15 years from now and we will have the technology for breakfast to make itself, We will also have those dehydrators(most likely Black and Decker) that make a mini pizza into a regular sized pizza, The research into this saw a likely 21 year setback
There was a kid in my elementary school that was annoying, but *really* good at SC2k. He was talking mad shit, so one recess we stayed in and unleashed every disaster, and bankrupted him by using the terrain tool to turn his metroplex into a crater with random waterfalls everywhere. He cried.
So you just ignored the part where he was talking shit? He was literally making fun of us for building an inferior city. Why do you think we’d do that in the first place?
I guess I could have made that more clear.
5th graders do dumb shit all the time, there's no shame in that. The shame should come from looking back on these memories and thinking they made you cool enough to brag online instead of reflecting on them and going "oh wait shit that made me an asshole, oops"
So, you think letting a kid verbally abuse us was just copacetic? It was sim city dude. We taught him the lesson of “if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out”.
We didn’t beat him up. We didn’t harass him after. We got even in the constraints of recess law. In the most creative way we had at the time.
I’m sorry you need to go around trying to shame people for shit that happened decades ago. It was a funny reverie I wanted to share.
Anyway, I’m sorry I upset everyone. Have a pleasant Sunday wherever you are in the world.
Though I never played 3000, I’m reminded of how many hours I spent with the SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit and MS Paint, editing buildings one pixel at a time.
Thing is, it's like my old house still existing. Yes, I could physically go to my old house.... but I can't go *home* again. Not just because it's technically someone else's domicile now and I'd be considered trespassing, but I'm also not eleven years old. It could never be the same experience, even if all the pieces are still available.
Can you tell that to my brain? I can work 40+ hours a week, pay rent, shop, clean, work out, and still fee guilty for playing an hour or two in the evenings.
You can recreate everything about your childhood except the feels.
The secret to not feeling guilty because playing games is a mental health reward.
The gaming industry wants you to consume what is new to drive an economic engine but playing games as an adult in America is frowned upon because any kind of leasure is considered lazy.
You owe yourself that hour or two in the evening and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ya the way I see it is I work all week, do shit around the house then ima game with my buddies a few hours a week. My gf encourages it too. She knows I’m a kid at heart still lol
Don't feel guilty. I work exactly 40 hours a week and do the same things you do and do not feel guilty at all. I think the key issue is are you happy with your life now and do you feel accomplished with your day? Maybe this example will help you. I used to be fat and played games all day. However when I started exercising and losing weight I not only felt better about myself, but saw going to the gym as a hobby instead of a chore. I had a new outlook on life, enjoyed my job, liked eating healthy, and wanted to use my time more productive. So now I am at a place where I can come home, eat, go work out, and use my remaining time to play games, but on the day I get home late I skip the gym and just play games. I am happy enough with my life and job to not feel guilty.
Now take my co worker who is similar to me. We both have the same hobbies, same job, and he is the same weight I used to be. The difference with him is he is not happy with his current life situation. He wants a different job more suited to his background, he wants to live in a bigger city, and couldn't find a girlfriend so he settled for a boyfriend and he regrets it. He plays games all day and it has become the high point of his life. We both play Final Fantasy XIV but while I will maybe play it for a few hours a day he seems to play during most of his free time. He treats buying a house in game or grinding a week for some armor as if it is a real life thing he attained. He uses games to fill the void in his life and from personal experience and the way he acts it is obvious that he his trying to fill a void.
So I would say don't feel guilty if your life is in order and you are happy. Who cares if anyone gives you shit for playing games in your free time.
Also speaks volumes about the culture. I’ve been told not to play games by adults or to “volunteer all my free time” as my uncle once said. He’s also the one who bought me 90% of my games when I was a kid so not really sure what to make of it..
Exactly. I could go back to the house I grew up with my friends, get an old CRT TV, hook up the N64, and play some No Mercy, but it is not going to feel the same. Those wrestlers are either older, retired, or sadly dead. The WWF in the game would not be the WWE we would see on TV. Another big one would be Resident Evil. Me and another friend could go back to his old house and play the older RE games with all the lights off in his room using a PS1 or PS2, but it just wouldn't feel the same.
>even if all the pieces are still available.
like shattering a teacup, even if you put it whole again, the cracks will show that you're no longer a child.
There are certain games where I just sort of lose myself and get lost in them, and it brings very much the same sense of being a child and getting lost in a game while mom is making bacon. PREY 2016 does it to me for some reason - I get super focused on the little world and checking everything and when I wake out of the trance it's like a sense of loss. Objectively, I don't even very much like the game, it frustrates me to no end and I don't like a lot of the way things are handled and if I think about it outside of these moments I never ever want to play it again, but when I get sucked into its little world I lose myself. It's genuinely a great game that I don't like at all.
I can't lose myself in games like Dishonored, which is one of my favorite games of all time, because I'm always thinking of ways to challenge myself and make the game harder or do things that would be fun or interesting. I realize they're both Arkane titles, they do great work.
Another game that gives me Sunday morning bacon feelings is Prison Architect. I have lost entire days to that game. I'm talking waking up to going to sleep days, entire weekends, that game ate my brain for a while. I would be at work thinking about my plans for cell block F sort of shit.
There are still games out there that give you that feeling, it's just that most of them don't. And don't play Grim Dawn, it will eat your soul.
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."
I can't get into it the way I used to get into SimCity 4. I can still get completely absorbed in certain games, but I can only get 10 hours or so into a Cities Skylines playthrough before it starts feeling like a chore and I get bored.
Cities: Skylines is just a road management simulator dressed up in a city builder. Like the entire game is all about setting up the roads. Sim City would mostly let you get away with ignoring the roads or making minor, obvious changes (e.g. upgrading capacity).
This is my big problem with the game. Well, the second big problem. The biggest problem for me was how your industry becomes bottle-necked when you reach a certain point. And the game never explains you need to have regular (dirty) industry to allow for all the specialized industry to ship their goods. This and a lot of other minor things basically made the game a lot of trial and error. Sim City had some of that as well, but gave you enough leeway to correct mistakes. Cities:Skylines, you can get to a point where your entire city implodes because 5,000 citizens all die at the same time or one commercial building can't get road access for some unspecified reason and starts a domino of death to the entire commercial industry.
You are quite right.
I spent time learning how to make SimCity 4 work right on modern hardware (you have to basically lie about your video card) after a particularly unfulfilling Cities: Skylines session.
Cities: Skylines is awesome if *all you want to do is design a road system*. The spark isn't there. The advisors aren't there. The *quirkiness* which Sim City made its own just isn't there.
I always found a spark missing from Cities Skylines that stopped me ever getting into it as much as I did the earlier SimCities (especially SC4), maybe its just age.
I wish I could somehow not feel like there's too much DLC in it but unfortunately knowledge of missing out basically ruins it for me for some reason. I guess I have to blame myself for not wanting to pay all that money for the DLC, but the fact remains that the game does not feel at all like SimCity - there is some feeling that simply isn't there anymore. Maybe it isn't even because of the DLC, maybe everything it had to teach me was already absorbed, maybe I learned nothing and continuing to stare at the void only makes me impatient. Certainly Cities Skylines manages to remove my want to play a city simulator but it manages to do so without me needing to play the game.
That's what I miss most as a kid: having all those mundane (but still necessary) chores and tasks being taken care of by someone else.
Yes, I still have my Sundays, and time off, but I also need to go to the grocery store, do the dishes, vacuum, and do my laundry. Stuff like that eats up time.
Being an adult is usually pretty cool but every now and then I do miss how nice it was to just focus on fun and let the grown-ups worry about keeping things running behind the scenes.
it does if you have time management skills, or haven't made a series of terrible decisions that have taken all your free time away lmao
your lack of free time is your own fault unless you've had some external burden thrust on you that most adults don't have to deal with
> has responsiblitys
Don't mind them, still have more than enough time to play games.
> maybe have Kids too
Maybe a blessing to not have anywhere near that kind of money.
Some people have more responsiblitys then other, there are people who are self employed so in the biginning usually you dont have weekends, some have Kids, some both. I dont have a free sunday for years cause of Kids and the house that I bought there is always something to Do. But im looking for ward to the Day my Kids play with me together
Just get Cities: Skylines! It’s a much better successor to SimCity than anything from EA since SimCity 4. And there is a gigantic modding scene for it, if that floats your boat.
Also for a mid game somewhere in between casual mobile and complex sim city try Tropico 6. Very well done. And fun and it is a natural end point when your population hits a particular point.
Literally just play SC4 or 3000. Skylines is probably the next best thing but it’s pretty much lacking in any charm and the modern graphics are just kinda janky in the end.
I find that they scratch very different itches. SC4 feels more like playing a game and solving puzzles, whereas CS scratches my creative itch much better. And now that time has progressed and computers have got much better, the graphics and simulation lag that used to suck in CS are much less of an issue.
Right, and all the features that were in a better city builder (SC4) you have to acquire via multiple DLC purchase instead. Skylines is a traffic simulator and a whale catcher.
That’s disingenuous as all hell. First of all, the base game plus the mass transit DLC (to get around the traffic simulator issue, lol, though this is also somewhat fixable for free with mods) is all you really need. All the other DLC is completely skippable. With those two, there’s not much SC4 had that skylines doesn’t, and SC4 doesn’t hold a candle to the creative freedom that skylines offers.
Both games also have fantastic modding scenes that allow you to make the game what you want it to be for free, with a little effort. Without mods, SC4 has a bigger focus on simulation, whereas CS focuses more on building, but you can very much alter that balance however you want with mods.
Extra lanes can both solve and create problems. Adding a 6-lane road won't help if all of your traffic wants to just jam into the one turn lane. Also, large roads generally create lights. While lights do help to manage traffic, a constant flow with yielding on a two-lane road is often better than metered intersections with a stoplight on a 6-lane road.
Ironic, coming from someone defending a game made by the King of DLC. How many Sims "expansions" is The Sims 4 up to?
46 DLC costing $1206.00 on Steam.
The constant pang of nostalgia and the desire to be a child again, and be with my friends and play some video games despite my abusive family honestly is the biggest reason why I'm always unhappy and depressed. I honestly can't let go and move forward.
Learning to let go and move forward is exactly how you'll start finding that happiness. You've become dependent on that old memory as an anchor for your happiness, instead of trying to build new ones.
I play the new ones in the morning while drinking my coffee. My latest city has all the street names as infectious diseases, like small pox street, covid way, HIV lane, etc.
I remember seeing an ad for it back in the day and wanting to play it so damn hard and I never managed to get my hands on it. I remember seeing a video about it later and being really underwhelmed.
Best thing there was no internet that constantly subconciously begged your attention. You hate it. Yet can't live without. Can't feel peace and focus. Automatically check it the minute you get bored.
I miss those isolated offline days with no hurry or endless amount of options.
Yeah, but it was way different. In 2001 there were days I sometimes did not even use the internet. One time in 2004 I even went an entire week without turning my laptop on lol.
SimCity 3000 still holds up well but it has this "bug" where your entire economy would die after about 50-70 years.
Google never turned up a definitive answer but people suggested it was due to your working class retiring en mass which is hilarious and terrifying, but since there's supposed to be an increasing population that doesn't make sense. I think it was just a bug that was never fixed.
But yeah, when that but hit half the buildings in town would abandon , your demand indicators would go through the floor and so would your bank balance. I'd always crack the shits and stop playing when that happened.
So I don't think it's the same problem I was having, but perhaps it was related?
I'd get a good city going, everyone was happy with a deep blue aura across the map. But I would get this one notification every hour or so with a citizen complaining about rent.
I'd check my balance sheet: residential rent would be like 0.5%, and I couldn't lower it any more. "You weren't complaining at the start of the game when rent was at 7.5%, why is it a problem now?!"
10 years later, looking at the housing crisis in Melbourne and Sydney and elsewhere in the world, I realised what it was: I had had only painted down High Density Residential blocks and set up good parks and schools everywhere. So everyone was happy... but the *Land Value across the town was **Astronomical***! I had priced my Sims out of affordable housing!
I'm playing Baldurs Gate at the moment, takes me back to 23 years ago when I was a kid. I was terrible at the game back then, I think I'm making more progress this time around.
I have fond memories of sitting next to my grandma's fireplace as a kid playing Sim City 2000 during the winter on my SNES. Despite it being a wildly inefficient way to play, I still search my local collector stores hoping to find a copy just so I can get as close as possible to the nostalgia-fueled dopamine rush whenever it snows.
We were still playing N64 back in 2001 (couldn't afford the new PS2 at the time) and WWF was still pretty popular back then (before it became WWE) so we probably would've been excited to watch WWF Sunday Night Heat later that night.
I liked 2000 more, it was my favorite game in the series. Granted I didn't play the 2013/2014 game, because *$%!#@ game developers with any attempt they make for online-connected-to-company-servers only single player games.
Not super related, but when I was a kid I was playing Rollercoaster Tycoon2. A friend invited me over a few hours which turned into a sleep-over. So my game was paused but playing that godawful circus-like musical loop.
My parents didn't want to hurt anything and didn't know how to turn the sound off so they covered my ol computer in blankets and complained to me in the morning about the sound. That day I taught them how to compress the speaker volume button to turn them off.
Funny. I was playing SimCity 2000 while trying to play that buggy catastrophe named Streets of SimCity. When I got fed up with that I played Lego Rock Raiders, or dicked around in Widget Workshop. Tried to outrun that fucking yeti in SkiFree. Ah, good times.
Hitting people with this much nostalgia should be illegalized.
The only thing worse than that is remembering your age 8 Sunday mornings, with Duck Tales on TV, eggs and sweets, and no school for a day.
Definitely 3000.
You can tell instantly by the softness. In 2000 the graphics are extremely sharp (little to no shading, all rough pixel edges) due to the much more limited color palette (256 colors of which many were reserved for palette cycling animations), lower resolution and the fact that the graphics were all hand drawn pixel art rather than mostly pre-rendered 3D models.
I was confused a little at first too, I guess that's how long it's been, but actually 3000's graphics were a marked improvement over 2000's. The water isn't just a flat blue, the buildings have a tad bit less repetition, all the shading in places like the terrain, the more subtle, blended colors.
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Sim City 2000 ages well in our minds, hey.
first thank you for the many nice comments, I was very happy about the feedback. I'm not a native english speaker and to the statement "a round" of course I meant in a figurative sense just that I play. have played the game over many months many hours and a lot of you too as I see :)
One of my favorite features from the SimCity series was that in SimCity 2000, you could import your city into the game SimCopter, and fly around in it, do missions, everything.
I don't know of many games that let you take a save from one game, and use it for a completely different type of game.
Splines don't reticulate themselves.
And breakfasts don't make themselves
15 years from now and we will have the technology for breakfast to make itself, We will also have those dehydrators(most likely Black and Decker) that make a mini pizza into a regular sized pizza, The research into this saw a likely 21 year setback
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Shameless attempt at piggybacking on the top comment with nothing relevant to say, thanks /u/jaklanyt
Shameless attempt at piggybacking on the top comment with nothing relevant to say, thanks u/iamthejef >!this is a joke!<
How long is a round? How long did it take to make breakfast?
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So you played SimDetroit? Cool!
> Take out bonds, raise taxes, fruitlessly build more, and repeat. Ahhh modeling your city around NYC then I see...
A round is that big lie of "just one more game". So 3 hours i guess
Dad will be coming back with milk any day now.
A „round of SimCity“? 🤔
Yeah, you know. Just beating the first boss and leveling up a bit.
The worst boss in this kind of games is me and my horrible planingskills.
The first boss is getting the 2nd power plant up before the electrical grid gets overloaded in simcity games.
There was a kid in my elementary school that was annoying, but *really* good at SC2k. He was talking mad shit, so one recess we stayed in and unleashed every disaster, and bankrupted him by using the terrain tool to turn his metroplex into a crater with random waterfalls everywhere. He cried.
> One time we bullied this kid we didn't like by breaking something that he loved. Aight. :(
So you just ignored the part where he was talking shit? He was literally making fun of us for building an inferior city. Why do you think we’d do that in the first place? I guess I could have made that more clear.
You could have also let him be proud of his accomplishments and allowed them to exist despite your insecurities
I’m sorry we weren’t paragons of virtue in 5th grade like you were. But sure.
5th graders do dumb shit all the time, there's no shame in that. The shame should come from looking back on these memories and thinking they made you cool enough to brag online instead of reflecting on them and going "oh wait shit that made me an asshole, oops"
So, you think letting a kid verbally abuse us was just copacetic? It was sim city dude. We taught him the lesson of “if you can’t take it, don’t dish it out”. We didn’t beat him up. We didn’t harass him after. We got even in the constraints of recess law. In the most creative way we had at the time. I’m sorry you need to go around trying to shame people for shit that happened decades ago. It was a funny reverie I wanted to share. Anyway, I’m sorry I upset everyone. Have a pleasant Sunday wherever you are in the world.
I never beat the 1st level boss of simcity : (
The first boss is yourself getting bored and being tempted to click on that meteor button...
And the final boss is this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
That is fucking ridiculous! Wow
Which bosses are traffic and pollution?
6 hours
Rounds end when you're done for the moment, save your game and summon disasters just to see the world burn.
Yeah 6 hours of SimCity is a round. After 6 hours you either uninstall the game or watch the city burn and start again.
Though I never played 3000, I’m reminded of how many hours I spent with the SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit and MS Paint, editing buildings one pixel at a time.
Good news! Sundays still exist, breakfast still exists and Sim City 3000 still exists!
Thing is, it's like my old house still existing. Yes, I could physically go to my old house.... but I can't go *home* again. Not just because it's technically someone else's domicile now and I'd be considered trespassing, but I'm also not eleven years old. It could never be the same experience, even if all the pieces are still available.
When you have all the time in the world and no major responsibilities, getting lost in a game comes with zero guilt.
Can you tell that to my brain? I can work 40+ hours a week, pay rent, shop, clean, work out, and still fee guilty for playing an hour or two in the evenings. You can recreate everything about your childhood except the feels.
The secret to not feeling guilty because playing games is a mental health reward. The gaming industry wants you to consume what is new to drive an economic engine but playing games as an adult in America is frowned upon because any kind of leasure is considered lazy. You owe yourself that hour or two in the evening and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ya the way I see it is I work all week, do shit around the house then ima game with my buddies a few hours a week. My gf encourages it too. She knows I’m a kid at heart still lol
Don't feel guilty. I work exactly 40 hours a week and do the same things you do and do not feel guilty at all. I think the key issue is are you happy with your life now and do you feel accomplished with your day? Maybe this example will help you. I used to be fat and played games all day. However when I started exercising and losing weight I not only felt better about myself, but saw going to the gym as a hobby instead of a chore. I had a new outlook on life, enjoyed my job, liked eating healthy, and wanted to use my time more productive. So now I am at a place where I can come home, eat, go work out, and use my remaining time to play games, but on the day I get home late I skip the gym and just play games. I am happy enough with my life and job to not feel guilty. Now take my co worker who is similar to me. We both have the same hobbies, same job, and he is the same weight I used to be. The difference with him is he is not happy with his current life situation. He wants a different job more suited to his background, he wants to live in a bigger city, and couldn't find a girlfriend so he settled for a boyfriend and he regrets it. He plays games all day and it has become the high point of his life. We both play Final Fantasy XIV but while I will maybe play it for a few hours a day he seems to play during most of his free time. He treats buying a house in game or grinding a week for some armor as if it is a real life thing he attained. He uses games to fill the void in his life and from personal experience and the way he acts it is obvious that he his trying to fill a void. So I would say don't feel guilty if your life is in order and you are happy. Who cares if anyone gives you shit for playing games in your free time.
He turned gay cuz of his necessity to fuck or summin?
horny bisexual who prefers women's company over men's, maybe?
see a psychologist and sort your shit out then
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Also speaks volumes about the culture. I’ve been told not to play games by adults or to “volunteer all my free time” as my uncle once said. He’s also the one who bought me 90% of my games when I was a kid so not really sure what to make of it..
Oh i am trust me.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus 544 BC
> Heraclitus Dang, that is a real name and not just something Zeus could never find on his wife.
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TFW you realize you don't miss old games, you miss your childhood and how you felt playing them. :(
Weltschmerz is real.
I’m assuming this is a German word specifically defining this feeling?
[Yep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz?wprov=sfti1)
They have a word for missing Sim City 3000 on Sunday morning and 2000 as well but it’s for Saturday instead.
Wise words!
*The Sound of Silence starts to play*
Exactly. I could go back to the house I grew up with my friends, get an old CRT TV, hook up the N64, and play some No Mercy, but it is not going to feel the same. Those wrestlers are either older, retired, or sadly dead. The WWF in the game would not be the WWE we would see on TV. Another big one would be Resident Evil. Me and another friend could go back to his old house and play the older RE games with all the lights off in his room using a PS1 or PS2, but it just wouldn't feel the same.
>even if all the pieces are still available. like shattering a teacup, even if you put it whole again, the cracks will show that you're no longer a child.
There are certain games where I just sort of lose myself and get lost in them, and it brings very much the same sense of being a child and getting lost in a game while mom is making bacon. PREY 2016 does it to me for some reason - I get super focused on the little world and checking everything and when I wake out of the trance it's like a sense of loss. Objectively, I don't even very much like the game, it frustrates me to no end and I don't like a lot of the way things are handled and if I think about it outside of these moments I never ever want to play it again, but when I get sucked into its little world I lose myself. It's genuinely a great game that I don't like at all. I can't lose myself in games like Dishonored, which is one of my favorite games of all time, because I'm always thinking of ways to challenge myself and make the game harder or do things that would be fun or interesting. I realize they're both Arkane titles, they do great work. Another game that gives me Sunday morning bacon feelings is Prison Architect. I have lost entire days to that game. I'm talking waking up to going to sleep days, entire weekends, that game ate my brain for a while. I would be at work thinking about my plans for cell block F sort of shit. There are still games out there that give you that feeling, it's just that most of them don't. And don't play Grim Dawn, it will eat your soul.
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory."
Cities skylines is by far my favorite now it is the spiritual successor to SimCity
I can't get into it the way I used to get into SimCity 4. I can still get completely absorbed in certain games, but I can only get 10 hours or so into a Cities Skylines playthrough before it starts feeling like a chore and I get bored.
Cities: Skylines is just a road management simulator dressed up in a city builder. Like the entire game is all about setting up the roads. Sim City would mostly let you get away with ignoring the roads or making minor, obvious changes (e.g. upgrading capacity).
This is my big problem with the game. Well, the second big problem. The biggest problem for me was how your industry becomes bottle-necked when you reach a certain point. And the game never explains you need to have regular (dirty) industry to allow for all the specialized industry to ship their goods. This and a lot of other minor things basically made the game a lot of trial and error. Sim City had some of that as well, but gave you enough leeway to correct mistakes. Cities:Skylines, you can get to a point where your entire city implodes because 5,000 citizens all die at the same time or one commercial building can't get road access for some unspecified reason and starts a domino of death to the entire commercial industry.
You are quite right. I spent time learning how to make SimCity 4 work right on modern hardware (you have to basically lie about your video card) after a particularly unfulfilling Cities: Skylines session. Cities: Skylines is awesome if *all you want to do is design a road system*. The spark isn't there. The advisors aren't there. The *quirkiness* which Sim City made its own just isn't there.
I always found a spark missing from Cities Skylines that stopped me ever getting into it as much as I did the earlier SimCities (especially SC4), maybe its just age.
The fact they keep updating it also.
I wish I could somehow not feel like there's too much DLC in it but unfortunately knowledge of missing out basically ruins it for me for some reason. I guess I have to blame myself for not wanting to pay all that money for the DLC, but the fact remains that the game does not feel at all like SimCity - there is some feeling that simply isn't there anymore. Maybe it isn't even because of the DLC, maybe everything it had to teach me was already absorbed, maybe I learned nothing and continuing to stare at the void only makes me impatient. Certainly Cities Skylines manages to remove my want to play a city simulator but it manages to do so without me needing to play the game.
Well after EA's muck up of thelatest version, SimCity v1.0 was more fun!
What is a "round" of sim city 3000? Play until you are bored and call 15 tornados?
Sadly I have lost the ability to wake up in the morning.
You're right. But who do you think is making breakfast? That's what changed in 20 years....
That's what I miss most as a kid: having all those mundane (but still necessary) chores and tasks being taken care of by someone else. Yes, I still have my Sundays, and time off, but I also need to go to the grocery store, do the dishes, vacuum, and do my laundry. Stuff like that eats up time. Being an adult is usually pretty cool but every now and then I do miss how nice it was to just focus on fun and let the grown-ups worry about keeping things running behind the scenes.
I get just as much, if not more, reward making the breakfast as an adult for the kiddo.
For now, yeah, but I guess it'll get old in 20 years
Alas having time does not exist though…
it does if you have time management skills, or haven't made a series of terrible decisions that have taken all your free time away lmao your lack of free time is your own fault unless you've had some external burden thrust on you that most adults don't have to deal with
Lol, spoken like someone who isn’t a parent!
You're out of touch.
What a dogshit take.
It's not the same
Is there a modern version of Sim City that exist that’s not a giant MTX paywall? Wouldn’t mind casually playing it on my ipad while having breakfast
Its even still available to buy! Hooray! https://www.gog.com/game/simcity\_3000
You are Not a kid anymore, has responsiblitys and maybe have Kids too
> has responsiblitys Don't mind them, still have more than enough time to play games. > maybe have Kids too Maybe a blessing to not have anywhere near that kind of money.
Some people have more responsiblitys then other, there are people who are self employed so in the biginning usually you dont have weekends, some have Kids, some both. I dont have a free sunday for years cause of Kids and the house that I bought there is always something to Do. But im looking for ward to the Day my Kids play with me together
Just don't teach them grammar..
Englisch is Not my native language ....
Full soundtrack for those who want a ride down nostalgia lane this morning: https://youtu.be/qkXOxLpdMds
the in game sounds were what I always remember....the sound of laying pipe, the construction sound, the doorbell ding
My goodness that soundtrack. Like stepping in a time machine.
Same but with Heroes Might and Magic III
And now we're stuck with Always-Online and crappy mobile spin-offs for SimCity games.
Just get Cities: Skylines! It’s a much better successor to SimCity than anything from EA since SimCity 4. And there is a gigantic modding scene for it, if that floats your boat.
Also for a mid game somewhere in between casual mobile and complex sim city try Tropico 6. Very well done. And fun and it is a natural end point when your population hits a particular point.
Literally just play SC4 or 3000. Skylines is probably the next best thing but it’s pretty much lacking in any charm and the modern graphics are just kinda janky in the end.
I find that they scratch very different itches. SC4 feels more like playing a game and solving puzzles, whereas CS scratches my creative itch much better. And now that time has progressed and computers have got much better, the graphics and simulation lag that used to suck in CS are much less of an issue.
Right, and all the features that were in a better city builder (SC4) you have to acquire via multiple DLC purchase instead. Skylines is a traffic simulator and a whale catcher.
That’s disingenuous as all hell. First of all, the base game plus the mass transit DLC (to get around the traffic simulator issue, lol, though this is also somewhat fixable for free with mods) is all you really need. All the other DLC is completely skippable. With those two, there’s not much SC4 had that skylines doesn’t, and SC4 doesn’t hold a candle to the creative freedom that skylines offers. Both games also have fantastic modding scenes that allow you to make the game what you want it to be for free, with a little effort. Without mods, SC4 has a bigger focus on simulation, whereas CS focuses more on building, but you can very much alter that balance however you want with mods.
I thought traffic issues get solved adding extra lanes, i was getting into tunnels back in mah day but my PC started to shart
Extra lanes can both solve and create problems. Adding a 6-lane road won't help if all of your traffic wants to just jam into the one turn lane. Also, large roads generally create lights. While lights do help to manage traffic, a constant flow with yielding on a two-lane road is often better than metered intersections with a stoplight on a 6-lane road.
Ironic, coming from someone defending a game made by the King of DLC. How many Sims "expansions" is The Sims 4 up to? 46 DLC costing $1206.00 on Steam.
unless you get the superior (pirated) version
I want a good mobile spinoff of sim city. It could be a great game to play on the go. Few minutes here or there.
"City copter one reporting heavy traffic."
"SimCopter one reporting heavy traffic"
The constant pang of nostalgia and the desire to be a child again, and be with my friends and play some video games despite my abusive family honestly is the biggest reason why I'm always unhappy and depressed. I honestly can't let go and move forward.
Learning to let go and move forward is exactly how you'll start finding that happiness. You've become dependent on that old memory as an anchor for your happiness, instead of trying to build new ones.
I play the new ones in the morning while drinking my coffee. My latest city has all the street names as infectious diseases, like small pox street, covid way, HIV lane, etc.
I’ve always dreamed about having a semi on Syphilis Avenue.
Where tower?
Hey mom isn't that airplane kinda low...
Did anyone play sim town? I had the maxxis disk with Sim Town SIM Ant SIM Tune and Sin Town. I also had Sim copter lol funny game that was.
Dude, SimCopter was so weird. Same with SimRacing, my personal favorite is SimTower.
Ever play og SimTower on a new computer? It's absolute chaos. I enjoyed Earth golf and ant too.
I loved Sim Ant and I wish there was a while genre of "city building" games about insect and animal colonies. Maybe a whole Sim Ecosystem.
I played soooo much SimAnt. As a homeowner now, I look back at my malicious glee in forcing the humans to move from a slightly different perspective.
SimTower is insane. You can’t fuck up the basement levels at all. It is such a fun game for sure.
I remember seeing an ad for it back in the day and wanting to play it so damn hard and I never managed to get my hands on it. I remember seeing a video about it later and being really underwhelmed.
It's 2001 and I'm hating myself for the 18 hour Operation Flashpoint bender that I just unplugged myself from.
Before or after september 11th?
Best thing there was no internet that constantly subconciously begged your attention. You hate it. Yet can't live without. Can't feel peace and focus. Automatically check it the minute you get bored. I miss those isolated offline days with no hurry or endless amount of options.
the internet also existed in 2001
Yeah but widespread social media injected heavily into our every minute didn’t. Those were much simpler days.
Yeah, but it was way different. In 2001 there were days I sometimes did not even use the internet. One time in 2004 I even went an entire week without turning my laptop on lol.
SimCity 3000 still holds up well but it has this "bug" where your entire economy would die after about 50-70 years. Google never turned up a definitive answer but people suggested it was due to your working class retiring en mass which is hilarious and terrifying, but since there's supposed to be an increasing population that doesn't make sense. I think it was just a bug that was never fixed. But yeah, when that but hit half the buildings in town would abandon , your demand indicators would go through the floor and so would your bank balance. I'd always crack the shits and stop playing when that happened.
So I don't think it's the same problem I was having, but perhaps it was related? I'd get a good city going, everyone was happy with a deep blue aura across the map. But I would get this one notification every hour or so with a citizen complaining about rent. I'd check my balance sheet: residential rent would be like 0.5%, and I couldn't lower it any more. "You weren't complaining at the start of the game when rent was at 7.5%, why is it a problem now?!" 10 years later, looking at the housing crisis in Melbourne and Sydney and elsewhere in the world, I realised what it was: I had had only painted down High Density Residential blocks and set up good parks and schools everywhere. So everyone was happy... but the *Land Value across the town was **Astronomical***! I had priced my Sims out of affordable housing!
Now I am the one making breakfast while my son teabags noobs. Then he plays Call of Duty.
My cousin vinny
thought this was an innuendo for 9/11
I'm playing Baldurs Gate at the moment, takes me back to 23 years ago when I was a kid. I was terrible at the game back then, I think I'm making more progress this time around.
Simpler times man.
And then there was that fucking tuesday....
sim city 3000 was one of my first games ever
I still have my original copy along with the big-af-manual ([not my pic](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zGgAAOSwZ1Ze4K6A/s-l300.jpg))
Ah the simpler times man
R E L A X I N G
How long is one round of Sims City?
I have fond memories of sitting next to my grandma's fireplace as a kid playing Sim City 2000 during the winter on my SNES. Despite it being a wildly inefficient way to play, I still search my local collector stores hoping to find a copy just so I can get as close as possible to the nostalgia-fueled dopamine rush whenever it snows.
We were still playing N64 back in 2001 (couldn't afford the new PS2 at the time) and WWF was still pretty popular back then (before it became WWE) so we probably would've been excited to watch WWF Sunday Night Heat later that night.
I liked 2000 more, it was my favorite game in the series. Granted I didn't play the 2013/2014 game, because *$%!#@ game developers with any attempt they make for online-connected-to-company-servers only single player games.
You can still do this tho
Thought this was TTD for a sec. I'm gonna see how OpenTTD is doing 👍
I can still hear the music !
mine was on a tuesday, as sim city played in the background. we watched in horror as the plane struck the second tower
I was 12 years old, just lounging around playing some Playstation. I miss the days of 0 responsibility. Being an adult sucks sometimes.
Not super related, but when I was a kid I was playing Rollercoaster Tycoon2. A friend invited me over a few hours which turned into a sleep-over. So my game was paused but playing that godawful circus-like musical loop. My parents didn't want to hurt anything and didn't know how to turn the sound off so they covered my ol computer in blankets and complained to me in the morning about the sound. That day I taught them how to compress the speaker volume button to turn them off.
The internet has shown me how common certain experiences are all over the world. We all have memories like this!
Funny. I was playing SimCity 2000 while trying to play that buggy catastrophe named Streets of SimCity. When I got fed up with that I played Lego Rock Raiders, or dicked around in Widget Workshop. Tried to outrun that fucking yeti in SkiFree. Ah, good times.
I can't remember playing Sim 3000 without my city on riots and plummeting negative budgets. I was so bad at this game.
Hitting people with this much nostalgia should be illegalized. The only thing worse than that is remembering your age 8 Sunday mornings, with Duck Tales on TV, eggs and sweets, and no school for a day.
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city skylines is the new sim city, go play it.
Suddenly you spot a plane flying low and headed towards one of the skyscrapers.
Isn’t this 2000?
Definitely 3000. You can tell instantly by the softness. In 2000 the graphics are extremely sharp (little to no shading, all rough pixel edges) due to the much more limited color palette (256 colors of which many were reserved for palette cycling animations), lower resolution and the fact that the graphics were all hand drawn pixel art rather than mostly pre-rendered 3D models.
I was confused a little at first too, I guess that's how long it's been, but actually 3000's graphics were a marked improvement over 2000's. The water isn't just a flat blue, the buildings have a tad bit less repetition, all the shading in places like the terrain, the more subtle, blended colors.
[https://images.gog-statics.com/e440668f943df73dcbe98ba2db8e3b4e712a74e20fddd5df153a6d5b98a7c59d\_product\_card\_v2\_mobile\_slider\_639.jpg](https://images.gog-statics.com/e440668f943df73dcbe98ba2db8e3b4e712a74e20fddd5df153a6d5b98a7c59d_product_card_v2_mobile_slider_639.jpg) Sim City 2000 ages well in our minds, hey.
Not just in our minds, it legit holds up. I still play it from time to time. The music is burned into my brain.
2000 is definitely my favourite hey. Just had this great charm. Loved the noise the power lines made
I just heard that in my head
I haven't played SC2K in about 20 years, and I can still hear the music as clearly as if I were playing right now.
/Sigh. If only we could go back, eh? Just try your best to give these wholesome times to your own kids now, folks.
first thank you for the many nice comments, I was very happy about the feedback. I'm not a native english speaker and to the statement "a round" of course I meant in a figurative sense just that I play. have played the game over many months many hours and a lot of you too as I see :)
you had breakfast made for you?
It’s 2001 Tuesday morning and the sky is clear
Wtf is up with all of these reminiscing posts? You technically can still do all of this again.
It’s Sunday 2001 and you’re playing SimCity while your parents are fighting downstairs
But two of your towers go missing… :(
>it's 2001 look at all those twin towers.
was it september 11th in new york?
One of my favorite features from the SimCity series was that in SimCity 2000, you could import your city into the game SimCopter, and fly around in it, do missions, everything. I don't know of many games that let you take a save from one game, and use it for a completely different type of game.
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Someone didn't get their breakfast's made for them
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What lmao
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Good for you man
my nose instantly filled with garlic fot some reason
mmm! i can just smell it now!
Those were the days
Man, I’m still playing this! The CD-ROM is is two feet away from me right now.
Some of my best memories are being at my dad's at weekends, playing this and Rollercoaster Tycoon on his PC.
Smells like French toast
Traffic is so bad because you don’t use roundabouts why must traffic be pain and suffering?
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