#头条讲真的#
The Year of the Dragon is coming, do you still remember the Dragon Island owner who invited Laba porridge in Jin Yong's novel "Chivalrous Travel"?
Ever thought about addicting the island owner, is it possible?
I think the owner of Dragon Island is not a cow, so how about the owner of Peach Blossom Island and Huangdao?
Or, can being a factory director or garden director be realized in the Year of the Dragon?
The answer is, anything is possible, depending on whether you can play or not.
Now, let's take you to the brave new world of the first island:
The big failure of 2013 brought the SimCity series of games to a halt.
Although mobile games or other games have been launched in the future, the name is no longer good.
Back in the day, SimCity's glory led Microsoft to launch a dedicated patch on Windows 95 to make sure it was up and running.
And the ones that can enjoy this kind of treatment are almost the top games or software, such as Final Fantasy 7.
But the story doesn't end there.
In March 2015, Maxis, the original studio that developed SimCity, was dismantled, and a week later, a management simulation game called Cities: Skylines was released.
Its developers say that Cities: Skylines was created to pay homage to SimCity.
An older version of SimCity, to be exact.
Paying homage, but not imitating, is the key to the smooth continuation of this new SimCity.
The biggest difference between the game and the SimCity series is that it's more focused on transportation planning, and each city can be turned into huge, bustling cities that don't need to be saved from disaster.
Simple and casual, with special planning, this game has inherited many players of SimCity, and continues to become a reliable prop for many urban planning students to practice.
More simulated business gameplay also emerged in a blowout before and after the collapse of "SimCity".
At the end of 2016, Frontier Developments' new title, Roller Coaster Stars, brought a thrilling roller coaster ride like never before, while the sharp sound of trains rubbing against the tracks still echoed in the ears......
The core purpose of this game is to build a roller coaster, in which players need to build a luxury amusement park with a roller coaster theme, attracting as many visitors as possible to enter the amusement park and achieve higher game achievements.
Is it another Lego-style model?
This time, the game's perspective has made a breakthrough.
In addition to the operator's perspective, the player can choose any guest and observe his experience in the playground from three perspectives.
For example, watching from a distance like a movie camera.
Or follow closely behind the tourists and take a closer look at their expressions and postures as they play.
Even choose the first person to experience the scene when playing, the helplessness of queuing.
In this way, players can dive into the playground they have built.
This may be a reference to Microsoft's 2005 Zoo Tycoon.
As a game that simulates zoo management, in addition to raising land, sea, and ancient and even fantasy animals, the game can also allow players to enhance their affinity through intimate interaction with animals, so that visitors can get a variety of unexpected sweetness during the tour.
In addition, it can also allow players to appear in the game as a visitor and experience a happy day in the zoo. It's a bit of a blend of the experience of the 1990s' fire-hot electronic pet eggs.
Adding more perspectives and making players more immersed in the simulation may be an alternative presentation of "the city is a people, not a building".
Perhaps, this is a form of experience of "SimCity" + "The Sims" that can not only be from the perspective of God, but also live in the city.
Perhaps, the only way to achieve this state is Nintendo's "Assemble! Animal Crossing" launched in 2020.
It even more or less made up for the regret that "SimCity 2013" collapsed from a stand-alone game to an online game.
In many reviews, it is acknowledged that the core charm of the game is the high degree of freedom in the open world, the depth of game socialization, and the 1-to-1 synchronization of time flow with the real world.
In other words, the day and night in the game will be the same as the time zone set by the player, and the seasons in the game will also be the same as the hemisphere set by the player.
Start with an island, build it yourself, or trade across islands, and be a middleman to make the difference.
For example, to send the tools and materials that were urgently needed in the early stage to friends who have just landed on a new uninhabited island to win favor.
Or they can "wander" around the region with insect nets and fishing rods to make their own contribution to the maintenance of biodiversity.
All this avoids the risks of SimCity 2013, where each player's city should be developed regionally to form a city cluster.
In short, Animal Crossing is still a single-player game, with minimal and limited interactions, using an unreal world rather than a direct reflection of reality to achieve a magical realism.
Simulate everything you dream of, that's all.
Published in the People's Post and Telegraph on July 21, 2023, Issue 366 of the column of "Le Youji".
Author Zhang Shule, columnist of People's Daily Online and People's Post and Telegraph, expert of China Economic Media Think Tank, senior industry commentator