Second, the "corporate plural" is about as ubiquitous as the third person plural pronoun acting as the genderless third person singular one. So it has the vague sheen of acceptance, even if it remains technically wrong.

Slatz_Grobnik

Americo

timeywimey

beefsack

Strangelove

I beat you by like 5 years, Monte Christo.

残心

Adam In Texas

valhum

lol, of course I spell Kotaku wrong at the end

phatmik3

And by the way, Monte Christo gets treated as both singular and plural in the very first sentence. It is labeled "creator" and not "creators". What gives Kataku?

Has this already been addressed somwhere?

phatmik3

This game looks really cool. I hope they got smart and changed copy protection. As much as I hate DRM that involves installing "middle-man" disk drivers, even Tages would be preferable to the crap that was on CityLife.

Generico

Stop your crying citizens! MOVE if you don't like the 300% increase in tax or I'll cut off power to your buildings! Don't you want awesome skyscrapers!?

amazinglarry

BStu

Rebochan

But didn't the previous CityLife have some sort of vile copy protection on it?

Slatz_Grobnik

NitrousO

Reading this just made me more angry towards stupid EA for deciding to fuck up with the wonderful SimCity series and release that THING called Societies. No real SC fan liked that and now comes a different company that is actually trying to move the simulation forward and of course will take the thunder out of SC.

Good EA, you just f'ed up a 20 yrs old series :o(

Btw, soooooo cool about this, will def get it.

valhum

AceKicker

KirbySS

xbulletholes

swarmster

Gam3r

One where more than one person can work on recreating real life cities in an online world.

glitched

My big beef with SimCity is that while they started off on the right track with the series, once it started actually getting somewhat realistic, they began dumbing it down and making it more of a Sims game than a City game. I don't really care about seeing individual sims as they live their lives - if I want that, I'll play The Sims. When I buy a city building sim, I want to get down to the nitty gritty of building and running a city - including transportation (which was never handled well in any SC game), infrastructure, neighborhood development, and all the problems inherent in a big city. I even want to see politics simulated somehow... I shouldn't be able to just bulldoze an area in the middle of my city and plop down a stadium. There would be massive opposition to that in real life and that should be simulated in the game. (It wouldn't even be that hard - an established neighborhood that has existed for a set number of years would develop an X variable that would represent opposition to dramatic change.)

I also want to see stuff like developers coming to me asking for new zoning laws or development rights on city-owned land. One thing that bothers me about the screenshots above is that here you have a beachfront city... and the beach is completely undeveloped! That would never happen in real life. That's the most expensive, exclusive property in any city, and developers would be all over it well before they started building stuff on the other side of the city.

They could even add a couple Donald Trumps or Leona Helmsleys to the game to give it some personality.

badasscat

Not like those NPC - Sim City - money hungry - mayor bastards. (although not sure if they were technically a NPC...at least they had a picture).

Now you can negotiate with Human - Sim City - money hungry - mayor bastards.

Herodito

Haven't played any of the City Life games but this looks good. I might have to chekc it out

MasterDex

SapphireC

Now, forget Sims; Spore should have followed this route.

Fyren

solar_tf

But wowzer, does this look nice or what? Hopefully it'll have that seamless zooming like in Sins of a Solar Empire so you can go from a very wide view of the city to a street corner effortlessly.

Sundermania

jigglypoofs

So maybe a an EA buyout of TakeTwo wouldn't be so bad after all? :D

Tubatic

And then go a step further and have those elements like y police per x people actually affect how easy/difficult it was to get away with crimes in someones city.

It's a ridiculous scope (planets full of persistent cities), but I think it would be cool nonetheless.

Zegridathes

While it sounds like they're putting beautiful details into this game and it looks very crisp, I don't want to share my city sim experiences with other people. Its no one's city but my own.

Tubatic

Rupan

Okay, I'm rambling, but I'm very psyched about this.

TheBrianIsAstonishing

Let's wait for more detailed info before hurraying, though.

Yaven

RonMaverick

HfAsianInvasion

pylon_trooper