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Nothing trolly about this.PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
Nothing trolly about this.PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
There is, if you are a console aficionado.Nothing trolly about this.PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
It's a parody site, parodies don't have to be trollish.Nothing trolly about this.PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
PETA Says Virtual Whaling in Assassin’s Creed 4 is a Gateway Drug That Will Lead to Actual Whaling
PS4 Graphics Impressive to People Who Have Never Played Modern PC Games
Developers Are Running Out of Fake Excuses For Not Porting Games to the Wii U
Sony Partners with Mad Catz on PlayStation 4 Controller
SimCity 5 DLC Store to Include Nuke Neighbor, Remove In-Game Ad Paid Items
Gabe Newell’s Use of the Word Autistic Draws Ire of Gamers Who Use Faggot and Nigger on Daily Basis
Tomb Raider Devs: If You Can’t Handle Lara Being Impaled in the Head, Go Back to Nintendo Games
Sony Shows Off PS4′s Power by Announcing 45 Developers Have Already Gone Bankrupt Making Games For It
Pedophiles Prefer Nintendo Consoles over Sony and Microsoft
Beyond: Two Souls coming to PlayStation 3, Vita, and Theaters
Polygon Lowers Journalistic Standards to “Just Above Kotaku” After Releasing Yet Another Stupid Article
IGN Revises God Hand Score from 3/10 to 3.5/10
For the question of dumbing down though - previously one had to balance the cost of maintenance of infrastructure and civic services with the cost of development. With the removal of infrastructure and civic services funding, along with the removal of road maintenance, the player need no longer balance anything. Its flat fees for everything, no maintenance costs. Which strikes at the heart of what makes a city sim a city sim, and shifts simcity far away from being a city simulation and towards being a straight up design program.To be fair, there weren't any dams or sewage pipes in Simcity 4, either. The sewage pipe system was somewhere buried in the system files, but non-functional and off limits. Honestly, the way water pipes and power lines worked in the former titles was more tedious (water pipes) or non-sensical (power lines) than anything else. Want to connect power? Just zone a one tile wide agricultural strip.Some of the other dumbing down complaints I've noticed:
- No partial funding of civic buildings, they're on or off
- Removal of density zoning (choose only the three basic zone types, density is determined instead by parks and traffic)
- No farms or subways
- Removal of several power plant types, including dams (I haven't seen anywhere that power plants wear down, so I'm guessing that's gone too)
- Removal of power lines, water pipes, and sewage pipes, reducing the need for planning - all automatically placed along with roads
I was just commenting on certain points you made, which either weren't removed for the current game but were already not in the last one or were badly designed in the predecessors. No contest regarding the general dumbing down. The new game doesn't look as if it would be interesting for very long, given that you cannot do much.For the question of dumbing down though - previously one had to balance the cost of maintenance of infrastructure and civic services with the cost of development. With the removal of infrastructure and civic services funding, along with the removal of road maintenance, the player need no longer balance anything. Its flat fees for everything, no maintenance costs. Which strikes at the heart of what makes a city sim a city sim, and shifts simcity far away from being a city simulation and towards being a straight up design program.To be fair, there weren't any dams or sewage pipes in Simcity 4, either. The sewage pipe system was somewhere buried in the system files, but non-functional and off limits. Honestly, the way water pipes and power lines worked in the former titles was more tedious (water pipes) or non-sensical (power lines) than anything else. Want to connect power? Just zone a one tile wide agricultural strip.Some of the other dumbing down complaints I've noticed:
- No partial funding of civic buildings, they're on or off
- Removal of density zoning (choose only the three basic zone types, density is determined instead by parks and traffic)
- No farms or subways
- Removal of several power plant types, including dams (I haven't seen anywhere that power plants wear down, so I'm guessing that's gone too)
- Removal of power lines, water pipes, and sewage pipes, reducing the need for planning - all automatically placed along with roads
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Sony Shows Off PS4′s Power by Announcing 45 Developers Have Already Gone Bankrupt Making Games For It
Jim Profit says:
February 24, 2013 at 1:05 pm
P4R does it again, giving us the hard facts while other sites just circlejerk around 10/10 reviews and padding their pockets.
How did they know? Fuck them, assholes.Access Denied
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