First thing it asks you to do is register and log in. I’ve never played… so let’s check it out.
Well, from now until March 17th, Epic Game Store has Cities: Skylines as its free game. It’s a sim, right? There’s other stuff I’d want to shell out money for. I never got around to playing it, though. And reviews said that Cities: Skylines didn’t suck. We’ve talked about Paradox games before and Paradox games said “you know… maybe we could do Sim City *RIGHT*.
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Server problems coupled with an inability to play offline pretty much ruined the launch and Maxis Emeryville closed its doors about two years later. Afterlife, Pharoah, Tropico… From the games that were basically reskins with new and fun themes to actual variations on the game, Sim City was the standard until about 2013 when Sim City was released with amazing reviews and an absolute disaster of a launch. And Sim City 2000 was so very competent at the citysim thing that it set the template for about a decade. This was a game in which explosions were *BAD*. Okay, maybe it wasn’t *FUN* fun, but it was challenging in a new and interesting way that was completely different from games like Dark Forces or Mechwarrior 2. This was the one that not only introduced water and sewer and libraries and hospitals and scenarios like floods and recessions. In 1995, they released Sim City 2000 which managed to achieve “actually being fun”. It didn’t reach Flight Simulator levels of dull, but it struck me as a game that was closer to Chartered Accountancy than it was to Moon Patrol in the fun department. But it was a computer game that was obviously not merely kid stuff. Well, “fun” may have been an overstatement. I went over to a friend’s house who had it and…
The Social Studies teacher talked about it (he couldn’t show it to us, yet, as computers that were cheap enough to be in any non-Lab were not yet a thing) and he gushed about how it was not only educational about the nitty gritty of what makes a city run, but it was actually *FUN*. I played Sim City back when I was still in high school.
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