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I think this is just looking back with rose tinted glasses and assuming things have changed. The game was always a rat race. As soon as you dug out of debt, y
by jayd16 5y ago
I think this is just looking back with rose tinted glasses and assuming things have changed.
The game was always a rat race. As soon as you dug out of debt, your landlord would upgrade your house and you had an even bigger mortgage. That was in the original.
That said, the game is fun. Humans like feeling accomplished.
- brundolf 5y agoI’ve gone back and played the original, it was different. You could put off paying your “debt” indefinitely; it was really just a way of buying a bigger house, if you felt like it. At a certain point I usually stopped
- brnt 5y ago> That said, the game is fun. Humans like feeling accomplished. The question is, who's setting the expectations? I abhor 'accomplishment' tokens/scores. Even in de 90ies, my favourite game was Simcity with unlimited money. Screw the budget and the missions, let me build the city I want; let /me/ decide what the accomplishment is.