@jasonr86: I don't care about the scores at all, that's not the issue. What bothers me is Polygon trying to have it both ways, talking out of both sides of their mouth, as it were. They write a fairly critical review and then slap a near-perfect score on it. The 95 ends up on Metacritic, misleading people who care about that sort of thing (but making EA happy), while their ass is covered because they are able to say "we pointed out all these problems in the review."
Yeah that's where the score becomes important (like Jeff said before; the review needs to match the score). It makes Polygon look like they're trying to cover their ass by giving it a high score and at the same time pointing out the trouble they had with it (that sounded pretty debilitating).
I'm with Ars, and I think trying to review the game in a vacuum without thinking about its predecessors doesn't make sense, but I can see the other view if they liked the different game they made.
I agree. Why call something Sim City when you're not trying to be Sim City? You're only going to piss off the people who were expecting some kind of improvement to the overall idea of the Sim City games. Not a step in the other direction. I think a lot of people are right in saying the game should have been called Sim Town or something more small scale.
Why are you suggesting Polygon is the crazy one? Maybe it's Ars. Maybe the game is great, the Polygon review is spot on, and Ars are crazy for not liking it. Or maybe different people have different opinions on something, and they're all perfectly sane.
In my eyes they're telling the same story if you ignore the final score. They're complaining about the same thing. The only difference is that you can tell Polygon shrugs off every bit and ignores all the problems. After watching the GB quick look, I think I have a really good idea of what kind of game Sim City is.
At one point in the quick look Jeff said he hates that he enjoys it so much. Maybe the Polygon reviewer never had that same self hate problem and just enjoyed it for what it was.
Yeah that's probably true. Vinny often said what I was thinking which was, "Is that it?" So I'm curious of the lasting appeal of the game after you play those same grids. Like is there really enough varying factors to keep you coming back after the newness wears off? That grid you get to build your city is so small and it seems like min/maxing is the only way to go.
I know I'm never going to buy it. I can just see my game fatigue setting off after a session or two of playing.
I don't care about the ending because I had already lost interest in the series after playing 2. There's nothing redeeming in the game mechanics for me to even give a morsel of a shit about the ending. Fuck that series and fuck Dragon Age.
It's too bad I had to turn off Tress-effect and tessellation to fix all my crashing, but at least I got a ton of frames out of it and the game is more stable now. It looked better with tessellation on though. Hope they fix the problems soon.
Why are you suggesting Polygon is the crazy one? Maybe it's Ars. Maybe the game is great, the Polygon review is spot on, and Ars are crazy for not liking it. Or maybe different people have different opinions on something, and they're all perfectly sane.
In my eyes they're telling the same story if you ignore the final score. They're complaining about the same thing. The only difference is that you can tell Polygon shrugs off every bit and ignores all the problems. After watching the GB quick look, I think I have a really good idea of what kind of game Sim City is.
@informationhigh: I'm way too lazy to do any of that right now. I'll just wait for the eventual fix, thanks though.
Yeah it sucks, I had to re-verify my files and now it's downloading 1.1 GB of something. Apparently people with nvidia cards are getting tons of crashes also. PC master race.
I'm getting a weird graphical glitch right now myself. Uploading a video on youtube incase.
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My game just crashed while I had it paused to pour another cup of coffee. frak
crashed again while I was playing. well I'm done for the morning.
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