There was no win state except for whatever goals you might have chosen for yourself. He actually had trouble finding a publisher because the Sim City wasn’t anything like the successful titles of the day. He felt like Sim City didn’t really fit with all the other things we were calling games. Will Wright – designer of the original Sim City way back in 1989 – actually called his creation a “software toy”. In the spirit of those happier days, I want to talk about whether or not a city simulator is a real game. It was fine if you disagreed, because there was no real answer and it didn’t matter anyway.
Asking if random title X was really a game was like asking if the Doom Marine had a mustache. Everyone is either territorial or sanctimonious about it these days, but back before the rise of the Twitter hate machine, this debate was just a curiosity. Depending on which way you go, people will accuse you of pushing an agenda or of being a gatekeeping asshole. Today, calling something a game or not is practically a political statement. You know the dumb, annoying argument people have over whether or not something is a game? That debate is really old and worn out at this point, but back in the good old days it wasn’t so polarizing. If we're talking about titles with ambiguous levels of game-y-ness, then Fallout 76 should be on here. I want to tell you why I think this game is so good, but before I do that we need to go on… I tried going back to old Sim City classics after playing Skylines, and the older games felt shallow and repetitive in comparison.
This isn’t a simple clone of the classic city-building games with a new graphical paint job, this is a deeper and more interesting simulation. And it was already a great game back then. In fact, thanks to DLC and mods, this game is better now than it was when it came out in 2015. City simulation has never been this good. Cities Skylines is the zenith of the city-building genre. In my work, I’m usually whining about how much better things were in the Good Old Days of gaming, but not this time. So I’ve decided to pretend like I was actually working this whole time by making a video about the city-building genre and why I love Skylines so much. My family is adjusting to having me interact with them again. My rehab counselor said I’m making good progress and I’m allowed supervised access to a computer now. This is much better than the YouTube auto-generated CC, which doesn’t always parse proper nouns and lacks punctuation. If you’d like to watch the video without sound, we’ve added proper closed captioning.
0 kommentar(er)
