So the Disaster City building game, is no longer a city building game?

[Whiskey]

Am I missing something? This was the whole purpose of playing. SimCity release the same product multiple times for a reason.

[TrialandError]

Don't know what you mean honestly, I feel that it is a bigger and better Frostpunk. Personally I enjoy the politics as well, and they were present in a more rudimentary form in Frostpunk and Last Autumn as well, with engineers vs workers.

[Foulcher]

This is a better management game overall

[Xamalion]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

This is a better management game overall

Right, so they should have named it "Generic City Manager 26: Frozen Wasteland Edition", but not Frost Punk 2.

[Blanch Warren]

It was never a city building game, unless emergency tents and sawmills are city building.

The video at the front refers to the genre as societal survival game.

[Acrivec]

Originally posted by Blanch Warren:

It was never a city building game, unless emergency tents and sawmills are city building.

The video at the front refers to the genre as societal survival game.

Yeah and it won GOTY because of everything else.

We want Frostpunk 2, which extends Frostpunk 1 with new mechanics, while being true to the award winning, loved Frostpunk.
If they want to make a completely new game with only the story of previous one - don't call it Frostpunk 2. Call it Something Else: Frostpunk or whatever.

[Blanch Warren]

I bought what the ♥♥♥♥ I bought based on what was sold. The product that was sold to me was not advertised as frostpunk 1 with new mechanics.

[Artur]

When you buy the next part of a game, you hope that you will get improved and enriched gameplay while maintaining the concept. Heroes of Might and Magic 4 didn't suddenly become a 4X game or schooter.
FP2 is a completely different game. And that is sad.

[Colm Sonny Larry]

Originally posted by Acrivec:

Originally posted by Blanch Warren:

It was never a city building game, unless emergency tents and sawmills are city building.

The video at the front refers to the genre as societal survival game.

Yeah and it won GOTY because of everything else.

We want Frostpunk 2, which extends Frostpunk 1 with new mechanics, while being true to the award winning, loved Frostpunk.
If they want to make a completely new game with only the story of previous one - don't call it Frostpunk 2. Call it Something Else: Frostpunk or whatever.

Who are We?

[Exion]

Originally posted by Acrivec:

Originally posted by Blanch Warren:

don't call it Frostpunk 2. Call it Something Else: Frostpunk or whatever.

Frostjunk?

[Pottsey]

Originally posted by Colm Sonny Larry:

Originally posted by Acrivec:

Yeah and it won GOTY because of everything else.

We want Frostpunk 2, which extends Frostpunk 1 with new mechanics, while being true to the award winning, loved Frostpunk.
If they want to make a completely new game with only the story of previous one - don't call it Frostpunk 2. Call it Something Else: Frostpunk or whatever.

Who is We?

Myself and all the others that agree. So far FP2 is boring and not living up to FP1. Alienating a core part of the player base like FP2 has done very rarely works in a sequel. Look at Kings Bounty 2 as an example. I can see FP2 going like Kings Bounty with mixed reviews.

[scavenger]

So had thought the 2nd would be like the 1st but as a version with better features or etc, new story and such. Being able to build the place building by building, setting up the paths and practically having to micromanage resources and workforce.
From what I have seen so far, this feels less like the first, and more like a generic city building game. Think city skylines is more like it because while it can let you place some special buildings down, otherwise everything else is auto made in zones/districts.
Had thought it would've gone with the 1st gameplay and moved the survival theme to a sort of basic survival (obviously still gotta worry about the cold, but not THE cold) but with a heavier lean towards politics. Since once people realize "oh hey, we aren't gonna die tomorrow...so who we gonna vote for?".

[Foulcher]

Only city building mode was the endless mode.

The rest was a puzzle survival building game with great narrative.

Plus most mechanics of FP1 are in FP2 and in fact this is a problem for some mechanics not scaling well.

[SUHERN]

Originally posted by Artur:

When you buy the next part of a game, you hope that you will get improved and enriched gameplay while maintaining the concept. Heroes of Might and Magic 4 didn't suddenly become a 4X game or schooter.
FP2 is a completely different game. And that is sad.

I gave it a solid 5 minutes before refunding. What a massive disappointment... wtf are these tiles...I thought we were gonna get frostpunk with expanded mechanics, something beyond the limits that we had in frostpunk 1 but with the same core, instead they have completely reworked the best mechanics, turning this into some weird Carcassonne tile city builder. Set in the same universe. This is not a proper sequel.

[kylix999]

Junior PR managers here tell ppl that first frostpunk was never a city builder, these ppl are really funny

[hipernemesis]

This thread is pretty much: Say that you haven't played Frostpunk without saying that you haven't played Frostpunk.