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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I'd be careful reading too too much into a Peter B driven review of just about anything. If you follow him on Twitter or listen to him on the Ars podcasts, I'm not sure what you'd have to be pretty damn near perfect to get a good review.
I'm certain his criticisms are valid, but he has a very distinct tone/outlook.
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I agree. He brings a lot of preconceived notions of what the game "should" be and not what it is.
Although city size is really disappointing, I think the game developers are going for more of a game where you can pick it up and accomplish something in a short period of time. They want you to build a lot of small cities, rather than building one huge metropolis (the limited resources and huge benefits of region play point to this). Whether this ends up holding my interest or not I don't know, but the Ars people are basically trying to force the old model into the new game and not having a lot of success.
However, one complaint and I feel like this is where I'm going to be pretty mad about, is that it's released by EA. That means that every 3 new regions is probably going to be another $5 (I hope they release a region editor for free...). Micro-transactions (and DLC) are seriously the most frustrating thing about most new games. I'm already pissed that it's somewhat pay-to-win (ie. deluxe edition gets better police/fire trucks etc.) and I just feel like I'm going to be nickel and dimed for every new feature.
Regardless, I'm going to play it and give it a real shot. I'm a relatively low-level player, so I feel like I'm going to have an experience much more like TotalBiscuit, where you know he's playing poorly, but just having a ton of fun.