Cities Xxl Teaser Trailer

ha and back on topic. about Cities XXL would be nice.

 

Exactly! This is not the site for those kind of discussions...

 

of course,they can voice whatever they want,but hey atleast we're familiar on why the invested so bloody little time in these game and i'll continue to entertain those adamant voices

 

@ Mrvoltura

13 hours at work by day for me, man. There are lazy people everywhere, even in France.

 

hope you're doing fine mate,well we can't ignore that cities xl have been a cash cow for fhi and we haven't seen much innovation in a long while,and i'm going pessimistic on cities skyline too,since paradox is such a dlc-happy company but their promises about modding support lift off some load on me

 

Sadly what I see most often with simulation type games lately is you pay for the game, and then pay for dlc at quite often exorbitant prices ie:$20-40 range. If it is a huge game changing addon/mod that really contributes to the game then that is one thing. Most often it is way over priced for what you get. Same principle as what has been done with cities xl....milking the cash cow.

 

i took the text from the youtube channel from the teaser

 

like platinum all over again, this should be an update not a new game
but cant tell much from a teaser

 

I agree that this is all I need to be happy. I don't care about extra content, we've got XLN for that and we do it better than FHI.

What angers me is that I should be expected to pay for another "version" of the game. I bought all of the previous versions. Is it too much to ask for a free game patch so I can fix the bugs? Instead they are going to ask me to pay another 30 or 40 dollars for a game that is barely more than a bug fix. And I will buy it anyway because I love using CXL as a tool to create cities with but I will feel cheated because I already bought the game last year, and the year before that. /rant

Anyway, I am still happy to hear about the bug fixes.

 

Unfortunately nothing is for free these days when it's business related. I'm sure this time we may see some significant changes. Also Thank god for the community without them this game would be long gone.

 

Also, thank you nicko2u, for uploading all your wonderful mods to the XLEX

 

You are basically paying for a license to use....and there will always be bugs (go outside at anytime of the year. They're in your computer. They're even in your bed!). Computers, cars, appliances, you name it, get buggered up. Bugs are a fact of life....and we have to pay to get rid of them.

I partially agree with nicko2u. Yes, "nothing is free these days", FORTUNATELY. How many of you out there will work for nothing? Child labourers, refugees and other unfortunates perhaps. FHI or any other business has to make a profit....to pay employees and to pay overheads. Everyone has to make a living. Be glad and
appreciate that you have XLNation.

Cities XXL won't be available until 2015. Let's wait and give FHI a chance and see what the final product will be.


Bugs, bugs & more bugs!

 

Sorry but games should come in fully functional conditions. There used to be a time when game developers cared about their product and released patches to fix things well after release. Think of it like a warranty but for a game. To anyone who purchased Cities XL (of any version), you deserve to be able to buy the new game like DLC. I won't be paying full sticker price for this game - no way. This company has rehashed the same game multiple times and charged more for it. If you're willing to accept the notion that games being buggy is fine and we should pay to have that fix, fine. You go ahead and encourage that from companies. This is why pre-orders and the like are only increasing the amount of buggy games released.

Vote with your wallets people.

 

While I agree there isn't much they can do about it as a Publisher, the game should still be priced accordingly. They actually did do this at one point on steam - if you owned XL 11 you could buy XL 12 for 80% off. They added some new content, but it is certainly more like a DLC if you already owned the previous version of the game.

Here's the thing, to my knowledge I don't see how they can be introducing true multi-core support without a new engine. I mean, they could rework the current one but it'd be a waste of time as they could write a new one much quicker. I'll believe performance gains when I see them, for now all I see is typical PR hype. Another game I play has promised "multi-core support" for years and is due out soon. Turns out they've moved the audio engine to other cores and client side physics while the main render engine is still single threaded. It's a gimmick, it wouldn't surprise me at all if we see the same.

 

blah blah @JMCD you just seem to speculate on your bad knowledge?

 

Of course I'm going to speculate, there are no for sure things. I'm merely offering my opinion. Until the game is released we won't know how it'll run. All I'm saying is it would be pretty unusual for a company to use the same engine but somehow rewrite the entire thing for multi-core support. This company has done the pseudo annual cash grab, so sue me if I don't trust them.

 

From what I have seen there is nothing to make me think there is anything new in terms of gameplay so I don't think complete rewrite has been done. The new features they are pushing are not in the video , probably because they don't work yet. a few optimisation tweaks similar to what JMCD suggested is the most they will deliver.It will be interesting to see the perfmon benchmarks for this version and previous
versions.

The marketing text for xxl reads the same as 2012 plat LOL
I will not be paying full price for same game leave that to the people with more money than sense.

 

@JMCD & MuxLee

Nothing worse than spending your hard earned money and getting screwed. I sympathize with both of you and you have every reason to be sceptical. I'm a sceptic myself btw. I'm also a realist. I can't make a well informed judgement based on a brief teaser trailer. We can speculate, gripe and grumble and bash FHI to death in this thread, but we won't know for sure until we see the final product.

One thing I know for sure from several years first hand experience. The proof of Cities XL's success is right here....starring at your face. It's XL Nation. We, the modders, testers, administrators, moderators, respondents and even those who bitch and complain(lol) made this game a success.

I'm not going to regurgitate the history of the demise of Monte Cristo and FHI's purchase of the game. Most of us know it. FHI inherited a broken game that wasn't fixable overnight. However, FHI does deserve a first real chance. So let's be patient and see what happens.


BTW If you enjoy games, you'll need the right tools. So save your money and purchase or build a powerful gaming computer. A regular home computer doesn't hack it. Believe me, you will notice a big difference!