Favorite Maxis Sim? My favorite would be Sim City 2k, next would be A-Train.

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Anonymous Fri May 31 17:07:27 2019 No.5623738 [Reply] [Original]

Favorite Maxis Sim? My favorite would be Sim City 2k, next would be A-Train.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 31 17:13:06 2019 No.5623763 >>5623738 SimCity 3000 is /vr/ and it's the best SimCirty game none of the Sims games are /vr/ but Sims 3 is the only one I'm able to get working on Windows 8

>>	Anonymous Fri May 31 17:46:39 2019 No.5623851 >>5623763 I prefer SC2k myself. SC3k was when they started making a few too many systems and it just gets pointlessly complex and overwhelming.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 31 20:28:57 2019 No.5624279 >>5623763 You should be able to emulate 2k on DOSBox. 3K should still run, at least the GOG version does.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 31 20:49:00 2019 No.5624327 File: 65 KB, 640x480, simcopter_4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SimCopter isn't my real answer but I'm posting it anyway

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 00:05:36 2019 No.5624827 Simtower

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 01:20:02 2019 No.5624974 SimAnt was awesome. 90s PC Maxis Sims are god tier aesthetically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 01:40:18 2019 No.5625006 >>5623738 SimCity 4000

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 01:44:26 2019 No.5625015 >>5624327 blasting rioters with a water cannon was fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 01:44:45 2019 No.5625016 >>5623738 Classic. No laying pipe. That's a Sim's job.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 01:56:56 2019 No.5625035 >>5624327 I got confused when the gay easter egg popped up. Also Streets of SimCity was pure cheese, and I loved it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 02:02:00 2019 No.5625045 >>5623738 SimEarth. I with they'd make an update with a more modernized understanding of ecological and global processes, and evolution.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 02:12:16 2019 No.5625057 File: 109 KB, 640x480, 431403-simisle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SimIsle was Tropico before Tropico. Although it had a pretty pointless "agent" system that bogged everything down and kept it from being great.

Anonymous Sat Jun 1 03:14:53 2019 No.5625135

>>5623738
Just for sheer style and visual, I'll say 2000 is best.

>>5623763
I tried running SC3000 from a disk install and it would just refuse to behave at all, try the GOG version (you can even pirate it), it runs just fine on Win 7 and Win 10.
I like SC3000 a lot actually (and it's genuinely better in a bunch of ways), but it doesn't have that homely and pretty graphical style that SC2000 had.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 07:51:53 2019 No.5625518 File: 162 KB, 800x600, SimCity Classic Windows 95 Edition.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SimCity Classic Windows 95 Edition for me, grew up on Atari ST classic so the Win95 version is the ultimate version of that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 11:11:13 2019 No.5625960 File: 50 KB, 640x480, simfarm_4.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Simfarm is the best. Shame all of you for not posting it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 1 12:08:44 2019 No.5626151 File: 168 KB, 1033x679, negro amigo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5625057

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 02:21:27 2019 No.5628201 which has the best soundtrack in your opinion

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 02:49:38 2019 No.5628232 >>5623738 Sim City 3000 Unlimited is my favorite. Perfect balance. Not too simple, not too complex. Still 2D, so does't run at ass frame rates like 4 does.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 02:55:33 2019 No.5628238 >>5625057 What is this agent system you speak of and how did it bog things down?

Anonymous Sun Jun 2 03:00:22 2019 No.5628246

>>5628238
When you had to do anything build something, hire workers, etc., etc. you had to manually send one of your employees (on the bottom bar) with the appropriate skill to the site in question and it takes time for them to travel. That and I think you had to consult the help file to see which ones had which skills when hiring, which was dumb. Lots of ways it could have been streamlined.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 03:21:51 2019 No.5628275 >>5628246 'Course there's cheat codes that let you have free agents and no travel time but I didn't know about those at the time. The game is hard to get running on a modern PC and it was kind of unstable even back then.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 19:30:42 2019 No.5630354 File: 1.45 MB, 1280x1024, prunella_penny.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I had a crush on the Chamber of Commerce lobbyist in sc3k. I'd have done anything she wanted if she'd only known type of pressure to apply. Liked SimEarth a lot, too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 20:29:42 2019 No.5630525 >>5628275 Actually it's not that hard even but you need to install and run it in dosbox. Trick is to mount the folder to c: and d: at the same time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 2 21:29:23 2019 No.5630665 File: 2.07 MB, 512x448, SimEarth exodus.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SimEarth, the SNES version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZcOfiS5Nso

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 02:39:54 2019 No.5631343 >>5630354 that city looks soulless

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 03:16:08 2019 No.5631404 >>5624327 SimCopter/Streets of SimCity were good, but only when using your own SC2K maps

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 03:18:07 2019 No.5631407 I find the lack of SimTower in this thread problematic

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 04:07:11 2019 No.5631464 Sim park and Sim ant

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 05:53:01 2019 No.5631582 >>5624827 OMG THIS.

Anonymous Mon Jun 3 07:30:52 2019 No.5631706
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>>5630354
>>5630665
>>5625045
>SimEarth. I with they'd make an update with a more modernized understanding of ecological and global processes, and evolution.
What would you like to see changed specifically?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 16:54:08 2019 No.5632913 >>5631706 muh global warming muh flat earth

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 3 17:09:04 2019 No.5632940 is SimAnt the only sim games with ending?

Anonymous Mon Jun 3 17:46:13 2019 No.5633024

sc3k4life
No matter how hard I try, I can't understand people who prefer 1 or 2k.
green and beautiful vs brown and dreary
more advanced simulation vs shallow gameplay
beautiful music, one of the best videogame soundtrack of all time vs low quality audio 70's jazzy music

simant is too easy and too simple. You can win by just fastforwarding from a tile with no hostile colony
simfarm also has shallow gameplay. Just make more and more orange orchards.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 02:27:21 2019 No.5634241 >>5630665 Right in the damn feels anon. We had it on old ass macs in school when I was a kid and it's probably still my favorite from a perspective of what you could do. Really wish they would do a refresh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 03:15:11 2019 No.5634293 File: 112 KB, 640x480, 7_1-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have a lot of nostalgia for SimTown

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 04:37:13 2019 No.5634345 >>5625518 I have a disc for this on PC somewhere and I just can't find it. Makes me a little upset.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 04:49:18 2019 No.5634356 >>5623738 What the fuck possessed EA to port this to the SNES? Were they on drugs?

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 09:23:05 2019 No.5634721
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>>5631343
Having soul is a polite description for a nog infested shithole.

Avg land value here broke the maximum unsigned integer, the so-called land value bug, and giving zero fucks that public education and health are absent, looped back to astronomical and netted 600 million from 1900 to 2100.

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 11:17:18 2019 No.5634923
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>>5634721
good lord, what a shithole!
although if shitholes like that are possible, then some cooky urbanist bullshit should be, too. Like rhombus-shaped districts (wtf would anybody live there is a mystery).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 11:29:11 2019 No.5634949 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 12:42:20 2019 No.5635116 >>5634721 A monotonous gray cityscape is its own kind of hell hole. A little bit of crime is fine to me if it means the city gets to be far more varied and beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 13:00:35 2019 No.5635164 >>5634721 A monotonous gray cityscape is its own kind of hell hole. A little bit of crime is fine to me if it means the city gets to be far more varied and beautiful.

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 13:03:22 2019 No.5635175
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>>5634949
relevant
Magnasanti is not so much soulless as it is a soul-recycling machine. The 50,000 year old wheel of life and death. I would have made a city with no roads as well, except it isn't possible with SC3K Unlimited. Industrial zones require them to complete trips in SC3KU. When you load his masterpiece it gets abandoned :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 13:05:10 2019 No.5635181 >>5624327 Nice. This was the first computer game I ever played when my family got our first PC. I never found that gay easter egg though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 15:37:20 2019 No.5635604 >>5635175 So it's not really a hell, it's a purgatory?

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 17:07:05 2019 No.5635804
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>>5635604
In the divine comedy there is a sense of hope among the temporary inhabitants of purgatory that would be missing from people in Magnasanti. You spend a couple thousand years in purgatory and then you get to go to heaven.

In Magnasanti there is no hope. Everyone lives and dies under a pre-designed algorithm in the lower-middle class wage slave compartment (pictured). The population has not changed by a single integer in 50,000 years.

In my city I was interested in maximizing profits so I sort of tuned the ordinances to get life expectancy to terminate roughly at the end of the working years, 65, so as to hold commercial and industrial demand up under high taxes. In Magnasanti I think the guy did the same thing but for with far greater precision, and for the more insidious reason of keeping the framework of every Sim's life absolutely static for eternity.

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 18:57:01 2019 No.5636032
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>>5635181
You had to have version 1.0 of the game (or a disc version ending in "-A"), and the eggs only appeared on certain dates. Any Friday 13th works and I think some day in September will activate the bug, too. I believe a copy of "gay"copter is still floating around on archive.org if you can manage to get it running.
I never saw the himbo egg either until more than 20 years after the game's release. I always thought it was some stupid fake news like the big helicopter cheat.

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 19:49:17 2019 No.5636110

>>5635804
>Everyone lives and dies under a pre-designed algorithm in the lower-middle class wage slave compartment (pictured). The population has not changed by a single integer in 50,000 years.
That really is an absolute hell, like that's a kind of dark joke you'd find in some Douglas Addams novel, about some planet somewhere where a society fully automated itself down to a really disturbing calculated point and the quality of life and prospects are a nightmare, and nobody actually likes it, but nobody there can break free.
Optionally, the society went extinct and there's only the ghostly automated framework keeping things running for nobody.

Anonymous Tue Jun 4 21:04:41 2019 No.5636250
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>>5636110
>the deep darkness of SimCity 3000
I don't think he even intended it that way when he started his project. He just wanted to get the highest population he could and didn't realize the result would be something out of a nightmare. Such a redpill

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 4 22:02:13 2019 No.5636328 File: 52 KB, 426x500, 51yRsbnyp8L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5623738 >Sim City 2k The special edition with the expansions was awesome. Still play it on occasion.

Anonymous Wed Jun 5 05:14:14 2019 No.5637134
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>>5631706

Not him, but some of the concerns in SimEarth are less of a deal now than they were in the 90s. The most likely way intelligent life will kill itself in SimEarth is through pollution or running out of fuel resources. Between solar panels and fracking, the Western world doesn't have to worry too much about either.

It also paints evolution in a misleading light, probably because it made for a better game. Life in SimEarth doesn't adapt to the environment as it evolves, it just gets bigger and more human-like. Human intelligence isn't the end goal of evolution. It would be cool to see life actually split off into different species according to the environment is in, and for little things like creatures in warm climates to evolve faster than creatures in cold climates, and for plants to evolve in addition to animals. The terraforming mechanic could use some more depth; it's just silly when you're an advanced civilization planting Stone Age tribes on Mars.

Mostly though, the game is getting old and nothing has replaced it. We're actually in the future described by the in-game dictionary. It'd be nice to have another game that takes a holistic, Gaia theory view of Earth and lets you play around with it, if only to teach zoomers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 5 11:34:44 2019 No.5637664 File: 98 KB, 800x574, evolution-the-game-of-intelligent-life_5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Spore could´ve been something akin to Evolution; Intelligent Life instead of having reddit designs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 5 13:26:57 2019 No.5637936 >>5623738 Sim City 3000 is the best game in the series.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 5 17:15:28 2019 No.5638480 SC3000 is one of my fondest nostalgic memories, that game can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. That music, those comfy graphics, the caricature-style mugshots, the humor, and I think every single sound effect is carved into my brain forever.

Anonymous Thu Jun 6 11:37:09 2019 No.5640098
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>>5636032
>>5635181

There's another quasi easter egg in the patched version too.

Sometimes, albeit rarely, when you retract a Water bucket fully a himbo character appears dangling off the edge of your helicopter for a few seconds then disappears.

I've only seen this easter egg/bug happen on the first level - "Island town".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 6 12:53:41 2019 No.5640239 SimMars

Anonymous Thu Jun 6 12:54:42 2019 No.5640241

>>5640098
Yep. I remember freaking out when my copter started making random gurgling/moaning sounds after filling it with water one time. Sure enough, I took a swimmer/diver for a free ride (and fall after dumping my bambi bucket). It happens every single time when filling up the bucket in the himbo version, but only if you set your system clock to a Friday the 13th or Sept 26.
The game is just fuckin' weird, patched or not, which is what makes it amazing. The 3-faced sims, getting shot at and random med-evacs when greeting people, aliens, the ability to turn into a hyperactive dog, hidden attack helicopters,. It's a shame nobody's made an open-source implementation with rabid dog missions or complete 3D acceleration features.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 6 12:56:40 2019 No.5640247 >>5636110 >there's only the ghostly automated framework keeping things running for nobody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 6 12:58:03 2019 No.5640250 >>5640241 I also forgot to mention that an OS version with multiplayer would be kick-ass.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 6 13:45:13 2019 No.5640316 >>5637936 I wish I could have 3000s gameplay with 2000s aesthetics

Anonymous Thu Jun 6 17:09:30 2019 No.5640761

>>5623738
Definitely SimTower, followed by SC3K. I've tried Yoot Tower and that one game modeled after it on Steam, but it just doesn't have the same feel or appeal. I remember finding SimTower on some "abandonware" site. I didn't even know it existed and I just couldn't stop playing it once I started.

Anonymous Fri Jun 7 11:41:34 2019 No.5642387

>>5640241
>>5640250

Definitely an amazing game. All of those little touches along with chasing speeders, destructive nuclear powerplants, and the integration with SC2K makes me wonder what else they would have added if time, resources, and sabotage weren't a factor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 7 12:50:19 2019 No.5642554 >>5634293 Based, I remember playing it at school.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 7 13:32:49 2019 No.5642630 I got the first one on the SNES, and I remember the manual being thicc as fuck

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