Ehhhh the game is good but it’s not without problems. The prison area drags on for too long. The fact that there’s a hidden optional fight that can one shot kill your whole party because you’re extremely under leveled was annoying as fuck. Locking magic as a plot device for the first 30 hours of the playthrough really sucked. The mandatory cheesing of some fights was annoying.
I like the game and go back to it every once in a while but BG3 is miles better IMO.
This trailer was so wild that at some point there was actual fucking for like 3 seconds and my mind was like “ayoo they fucking,” then skulls started popping out of some cysts on a live mans burning sacrifice and my mind forgot so quickly there was literally just sex on the screen at the video game awards.
Yeah, the hope for this game died when they released that development documentary and the CEO of CO blamed Unity for causing all sorts of problems. It was an incredible act of transparency that ultimately sealed the fate of this game to never living up to the standards of the first. Citystate Metropolis is our next hope for the genre.
They didn’t chase graphics. Yeah the lighting system is better and the Civs having over 1000 polys is overkill for something you’re gonna focus on for 0.1% of playtime. CO failed by choosing an architecture that was not ready for production use. There was a few devlogs where they straight up said they were using pre-release versions of Unity that were half baked to develop CS2. They were testing some technology Unity was supposed to release in the future. Because of that they had to write a bunch of tools FOR UNITY themselves. In doing so they couldn’t get ahead of technical problems that kept popping up because it meant they had to fuck with Unity(the software and the company) more and more.
The biggest example of this is the asset importer. Why in a video game built with modding in mind does this game have not have an asset importer almost 3 years later? Why did it take 2 years to release a DLC that was supposed to be out in the first 6 months? Why did it take 2 years to “fix” the economy part of the sim? They’re never gonna fix the busted ass traffic. CO built this game on a half built foundation and they’ve been paying for it since day 1.
Same with Aseprite. You can buy it from their store or Steam. If you’re cool enough you can compile it yourself and get the full program for free.
That’s not Simcity.
Live and in color.
EDIT: Didn’t even realize the trailer was the OP.