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Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by BigBiker05 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:52 am

So I guess someone in the beta breached NDA and released a video of the tutorial (11 minutes). I haven't had time to watch it, so I hope it's not a troll.


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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Boss Llama » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:40 am

Thanks for the link. Looks much much too fleshed out to be a troll, imo. Also, looks too accurate to one unfortunate scenario for the game.

While the zoom levels and many of the city controls themselves are pretty cool and/or tempting, they appear to have turned it in to The Sims: Macro Edition. Having little speech bubbles you must respond to, and annoying sim-speaking gibberish jockies demanding attention for this or that, is a big step towards the casual kiddie-game genre, as opposed to the more serious, technical planning thing. Hopefully there's an option to shut those people up and just let players build. On an unrelated note, the residential zoning looks like it'll be as big a pain as it was in the Caesar games.

Maybe that's all a bit much to take away from a single, short, leaked beta video, but that actually reduced my desire to play it, rather than increased. Given my ongoing avoidance of anything EA, I guess that's a good thing. :-D
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by MasterChef » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:32 am

I dunno, I'd like to think if it were real, EA would have had the video removed from you tube already.
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Masakari » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:41 am

Well, they announced a free beta for next weekend - maybe they're just leaving it since a ton of footage will be released in a week (Plus people can play it for an hour)
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by The Domer » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:34 am

I loved Sim City 2, 3, and especially 4. This new one makes me so mad every time I think about it, I've more or less just stopped hoping it will be any good. At least with this strategy, I won't suffer from the inevitable let down, and there remains the slimmest chance that I could be pleasantly surprised.

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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by BigBiker05 » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:41 pm

After watching it is real, there were also many screenshots and articles popping up online at the same time mentioning the same experience.
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Greebo » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:24 pm

I gotta say I'm actually looking forward to this Sim City. For whatever reason I never enjoyed the games after I played it on the SNES way back when, but this one has piqued my interest.

I do agree that the 2km limit for a city is pretty daft, but it isn't enough to put me off. I quite like the prospect of interacting with neighbouring cities.
Unfortunately I'll be away for most of the beta...hoping I'll get some play in on Friday night if I get invited.

Either way I'll likely get the game - if anyone wants to set up a region, I'm in!

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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by three_gunn » Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:31 am

i think i've played sim city once or twice back in the day but if everyone here is gonna play then i'll definitely check it out
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Post by Soup Nazi » Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:47 pm

In my opinion, SimCity 3000 was the high point. I really doubt I'd pick up the new one, probably cuz I could find my old disk around here somewhere and have twice the fun
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Buzzy Beetle » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:55 pm

>The video does not exist.

Ruhroh. Someone dun got caught.
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by NerevarineKing » Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:10 pm

I got invited to the closed beta tomorrow, so I might as well give it a go.
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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by BigBiker05 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:31 am

Apparently the game is off to an amazing start:

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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Clay Pigeon » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:51 am

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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Guardian » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:00 am

Always on DRM ruins another game.

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Re: Sim City 5 leaked footage

Post by Greebo » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:51 am

I'll be reserving final judgement until I get to play it a bit more (played the tutorial again this morning before heading to work).
I knew that the cities had restricted sizes and that the DRM system would be there and, while I'm happy at neither, I don't expect them to negatively affect my experience of the game overall.


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