Mostly a battle game.
Posted on 08/14/2009 4:39:54 PM PDT by GeronL
Has anyone tried this game SimCity4 Deluxe Edition?? I know its old and has a lot of devoted fans at certain cult-like websites. I have always wanted to try this game but I never got around to it.
There seem to be a few "free download" sites but these cannot be legal, IMO. I want to buy it so I can feel a bit like a liberal and I am put into total control of their teeny virtual world!
*evil laugh*
Seriously though, has anyone tried it?
My daughter’s friends love the Sim games.
The Sims is a whole ‘nother ballgame. =o)
I wanna build cities not people.
Or, even better, a way to ‘plug-in’ your cities into a national (ie team) grid and then pit the ‘nations’ against each other... cities could be damaged from bombardments and troops and all sorts of stuff.
*insert maniacal laugh*
I was looking at the Mods some people have for the GTA: San Andreas. They almost rewrite the whole game. They can put in new character models, new vehicles and other things. It seems to me if we dump the missions it comes with someone could rewrite the whole thing into a wargame quite easily.
That’s the beauty of half.com / eBay, the resale market. :)
{My opinion, of course.}
just click it
Thanks.
It looks like SC4 is a good one.
We’ve got Sim City 4 around here somewhere, I haven’t played it in a long time. My college-age daughter plays it occasionally.
Unfortunatly, we are both addicted to The Sims 2. We bought The Sims 3 a few months ago, and she likes it a lot, but I don’t.
Even more unfortunately, I have recently found Facebook Farm....
I like Sim City 4 Deluxe. It’s the kind of thing you either like or you don’t. If planning and developing a city doesn’t sound like fun to you, skip it.
But if it sounds cool, you gotta give it a try!
There’s the tedium of laying down the infrastructure and giving the citizens the things they need to grow and become better educated. You grow your city and get your baseball stadiums, federal prisons, universities etc.
What really gets me off is building the mass transit systems for when my city becomes densely populated. I like laying out the subways and busstops and trying to get the Sims to use them. There’s a ‘route query’ tool that lets you click on a building (say a big residential building) and it tells you how many Sims are going to work by car, bus, train etc. And it shows you where they’re going, so you can try to figure out where to place your mass transit stops. Once you get your subway and train stations cooking, you can build an above ground monorail.
Then you can just sit back and check it out, watch it run really smooth. Like I said, that really gets me off for some reason.
You can build up the neighboring regions so that some regions are only agricultural or industrial and so the sims in your major city have some place to go and work and the economies get interconnected.
I think it’s really cool and you can literally lose yourself for hours at a time in this game. If you’re in a bad mood you can drop the budget for sanitation and police down to nothing and watch crime take over your city and trash pile up in the streets... Or create your own little police state with a high population of police officers.
Facebook Farm... Farmville?
haha
Just do not play Harvest Moon then.
If you decide SC4 is just too much of a burden.. =o)
That sounds like a game for me.
When I was playing GTA-SA I wanted to build my own city. LOL.. It would be cool if you could build a large 3-d city and walk or drive through it.
I guess we have to wait a decade for computers to catch up with a dreamer
I started out with Simcity 2 I think then went to 3 then to 4. Plan on spending a LOT of time. It’s very addicting, much like FR is. I highly recommend it and I’m not a gamer or much into games. But SimCity is much more than a game to me.
I have said since I first started with SimCity that EVERY politician for EVERY elective office should be required to spend several months running SimCity and being successful at it. It would probably virtually eliminate all the liberals, as they couldn’t get a successful city running with their total lack of understanding how the real world works.
Again, I highly recommend it. I just wish there was some way we could use it to filter out the idiots for public office with it.
#8^D
It sounds like a good game. I think I will. Will it run on Vista?
Yes, it will run on Vista. I play it on a Vista machine. However...you may want to shut off some the extra graphic heavy applications that Vista is known for. It can drag the game down. Every once in awhile I would get a crash to desktop, due to scrolling and zooming in and out too quickly. So be aware of this when you start playing. Simtropolis.com is great site to learn about this game.
Any issues running SC4 or the NAM on Vista?
There is also a really really really old computer around here somewhere. I was thinking of downloading some old games to a CD for it, but it only has 64MB of RAM or something.
Anyways thanks.
I am probably going to get a laptop soon,. probably a Toshiba cheapo. I think I will tell them to add an extra GB of RAM
Don’t know. I’m smart enough to not touch Vista. =]
Sim City 4 is OK. I gave it up for The Sims and for other city-builders. It’s still available in some Walmarts and Best Buys, and Amazon.com.
You might like some of these historical city builders (many of the old ones are still available from Amazon):
The “Anno” line of PC games: “Anno 1701” and the recent “Anno 1401” (called “Dawn of Discovery” here in the U.S.). A combination city-building and ship trade route game.
All the Rome city building games: “Caesar IV” and the earlier “Caesar 3”, “CivCity Rome”, etc.
Older city-builders: “Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom”, “Pharaoh”, and “Children of the Nile.”
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