C:SL (Modern City) Vs. Banished (Old timey town) - Forestry & Farms

[Miwi]

Well... I would like to see all my predictions fail

But I agree that C:SL doesn't look like a disaster as SimCity was. Also the whole concept looks quite solid.
All depends on if CO masters to create a plausible simulation of the grand picture of a city, means your actions generate credible reactions of the citizens,
the traffic streams and the environment.

But the graphics imho still lacks some sort of reality I would like to see. While the office buildings and high rise apartment buildings are looking ok for, the residential area buildings and specially the industry and farms are looking too plastic, too toyish.
Here I really prefer the look of Cities XL.

 

[Person012345]

Well, I know a lot of people (included me) who predicted Simcity 2013 turned out to be $h;t and surprise, surprise, it was And not very difficult to predict. The most complains before release were the online only constraint and the map size - and those were the complaints after release. As everybody knows both issues were a desaster.

Also a lot of people predicted that Cities in Motion 2 not being moddable would be a big mistake - and it was.

So, with a bit of experience that usually comes with age (after seen a lot of game releases) it is not too difficult to predict what would be the biggest issue after release - if there are any.

My prediction for C:SL at release day one:
- there will be a patch probably the same day - ok that's not so difficult to predict ;-)
- there will be complaints about the general plastic / toy look of the game
- there will be complaints about the lack of details, just a bit lifeless

I find it unlikely that such minor things will be the main complaints about the game. If they are then CO will have done a job far beyond anything I expect. I actually think you're way off in the way my post said. ;P

 

[ziziz223]

FORESTRY
Banished, fair sizes for a small community. They can get much larger too.

To be fair (even with modern agriculture) planting whole banished map is not enough to feed more than several families.