Posted: 8/25/2006 9:11:44 AM EDT
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I have been a fan of SimCity since the first one came out in the 90s. The last one I bought was SimCity 3000 Unlimited. I am getting ready to upgrade my computer and I will finally be able to play SimCity 4 and now its also at a price I can more readily afford. My question is what do you think about it, how much better than SC3000 is it, and is it worth it and still as fun? |
Game Copy World That site usually has stuff. |
I bought it the other day and now see what you mean by simplified Its not bad, but so far its not as enjoyable as SC3000. The graphics are quite impressive but I have a few gripes about SC4. I'll keep playing and hopefully enjoy it as much as previous ones... Im glad I only spent 20 buck on it instead of the 50 I was gonna pay when it came out |
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Anyone else play simtower? God, I learned more about elevators from that game then I rightly should have. Simcity 2000 was the only real 'game' we had in the computer labs back in middle school. It was a nice step up from the Oregon trail, as it boasted real '3d' graphics. The wonders. The double fund cheat was my best friend. -local |
Sim Tower was another great one. I wish they would rerelease ALL the older SIM games in a fully compatible XP set. I'd pay $35 for fully XP compatible SimAnt, SimTower, and SimCity 2000 bundled together. |
| Don't bother buying it unless you have a fast computer. I've got an AMD FX-57 (fastest CPU made a year ago) in my office with 2Gbytes of RAM, and it's still so slow I only played it for a few minutes a few times. The old SimCity worked great on a base 286 at the time. It's too bad the new one is a bloated piece of crap. I might try it again in two or so years when the processors have doubled in performance.z |
Think I have to pull that game back out.
| With SimCity 2004, my brother and I would set up on the same piece of "country" and run cities adjacent to each other. We would email the files back and forth until they got to large to email. It made for an interesting game fighting back and forth for people and other resources. It was also fun putting polluting industries right on his borders. |
WRONG. SimCity 4 is far more detailed and complicated then any of its predecessors. Maybe if you only build a single small town, it might seem simpler then SC3k. But when you get into making whole regions and metropolises, the level of interaction is astounding. In particular, the traffic and commuting modeling. In SC4, the game actually figures out how people get from their homes to where they work, they can drive, walk, take a bus, or a train, or combinations of all of the above! However, you need several mods in order to make large-scale regions work correctly, since the traffic model never quite worked right, even after the last patch. Sometimes commuters couldn't figure out how to get to their jobs in a timely manner due to traffic routing bugs. There are simple scripting mods that fix this, though. |
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i've wasted days at Sim city i love it i hate having to build subways all the time, man i want FREEWAYS everywhere. Stupid natural disasters, they can do damage you can destroy a subway system with a stupid earthquake let me tell you hmmm, SC4, huh? I wonder if the wife would let me get that? probably not. 
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+1 Now that I have been playing it is quite complicated, way more than the older ones. It amazes me what I can build (ferries etc). I finally have a moderate surplus and am learning even more about the game as I go on I like it so far...
I am also experiencing some lag, and my computer exceeds all their requirements (recommended or minimum) except my RAM which is their 'recommended' amount |
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Having a realy good video card also makes a huge difference. The fastest CPU in the world doesn't mean much if the video card isn't up to the task, especially if you have all the eye candy turned on. I think I did something wrong though  simcityneworleans.ytmnd.com/ |
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