New Screenshots

[Guibanez_ 177]

[The_City_Builder 299]

Lottttttt of repetitiveness going on there, but that city still looks decent.

[Guibanez_ 177]

https://plus.google....sts/AQqEWYBS6xe

arcology great work in the background:

[DmainEvent 195]

Guess that is how they can get 700K people onto a tiny map.

[Guibanez_ 177]

https://twitter.com/oceanquigley

''University Campus, with dorms, an engineering department, school of law, science dept, school of medicine''.

[flyer2359 92]

That's probably my favorite screenshot that they've released so far.

[croxis 150]

I've found every vanilla sc game to be repetitive at a given value/density level

[Guibanez_ 177]

A high-tech factory.

[RyanMorgan95 144]

The steam looks fantastic! These recent screenshots/images are very encouraging. I'd pre-order it right now if I could fill a 4x4km map with curvy roads and modular ploppables!

[Guibanez_ 177]

http://oceanquigley.blogspot.com.br/

[Skimbo 304]

There's still a lot of work to be done on the textures - still looks like plastic world.

[Cob92 360]

Guess that is how they can get 700K people onto a tiny map.

Yeah, same way as in SC4. Every SimCity has required you to build skyscraper forests in order to get high single-city populations. If you ask me the game is looking very nice. This is a game where the city building focuses more on what is happening in the city itself, rather than "let me clear this continent and cover it in subdivisions".

[spa 968]

I've found every vanilla sc game to be repetitive at a given value/density level

Indeed. Wren Insurance anyone? If they open it up to custom content creation, the issue of building repetition will fade just like it has in SC4.

[Guibanez_ 177]

[Bobvila 8]

There's still a lot of work to be done on the textures - still looks like plastic world.

Really? I think the residential and commercial buildings look great (well except the casinos, but casinos are supposed to look cartoony).

With a lot of the industrial ones though, I tend to agree.

[marksman1416 12]

Really liking the new screenshots

[Zarpia 12]

Amazing pictures.

But I seriously hope those road will get some decorations, like benches, hydrants, trees, small billboards, road signs.... that will be awesome.

Well, everyone can hope

[glazert 89]

So, was yesterday a blue day? The most recent screenshots look as though they had been processed with a blue filter. An earlier batch looked as though they had all been processed through an orange/brown filter. What next? A swamp green filter? A barby pink filter?

[MPleines 17]

So, was yesterday a blue day? The most recent screenshots look as though they had been processed with a blue filter. An earlier batch looked as though they had all been processed through an orange/brown filter. What next? A swamp green filter? A barby pink filter?

Lighting changes depending on the time of day I presume.

BTW, I don't think I've seen a discussion about the time scales in the new SC yet.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

The pictures keep getting better, the colour tones are steadily improving, though in some pictures the buildings look really cartoonish. Though I really liked the pictures of the mayor's house and that dirt road... The haze in the distance is a cool touch; probably helps to reduce graphical requirements!

[baertooth 330]

It's probably just me but the new screens look surreal and uncanny. I think I liked the cartoony with clean, bright surfaces was more attractive and worked better with the tilt shift. The three screen caps above look... fake. It's weird to me. Hard to put my finger on it. Think it might have to do with the shadows, the dominating blue-gray overtones, and a sleepy dreaminess caused by too much blur too close.

[flyer2359 92]

That tilt-shift effect still needs to be lowered though. I can see myself getting a headache from it after just 30 minutes of playing. I definitely love the screenshots they released yesterday though.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

In the Sims 2 Seasons, there was a color filter used in Winter (pale blue), Fall (orange), and spring (I cannot remember, green?). In the Sims 3, colors changed with the time of day (with sunsets being yellow-orange-red) and the Sims 3 Seasons added weather or season related color filters as well. Therefore, I find it natural for there to be tinted screenshots. These tints were probably done in game.

Also, I am pretty sure that Guillame said that depth of field and blur could be altered in the graphical settings.

--Ocram

[Goldenkrow 4]

I really wish the green between the buildings and the road would go away. It looks like the makers of the buildings forgot that they possibly should make like something up to the road or something. It looks really weird. Especially with higher tech buildings

[RyanMorgan95 144]

Two new images from Ocean's Twitter:

[SimCoug 5,972]

They should have hired Girafe or C.P. to model their trees...

[Zarpia 12]

I really wish the green between the buildings and the road would go away. It looks like the makers of the buildings forgot that they possibly should make like something up to the road or something. It looks really weird. Especially with higher tech buildings

They said they are working on it.

So it's just could be a matter of time.

[Goldenkrow 4]

I really wish the green between the buildings and the road would go away. It looks like the makers of the buildings forgot that they possibly should make like something up to the road or something. It looks really weird. Especially with higher tech buildings

They said they are working on it.

So it's just could be a matter of time.

They said that Aaaages ago. I have yet to see any progress

[Ocram's Razr 963]

I don't mind the parking strip in the roads. However, I think it would be better if it could change with the occupants.

--Ocram

[Guibanez_ 177]

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