SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

Post by albertzeyer » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

phaser wrote: post #59

I love this game so much. One of the reasons I started to make a city builder* is because I don't like where the genre is going. The focus on photorealism in modern city builders took away the apophenia, or "food for imagination" that was a core element since the first SimCity. As a matter of fact, Will Wright used to say that the real simulation runs in the player's minds (or something like that). Sure, there's some…

Post by MrDOS » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

phs2501 wrote: post #30

MrDOS wrote: post #23

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And when you say “PC original”, you really mean “DOS version wrapped in DOXBox”, because it's easier to ship that on both Windows and Mac than patching the Windows version for Windows, and shipping a Wine wrapper for Mac. (Have they ever shipped a Wine wrapper for anything? I don't think so.) What a shame. I do really wish an application-level classic Mac OS emulator existed. There are lots of great full-system emula…

Probably the closest thing I remember existing to this was (in its "modern"-ish form) https://github.com/autc04/executor Not quite what you're looking for I think but it was a Wine-style reimplementation of MacOS.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

TheGRS wrote: post #52

jedberg wrote: post #25

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> The picture caption with a 9/11 joke is a little off-putting 9/11 seems to be an important milestone in his life. In the about section of his web page it says this: Q:/> How old are you? A:/> I can't remember the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can remember 9/11.

I always thought of 9/11 as the major event for older millennials. I used to think it was all millennials, but many weren't even in kindergarten when it happened.

Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

phaser wrote: post #59

I love this game so much. One of the reasons I started to make a city builder* is because I don't like where the genre is going. The focus on photorealism in modern city builders took away the apophenia, or "food for imagination" that was a core element since the first SimCity. As a matter of fact, Will Wright used to say that the real simulation runs in the player's minds (or something like that). Sure, there's some…

Post by phaser » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:25 PM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #77

phaser wrote: post #59

I love this game so much. One of the reasons I started to make a city builder* is because I don't like where the genre is going. The focus on photorealism in modern city builders took away the apophenia, or "food for imagination" that was a core element since the first SimCity. As a matter of fact, Will Wright used to say that the real simulation runs in the player's minds (or something like that). Sure, there's some…

Your simulation sounds incredible! How big can cities get, though? One of the things I love about Cities Skylines is how massive the land plots are, and the tiny plots of SimCity 2013 was a bigger turnoff than anything else in its disastrous launch.