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Never played Teleglitch, but it looks fun for damn sure. by serial malcontent 03/20/2015, 11:21am PDT
I'm amazed at EA's screwup too, and hopeful that this slip on their part and the subsequent development of it into a better game by their competitors will be replicated in race-to-the-top fashion by other companies looking to establish themselves as successors to EA's sweatshop quality products. I could not be happier if this happened with Alpha Centauri after the clusterfuck that was Civ BE, but Civ players are too much like pinback to be likely to capitalize on that - they have no time for something with much more depth, they just want to crunch numbers, build cities, and play one more turn.

Makes me think this is only possible with a demographic as interested in depth in design as SimCity fans.

Paradox is certainly talented when it comes to assembling a lot of games I want to play under one banner, and they may well have balls. The CEO or someone near his level said he'd eat his hat if Victoria 2 showed a profit and that they were only making it as a favor to their fans, and then they went ahead and made it and lo and behold it showed a profit and he came out and admitted he was wrong. No other company I know about has done that, done any of those things. Never have I heard stories about an exec publicly saying 'yeah, we're not gonna make any money on this, let's do this anyway though - for the FANS!' and never have I ever goddamn heard of them coming out afterward and saying 'we were wrong, I was wrong, I'm glad.'
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Review Request: Cities Skylines NT by WITTGENSTEIN 03/06/2015, 11:33am PST NEW
    I love it! by Tom Chick 03/07/2015, 10:47am PST NEW
        He's not wrong. by WITTGENSTEIN 03/10/2015, 1:51pm PDT NEW
        First five minutes impressions: Cautiously optimistic by WITTGENSTEIN 03/10/2015, 4:26pm PDT NEW
            I got sucked in for about 3 hours by Entropy Stew 03/10/2015, 9:14pm PDT NEW
                I just managed to pull myself away from it by WITTGENSTEIN 03/10/2015, 9:15pm PDT NEW
                Screenshot by Entropy Stew 03/10/2015, 9:20pm PDT NEW
                    The road system is so flexible it's too flexible by WITTGENSTEIN 03/11/2015, 6:34am PDT NEW
                        Re: The road system is so flexible it's too flexible by Oom Shnibble 03/11/2015, 10:11am PDT NEW
                            I wish. by WITTGENSTEIN 03/11/2015, 11:26am PDT NEW
                        Yeah, but for a Wittgenstein city by Mysterio 03/11/2015, 10:23am PDT NEW
                    Re: Screenshot by WITTGENSTEIN 03/11/2015, 9:32am PDT NEW
                    The water system is great. You can do things you never could in SC4 by WITTGENSTEIN 03/11/2015, 1:15pm PDT NEW
                        That looks very neat. NT by Mysterio 03/11/2015, 2:12pm PDT NEW
                    Neckbeard Comics by WITTGENSTEIN 03/12/2015, 10:12am PDT NEW
                    There's always money in the banana stand by WITTGENSTEIN 03/18/2015, 6:57pm PDT NEW
        He hates it! by WITTGENSTEIN 03/20/2015, 11:01am PDT NEW
            He actually thinks it's pretty good NT by You have reading problems 03/20/2015, 12:06pm PDT NEW
                He gave it a 3/5. The next comparable review is 80/100. NT by Conclusion: You are a faggot 03/20/2015, 1:19pm PDT NEW
                    numbers good words bad NT by Mysterio 03/20/2015, 1:33pm PDT NEW
                        http://www.caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=157459 NT by A Message from Caltrops Cares 03/20/2015, 2:03pm PDT NEW
                            muh 7-9 scale NT by Caltrops Cares 03/20/2015, 2:54pm PDT NEW
                    3/5 isn't a 60/100 mainstream review score NT by no matter what metacritic tells you 03/20/2015, 2:55pm PDT NEW
                        Who are these anonymous faggots defending Tom Chick? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 03/20/2015, 3:47pm PDT NEW
                            Simple. We're people that like good game criticism NT by Unlike you. 03/20/2015, 4:05pm PDT NEW
                                I too hate Starcraft II and Cities Skylines. Let us jerk each other off at QT3 NT by (nods respectfully towards you) 03/20/2015, 4:41pm PDT NEW
                            That was me by fabio 03/20/2015, 5:49pm PDT NEW
                                It's about the good game critisicm. by Dankvalley 03/21/2015, 9:39am PDT NEW
                                    Re: It's about the good game critisicm. by Ice Cream Jonsey 07/23/2023, 8:56pm PDT NEW
                        If Tom Chick didn't think his 3/5 = 60/100, why'd he let Metacritic say it does? by His "mock review" shakedown dipshit 07/22/2023, 3:51pm PDT NEW
                            Guy who comes back 7 years later to proclaim Wittgenstein the smartest person in by the room 07/22/2023, 11:15pm PDT NEW
                                You need to write Metacritic management immediately to tell them what a bunch by of stupid poopyheads they are 07/23/2023, 4:24pm PDT NEW
    Paradox has its best 1st-day sale ever by WITTGENSTEIN 03/12/2015, 7:36am PDT NEW
        No wonder the game's actually good, it's by Paradox. Nobody else has any cred. by serial malcontent 03/12/2015, 9:41am PDT NEW
            No they just published it. by WITTGENSTEIN 03/12/2015, 9:42am PDT NEW
                I don't know what their deal is, I just find I tend to like more games with thei by logo on the box than I do others 03/12/2015, 10:32am PDT NEW
                    Publishers can sometimes have a positive effect on games, though! NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/16/2015, 11:39am PDT NEW
            Teleglitch by them looks fun. Is it fun? by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/16/2015, 11:37am PDT NEW
                Never played Teleglitch, but it looks fun for damn sure. by serial malcontent 03/20/2015, 11:21am PDT NEW
        Sim City reboot was such a pile of manure it left very fertile soil in its wake! NT by Mischief Maker 03/13/2015, 7:59am PDT NEW
            Cities Skylines sells more than 500k copies by WITTGENSTEIN 03/16/2015, 7:21am PDT NEW
    Be warned this game WILL tax your CPU by WITTGENSTEIN 03/17/2015, 4:38pm PDT NEW
        Be warned I WILL tax that ass NT by Prison Mike 03/20/2015, 12:04pm PDT NEW
    Terraforming mod out after one week. Tom Chick gave this game a 3/5 and FABIO by sucked him off 03/21/2015, 7:28am PDT NEW
        I was going to ask for the 50th time why you're angriest person here by fabio 03/21/2015, 1:03pm PDT NEW
    First expansion coming! Jails! Bigger airports! Day/night cycle! by WITTGENSTEIN 08/07/2015, 8:48am PDT NEW
        Out-crapping-standing. NT by pinback 08/07/2015, 1:46pm PDT NEW
 
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