SimCity!
I am so excited! The new SimCity is coming out on March 5 this year. :) If you haven't checked it out already, here are some gameplay videos from the official SimCity site:
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/game/info/what-is-simcity
Apparently there is multiplayer, too! (Did they have multiplayer before? I don't remember...)
In other news, Ross and I started playing WoW again. :x! Mists of Pandaria is pretty cool, and I am actually kind of liking the talent tree changes, etc. They've also smoothed gameplay/questing a bit with looting, skill up, and quest reward changes, to name a few.
Sadly, however, Kalecgos is even more dead than before. We joined a guild and have just downed the first two bosses of the first raid tier. Gotta love progression! But it is insanely hard to recruit for guilds or PuG to fill raid spots. Everyone on my friends list except for Ross is now on another server...and of course everyone is on a different server and bugging us to make alts there or move there, lol.
Apparently in the next patch they are introducing cross-realm raiding, which should help a bit. Hopefully it is not too glitchy...
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(warning: rant)
I was looking forward to this game. A lot. And then the developers did an ask us anything over on reddit. And now there is no way I will purchase the game. Forced online always. If you lose connection, you drop from the game. City size is designated as 'small' (in comparison with the last sim city). Cloud saves (meaning you can't destroy your city with an earthquake just for the lolz and reset to 5 minutes before). No 'full cities'. Each city will be a purpose built city. One for tourism, one for commercialization, one for industry, etc. Cities don't 'connect'. Each city is a few miles away from the others, meaning you can't fill an entire map with structures and you have this weird greenway seperating everything (you can see that on the multiplayer picture on the page you linked...).
This game does LOOK amazing, and I am sure it will be fun. I just can't support it.
Yup, those are all deal breakers. They should know better. They're probably looking at Diablo 3 though and thinking what we all know. Most gamers full of hot air. They'll bitch and whine and moan and complain and swear they'll never buy such and such game, then quietly cough up the money at release. Sadly, when faced with the fact that they can either stand by their principles or play a game they really want to play, principles tend to fall by the wayside.
It's gonna sell real well. It looks absolutely amazing. Graphics and (what is allowed) gameplay look stunning. I do care deeply about the always on internet connection thing, but truth be told, that wouldn't stop me from buying this game. Lack of saves does. Small city sizes does. No 'full' cities does. The onslaught of DLC which will be necessary to get the whole game does.
The DLC formula makes me sad. I've bought DLC before, and probably will again, but I feel dirty and fleeced every time I do it.
I don't think I have ever purchased any DLC for any game that wasn't a full expansion.
Oh...another online only game? I am not sure why companies are headed this way with no backup plan for those of us who may lack a connection, lose our connection, or just don't want to play online. It seems very narrow-minded of them. What if I'm on vacation with no internet and want to play? There's a reason why I only downloaded Minecraft to my laptop before I went on Christmas vacation, I guess...
(I also recall Diablo III having some really annoying connection issues. Basically, the game would log me out randomly despite me still being active on my character. The only solution I could find was to turn General Chat on, which somehow pinged the server instead of the actions on my character to let it know that I was still online and not AFK. Rather annoying, especially since there was barely anyone online or in General Chat at the times I played.)
I did see the greenway you mentioned and it does look odd. To be honest, I am completely horrible at SimCity and have never gotten my city to fill an entire map, so I doubt this will affect me much. (I am a very casual player, lol.) But for someone who is more into it and a better city planner than I am, I could see this being extremely annoying. Even just aesthetically. As well as the city purposes. I like the design of the purpose in itself, but it's not fully realistic, either, to have a city solely built around one industry.
I just watched the tutorial and find it a little amusing that the lead designer upgraded one of his casinos, which caused the power to go out. Instead of upgrading his wind power farm or building a different type of energy plant, he popped up a coal power plant in the next city. 5 seconds later, his "friend" starts a chat asking to join his map, and he gives the friend the shitty coal power plant city and has him run the power. Rofl, shafted much?
Well, I still plan on playing and hopefully enjoying it in my little casual world. :) Who knows, maybe I'll actually build a mega city this time!