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Posted March 24, 2022
Play a game that offers a new spin on expanding the city’s economy.
Genre: Simulation, Strategy
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Posted March 24, 2022
There's a bit of a Je Ne Sais Quoi to the graphical style featured here that in blunt terms, isn't helping the game look like a city.

I think in blunt terms, this doesn't look like the 22 Gigabytes[!] it is asking for is being put to good use. Just to compare to a game from 2003, SimCity 4 only asks for an absolutely miserly 1 GB, and feels more attuned to the look of a city than this.

One problem is a lack of variance in important details, (such as spinning trees about or simply populating them with slightly different variants), but also that a lot of the textures are glaringly obvious when viewed. Especially the terrain paints.
Posted March 25, 2022
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Darvond: There's a bit of a Je Ne Sais Quoi to the graphical style featured here that in blunt terms, isn't helping the game look like a city.

I think in blunt terms, this doesn't look like the 22 Gigabytes[!] it is asking for is being put to good use. Just to compare to a game from 2003, SimCity 4 only asks for an absolutely miserly 1 GB, and feels more attuned to the look of a city than this.

One problem is a lack of variance in important details, (such as spinning trees about or simply populating them with slightly different variants), but also that a lot of the textures are glaringly obvious when viewed. Especially the terrain paints.
The problem is that this isn't just a city builder. Its more like an Anno game in modern setting.
Posted March 25, 2022
Am I correct in understanding that this game has been in development for 15 years now (7 years by a single person followed by 8 years by a small team) --- and now it releases as an "in development" game?
Posted March 25, 2022
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Darvond: I think in blunt terms, this doesn't look like the 22 Gigabytes[!] it is asking for is being put to good use. Just to compare to a game from 2003, SimCity 4 only asks for an absolutely miserly 1 GB, and feels more attuned to the look of a city than this.
Or Banished with roughly the same size as this game webpage, 160MB.
No, not even joking.
Posted March 25, 2022
You say that like multiple 30-40MB animated PNG files are a bad thing.

Edit: don't think I've ever seen a game with a 16GB min/32GB recommended requirement before. Even Transport Fever 2 is 8GB/16GB.
Post edited March 25, 2022 by eric5h5
Posted March 25, 2022
I'm rather intrigued and impressed by what I can see but I'm currently not up to adding another InDev title to my list and I will need to know how well it Wines first. Still, I'll keep an eye on this in case my mood becomes more experimental and Wine info arrives.
Posted March 25, 2022
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Matruchus: The problem is that this isn't just a city builder. Its more like an Anno game in modern setting.
And the Anno games on GOG are only 3 GB large at largest. I don't know what the devs at FourExo Entertainment are doing, but optimizing doesn't seem to be among them. Even Anno 2070 only takes 5 GB.

Maybe that singular tree doesn't need a texture grid of 8.294 megapixels?
Or maybe the more likely thing, it screams scope creep.
Post edited March 25, 2022 by Darvond
Posted March 25, 2022
According to a quick search Anno 2205 has an install size of 35GB and Anno 1800 of 60GB. I could not find a quick value for 2070 but since the game is more than a decade old, that does not seem to be a reasonable comparison for a game being in development right now.
Post edited March 25, 2022 by BitMaster_1980
Posted March 25, 2022
Let's hope at least 10GB is traffic & other AI.
Posted March 25, 2022
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GOG.com: Discount: 15% off until 31st March 2022, 1PM UTC
Its countdown clock is wrong:
https://www.gog.com/promo/20220324_launch_promo_highrise_city

Let Russians and Belarusians buy games!
Fuck GOG.
Posted March 25, 2022
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BitMaster_1980: According to a quick search Anno 2205 has an install size of 35GB and Anno 1800 of 60GB. I could not find a quick value for 2070 but since the game is more than a decade old, that does not seem to be a reasonable comparison for a game being in development right now.
Seems reasonable to me. Maybe I'm an old salt who says less is more.
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