Remaster or remake SimCity 4?

[acare84]

Hello,

After really successful remake of Dead Space, I hope EA will remaster or remake the SimCity 4 as soon as possible. This game is really awesome. I hope EA will hear our screams for this!

[KristopherVector]

Doubt EA plans to do anything with Simcity for a long time, if ever. SC13 was kind of a disaster and Paradox swept up the city builder genre monopoly. Competing with Skylines 2 using a remaster of a 2003 video game would probably sell terribly.

EA would find a way to hurt modders too, which is probably the single biggest factor as to why SC4 still has a decently sized community.

[Enterprofilenamehere]

I've always thought a SimCity 4 remaster would be awesome, but knowing EA they'd probably ruin it somehow.

What I'd love even more would be a new grid-based city builder with a similar graphics style but optimized for modern systems with official mod support and more in-depth traffic and mass transit elements. Basically a combination of this game's graphics, difficulty, and building systems with Cities:Skylines' traffic and mass transit systems. Full 3D graphics are overrated in my opinion for games like this. I prefer detailed sprites or what this game does with it's pseudo-3D graphics that allow more detail without sacrificing performance.

[KristopherVector]

Originally posted by Enterprofilenamehere:

I've always thought a SimCity 4 remaster would be awesome, but knowing EA they'd probably ruin it somehow.

What I'd love even more would be a new grid-based city builder with a similar graphics style but optimized for modern systems with official mod support and more in-depth traffic and mass transit elements. Basically a combination of this game's graphics, difficulty, and building systems with Cities:Skylines' traffic and mass transit systems. Full 3D graphics are overrated in my opinion for games like this. I prefer detailed sprites or what this game does with it's pseudo-3D graphics that allow more detail without sacrificing performance.

Idk if I would say full 3d is overrated, but the one thing that definitely is would be the agent system. It's not necessary. It exponentially lessens the amount of citizens you can have, and the effect is negligible unless your following a single citizen all day and not playing the game. All you really need is the number, and some people/cars milling around to make the city feel alive.

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Originally posted by KristopherVector:

Originally posted by Enterprofilenamehere:

I've always thought a SimCity 4 remaster would be awesome, but knowing EA they'd probably ruin it somehow.

What I'd love even more would be a new grid-based city builder with a similar graphics style but optimized for modern systems with official mod support and more in-depth traffic and mass transit elements. Basically a combination of this game's graphics, difficulty, and building systems with Cities:Skylines' traffic and mass transit systems. Full 3D graphics are overrated in my opinion for games like this. I prefer detailed sprites or what this game does with it's pseudo-3D graphics that allow more detail without sacrificing performance.

Idk if I would say full 3d is overrated, but the one thing that definitely is would be the agent system. It's not necessary. It exponentially lessens the amount of citizens you can have, and the effect is negligible unless your following a single citizen all day and not playing the game. All you really need is the number, and some people/cars milling around to make the city feel alive.

I can certainly agree there. A mass transit system with manageable lines without using C:SL's agent system would certainly be doable, as would more realistic traffic simulation with the ability to build individual highway ramps and intersections.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

My take is if they're gonna do it, which I agree with KristopherVector is almost certainly nope, it should be "Sim City Legacy" or whatever which combines the unique features of 2K, 3K and of course 4 all in one game, so the class based tax and monthly maintenance costs of 4 with the personality and maybe the aura system of 3K, plus the Arcologies and hydroelectric dams of 2K and the general water system of the older games (differentiates fresh and salt water, also requires respective pumps and desalination plants to be on the coast as they should be, plus the surface water to allow for the dams).

The maybe good news is although I don't see any kind of remaster of this game happening, it's EA-Maxis tradition to release a SimCity the year before the next Sims game, so, maybe, just maybe, there will be another SimCity released soon in fact as Sims 5 is rumoured to be coming out in 2025, meaning another SimCity isn't unthinkable even if super unlikely still.

[Bfloo]

I would like a new version, not a remake or remaster, but something 'new' that combines what each game did well. I do worry that they would dumb it down to go all in on graphics.

The way gaming is going currently, I doubt there would be mod support, as the current model is to put as much as possible behind a paywall and either dlc or mtx it for every penny they can get. Lets not forget the preorder and deluxe edition bonuses they need to throw in.

[Xenon]

+1