Tired of SimCity problems-back this kickstarter

[DooKey]

I'm backing Civitas kickstarter since SimCity is such a mess. I mean why not?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-develop-and-manage-the-city-of-your-d

 

[Clinkster]

I laughed at:

Advanced Control With...

BUILDING PERMITS!

 

[blurredvision]

So instead of buying a game that has problems working for a few days, you're going to spend money for the promise of a game that will work when/if it comes out?

 

[DooKey]

Yep, the more the merrier if you ask me.

 

[Phobic9]

One of the devs was on reddit after a thread was started asking if the game was trying to cash in on the hype/negative press of Simcity. He basically said they're going to make this game regardless but he isn't confident that this Kickstarter will be successful at all. Honestly, it doesn't look that good to me.

 

[Dankk]

A word of caution, before backing that Kickstarter: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/19wbpt/is_civitas_a_scam_to_cash_in_on_simcitys_angry/

 

[Phobic9]

A word of caution, before backing that Kickstarter: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/19wbpt/is_civitas_a_scam_to_cash_in_on_simcitys_angry/

Yes that's the post I was referring to. Thanks for posting that.

 

[DooKey]

Interesting, thanks for the update on the developer. I'm going to keep an eye out on this one.

 

[lupi]

So instead of buying a game that has problems working for a few days, you're going to spend money for the promise of a game that will work when/if it comes out?

you've heard that the server /online requirement is being patched out?

 

[Maximilian]

No mention of a highly scalable multithreaded engine. No backing :thumbsdown:

Plus all the other stuff thats been pointed out.

 

[Bateluer]

you've heard that the server /online requirement is being patched out?

Is it? Source?


The KS looks fishy to me . . . theres not a chance hell they can deliver a game like that with only 250K.

 

[sandorski]

I should KS a whole new City Builder, Zombie Apocalypse, Racing game. It will be called: Call of CityZ Speed

 

[mizzou]

lol @ the $250 backer who gets their own "short quote"

Oh boy I bet that could get interesting....

 

[Regs]

EA actually spent millions on the development team and these amateurs with limited resources claim they can make it better? I'm going to remain cynical and I would want to play a working beta before ever making a donation.

 

[mizzou]

EA actually spent millions on the development team and these amateurs with limited resources claim they can make it better? I'm going to remain cynical and I would want to play a working beta before ever making a donation.

if anything, its going to be a shallow building game using a generic engine like Power Render.


Then again, look at what madminute games did on their version of a civil war game (take command 2nd manassas)

that game fucking rocked, and it was built by what many would consider "Amateurs"

 

[paperfist]

Is it? Source?


The KS looks fishy to me . . . theres not a chance hell they can deliver a game like that with only 250K.

Did you see the graphics? Reminds me of Transportation Tycoon.

 

[chalmers]

One of the devs was on reddit after a thread was started asking if the game was trying to cash in on the hype/negative press of Simcity. He basically said they're going to make this game regardless but he isn't confident that this Kickstarter will be successful at all. Honestly, it doesn't look that good to me.

Thanks for the cliffs, I'd rather slit my wrists than visit that trash website.

 

[JamesV]

Or... you could just buy the Tropico 4 collection on Steam for $10.

I've always loved SimCity (til this one, haven't bit), but I think Tropico has the best city development wrapped in an actual game you have to beat. You won't be running water lines or having cities of 100,000 people, but you can place individual buildings from a pub to an airport and all things between, which I actually like better than SimCity zoning.

Oh, and it has building permits as an edict (you are El Presidente), which gives x% of all funds you spend on building to your swiss bank account.

 

[Rinaun]

This happens way too often now. It happened with DayZ too. People didn't like things in Dayz, some company made a game similar to Dayz (called WarZ) from one of their previously existing titles, and scammed people out of what they advertised originally.

I'd be extremely careful funding this more than what the actual value of the game is. It could end up like WarZ.

 

[Bateluer]

EA actually spent millions on the development team and these amateurs with limited resources claim they can make it better? I'm going to remain cynical and I would want to play a working beta before ever making a donation.

To be fair, it wouldn't take as much as EA spent to make a better SimCity. Cutting out all the DRM, online, and social network junk would save millions and improve the game.

 

[greenhawk]

This happens way too often now.

I'd be extremely careful funding this more than what the actual value of the game is. It could end up like WarZ.

+1

given the timing alone would have me standing back. Being offered a silver bullet fix for your problems when you have only just had the game release is a bad joke. It is screaming scam.

 

[BladeVenom]

So instead of buying a game that has problems working for a few days, you're going to spend money for the promise of a game that will work when/if it comes out?

Many of the things that are wrong with SimCity 5 won't be fixed in a few days, some never will.

What happens to a game with an always online requirement when EA decides to shutdown the server?

 

[Rakehellion]

People are angry with SimCity so they back a shitty game as "revenge."

Brilliant.

 

[sigurros81]

People are angry with SimCity so they back a shitty game as "revenge."

Brilliant.

Personally, I can't imagine this game's graphics being anything phenomenon. I also don't think Simcity's graphics are that great. The cities don't seem very organic or natural looking when you have square-shaped buildings put up next to curvy roads, you get a lot of gaps and negative spaces that are voidless.

 

[Maximilian]

People are angry with SimCity so they back a shitty game as "revenge."

Brilliant.

Yup, just as bad as the people touting cities XL as some kind of alternative, as if that crummy city "simulator" if it can even be called that has somehow gotten magically better since simcity 2013 was released.

Now tropico 4, that's a good game, worth recommending to anyone who has a need to build and is disappointed by simcity.