I'm with this guy. The OP either didn't play the game, or played it wrong.
"I don't get the feeling I'm creating my own city from scratch, it feels more like I'm building based on whatever emergency comes up next. "
The beta put you in a blank square with nothing on it, if thats not from scratch, then what is?
" To be sure there was some of that in the original, but I also feel the original allowed you to build a city to almost any scale and be able to balance it, e.g. several sizes of police stations, firehouses, etc."
You can do this.
" This version feels like right from the outset you have to big build or go home - and once you start to build, you no longer have control. "
What? First off, this is the beta where they urged people to rush to get max population, for a reason. Secondly, this beta featured only ONE city of a 16 city region. You had to put everything inside the one city. Thirdly, I know I personally demolished several neighbourhoods through a few of my playthroughs to make more room for other stuff. Lots of control.
The only thing you got right in all this, was that you can't make it as big as in SimCity 4, the SimCity beta gave us what would be a medium plot in SimCity 4 - but still, this is beta, and hopefully maxis won't gimp us on size too much. Otherwise there's always other cities in the region.
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Very true, but my daughter used to play The Sims and I will say that their UI, online store, patching system, and everything else that isn't the game proper, just sucked balls as if they put no thought or resources into it - and now that I've just remembered the misery of helping her navigate all of those issues, I've reinforced my previously stated goal of not purchasing the game until it is cheap - hopefully by then they'll have most of the major bugs worked out.
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SimCity 4 <3, new one is terrible, probably developers were lazy or drunk.
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I am completely underwhelmed by this new version - I don't get the feeling I'm creating my own city from scratch, it feels more like I'm building based on whatever emergency comes up next. To be sure there was some of that in the original, but I also feel the original allowed you to build a city to almost any scale and be able to balance it, e.g. several sizes of police stations, firehouses, etc. This version feels like right from the outset you have to big build or go home - and once you start to build, you no longer have control. Perhaps they left some things completely out of the beta, but based on what I've seen I don't think that is the case. Either way I'll probably end up with it, but not until it goes on sale for under $20.
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