said. An EA rep would only say that the title will move the series "in a new and exciting direction" that would "take the franchise back to its roots, and create an accessible, flexible game that will continue to appeal to avid SimCity fans, as well as attract new players to the franchise."

Which is retarded in my opinion since you are effectively gutting the game of its core gameplay, yet you think you are going to appeal to 'avid' SC fans? yeah right...

Maxis should really stop making god damn Sims 2 expansion packs and make a real SimCity 5.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Yeah, what we need are fewer games with original design and more with marginal improvements!

Its different when you slap an established game franchise name with an established style of game play on an new 'original' game. Had they not called it the next Sim City or had left Sim City out of the title then I would be different. Maybe if they made sure this was a distinctly different game and just a spin-off of Sim City or something...

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

So if they had named this Sim Societies this would magically be all better?

Still not waiting on a sequel to Sim Isle.

Actually, it might. Since then people wouldn't be worried about how Sim City isn't really Sim City anymore. If the game flops it wouldn't be because it sucked as a Sim City game, it would be because it sucked period.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Guru

Well, maybe we should just consider applying the "Final Fantasy" rule to the Sim City franchise now. Just because it goes by the name doesn't automatically mean it's going to be awesome. To be honest, I was quite underwhelmed with Sim City 4. So maybe 5 will be an improvement on that. But it's going to be hard to ever beat 2000.

You're quite right, Sim City Societies may just turn out great. As that Kotaku article said they're getting rid of pipes, which in my opinion is going to be great, even though they've been in the game for a while now. But on the same note if you're going to totally revamp the gameplay why not just give it a new name? In keeping with the whole Final Fantasy metaphor (and sorry about my add-on's quality), FF Crystal Chronices bore the Final Fantasy name yet it didn't play like any other FF before it. To some FF fans Crystal Chronicles didn't really fit the FF title due to its drastic gameplay changes. However CC had its own merits and could've been just as well being a title free of the Final Fantasy name.

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