Gaming vs Living: Blurring the rEAlity
Simcity 5 – right at Melbourne’s doorstep. Left: The game & Right: Houses in Truganina
Can’t help but notice the uncanny similarity between Melbourne’s growing middle-class-dual-income-families’ realising their dream homes and EA Games’s cult classic. Surely this land-grabbing phenom has to stop? Perhaps the idea of Geelong, Sunbury and Melton as Melbourne’s suburbs won’t be considered too far fetched in the years to come.




Is Simcity 5 out?
Nah. Simcity 4 and her sequel Rush Hour are the only ones I know of in a few years. Don’t think Simcity 5’s coming out anytime soon? 4 was pretty damn good.
And sadly, there is little evidence that anything is being done to combat that bane of classic SimCity play – traffic. Any good Sim player knows that more roads = more traffic. The only way to reduce congestion was a good mass transit network.
What’s missing here? :/
I’ll tell Brumby to ship out, reinstall myself as Premier and half the entire VIC govt’s wages. We’re still in the top 20% of the earning bracket, but that has sent a message. *chuckles*
That image on the left is classic ‘looks good from far, but far from good’ housing planning. Yes, I like my house to be surrounded by a moat of roads. Oh look! There’s a boulevard just across my massive front yard. Hey, a bottleneck of traffic! Nice.