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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.
Well now, this is one I didn't expect to see. I'm not ecstatic about it or anything, but for $5, why the heck not?

Edit: Okay, sorry SimCity, you'll have to wait. I just read the rest of the games in the RSS feed, and, well, a certain Indie game staring a child is getting my limited money instead. On to the wishlist with you!
Post edited May 30, 2014 by Nesoo
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tfishell: People that are buying, please try it out and report back how the game is working.
What!!! Are you suppose to play the game you buy?
This is excellent. Instabought at $4.99, but I agree $20 is a bit steep for a game with one addon that is 11 years old. That's why I instabought now at this price. This low price is obviously a ploy to get us to buy it right away. It worked! Keep doing these 72 hour super releases. $20 is high, but $4.99 is a steal!

Keep these classics coming, along with interesting and intriguing indies and there will be many instabuys for me yet.
Thanks GOG. Instawishlisted. But have to remember that need to wait at least for 75% in future :)
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CrowTRobo: Thanks! I remember messing around with the Urban Renewal Kit (URK) for SC2K which let you create your own buildings. I didn't have the artistic talent to make anything good. Doing it in 3D makes it a little bit easier, don't have to manually draw all four perspectives like in the URK. I wonder how well the results would be using the Google Maps method of building modeling: making a cube then mapping photos of the building as textures. Might have to try it ....
Yup, it's like SCURK. Except BAT is SC4 version and it deals with 3D meshes till it renders the 4 perspectives. You might have to edit the cube for better details. I made a simple 3d modelling tutorial back in 2004, I can't believe it's still around:
http://www.simtropolis.com/omnibus/_/simcity-4/batlot-editor-tutorials/creating-a-simple-house-r65

I made these local B.A.Ts. for Simcity 4:
http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/3484-uob-plaza/
http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/3011-republic-plaza-singapore/
http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/2767-shmails-functional-kuanyin-temple/
Post edited May 30, 2014 by cw8
SimCity 4 is good, but I hope you guys can release SimCity 3000 someday.
Cannot buy it: "Your payment's status could not be verified due to temporary technical issues." :(
I have this on Steam but I will buy it here. I uninstalled steam and it still has a stupid hidden registry file asking me to reinstall I will never use steam again. So glad you guys at gog finally got my favorite sim city! I'm surprised you were able to get it from EA DRM free. However you did, thanks for that!
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Trilarion: Cannot buy it: "Your payment's status could not be verified due to temporary technical issues." :(
Versuch noch mal.
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Trilarion: Cannot buy it: "Your payment's status could not be verified due to temporary technical issues." :(
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Matruchus: Versuch noch mal.
Yeeeeeeeeeeees. Have it now.
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Matruchus: Versuch noch mal.
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Trilarion: Yeeeeeeeeeeees. Have it now.
Congratulations :)
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Trilarion: Cannot buy it: "Your payment's status could not be verified due to temporary technical issues." :(
I sometimes get that, when I tried again after waiting a bit (an hour usually) it tends to work then
Woo-Ho. A very nice surprise. At $4.99 this made my day. Very nice release.
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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 :)
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CrowTRobo: 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
Hahahaha. I just saw this and was thought WTF? I BEEN HACKED!!!
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CrowTRobo: 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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htown1980: Hahahaha. I just saw this and was thought WTF? I BEEN HACKED!!!
Probably yes, its not strange after Ebay and Avast were hacked this week. To hack a gog account is probably a lot easier. But its probably just a database glitch.
Post edited May 30, 2014 by Matruchus