I am disappointed but not surprised that #CitiesSkylines2 has the same disappointing "if there's crime, just plop down a police station" approach to the criminal justice system. Sure, they added the ability to limit police stations to specific districts and now prisons can be used for prison labor to boost manufacturing, but those are the opposite of what I want games to be doing. I want at least some of these games to be showing off alternatives to the current model, or at the very least spewing less #copaganda.
Honestly though, the most disappointing of the bunch is still 1-1-2 Operator. It's a game where you are a dispatcher for emergency services and you get to manage squads of police, fire, and medical. That includes hiring staff, buying equipment, and some level of influence over how they respond. You legitimately have incentives in gameplay to equip most of your cops with tasers instead of guns and leave your SWAT team at the station when a police horse could address the issue just as well to save money.
Alas, the devs sided with All Lives Matter (at least partially in response to parts of their player base having people vocally demanding it). So instead of doing the incredibly natural outgrowth of what their system and mechanics already did by creating separate traffic enforcement, mental health services, and detective agencies to show how a city could work with a police force 1/10th the size, they went another way. The next expansions included civil unrest (adding terrorism and riot control) then a zombie apocalypse. [full disclosure: they did push back to do some good covid stuff]
It's particularly depressing because the big gimmick of 1-1-2 Operator over its predecessor is that it used data from Open Street Maps so you can play in over 10,000 real world cities, some of which with 3D mapping. They had the opportunity to let people try to defund police in their home town in a video game but went in a different direction for sales.
I really want the game that could have been. #VideoGames can be a way to explore the world in a way that lets us imagine better alternatives to the status quo. Reinforcing that crime just naturally appears and that it can be thwarted with greater force traps us in a shitty mindset.
After seeing what Paradox has done with #CitiesSkylines2 I really would like to see how a successor to #Minecraft would look like, if Mojang would still have interest in developing the game and would took the same approach.
Would probably be the best game ever. But we'll never know.
Ich hab gerade gesehen, dass #CitiesSkylines2 nicht für #macOS erscheint? What the heck? Was haben wir, 2001?
Nachdem es jetzt für #Xbox und #PlayStation verschoben wurde, habe ich also erst nächstes Jahr die Möglichkeit es überhaupt zu spielen? Das sehr frustrierend.
Hm #CitiesSkylines2 launcht im #GamePass für den PC. Und #Parallels hat eine 14-tägige Testphase. Vielleicht kann ich es einfach mal probieren, wenn es raus ist. 120€ im Jahr, für ein Spiel, erscheint mir zwar brutal viel, aber vielleicht habe ich noch einen anderen Nutzen für Parallels. Die Bedrock-Edition von #Minecraft läuft ja leider auch noch nicht auf macOS. Also wäre das noch etwas, was interessant wäre. Aber muss ich dann mal schauen ob und wie es läuft.
With #CitiesSkylines2 incoming, I wonder if there’s a very very cheap, small pc that can attach to a monitor/tv and then be used with GeForce now streaming?
So essentially a conduit between the streaming service and the screen?
Anyone have any ideas?
(I don’t want to invest in a beast of a PC and only have an iPad. I do have a work laptop but would rather not!)
I've put together a playlist for anyone who might be interested in watching some #citiesskylines2 content. The game obviously isn't out yet but content creators have been able to make some 30 minute videos. I'll try and keep the playlist in order by creator.
@colossalorder it would be awesome if the tram tracks in Cities Skylines 2 could be placed in a similar way to Cities in Motion 2... that was so much nicer with great flexibility.
I've so far resisted updating my gaming rig (still running a 1060) but the new Cities Skylines 2 might finally push me over the edge. I wanna see and build a new city in as high quality as I can do it! #gamer#games#CitiesSkylines2
I hope #CitiesSkylines2 has better naming; maybe use numeric street addresses (i.e. 302 N 1st Street) instead of generic names, infer from district, street, and city names...