It’s getting a really positive reception. It’s broken the publisher’s sales records. But that's my prediction.Cities: Skylines seems to be doing pretty well for itself. The difference with EPs between the two games, is you will get a lot from Civ V's EP, and very very little SimCity 5. My point is SimCity 5 is NOT THAT BAD, some of the features are not as horrible, and they removed some of the bad features were removed (health, SoD) I would love to see more features in the future EP. Yes I agree that SimCity 5 is far from gone, and it's the only SimCity game since 1990 that I don't even want to buy, and refuse to buy because of it's microscopic maps and DRM. My prediction is SimCity 5 is it probably be sub-par to decent, with micro-transactions that EA is known to have, where you must spend more than twice the money you were supposed to pay for a complete game with SimCity 5 vanilla. I once recall this backlash with The Sims 3 vanilla, but even with the lack of interactions, the fact that you can play an entire neighborhood trumped The Sims 2 vanilla. It's probably worse than how Civ 5 was at it's launch (Civ V has improved at par with the previous versions with G&K, IMO), and SimCity 5 will probably never, ever live up to it's predecessors, even with patches and EP upgrades. I've only played SC1 and SC3 a decent amount (primarily 3), but what you've listed is similar to the general impressions of I-IV (in both series) that I'm familiar with.Įither way, even though I think SC5 might work out quite well design-wise, I'll be skipping it b/c of the afore-mentioned appalling DRM.Ĭiv 5 wasn't bad, in fact it was even playable and competent to it's predecessors.īut SimCity 5 is.
If Sim City V turns out to be mediocre, it's an interesting comparison. But for the actual experience within a city, I haven't heard as much versus complaints about 1 UPT, global happiness, etc. Secondarily, I've heard complaints about the cities being too small, but that's mostly speculative at this point, and we'll see how it bears out once people are actually playing the game with the neighboring cities, regions, etc. The main critique I've heard about SC5 is the DRM, which doesn't really relate to the in-game experience. Similarly, even if Sim City 5's reviewers' reviews are mediocre, that doesn't mean die-hard fans won't like it. Civ V has by-and-large sterling reviews from review sites, but that doesn't mean die-hard fans like it. It hasn't even been released yet, so all you have are either beta impressions - based on one hour, so not exactly fair - or perhaps some reviewers' impressions, which aren't necessarily indicitive of what die-hard fans think.
I think it's a little early to judge Sim City 5 content-wise.
SIMCITY COMPLETE EDITION VS SIMCITY SOCIETIES SERIES
"Your content is online only! We close the servers, you lose your cities! Screw you, fanbase!"Īnyway, I just thought the way these two series correspond to one another is both cool and a little freaky. The only difference is that Civ 5's DRM is annoying while SimCity 5's DRM is downright appalling and is a complete disgrace. I even feel that being able to build diagonally is analogous to hexes a positive, sorely-needed change that won't help to fix all the other problems with the game. Societies was dumbed-down AND just a crappy game overall.Īnd now it looks like SimCity 5 is going to drum up a new market while being panned by die-hards in almost the exact same way Civ 5 was. The only difference is that while they both lacked the complexity and depth that made their series more enjoyable, at least CivRev was still a fun game. They both took the things from the prior instalment that didn't work and polished them until they did, while adding a great deal of depth to the series overall.ĬivRev and SimCity Societies were both kind of the "black sheep" of the franchise, a game specifically marketed to attract newcomers. There were a lot of things they did that were really cool, but some of the fanbase felt that the new additions didn't work too well.Ĭivilization 4 and SimCity 4 were both hailed as the most complex and involved games in the series.
With everything going on with SimCity V, I feel like the Civ series and the SimCity series are totally analogous for one another.Ĭivilization and SimCity were both pioneers in their respective genres.Ĭivilization 2 and SimCity 2000 both became kind of the "staple" game that defined the genre and guaranteed each franchises' place in gaming history.Ĭivilization 3 and SimCity 3000 were both "two steps forward one step back" sequels.
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