We will never get another comfy city building game from Impression Games

>we will never get another comfy city building game from Impression Games

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Feels bad man

Was this game called Zeus?

yes

Now that's a fucking blast from the past.
Looks like it works on modern PCs too, nice.

Yeah you can get the whole lot on gog.

These really are top notch games it's a huge shame there hasn't been s continuation of the series. I would have like a European or Scandinavian one.

Looks motley like shit.

As far as I have tested they all do.

Was Ceasar 3 the best one?

The art style and the attention to the smallest details and the fact that it's 2D gives the game such a unique charm

Not to mention the superb sound design, the sounds and noises that the city makes and the incredible comfy soundtrack

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Which one should I play if I just want a comfy experience with no war? is Emperor a good choice?

i had this on a demo disc when i was a kid. pc magazines used to include discs back then. i played it on my pentium 133mhz but after half an hour the pc would get so hot that the game would start to lag badly.

Yes.

you're going to need a high resolution patch

Depends which setting you like the most, I love ancient Greece setting so thats why I like Zeus best, but they are all comfy experiences and are very similar to each other

It's a little bit raw compared to Zeus. Pharaoh is awesome, but not as comfy cause muh desert and war is overwhelming.

So my vote goes to Zeus.

I love these game but I'm always annoyed that once I've figured out the optimal layout I just keep making the same city over and over.

I also wish they'd stop cramming RTS warfare elements in every map for difficulty, it's not developed enough to work well and it's not comfy at all.

Zeus is more fully featured.

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Waiting for that first damn harvest and hoping it won't be a disaster.

Pharaoh with Cleopatra > Ceasar 3 > Zeus > Emperor

I didn't like how Zeus and Emperor made things HUGE. I mean the buildings and such.

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the nostalgia is real

oh shit I remember playing this.

Too bad it was just a 'place gardens everywhere to get nice houses' sim by the end.

Whatever happened to the studio?
Also is there any modern city building sims that have the same feel?

It was more of Build monument sim. And I liked that.

Slowly building monument for hours and listening to this comfy music.

I remember I spend a few days building pyramids.

Recently played some Caesar 2 in DOSBox.
Shit, that was a fun game to sink in some countless hours.

This is the best shit to occasionally go back to and unwind.

>dedicate half the map to mining and storing various stone types
>spam enough work camps so that stone is constantly being taken to the pyramids
>still takes a trillion years to finish
Felt like a master architect when I was little though.

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Mike Ryder, former president of Sierra Entertainment, forced a change in management in October 2001, during development of Lords of the Realm III. Rod Nakamoto was installed as the new director. Lords III became Impressions's final game, and was released to mediocre reviews in March 2004.

The studio was shut down in April 2004 when Vivendi Universal closed most of their game development studios. Many members of the studio moved on to form Tilted Mill Entertainment.

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>I love these game but I'm always annoyed that once I've figured out the optimal layout I just keep making the same city over and over.
This. I wish I could go back to when I was just figuring out how things work.

There is but one.

store.steampowered.com/app/359230/Lethis__Path_of_Progress/

Close to it is

store.steampowered.com/app/242920/Banished/

Appart from that not really. City builders like this are mostly dead.

Similar things would be Tropico or Anno 2070/2205

Theres both a new Tropico and Anno comming.

There is also an indy title called Aven Colony that isn't bad but it's more like an ANNO game then Impression game.

I really liked that about it. It took time and it felt like you were actually building Pyramids...

How good is the first one you linked?
It looks kinda insteresting.

Well I can't tell you why it isn't as fun as Impression game but it's the nearest one we have.

I think it's the imaginary setting that makes it less interesting.

are the good old builder on gog already patched to default to high res or do they all need fan patches?

Lethis isn't very good; its a very dumbed down version of the Zeus/Pharaoh/Etc games

Which while great, weren't terrible deep to being with

How did the people that made all the games we know and love FUCK UP SO HARD with Caesar IV?

Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile I get first 3D game it won't be perfect I had some fun with it but... how did they fuck up SO HARD after that SimCity Societies jesus christ...

How does that studio even function today? They're not making any games and I doubt the shit the produce until now sustains them... what are they doing the past 5 years?

I guess it being simplified also doesn't help.

I forgot to mention store.steampowered.com/app/352550/Urban_Empire/

But it also isn't all that good.

I remember Caesar 2.

Plebs are needed!

The only time in history plebs were actually needed.

>Where's my spear? How can I be a spear carrier without a spear?

>we will never got a new airbucks game from impressions

feels bad

source?

What happened to all the comfy menue aesthetics? currently its all clean and minimalistic generic shit. Remember the d2 menu, homam3 and so on.

Everything goes to shit.

nvm, it's just that it doesn't look at all what I'd call a lolccubus: [Motsu Aki] Namaiki Loli Succubus o Mahou no Kubiwa de Onahole ni Shichae!!

I've been kicked out of my home through no fault of my own!

*invades your town*

>Zeus and Poseidon
>Comfy
I thought they were stressful as fuck.

This so much, Pharaoh has a nice atmosphere and all but it's a horribly mediocre game.
>upgrading houses costs a minimum of luxury goods but in the end it really boils down to spamming gardens/plazas/statues
>economy basically depends on whether you're playing a good map with worthwhile exports or gold mines because everything is reduced to Egyptian dollars anyway
>NPC pathing means the most efficient lay-out is a singular long street so that they have a smaller chance to fuck up on their way to their destination, roadblocks only help minimally
>invasions hardly challenging
>pleasing the gods is piss easy unless you're playing a shitty map with no exports
I replay it once in a while but I always get bogged down in all the bullshit and quit halfway through because you're just sitting around dealing with all this while waiting for monuments to finish.

Fucking Vivendi man...

>city building

>invasions

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Is that game any good?

I am amazed how well aged these games have visually, particularly Zeus and Emperor. Proof quality 2D is indeed eternal .

It's average. It's technically impression games first 3D game. But I woudn't say it's great.

It was bugy as fuck at the start.

lol pharaoh is one the worst, caeser 3 is too old now and emperor is a fucking copy/paste of zeus with in a less intersting period => gtfo
Lethis sucks, seriously
banished is a mini game
Anno 1404 with venice is one the best city builder ever and 2070 is not bad but DONT play this joke 2205
Time to read a bit outside of Sup Forums to dont looks stupid

It's sadly true, the genre is nearly dead

Looks shitty and it come out in a period i played everything and i dont remember this...

rep oh well, will pirate and check, studio seems ded anyway

Comfiest game in existence

I always have more interest in ancient Chinese setting compared to the european ones. I'll try out Emperor.

yeah, it has the best setting and its the second msot fun gameplay-wise imo(after caesar 3)

what happened to impression games?

I have to go CLEAR ACROSS THE CITY with these goods! It'll take all day!

>tfw Sierra builders used to blow your mind when you were 10
>today they're just way too easy
>road management sims like Skylines are just unfun
Growing up sucks.

eh, maybe im just bad at video games, but even today i still have problem keeping all those fucking villas from devolving in caesar 3

Easy games are a fun distraction sometimes. Not everything have to be challenging.

Someone got it working on linux?
Still got the original cds and it never works.

This, thats why i love and play all those sirra city builders to this day.Comfiest game to just kick back and relax to while listening to some podcast in the background

Is it cokay with you guys if I post this?

I can't play them anymore. Shit's too fucking rigid and looks repetitive visually. The individual buildings are pretty, yes, but you can't even rotate them and they're always the exact same.

The only one i didn't play when it goes out, got no pc for many years so i go directly to 1404. Tried it finally and it seems like a 2d 1404

I'm rly fast bored too now.
That's why i want a new one !

about once a year - usually after watching a documentary on Egypt - i reinstall this, play it for about 20 minutes, then uninstall it again

>mfw

I only played 1503 and 1404, although I liked 1503 better. Had some cool scenarios too, some sort of treasure hunt which had you walk around an island full of skeletons.

Maybe i could try again but 1404 was one of the most beautifull game i played. And that's normally not an important point for me but this game is incredible

Apparently the studio was shut down by vivendi, and most devs went to tilted mill entertainment.

Bump, because I'm too busy playing Emperor to post something meaningful right now

came here to post this

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what a shit taste
Caesar 3>Emperor>Zeus>Pharaoh

>tfw I'm a fucking brainlet who can barely manage the second level of Caesar 3.

How do I git gud?

>we will NEVER get another quality pixel city management game

Did Zeus have the best art direction of the series? I could look at screenshots of cities built in-game all fucking day.

A citybuildan akin to Cities: Skylines set in Ancient Egypt/Greece/China or Rome when?

What are some other comfy city building games that let you just build shit and not bother with battles?Preferably, with an ancient/medieval or even fantasy setting, never was a big fan of modern setting like in Sim City or Tropico...
I love playing Strongold:Crusader for example and just build a dank-ass fortress but all the fighting is killing the mood.

Anyone played Banished?Any good?

Give Anno and Settlers games a go.

>Anyone played Banished?Any good?
Focus on surviving the winter really means once you figure out the formula half the fun is gone. Good Workshop support, though.

Banished is good for one or two successful villages and then it gets dull. Well worth the money if you grab it from a sale.

Doesn't Stronghold have an economic campaign where you don't have to deal with combat?

Also I don't know if it still is but when I played Banished two or three years ago it felt very barebones compared to city builders like the ones ITT

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are there any modes for higher resolution?

there's a widescreen mod but it just zooms everything out so it's not great to play at modern resolutions, the interface gets smaller. maybe if your monitor is big enough it's ok

1680x1050 works best on my screen

Pharaoh is the best one. Nothing comes close to the aesthetics and monuments.

it's too yellow for me. I liked zeus better because it was a lot more colorful

>highest common housing in pharaoh is a beverly hills apartment
>highest coomon housing in zeus is a shanty

Whyy

you are wrong

Overall my favourite aesthetics are in Caesar. Unfortunately it's also the one with the worst gameplay. Life is suffering.