SimCity / SimCity 5 / SimCity 2013

I was a victim because I'm stupid. I did not heed the warnings and pay for it. I'm sorry

You are forgiven. lol

Honestly, after all the AAA fiasco lately, I've stopped buying Day one/early from these AAA companies and wait until everything is "safe".

I recently bought 4 PS3 games on day one that can be even considered obscure but they didn't disappoint. But this is just me though.

I rarely buy games on release date.

The only one that I remember buying of the sort is the Mass effect 3 Collectors Edition; that didn't disappoint.

So I'm guessing it's if you trust the previous game enough for you to base it on buying it's sequel or not. Good thing I sucked at the previous SimCity games enough for me not to buy SimCity5 when it came out.

As you guys already know, since the game sucks so badly that EA even offer 1 free game of the following :

• Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)

• Bejeweled 3

• Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)

• Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)

• MOHW (Standard Edition)

• NFS Most Wanted (Standard Edition)

• Plants vs. Zombies

• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

Maybe I'll get NFS instead

obligatory "I told you so"



If I ever get the game (which will never happen), Dead Space 3 it is then (haven't played it yet, sue me)



Valve is my only exception to this rule, seeing as they're the only AAA company that is WORTH the time and money since they actually listen to us gamers

EDIT:

Wait, is Valve a AAA company? I have no idea. Meh, whatever. I see them as a SSS+ compared to the other companies today, lol.

I love the older installments of SimCity, but since there's an EA logo on it the series is dead to me. So what exactly did they do this time?

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14umm1/we_are_the_simcity_dev_team_from_maxis_amaa/

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1aabri/modder_proves_simcity_can_run_offline/

Take your pick:

http://www.reddit.com/search?q=simcity&sort=top

If you want a game that wasn't "defiled" badly by EA, it's either Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3. NFS looks like a safe choice, But Dead Space 3 is also receiving some bad flak because of the multiplayer and microtransactions



Yes Valve is also a AAA Company. Here's my "idea" of a not AAA company, based on the 4 games I recently bought:
-Macross 30: Artdink
-Dream C Club zero :DReAM X CReATe, Tamsoft, Sound ams
-White Album 2: Leaf/Aquaplus
-Project Diva F : Sega, Crypton (A bit of an exception here)

None of these games messed around with the consumer (a bit of DLC hell for Dream club, similar to Idolmaster), basically all of them added more content and didn't add necessary stuff to mess up the games. ex:(Macross 30, kept being a single player arcade shooter) (White Album 2, being a port of the PC version added all the novels and drama CDs as extra content) (Project Diva F, being another port, added more content with 6 new songs) (Dream Club's problem is DLC hell, but they didn't mess around with the content game, it's basically similar to the original Port)

IMHO, AAA companies sometimes feels lazy to me, due to the fact that they feel that they'll automatically receive sales no matter how good or bad the game is. While Obscure companies, being obscure must make sure that their games are Good enough for people to actually turn their heads.

EA done fucked up bad this time. Not like they haven't before but they have done real bad this time.