WATCH RYAN DAVIS, plays Sim City (Here) - General Discussion

#1 Edited by DaMisterChief (657 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

http://youtu.be/5KxpuhAYNlk

Is he the answer or the problem??

#2 Posted by Humanity (4276 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

YES whatever the question is.

#3 Posted by BeachThunder (8916 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Why is this not on the actual site? =\

#4 Posted by dungbootle (2247 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@beachthunder: The site was down at the time so he just tweeted a direct link.

#5 Posted by beard_of_zeus (1323 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Cool, thanks for the heads up. I'll check this out for a little bit.

#6 Posted by AlexW00d (5434 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Did they get rid of the NDA?

#7 Posted by Fattony12000 (4381 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

No plug.dj room or GIFs on the stream. And for that reason, I'm out.

Also, Ryan is playing like he dreamt away all of his SimCity skills.

#8 Edited by Snail (7851 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

But I can't watch this stream because Twitch TV is telling me I've reached the "maximum number of streams" for my country.

What the fuck? ~~Why am I able to watch Giant Bomb streams but not this one from Ryan's Twitch account?~~ Apparently that was Justin.tv and I just hadn't noticed. Well that website sucks.

I'm a paid Giant Bomb subscriber, and apparently there's content I can't watch. Hmpf. Well, technically this is Ryan content and not Giant Bomb content, but still hmpf.

#9 Posted by ArtisanBreads (1768 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE

#10 Posted by DaMisterChief (657 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@snail: Yeah he did not want to use twitch for some reason.

#11 Edited by Funkydupe (2927 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

It seems a little "tame"? I know its odd to say that about a city building game. I tried it during Beta 1 and it was okay, but seeing it again now as someone else is playing it, well it doesn't provide for an entertaining watch.

I'm wondering if the game amps up the difficulty and stuff to manage as the city grows. If I've understood it correctly we only get the same size of space to build on for the full release. I'm thinking it'll be interesting for a few hours, then seriously start to drag on as you've maxed the building space.

#12 Posted by DaMisterChief (657 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Stream is over but there is a archive for those who enjoy davis playing strat games

#13 Posted by seannao (193 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Thanks for the link, fella! Bookmarked for later viewing.

#14 Edited by Funkydupe (2927 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

What is the official reason for limiting players to 1 hours? They don't want to test gameplay beyond that?

#15 Posted by Fattony12000 (4381 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@funkydupe:

Test gameplay? It's an hour long demo to get peeps hyped as well as to test out their server capability. They aren't going to be making any changes to gameplay this close to release.

#16 Posted by Nilazz (515 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

Ryan is bringing sexy back!

#17 Posted by Humanity (4276 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

It seemed really sparse with how many buildings were actually on the streets but maybe that was due to how often Ryan separated his zones with streets

#18 Posted by Funkydupe (2927 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@fattony12000: A "Closed beta" means testing the game, that's what I've been used to, perhaps the meaning of beta is changing and I'm simply not up to date.

#19 Posted by Daneian (757 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@damisterchief said:

Online

#20 Edited by Fattony12000 (4381 posts) - 3 months, 8 days ago

@funkydupe: They are testing things. Just not anything that a developer working on art or animation or internal tools or sound effects or music or engine or shaders or plot or features or writing or cinematics is going to be able to change at this point. It's been a commonly said thing (not by me, I've never said this thing publicly) these past few years, that many demos are labelled as betas to make them look sexier to gamers I guess question mark?

No doubt they are gathering data from this test, but how much and how useful it'll be is where the lines get blurry between the terms demo (a portion of a finished/nearly finished video game that the public/a selected group of people play) and beta (a classification of a video game whilst in an unfinished state).

vidcons

It's a damn shit that I didn't get a second code.