E3: SimCity 4 Preview Goodness

Anonymous Coward writes "Wowie! The folks at Electronic Arts look to be working hard on the next installment of SimCity! Although there's no official, dedicated release date, they plan on demoing it at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Gamers.com has an article, as does GameSpot, and both seem to have a number of screenshots. Interesting: there now seems to be a nighttime mode, and perhaps there's some weather effects? The note from MaxisJoseph claims there will be a personal angle to every high-level action taken; will there be a chance for dynamic screenshots of our cities during, say, lightning storms, blizzards or sandstorms? And will they ask Koch or Guiliani for endorsements?" I know I'm not the only one who wants to play the Sims in the SimTower in the SimCity on SimEarth with the pesky SimAnts in the balcony garden.

Comments

Uh-oh! Where's it say it's gonna run on Linux!?

[TRoLLaXoR]

Nowhere, that's where!

Eat it up, you Slashdot janitor whores. I belt it tasted nice and bitter like one of my loads after a night of beer, coffee, and cigarettes running that Linuxless news bite on SimCity 4.

Re:Uh-oh! Where's it say it's gonna run on Linux!?

[TRoLLaXoR]

I don't know about you, but I love having to plan an entire night for installing a window manager or web browser or database.

Ya know, it gives me time to pause and reflect on life while I'm searching for a million billion obscure libs, then attempting to compile them, the app, and of course parsing through dozens of conf files and changing a single setting nested within thousands of lines obfuscated crap.

I know I'd feel like a real weeny if all I had to do was download, decompress, install, and run a program. Mozilla is so much more satisfying to use when you download and compile it yourself, rather than using a silly binary!

Oh what gayness is in the Mac and Windows space. Even FreeBSD should be ashamed at its ports collection. Give me Linux any day like a real man.

Up my ass.

My question is,

[Kasreyn]

Will the game prevent you from having two large towers built right next to each other? If there's a NYC scenario, will it have the WTC "edited" out?

Just curious.

-Kasreyn

Re:My question is,

[MayonakaHa]

Actually I've heard it'll make four large towers, one of the middle ones way taller than the other.. and they'll always be facing east for some reason.

oi I'm gonna get modded down for that one..

Re:Bike paths? Come on!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I want bike paths too -- So I can tell the entire population that fags are 50 points each, and redeemable for exciting cash prizes.