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> Bradshaw said the new title would simply be called “SimCity.” What's up with this trend? It seems like it's happening with every movie, game, and TV franchis
by jcromartie 15y ago
> Bradshaw said the new title would simply be called “SimCity.”
What's up with this trend? It seems like it's happening with every movie, game, and TV franchise more than 10 years old.
- TylerE 15y agoBecause they don't want to scare off people by implying that you need to play the older games first.
- freehunter 15y agoIt's called a reboot, they use it to start the series over with new design principles and modern technology. Calling it SimCity 5 would imply that it was successor tos SimCity 4 or 3 or 2000 etc... when it might not be. To take an existing example, Star Trek (2009) is not a sequel or a prequel to Star Trek (1966-2008). It's a new piece of work rendering the old line as complete.
- SimHacker 15y agoThe naming convention from SimCity 2000 => SimCity 3000 was not sustainable. The name SimCity 3000 was an over-promise, and should have been simply SimCity 2001. (See my above comment about Maxis almost running out of money trying to deliver on the promise of a version of SimCity 3000 that was 1000 years more advanced than the previous version of SimCity 2000.)