Simcity

[Guynemer]

You are the best, Wiggy.

I still owe you a game to pay you back for X-COM. Let me know when there is something coming out you're interested in.

[Wiglaf]

I would ask you to buy me the day one "Paris City Set" DLC for the new Simcity, BUT I ALREADY HAVE IT AND BUILT A REPLICA PARIS CITY WITH THE IFFLE TOWER. :B: THE ONLY problem with the PARIS CITY SET DLC is that the people drive on the AMERICAN SIDE OF THE ROAAD. :bq:

[Wiglaf]

SERVERS BACK UP. Or at least Oceana 1 is. MAXIS MAN IS FIGHTING DR. VU FOR CONTROL OF PARIS

[The Mad Monk]

Dr. Vu Financed a LOT of my simcity4 building! No financial sense at all.

[Guynemer]

Good old Dr. Vu. Always with the organ harvesting. Bless his heart.

[Wiglaf]

Sim City 4 required you to drive around the city in a chopper. Is this a management game or a flight simulator? Poor gameplay

[Wiglaf]

Simcity review score goes from 9.5 to 8.0 to 4.0. Not sure if this is more embarrassing for Maxis or Polygon. http://www.polygon.com/game/simcity-2013/2630

[Guynemer]

Just about to post that.

Gamespot has rated it a 5. ****ing GAMESPOT.

Jesus, this is now no longer funny.

[Wiglaf]

I don't understand why reviewers think it's responsible to base a judgment on a game based on a week of pre-release play, or two days of post-release play. It's just bizarre.

[Guynemer]

If you bought a shiny new car, but then discovered that it only started about 1 out of every 4 times you turned the key, would you hold off on reviewing the car?

[Guynemer]

Incidentally, backtracking to the general piracy argument a few pages ago, a new study suggests that piracy does have a measurable effect on sales:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/researchers-movie-studios-made-more-after-megaupload-was-shut-down/

[Wiglaf]

If you bought a shiny new car, but then discovered that it only started about 1 out of every 4 times you turned the key, would you hold off on reviewing the car?

No, for a lot of reasons. But look at Diablo 3. If that had been hammered for its 3 days of inaccessibility, it'd be impossible for a consumer now to look at a review and read anything about the game. It'd just be useless server talk like Gamespot's review.

[Hauldren Collider]

Do her boobs look good? How's the gore?

I saw a preview vid that looked kinda fun.

QTE's annoy the piss outta me... ugh.

I'm looking for a good time waster.

IGN had an article about Insurgency 2 (originally a mod for HL2). I bought it for the "early access", but there were literally 10 people playing the game. The original game wasn't hugely popular, but at least had enough of a dedicated community that you could find a populated server.

I need something until Planetary Annihilation.

So to follow up on this: Her boobs do look good, in fact, better than they did when they were watermelon-sized. Second, yes, the QTEs are really annoying, but the gameplay itself is quite fun and I am really enjoying the game. The plot doesn't seem to be particularly mind-blowing, but I'm about a quarter of the way through and so far it seems paced well, and flows logically with a decent amount of suspense. Combat is fun if a bit easy and exploring the world is also pretty entertaining. There's a lot of run-the-****-away before everything collapses on your head segments, but they are so far exciting and creative. So all in all a solid game. Worth the money.

[onodera]

I would ask you to buy me the day one "Paris City Set" DLC for the new Simcity, BUT I ALREADY HAVE IT AND BUILT A REPLICA PARIS CITY WITH THE IFFLE TOWER. :B: THE ONLY problem with the PARIS CITY SET DLC is that the people drive on the AMERICAN SIDE OF THE ROAAD. :bq:

Wiggie, have you ever been to Paris, or are you on the no-fly list? American side is the best side.

[dannubis]

No he means that the cars are so ridiculously over sized that they need drive on both sides of the road at the same time...