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what sort of human being would want to pay for a nissan leaf DLC?

I'll pass on the DLC I rather them fix the game and get an offline mode going first.

Oh, and my city is being overrun by homeless people.  I did manage to fix my traffic problem though.

yea but there are always people that say that as a reason to get dumb dlc

the DLC was free, paid for by Nissan (advertising), and helps out your city...

If you're gonna bitch, at least do it with some research behind it.

And no newbie, no one can do anything to your town. You can also set your region to private if you dont want others people playing the same region.

The online only isnt that intrusive, my bigger beef is with the lack of depth in this game compared to previous iterations

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I could say that Sim City 5 gives you measles and it would have more depth than the most well-written and researched defense of EA and this game. But by your admission it doesn't have any (depth).

So tell us why we should buy it.

That's not really my job. I don't care if you buy it or not, and I wouldn't describe it as a must-buy.

It is fun though, but it should have been better. That's my opinion.

And there are plenty of perfectly legit points to bitch about, I was pointing out that you shouldn't moan about hearsay, because most of what you've said is wrong...

bennisboy wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I could say that Sim City 5 gives you measles and it would have more depth than the most well-written and researched defense of EA and this game. But by your admission it doesn't have any (depth).

So tell us why we should buy it.

That's not really my job. I don't care if you buy it or not, and I wouldn't describe it as a must-buy.

It is fun though, but it should have been better. That's my opinion.

And there are plenty of perfectly legit points to bitch about, I was pointing out that you shouldn't moan about hearsay, because most of what you've said is wrong...

forgive me for not spending £40 on a really shit EA game to find out for myself.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

bennisboy wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I could say that Sim City 5 gives you measles and it would have more depth than the most well-written and researched defense of EA and this game. But by your admission it doesn't have any (depth).

So tell us why we should buy it.

That's not really my job. I don't care if you buy it or not, and I wouldn't describe it as a must-buy.

It is fun though, but it should have been better. That's my opinion.

And there are plenty of perfectly legit points to bitch about, I was pointing out that you shouldn't moan about hearsay, because most of what you've said is wrong...

The universal input I've gotten from friends who've gotten it is "DON'T DO IT, BRO!" The web is full of complaints about the game, and youtube is up to its ears in Sim City 5 bitching videos. If I'm wrong on one or two things about it, you're not going to convince me to buy it when you're being the strongest supporter of this game here and STILL say that it lacks depth.

wtf man

You don't seem to be able to grasp this. I literally do not care if you buy it. I've already said so.

What I did say, was that you should know what you're bitching about, before bitching. If you don't, you just sound kinda stupid... Mmmkay?

Last edited by bennisboy (2013-04-26 10:32:04)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

You don't seem to be able to grasp that you're defending a game that you said lacked depth. Me saying that the game gives you measles pales in comparison to that.

Lol I am not defending it. I pointed out where you were wrong... because you were wrong. There are plenty of legitimate gripes with the game so moan about one of those rather than the made up ones yeah?

And I wasn't referring to your joke about giving you measles. I was talking about the paid DLC which is free, and you thinking other people can mess with your city.

Jeez, some people are dumb

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I'm not going to buy Sim City because it makes the cheese in my fridge go bad. And oh yeah, Nissan Leaf DLC. All the game's problems just went away like that, huh?

Did they release the DLC that allows fire trucks to find fires, or is that still in alpha stage?

Please, tell me where I said the problems went away?

Seems you like making stuff up...

Bennis, EA lied about this game.  Besides World War Z or whatever, this is probably the most fraudelent thing to happen in the gaming world in the past couple of years.  And it came from EA.  They didn't just water down, noobify, "modernize" the old formula, no, they lied to everybody by trying to convince us that this was an actual simcity game when in fact it was a barely functioning facebook/social game.  They give everyone who bought it a free game (unprecedented, I believe) without giving them the option to a refund.  An admission of a ginormous fuck up in itself.  This is why everyone is ganging up on you, we know that the game might have a few redeeming qualities, but its the principle behind it that we're pissed at.  I'm tired of them fucking up all my favorite games.  I'd rather them just stop making Battlefield and Simcity, and call it something different.  They are doing nothing but cashing in on the labels.

the war z

i never made it beyond this: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ … 53-SimCity

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

bennisboy wrote:

2. I'm not defending the damn game! Why can't people understand this. I've said it lacks depth, and that it's been over-simplified, and that it shouldn't be online only. I've said it isn't what it should have been for a SimCity game. I merely said the Newbie's complaints were not legitimate, when there are plenty of acceptable complaints. But yes, I have also said that it's a fun game, with limited replayability.

What I know about the game I've gleaned from the countless reviews and having watched gameplay footage with both defensive and caustic commentary. At some point I said to myself "ok, I've seen enough."

You need to grasp that at this point, any intercession on behalf of SimCity 5 is going to put you underneath the spotlight of "defender of EA, etc." The game single-handedly wrenched all my attention away from how little I was liking Ubisoft's business practices and to be frank, Far Cry 3: BD is starting to shove them back towards "OK."

Orrrrrrrr you need to grasp that I am not a defender of EA, merely trying to put across an accurate picture of the game...
I've pointed out the floors, and pointed out where people are making stuff up.

And it's pretty sad that you are focusing your attention on a game you don't own or want to own to bitch about

@MOAB, yesh I would have actually been content with a modernised SC4. The problem with the 3D in this is that it can't look amazing, but most people playing a casual simcity game wont have beast computers capable of running it at the top end. Although there has been talk that the reason for the small city size is that each sim has individually calculated routes, jobs, etc. So everything is computed at a Sim level rather than city level, making it quite resource intensive. I don't get why they did that, most people care about the city, not the sims