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TychoCelchuuu
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Tropico 4 is coming! It's like Tropico 3, but more expensive!
Greetings, El Presidente!
Welcome to Tropico 3! I know you're probably itching to get right in to running your own Caribbean dictatorship, with bribing and military police and Communists and papayas, but before we get started, maybe you ought to have a little history lesson? We don't want to forget our roots, after all, even if you are newly appointed by the CIA and have never set foot on an island before.
Tropico
Tropico was the game that started it all. Eventually it had an expansion, Paradise Island, which was pretty good too. In Tropico, you play as the dictator of a small Caribbean island, much like you, Presidente! Your objective is twofold: the island must thrive, and your Swiss Bank account must thrive. Of course, it's never that easy. To make the island (and your bank account) wealthy, you must make many choices. What kind of industry do you want? Do you want to attract tourism to your island and make money by selling them cheap "handmade" arts and crafts? Or do you want to mine bauxite and export it to the Capitalist pigs? If you decide to attract tourists, how do you keep them from seeing the slums? How do you afford the power plant you need to keep their hotel air conditioned? And how do you deal with the discontent of the working man, who can't afford the restaurants you built for the tourists?
Tropico is both accessible and intricate. Its depth is probably its best quality, in addition to is absolutely awesome music. (Check out this YouTube channel for all of it.) And the humor. It's hilarious. Anyways, everything in the game is interconnected, and every choice you make has ripple effects. Tropico is driven by the people. Every citizen in the game has a needs/desires bar that makes your Sims look like wind-up toys. One person might be an intellectual and a Capitalist, so if you cut funding to the school and start making lovey eyes at the USSR, he won't vote for you. You'll make the religious Communist happy if you spend the money you saved on a new church or a visit from the Pope, but if you order the secret police to take care of the intellectual, you might end up with nobody happy. Except yourself because you took 10% of the cost of the new church and funneled it into your bank account.
Tropico is a city building game, but the connection to each and every person on your island is second only to your connection to yourself, El Presidente. You get to customize your dossier, choosing an origin, strengths, weaknesses, and some other thing I think. I usually made my guy a flatulent, womanizing Communist who was a friend of the farmers. Or, you could create a slick businessman born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has a gambling habit that he has trouble keeping under control. The island is yours to mess with.
It's a ton of fun, and you can buy Tropico and the expansion off of Steam if you want to relive the glory days. It also comes with...
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
While you read about pirates, you should probably listen to some pirate music which is almost as good as the original Tropico music.
In Tropico 2, you're the pirate king. You're basically in charge of Tortuga from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Instead of fattening your Swiss bank account and placating the US and the USSR, you're stashing loot in your treasure hideaway and trying to keep your pirates full of booze, wenches, and food while the terrified captives they bring back slave away in your industries or wait around until they're ransomed. Tropico 2, like Tropico, is dripping in atmosphere. Cats wander the island while captives shuffle past the gallows to work under the supervision of pirates who would rather be out sailing and plundering. You control what your pirate ships do, like telling them who to prey on (the French? Britain? Everyone?), and you try to keep a balance on your island between anarchy, which pirates love, and order, which keeps captives in line.
Tropico 2 is a fun game, but unfortunately it doesn't quite live up to Tropico in my estimation. The setting is fantastic, and the basics are all there, but the fundamental gameplay is a little less nuanced and doesn't really come together in the same way Tropico does. Tropico gave you a ton of options that really meant different things when you chose between them, whereas Tropico 2 ends up pigeonholing you into a few directions. It's still fun, though, and if you get Tropico off of Steam then you get Tropico 2 too.
Tropico 3
I'm glad you're back, El Presidente! Was your stay in the past enjoyable? I hope those pirates didn't rough you up too much! I think you'll find the island has changed for the better while you were gone...
The people are thrilled to have you back!
Tropico 3 is the newest addition to the Tropico line, and in grand old Tropico tradition, you find yourself as El Presidente, the dictator of a tropical island during the Cold War. The game is coming to Steam soon, but what you should really do is download the Tropico 3 demo (you can find other mirrors if you look). Tropico 3 takes Tropico and makes it prettier and deeper. You, El Presidente, are now in the game, and you can give speeches from your presidential palace, supervise construction to speed it up, visit parts of the island, and so on. There are also cars now, and new features like actual speeches and things like that, but really Tropico 3 seems a lot like Tropico from the 5 minutes I played.
Anyone interested in city building games, or humor, really ought to check the demo out. The advisor from the previous 2 games is back, and his amusing mix of flattery and condescension never gets old. The tutorial is worth playing just to hear him talk. The tutorial is worth playing just to hear him talk. So, has anyone played it? Liked it? Memories of Tropico or Tropico 2 to share? Who remembers the Tropico manual? That thing had dossiers on tons of dictators all throughout history on every page. I learned more from that manual than from some history classes.
Fun Links for Fun People
The PA forums city building game megathread
Tropico 3 on Steam
The original Tropicos on Steam
Greetings, El Presidente!
Welcome to Tropico 3! I know you're probably itching to get right in to running your own Caribbean dictatorship, with bribing and military police and Communists and papayas, but before we get started, maybe you ought to have a little history lesson? We don't want to forget our roots, after all, even if you are newly appointed by the CIA and have never set foot on an island before.
Tropico
Tropico was the game that started it all. Eventually it had an expansion, Paradise Island, which was pretty good too. In Tropico, you play as the dictator of a small Caribbean island, much like you, Presidente! Your objective is twofold: the island must thrive, and your Swiss Bank account must thrive. Of course, it's never that easy. To make the island (and your bank account) wealthy, you must make many choices. What kind of industry do you want? Do you want to attract tourism to your island and make money by selling them cheap "handmade" arts and crafts? Or do you want to mine bauxite and export it to the Capitalist pigs? If you decide to attract tourists, how do you keep them from seeing the slums? How do you afford the power plant you need to keep their hotel air conditioned? And how do you deal with the discontent of the working man, who can't afford the restaurants you built for the tourists?
Tropico is both accessible and intricate. Its depth is probably its best quality, in addition to is absolutely awesome music. (Check out this YouTube channel for all of it.) And the humor. It's hilarious. Anyways, everything in the game is interconnected, and every choice you make has ripple effects. Tropico is driven by the people. Every citizen in the game has a needs/desires bar that makes your Sims look like wind-up toys. One person might be an intellectual and a Capitalist, so if you cut funding to the school and start making lovey eyes at the USSR, he won't vote for you. You'll make the religious Communist happy if you spend the money you saved on a new church or a visit from the Pope, but if you order the secret police to take care of the intellectual, you might end up with nobody happy. Except yourself because you took 10% of the cost of the new church and funneled it into your bank account.
Tropico is a city building game, but the connection to each and every person on your island is second only to your connection to yourself, El Presidente. You get to customize your dossier, choosing an origin, strengths, weaknesses, and some other thing I think. I usually made my guy a flatulent, womanizing Communist who was a friend of the farmers. Or, you could create a slick businessman born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has a gambling habit that he has trouble keeping under control. The island is yours to mess with.
It's a ton of fun, and you can buy Tropico and the expansion off of Steam if you want to relive the glory days. It also comes with...
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
While you read about pirates, you should probably listen to some pirate music which is almost as good as the original Tropico music.
In Tropico 2, you're the pirate king. You're basically in charge of Tortuga from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Instead of fattening your Swiss bank account and placating the US and the USSR, you're stashing loot in your treasure hideaway and trying to keep your pirates full of booze, wenches, and food while the terrified captives they bring back slave away in your industries or wait around until they're ransomed. Tropico 2, like Tropico, is dripping in atmosphere. Cats wander the island while captives shuffle past the gallows to work under the supervision of pirates who would rather be out sailing and plundering. You control what your pirate ships do, like telling them who to prey on (the French? Britain? Everyone?), and you try to keep a balance on your island between anarchy, which pirates love, and order, which keeps captives in line.
Tropico 2 is a fun game, but unfortunately it doesn't quite live up to Tropico in my estimation. The setting is fantastic, and the basics are all there, but the fundamental gameplay is a little less nuanced and doesn't really come together in the same way Tropico does. Tropico gave you a ton of options that really meant different things when you chose between them, whereas Tropico 2 ends up pigeonholing you into a few directions. It's still fun, though, and if you get Tropico off of Steam then you get Tropico 2 too.
Tropico 3
I'm glad you're back, El Presidente! Was your stay in the past enjoyable? I hope those pirates didn't rough you up too much! I think you'll find the island has changed for the better while you were gone...
The people are thrilled to have you back!
Tropico 3 is the newest addition to the Tropico line, and in grand old Tropico tradition, you find yourself as El Presidente, the dictator of a tropical island during the Cold War. The game is coming to Steam soon, but what you should really do is download the Tropico 3 demo (you can find other mirrors if you look). Tropico 3 takes Tropico and makes it prettier and deeper. You, El Presidente, are now in the game, and you can give speeches from your presidential palace, supervise construction to speed it up, visit parts of the island, and so on. There are also cars now, and new features like actual speeches and things like that, but really Tropico 3 seems a lot like Tropico from the 5 minutes I played.
Anyone interested in city building games, or humor, really ought to check the demo out. The advisor from the previous 2 games is back, and his amusing mix of flattery and condescension never gets old. The tutorial is worth playing just to hear him talk. The tutorial is worth playing just to hear him talk. So, has anyone played it? Liked it? Memories of Tropico or Tropico 2 to share? Who remembers the Tropico manual? That thing had dossiers on tons of dictators all throughout history on every page. I learned more from that manual than from some history classes.
Fun Links for Fun People
The PA forums city building game megathread
Tropico 3 on Steam
The original Tropicos on Steam
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Fun game, took about 2 hours to go thorugh the two demo missions. only complaint is even on the fastest speed setting the game pace is very sloooooooooooow.
My backlog is already big enough. >.>
I always wound up being a big commie unless I actively focused on being a capitalist (and even then it was kind of hard).
Downloading demo now.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
There's probably a lesson in there that I can take away from the game.
Yes there is.
Home Inspection and Wind Mitigation
http://www.FairWindInspections.com/
Is the PC interface "console-friendly" or are they gonna redo it for the 360 version ala Civ Revolution?
I don't know about the 360 version but the PC interface is similar to Tropico 1 but a tad more explained and accesible. It doesn't seem console-ized in the least. Makes me curious about what they're going to do with the 360 one though.
Edit: beat.
Actually,wiki says October 16th for xbox360 and September 24 for PC
But like all games it comes out for PC at a later date.
E tu, city building games? E tu?
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Now it looks like tropico 3 will be bought with similar anticipation. I haven't even downloaded and played the demo yet, but I know it's just going to be that awesome.
Agh, I'm going to have a backlog of games just like everybody else.
And it was awesome.
Crap.
I should've built that high school and college sooner, then trained up a bigger army.
Damn you, rebels!
A "could buy" because damn if October doesn't already have some good stuff coming.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Stupid non-working jails causing me to lose an election I didn't have to hold.
The quirky humour and very thought-out gameplay experience work well. The various gameplay mechanics all feel like a very cohesive experience, with nothing being obviously tacked-on or not affecting anything else. The scale's nice too, as it's large enough to have a degree of freedom but small enough to give the island a very personal feel.
This really is how citybuilders should be.
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
Why must you tease me this way with demos when I crave your scandilious and buxom robustness of full game.
I wasn't sure how to tell whether you have enough housing for people at first, but it soon becam obvious. If you don't give them housing, they build shacks and shanties themselves. Which is just awesome.
Farms take a while to produce food. I think the game said 3 years before they're at full production. I know fishing is faster, and I bet ranching is too.
On housing, I haven't found much use for the small type houses. Everyone seems to like tenements and apartments more than bunkhouses and country homes. I guess it could be an aesthetic choice you.