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    Sim City: Virtual Console

    Does anyone have fond memories of the SNES version of Sim City as I do? I think I might go download this on the VC.

    I have SimCity3000 on my PC, but I liked the simplicity of the original and the Nintendo version had some cool extras like reward buildings and Nintendo related things.

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    Fucking traffic. I can never fix the fucking traffic. It's all traffic QQing from the game for me.

    Otherwise the music/ideas were really good. I loved the game. I don't mind Sim City 3000 but ... never tried anything past 3000.

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    Oh yeah, forgot about the traffic.

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    All I remember was how slow the SNES version was for moving the camera around/zooming in/out. Mouse or gtfo imo. The low-resolution didn't help also.

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    The scenarios are damn near impossible to complete too.

    Crime is a bitch too unless you flood the area with Police Stations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheStig View Post
    Crime is a bitch too unless you flood the area with Police Stations.
    ^ this, most annoying shit ever. 4 stations per block.

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    Couldn't you fix traffic by using only rails?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheStig View Post
    ... never tried anything past 3000.
    4 is amazingly bad and amazingly awesome at the same time.

    It's all around awesome until you factor in that, 6 years after it came out, a top end machine still can't run it smoothly.

    To put that in perspective, the recommended system specs on the box are: 800mhz Pentium III, 256mb of RAM, 64mb direct3d video card (geforce 4 is the strongest chipset listed as supported)

    It's still laggy as fuck on my 3ghz dual core with 4gb of dual channel ddr2 and a radeon hd3850 with 512mb of memory, running off of a gigabyte iRAM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Res View Post
    Couldn't you fix traffic by using only rails?
    Yeah, who the fuck uses roads in SimCity?

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    I have enjoyed every single Sim City to date. Some more than others. I was about to throw away my SimCity4 CD when Vista kept making it crash until I learned that using a No-CD crack relieved the crashing.

    SC2000 was probably my favorite, mainly because that's all I would play at school and for the awesome cash cheat.

    SC3000 was better (graphics wise and ease of making money, sort of). But between SC3000 and SC4, I would have to rank SC4 as being better. It was a lot easier to maintain a metropolis. The only bitch is that my highway systems never seem to accumulate much traffic. People prefer avenues ...

    And SimCity on the PC is so much easier than on SNES.

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    Damn it, now I want to play Sim City. Fuck you guys.

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    Anyone wish there was a SimCity 5 instead of Spore (or SimSocieties). SimCity 4 is personally my favorite. But yea, it still runs laggy after all these years.

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    You wouldn't know that though because you've demonstrably never picked up a book nor educated yourself on the matter. Let me guess, overweight housewife?
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    I actually played this on znes maybe 3 weeks ago. I love the Sims series, but sometimes I wish they'd continue making good versions of SimCity as well.


    part that irritated me the most was building all those fucking pipes underground.

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    How similar is this to the version that hit the iphone a few months ago? I think the iphone is a port of 3k surprisingly enough.

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    Wow, I might just get an iphone for that, hahaha.

    Oh, I looked up a few videos of the SNES Sim City and you're all right, there's no roads, all railways (this was towards end game/or at end game).

    Gonna go google iphone sim city...

    EDIT: wow-fucking-tasic. Despite the obvious crash issues and everything, once they repair it a bit I might just buy an iPhone... I don't care, Sim City on the move wille be fucking awesome.

    I suppose I can buy a netbook + simcity 3000 on it but ....

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    I think one of the big differences from PC to iPhone is there isn't a 3-D revolve? Also placing roads and stuff looks like a big pain in the ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brisk View Post
    Anyone wish there was a SimCity 5 instead of Spore (or SimSocieties). SimCity 4 is personally my favorite. But yea, it still runs laggy after all these years.
    Spore was such a waste so I'll agree with this statement

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    SimCity 2000 was my favorite. Still playing every now and then. Been wanting to buy SimCity 4 for Mac OS but damn, its 60$, 4 times more expensive than the Windows version.

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    The only problem I have with Sim City is that if you try to succeed, you'll end up with cities that look almost identical, it's like there is only one recipe for success.

    Plus cheating is really easy, just build a shithole city right next to your good city, with all the dirtiest power sources, and all the water treatment facilities and link your good city to them. Having all the power and water treatment you need right from the start is very useful because it creates a good base for making your city, avoids the monthly cost of having to pay for them yourself, and gives you more room to develop on and no pollution for the most part.

    Or atleast, I always found it easier to develop that way than to try build eco from the start and get screwed on having to build a million wind power generators and such...

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    Screw it I'm downloading Sim City.

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