RevanFan wrote:AaronS wrote:ultimatum77 wrote:I totally agree, EA just takes well established games and does not improve them but just keeps them in their catalogue of games with no continous improvement. I liked Maxis games (simcopter) back in the 90's where you fly a helicopter around sim city (could even include cities from sim city 2000) but then EA decided to not improve/carry the game which is a shame because is was a classic game full of cool easter eggs and glitches you could put in with special codes/passphrases......
EA is trying to release a helicopter game for android but its largely been a flop compared to the classic simcopter.....
But all that to say your point about EA is very valid.....
I LOVED Sim City. Got laid off from one of my first jobs after high school and basically spent a whole summer playing Sim City 2000. GREAT times.
EA ran that title into the ground.. but it spawned The Sims series, so I can't really kill them too much for that one..
I hoped that gaming would go the way of the movie industry, with more privateer/indy games... man I was wrong on that one!! In fact, the opposite has happened. Anyone with ANY sense of creativity or genius seemingly is lined up to sell out!
There's tons of great indie games. Tons of them. Also, if you like city builders, have you played Cities: Skylines?
Lol, i've never played the sims games (except simcopter which is just a weird variant of it) but some of the cities had hilarioius things in the simcopter game which used some simcity 2000 cities for the game. For instance, there is one town where there are no stoplights, so you are constantly called to clear out accidents with your police helicopter.....of course the cheat codes are legendary....like having several helicopters to choose from including an apache, morphing into a rabid dog that can run over buildlings lol.....asking the game for money or instant death lol that cheat code would work 50-50 depending on your luck lol.....and either you got a horde of cash or your copter mysteriously loses fuel and spirals toward the ground.....another is having an alien abduct one of your rescue patients via a spaceship right before you put the harness down to rescue the person.....
it's graphics stink compared to today's games but if you guys want a good laugh just search for it on youtube
im not really into city building games or things like minecraft or what not...I get bored with those type games lol....im all about driving/flying/role playing games like fps.....