VazFox

this is exactly my point... I WANNA USE ALL THE LANDS! Not a stupid little dotted box. If they just had the region design of SC4, then this new SimCity would be great! I wouldn't care about the forced online play, or the other crap... I just want to build the city my way and watch it grow... but you really can't. It's a shame.

Depends how much people enjoy it once they get the servers to actually work reliably. The few hours ive gotten tonight..i dunno..I fairly enjoy the game..but its not a creative sandbox toy anymore for sure..its more of a...i dunno what..ant farm? Tonight I spent a while watching a garbage truck go around trying to figure out the traffic AI, because I have an area of the city..with 1 traffic intersection light...yet a back up every day at 5pm that goes the length of the entire map almost Edit: See...look at that traffic jam...what the heck is going on there lol. The only traffic light is that section just before the bridge. The traffic then loops around the entire island...ending at that bridge just behind the Oil HQ. I cant figure out how one traffic light does that..its almost like the agent system suffers from a herding instinct. That screenshot there just sums up a huge example of what bothers me the most about the new game here.. Just in that small spot you have 96,000 people... but yet its a really small city in realistic terms, but yet there are skyscrappers everywhere.... It's horrendously unrealistic... I mean i know you cant be super realistic in SimCity 4 (though some people have with mods of course) but you can make some pretty damn good looking cities, And I love that in SC4... I mean that city there is about the size of my old town (in literal size, not population) and that town had 15,000 people living there. Milwaukee has almsot 2,000,000 people living there and has lest skyscrappers.. It just... gah... painfully bothers me.. mainly why im going back to SC4...

Well you remember in SC4 you could you know... like... work with the region right next door and ya know... connect the roads...and the city.. to ya know.. make one big city... and make things look realistic...

SimCity 4. If you've never played a SimCity game before.. you'd probably enjoy the new SimCity... but if your a long time fan of how the old SimCity's worked and functioned, you won't enjoy it for very long. It was fun for a while when I first played it, but it left me feeling off and I wanted the old SimCity back... Back to SC4 for me... =)

I'm sorry... but I just can't agree.. SimCity 4 is still far better. Yes, the new SimCity's graphics are better, and cities look more realistic (close-up only), and they've added a lot of really awesome features, like the city's direction, like trading, gambling, etc.. but for what I loved SimCity for, it just is not there. I no longer feel like I am in control of how my city grows and develops. I hate how the RCI lots just are placed along the roads without a clear outlining of where the whole lot is. Then there is the size issue.. you get a small square area to make a "city".. I'm sorry but if you look at Google Earth, pretty much every city in the world is not perfectly square.. That just bugs the hell out of me. I love how in SimCity 4 you could make the city look organic and fit in just nice around the foot of the mountains, or sprawl across a valley... I'm sorry.. but I just can't get into this new one for much longer.. I've been thinking about returning it already.. I've already went back to playing SC4...

Though, i do still find it kinda weird that a German magazine would pick up all this stuff first, rather than an American one would, were the game would being developed... kinda weird.. And it looks a bit cartoony... it sorta worries me... Though i really hope that this is true though...