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Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, the fan-favorite iteration in the long line of legendary urban planning simulations with a myriad of design options and factors to tweak and track, creating the ultimate sense of life-like complexity, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 for the next 72 hours! Includes the Rush Hour expansion pack.

It all started 30 years ago, in 1984. An up-and-coming brilliant game designer by the name of Will Wright created an incredibly believable virtual city that astound the gamers with its level of detail and the amount of little things that were constantly happening in it. The city, though, served only the purpose of an interesting background to an action-focused title, Raid on Bungeling Bay. It would surely feel like a waste to see such a sophisticated simulation only as a "bells-and-whistles" addition. Luckily, 5 years later, Will Wright gave the gaming world the first SimCity game. The one we offer you today, the fourth--and according to many gamers, the best--part of the series is the result of almost a quarter of century worth of a concept's evolution.

In SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition you don't just build your city, you breathe life into it. Create a megalopolis by weaving together a tapestry of cities ranging from a bedroom community to a high tech urban center or a vacation destination to a farming village. You can create a region of interconnected cities sharing and competing for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network. Use "god-like" powers to create mountain ranges, carve valleys, and lay rivers to construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. The new simulation engine offers immediate feedback so you can react to the needs of an expanding metropolis. Now individual buildings and their lots provide you with feedback. Use the My Sim features to personalize your Sim and immediately move him or her into any area and watch them experience life around town and get instant feedback on the city's progress. Each decision has a greater impact and gives you the ability to respond more effectively. The DRM-Free Deluxe Edition offered here, comes complete with the Rush Hour expansion, for an even more in-depth urban experience!

Every game in this great series offers the player hundreds of hours of fun and easily adjustable challenge to create a sense of immersion in a living, breathing metropolis. They all come with their very own special flavor, but most gamers agree that SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition is the most delicious dish of them all. Grab it now, on GOG.com, for only $4.99! Remember to hurry, because the 75% release discount offer lasts for 72 hours only, that is until Sunday, June 1, at 9:59AM GMT.
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8thSage: Dark Age of Camelot, one of my first and favorite MMOs.
The best game Mythic made and the only good one imo. And I'd classify that one as a lightning in a bottle when they developed it. A stroke of brilliance that sadly, every expansion and change they made afterwards made more and more clear they had no idea what it was exactly that made the game so great.

Considering the sad game WAR became compared to what they were boasting it to be, and all the crap they pulled managing it, not to mention "Wrath of Heroes"... Yeah no, glad what's left of the name is buried now.
Post edited May 29, 2014 by Pheace
Ok here's from a long time fan who hasn't really went past SimCity 2000 (well, a bit into 3000): this game isn't the same that had some terrible online gameplay issues right? Is this an offline single player game like its predecessors?
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kiselev: Could you please answer questions about mac version? Will you add mac version, and if you will, when are you planning to do this (approximately)?
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JudasIscariot: As of right now, we can't add the Mac version and I don't know if or when we'll be able to. I hope that helps somewhat :)
I see that the OSX version was published by somebody else. Sometimes I wonder if the people making these decisions bothered to think things through beyond the next quarter.
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RafaelLopez: Ok here's from a long time fan who hasn't really went past SimCity 2000 (well, a bit into 3000): this game isn't the same that had some terrible online gameplay issues right? Is this an offline single player game like its predecessors?
I believe that was Simcity 5 that had the massive outage when it launched.
Post edited May 29, 2014 by hedwards
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RafaelLopez: Ok here's from a long time fan who hasn't really went past SimCity 2000 (well, a bit into 3000): this game isn't the same that had some terrible online gameplay issues right? Is this an offline single player game like its predecessors?
That was SimCity 5. This is SimCity 4 and is completely offline, hence GOG's tag of "Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!"
Post edited May 29, 2014 by Grargar
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Grargar: "Urban planner's single-player offline paradise!"
Hah! True! :-) Thanks

At $5 it's an instabuy!
Post edited May 29, 2014 by RafaelLopez
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hedwards: I see that the OSX version was published by somebody else. Sometimes I wonder if the people making these decisions bothered to think things through beyond the next quarter.
Its more complicated than that, as Aspyr is the company that ported it to the Mac.
They have their own store, so that ads complexity, though the Mac version
is on Amazon and the Apple store as well.
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tinyE: WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! EVERYONE STOP....put your money away!

I just checked the fine print and found out this version does not come with the "Miniature Donkey Farm" addon. Sorry, GOG but if I can't build a city whose sole source of revenue is miniature donkey farming then I'm afraid I'm just not interested!
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Grargar: Why must you be such an ass all the time?
He's not the one being an ass. You got a release here of an incredibly popular franchise at a 75% discount, a release from a major publisher (not an indie, not a platformer, adventure, etc.) and some still feel the need to bitch in the release thread about this or that.

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htown1980: I thought this release would make people happy but it appears people are still willing to complain.
I've come to the conclusion that no matter what occurs, some people will complain on this forum. 50 games from the early 1990's could be released in a bundle for $1 and you would still see complaining. Its a shame, makes me not want to read these threads. And I don't consider expressing an opinion on the game, like "not my cup of tea" or "I didn't like this one" complaining. Its those other posts.


Instabuy for me and I don't even know how this will run under Wine. There is a platinum rating on AppDB but also silvers and golds.
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tfishell: Is Steam's version unstable? I'm guessing they play about the same although of course GOG has tested the game on a wide variety of systems. And of course you can always contact Support or, if the game won't run, request a refund.
Don't know about Steam but the retail crashes to desktop every now and then. Auto-Save should be set to about 15 min to be on the save side.
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htown1980: Instabuy for me and I don't even know how this will run under Wine. There is a platinum rating on AppDB but also silvers and golds.
Could you let me know if it runs in Wine and in which version of it? It would be nice to run it on Ubuntu :)
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CrowTRobo: He's not the one being an ass. You got a release here of an incredibly popular franchise at a 75% discount, a release from a major publisher (not an indie, not a platformer, adventure, etc.) and some still feel the need to bitch in the release thread about this or that..
You didn't get my joke. Oh well, it happens.
He's talking about donkeys and donkeys are also called asses. So I made a pun on that. And hey, he is the one claiming to be an ass.
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CrowTRobo: He's not the one being an ass. You got a release here of an incredibly popular franchise at a 75% discount, a release from a major publisher (not an indie, not a platformer, adventure, etc.) and some still feel the need to bitch in the release thread about this or that..
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Grargar: You didn't get my joke. Oh well, it happens.
He's talking about donkeys and donkeys are also called asses. So I made a pun on that. And hey, he is the one claiming to be an ass.
Don't worry, nobody understands my jokes either. We should start a club..
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htown1980: Instabuy for me and I don't even know how this will run under Wine. There is a platinum rating on AppDB but also silvers and golds.
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Matruchus: Could you let me know if it runs in Wine and in which version of it? It would be nice to run it on Ubuntu :)
Weird, I wrote that bit about Wine but the forum says it was htown1980. I haven't run it yet, I'm going off of this page: Wine AppDB entry

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Grargar: You didn't get my joke. Oh well, it happens.
He's talking about donkeys and donkeys are also called asses. So I made a pun on that. And hey, he is the one claiming to be an ass.
Oops, I didn't catch that. Now *I* feel like the ass.
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htown1980: Instabuy for me and I don't even know how this will run under Wine. There is a platinum rating on AppDB but also silvers and golds.
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Matruchus: Could you let me know if it runs in Wine and in which version of it? It would be nice to run it on Ubuntu :)
I just played through the first tutorial and so far it seems to be working fine. Well, I'm using Crossover, but I'd think it would work on Wine as well.
At $5 it's an instant buy for me.

If do find part of the GOG community reaction disappointing in that we spent thousands of posts complaining when GOG talked about adding regional pricing and many people from outside the US were unhappy because it was not to their advantage but now that there is a case where the regional pricing is to their advantage they complain that there is regional pricing.

Now these are not necessarily the same folks doing both (I haven't checked the letter from the MD thread for that) but I would not be surprised if there were a few hypocrites here.
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srilumpa: At $5 it's an instant buy for me.

If do find part of the GOG community reaction disappointing in that we spent thousands of posts complaining when GOG talked about adding regional pricing and many people from outside the US were unhappy because it was not to their advantage but now that there is a case where the regional pricing is to their advantage they complain that there is regional pricing.

Now these are not necessarily the same folks doing both (I haven't checked the letter from the MD thread for that) but I would not be surprised if there were a few hypocrites here.
Pack some headache pills if you want to dig through that shit pile.