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[Broder Salsa]

Oh yeah, pretty excited about this. Please please please don't fuck it up, EA.

 

[Legato.Reborn-]

Can't wait!

 

[Dedication Through Light]

Just need to get a better laptop and Ill be set to back to the world. Hopefully the writers of the news ticker return, so witty.

Kind of holding out hope for a console version.

 

[TreasureHunterG]

MAXIS I LOVE YOU! DON'T LET EA TURN YOU INTO THE DARK SIDE!

 

[gaheris]

Can't wait for this but I hope it will not slow to a crawl as fast as some of older Sim City games did once you got your city to a certain size.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Never played one of these before

wat

ORIGINAL MAXIS!? THE ORIGINAL MAXIS!?!

*faints*

Minus Wright anyway.

 

[Boss Doggie]

MAXIS I LOVE YOU! DON'T LET EA TURN YOU INTO THE DARK SIDE!

Hahahahahaha too late pal, too late

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Oh my god. Multiplayer is gonna be amazing.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

Hmm not sure if I will like this iteration.

*faps cautiously*

 

[Forsaken82]

Holy crap if the game ends up looking like that, then wow it would exceed my expectations.

Anno 2070 looks close to that... don't see why Sim City V can't considering nearly a year will have passed by the time it releases...

 

[zap]

That looks sexy.

The last SimCity game I played was 2000, but I played it so much.

I may have to start back into the virtual mayor business.

 

[sullyj]

 

[Emitan]

wat

Until, like, 2004, the only videogames I played were Nintendo, Sonic, and Star Wars games.

 

[Zzoram]

Kind want. Will wait on GOTY since it will have tons of expansions.

Tropico 4 will hold me over until then.

 

[EatinOlives]

...Dr. Wright?

 

[dLMN8R]

I think what makes me most happy about this thread is the Origin preorder page! It makes me especially happy, since I was worried that this might actually be a free-to-play game.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some hater of free-to-play games, but I don't like any of EA's attempts, and for something like SimCity, I just want to buy a full game and play it.

 

[BigJonsson]

I want this

 

[Grinchy]

If that trailer is what we can expect, with all those crazy details going on, I'm going to install a toilet in my computer chair.

 

[strife2k]

For me this is the game of forever. So much wait. So much history behind a PC playing a Sim City game.

 

[sullyj]

...Dr. Wright?

Thats what I was going for. Plus my reaction when I started thinking about curvy roads and the fact it sounds like they are keeping all the real deal infrastructure in was like

 

[Jimrpg]

no mac?

am disappoint... don't tell me i have to fiddle around with bootcamp everytime i want to play...

 

[celebi23]

Looks amazing, but... no Mac version!? I played the heck out of the vanilla original and then SC2k on my family's old System 7.1 Mac Quadra, and it was the best-looking of all the SC2k versions, mainly because of the Mac's timeless UI (Chicago and Geneva fonts in particular).

Please tell me that this oversight is going to be rectified

Spoiler

and that it'll run on 10.5 and that I won't have to upgrade to Mountain Lion or whatever they're calling OSX by next year

!

I feel your pain man :/ I just dug out my copy of Sim City 3000. Going to give that a quick run through in 7.5.5 in SheepShaver

 

[FrontalMonk]

this is the game I would install origin on my PC for.

 

[Jangocube]

Sounds pretty damn amazing.

 

[overburning]

Maxis!! <3

 

[Paznos]

Finally a new Sim City!!, it's crazy it's been almost 10 yrs since Sim City 4 that doesn't even seem right.

 

[Legato.Reborn-]

I don't give a shit whether it's on Origin, Steam, That other shit by Stardock, or AMD or

what.

the fuck.

ever.

Just give me SimCityV

 

[AstroNut325]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

2013???? This game needs to hit by the end of this summer dang it!

 

[Piggus]

Finally a new Sim City!!, it's crazy it's been almost 10 yrs since Sim City 4 that doesn't even seem right.

10 years later and it still chugs harder than a thirsty $2 whore. Seriously Maxis... I'm hyped, But SC4 is the worst optimized game I've ever played. Even with dual SSDs the data streaming is awful.

 

[Pseudo_Sam]

Pretty slick trailer.

<3 Maxis

 

[Kintaro]

Oh my god. Another time vampire. lol

 

[StoppedInTracks]

This can't be real-time :O No PC could do that at the moment.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

I'm so ready

 

[Manager]

This can't be real-time :O No PC could do that at the moment.

The video states "Doesn't represent gameplay" at the end...

 

[BobJustBob]

This is cool, but isn't it a little weird to call it just "Sim City"? I get this eerie feeling they are calling it that because most people nowadays think The Sims came first...eww

Pretty much. Most of the FAQ deals with people who only know The Sims and never heard of SimCity.

 

[Mario007]

Were there any other announcements at that EA conference or was 2 hours really dedicated only to SimCity?

 

[BlindCommunication]

Amazing news, looks like there will be online co-op then? Isn't it the very first time in the series? Playing Anno 2070 atm and the co-op is just outstanding in that game. Would love to have co-op in a city builder of Sim City calibre!

 

[Pandemic]

If anyone is interested in hearing about the engine for SimCity (Glassbox engine), there'll be a conference about it at 11AM PST.

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

My God.

Cities XL just hasn't been able to fill the void left by Sim City. Now the king is back, Cities might be remembered as the nice place holder until Sim City 5 came out.

If anyone is interested in hearing about the engine for SimCity (Glassbox engine), there'll be a conference about it at 11AM PST.

Think I might actually watch this...

 

[XANDER CAGE]

Semi-related, but what was this EA/Sim City press conference drama I was catching wind of? I didn't go to GDC, but I've been reading some strange comments from people there.

 

[jman2050]

PC Only

Basic information sounds awesome. Just gotta hope they execute. Too bad it'll be a while yet before we get the game but it's been so long since 4 I'm happy it's coming at all.

 

[I H8 Memes]

Going by the system requirements it's not going to look at all like the trailer or the art shots.

 

[dLMN8R]

Going by the system requirements it's not going to look at all like the trailer or the art shots.

How do you figure? The most important thing to SimCity is the simulation underneath. As long as you have a good enough CPU and enough ram, that'll be taken care of. On top of that, they can theoretically have a graphics engine that scales tremendously from basic to something like what you see in the trailer.

 

[bjaelke]

Wish they'd allow mods and user created content like Cities in Motion and Transport Tycoon.

 

[Belgorim]

Do people realy have that much trouble spotting a CGI trailer? In this case the trailer itself even says that it is not representative of actual gameplay.

It will be an awesome game I'm sure, and I look forward to it a lot. They dont even have screenshots on the site yet, only concept arts.

 

[UrbanRats]

PC Only Origin Only.

 

[The_Endgamer]

What the!? Needs a Mac version!

 

[Belgorim]

What the!? Needs a Mac version!

Can't you just use that bootcamp thingy all mac-people suggest all the time?

 

[AAequal]

Truck-o-Saurus! Looks really great but Origin really does suck at least on my computer. I don't know why but after installing it my computer has slowed down a lot
Well I hope Origin works better when this comes out.

 

[The_Endgamer]

Can't you just use that bootcamp thingy all mac-people suggest all the time?

Yeah i have it, but everything is much smoother on Mac and the fact that i first owned SimCity 2000 on my Apple Performa 5200 has a special significance.