Man wins at SimCity 3000

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Avalach21 said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Mendicate Bias said:
I only played the sim city when I was like 8 so I don't really get it. Whats so impressive about what he did, besides the time and planning he put into it?

Because the avg Sim City game can last between 5 minutes and 5 months.  This guy is basically the extention of the 'hardcore' for a genre known for being the original 'casual' genre.

One, I might add, I was and still am a major fan of.  Heck, look at my user name.  I just wish the series was still at the level of quality Sim City 3000 Unlimited was.

haha why do you keep ripping on SC4?

I'm sure you've got some well planned out argument as to why SC3k is way better than SC4, so let's hear it.

I'm not just downplaying Sim City 4.  There's been multiple Sim City games since Sim City 3000.  Just they've all done new things that went far off course of the original design of the games.  But I've already gone into detail with those things in previous threads.  Suffice to say, the 'area of effectiveness' for Civic Buildings and Public utilities in Sim City 4 made planning a city go from fun to frustrating and the layout of having to build certain zones certain sizes (as well as not too far from civic buildings and recreation) made actually achieving a sizable city a chore.  Its one thing to want to make the game more realistic...its another thing to have to make it so everything has to be right next to each other or else nothing grows at all.