Remember Sim Games

[dbq212]

There are many sim games, I know than everybody know than there are many.
I need than you and I begin a SimGames Fan Club and talk about the sim games:
SimCopter, SimFarm, SimEarth, SimAnt...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Copter was great. In fact that goes down as one of my all-time faves. Shame it's probably ESA'd though.

[Tulac]

I remember my first sim game being SimLife in which you had to control planets evolution, it was mediocre...

[BeefontheBone]

I used to have SimIsle - that was pretty awful really, a kind of forerunner to Tropico.

[efthimios]

In the late 80s there were just two games that I would read their reviews over and over again and look at their screenshots. I just couldn't stop. Both of the great games.

The one was SimCity, never before I had such an obsession with buying a game after reading reviews and previews. What a great game!

The other is not a Sim line game thus no reason to mention it I guess.

[BeefontheBone]

SimLine? sounds a bit dull, it has to be said!

[efthimios]

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@May 29 2005, 11:58 AM
SimLine? sounds a bit dull, it has to be said!
Funny funny guy! :bleh:

[Mahar Vairo]

Anyone tried "Simutrans" ?

What do you think of it?

[Tulac]

My favorite game from the series though is Simcity 3000...

[lethe]

Simfarm and Simcity had a big part of my playing time in the 90's. I played SC (2000, never owned the original one) over and over, building, filling the map until I couldn't build anything else, so I'd destroy regular blocks to build those wonders that could take up to 100'000. Marvellous towns totally destroyed, turned into buildings that resembled sharks :blink: But when I got tired of one town, I'd just build another.

Simfarm was a cool game too, but it annoyed me that after a while of having the whole place owned and farmed, the taxes were unbearable and made me lose the game. Done that a couple times until I gave it up.

SimCity 3000 was more complete than 2000, but I usually have more preference for the original, since the concept of the game comes from it, and how is initially meant to be (and after playing the 2000 to exhaustion, I didn't find 3000 to be so exciting). Same for Simcity 4, I borrowed it's cd to a friend a long time ago and so far I didn't miss playing it.

Other than that, I never understood simearth, simtunes or simpark.. Ants were fun for a while but not as good as Simcity. They managed to capture me again with The Sims. Played the original countless hours (maybe I can sue Maxis & EA for losing hours? :angel: oh wait, wrong topic).. Never managed to play the packs (lack of interest) even though I have them all burned somewhere.

[DeathDude]

Yeah those games bring back classic memories for me too, loved playing them even to this day, but yeah I enjoyed SimCity 3000 a lot more than 2000 for example.

[TheChosen]

How about "The Sims"

[Sauvastika]

I only Sim-games I have are The Sims (w/o expos), and SimCity 3000 lying around.

I never got far in either game since doing chores and scheduling the day just perfectly for my Sims got too tedious and I couldn't get my water pipes to work right in SimCity 3000, and everytime I figured out how to work it, I'd leave the game for a week and forget again. :(

I'm gotta dig those up and replay them, once I free up some space on my HD.

[Indignus IV]

It looks like you guys are obsessed with Sims! I just joined and I have practically every sim game ever made except for the stupid stuff like simhealth, simfarm and simgolf. Thats about it. I would have uploaded them all to this site, but i just found out that maxis is protected. My favorite would be Simcity 4. The graphics rock and the excitement never ends. I could play that game forever! :Brain: :Brain:

[DeathDude]

Oh yeah I'm a fan of the Sims series, really played that game a lot when the first game came out, like a lot honestly, not so much anymore because it takes up a lot of space on my comp and it slows it down immensely when playing, but still fun memories. :D

[Doubler]

SC classic has a very fond place in my memory. SC2000, too by the way. And SC 3000, SC 4, SimFarm, SimIsle, SimCopter, SimTower, SimEarth and SimAnt.
And, in a lesser degree, The Sims (it was fun untill it became Maxis' milk-cow :not_ok: ).
Sim games, currently in my (legal :ph34r: ) possesion: SC 2000, SimCopter, SimFarm, SimTower, SimEarth, SimIsle, The Sims (the first, no expansions :D ).

Pfew... Yes, I like sim games LOL

[Indignus IV]

I agree with you. The sims was really cool in the beginning, and I do have four expansion packs and the sims 2, but I quit playing the first one after a while, and i absolutely hate sims 2 (I got it for christmas from my aunt LOL )

Anyway I have simisle, but I never really took the time to get how it worked. Simcopter was really fun for about three months, but the cheap graphics got old (I made an awesome Minas Tirith for it, really great to fly around)
Simtunes: bleh.
All the Simcities: boring until SC4 came out
Simtower: great for about half and hour
Everything else: eh
Another one of my favorites: Simsafari (that ones an oldie)

Lets raise a glass to Maxis! :cheers:

[The Fifth Horseman]

Simfarm was actually a great game. Fun for a while.

In SC2000 I just played until I got bred with a city somwhere in 2500 time period, with 1,5 MILLION population (and this already taken into account expanding the shores and altering the riverbed). Any more and it would blow.

[Doubler]

I actually played a city from the year 2000, to well over the year 3200...
I really liked to just watch my city. LOL
I never achieved that population, though, as I never liked arcologies (which I assume you used). I did fill up the ocean and all, though.

1.5 Million, nice, very nice :ok:

[Indignus IV]

I agree. Arcos to me seem too much like cheating. My cities were all pretty average; I got bored real quick of sitting and watching my money go down the drain LOL

[TheChosen]

Heres some of the Sim-games:

Sim City*
Sim Farm*
Sim Tower*
Sim Copter*
Sim Health
Sim Ants*
Sim Town*
Sim Isle*
Sim Earth*
Sim Life*
Sim Music*
Sims

I have those games marked with * :D

[Doc Adrian]

Sim Earth..ugh

I played Sim City on the Super Nintendo so I got Sim Earth...and I needed to get Sim Drunk to forget it

[The Fifth Horseman]

I never achieved that population, though, as I never liked arcologies (which I assume you used). I did fill up the ocean and all, though.

Well, when I got my city to the limit of "normal" pop... then sky is the limit!

Arcos to me seem too much like cheating.
Well, your opinion. However it was all I could improve after my city became transformed into utopian uber-effective pattern-based configuration.

Dubbed "Mega-City 1", BTW. :D

[efthimios]

Isn't that reference from Judge Dredd? (love the comic, the movie and the FPS game btw. :D )


Never built those arcos or whatever those portable multimedia players are that increase the population of the city. Is it like a tall building or something?

(I never said I was any good at sim city)

[The Fifth Horseman]

Isn't that reference from Judge Dredd?
Yes.

Is it like a tall building or something?
VERY tall, actually. 4x4 base as well. Things can get about 100 000 population each (though it depends on the type you choose)

[efthimios]

That is one big building!

"I am the law!"

[PrejudiceSucks]

To anyone who's going to read this, SimGolf is fantabulous. Ignore those fools, for they do not understand.

[GAD_Dinamo]

Heres some of the Sim-games:

Sim City*
Sim Farm*
Sim Tower*
Sim Copter*
Sim Health
Sim Ants*
Sim Town*
Sim Isle*
Sim Earth*
Sim Life*
Sim Music*
Sims

I have those games marked with * biggrin.gif

Do you have icq???? Can you send them to me???

[PrejudiceSucks]

Quiet you fool! That's a big no-no on this forum.

Just don't even talk about warez.

[TheChosen]

Disasters are the salt of the sim games.

[Doubler]

Sim games are a lot less fun without disasters.
A terrible earthquake once shook a SC2K city of mine. I still found debris and remnants from that event a few hundred years later. It gives history to your creation.

[TheChosen]

What about the nuclear meltdown in the middle of the big-city.
That was a really big mess....

[Doubler]

Oh sure :D
A hurricane is also pretty intense,
And an earthquake can do quite a bit of damage as well.

But this does not change my argument :D
Besides, it's a challenge to rebuild afterwards.

-At least, that's what I think :tomato:

[Indignus IV]

Quick cut-in, but topic-related nevertheless:

Guys, since you like sim games i recently wrote a review for a new game thats not maxis, but still pretty cool for those of you who like simulations. Wolf: its the last one under simulation. Take a look if your interested.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Points for you, I4.

Chosen, how much damage does a meltdown specifically cause? :whistle:

[Indignus IV]

He's gone, so I'll answer: a lot.

you know the square city plot?

if your meltdown is one side it is guaranteed that that half of the city is gone. If you control the fires well, it can stop there. If not.....apocalypse now!

[Doubler]

Never had a meltdown in SC4, but in SCC, SC2K and in SC3K you'd also get a pretty amount of radiated soil, which you couldn't use for long, long time.
That was the real mess.