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> I was very excited because I liked so much Simcity 2000. So, I played to the 3000, not as much, but enough to get the following opinion: it was a very good ga
by theandrewbailey 4y ago
> I was very excited because I liked so much Simcity 2000. So, I played to the 3000, not as much, but enough to get the following opinion: it was a very good game, with the same spirit as its predecessors, but a little bit less fun than the 2000.
I spent thousands of hours playing SimCity 2000. I can't speak for 3000 (never played any), but I got 4 soon after it came out. I spent a few hundred hours trying to figure it out, but ended up liking 2000 better. The complicated mechanics in 4 destroyed much of the fun.
It was awkward when my dad needed an example of civil engineering when talking to someone, and asked if they ever heard of SimCity. It happened more than once.
- 0des 4y agoIs there a way to play SC2K on hi res? I went looking a few weeks ago and only found lengthy patch processes. I figured GOG would have it but they're still shipping the DOS version
- theandrewbailey 4y agoThe original Windows release runs in windowed mode, so you should be able to make it as large as you want. I'm not sure if running it on a modern machine is a good idea, since it has issues with color depths over 256 colors, and the fastest simulation speed doesn't account for Moore's law. I last played SC2k on a retro PC (Win 98, Pentium 3). https://theandrewbailey.com/article/122/SimCity-2000 https://theandrewbailey.com/article/122/SimCity-2000
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoPC Gaming Wiki on the subject: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_2000#Installing_on_64-bit_versions_of_Windows https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_2000#Installing_on...
- 0des 4y agoAh great, you found the lengthy patch process I spoke about. In Wine it is more complex and in the end did not work.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoMy bad, when you said "lengthy" I assumed you meant something more complicated than "install this game normally and then run this single patch executable". And you never mentioned Wine.
- 0des 4y agoWhat can I say, I am my mother's father.
- atomicUpdate 4y ago> I spent a few hundred hours trying to figure it out, but ended up liking 2000 better. The complicated mechanics in 4 destroyed much of the fun. A few hundred hours is an insane amount of time to spend on a game where much of the fun was "destroyed".
- theandrewbailey 4y agoI wanted to like it, and bored 15 year olds (as I was at the time) don't spend time wisely.