When you consider the cheap DLC, yes... but even then, it's not much of an expansion
beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 25/07/2012 08:16:03 PM
It's more like they just moved some stuff around?
Like, edicts. In Tropico 3 you could issue "Edicts" that would do certain things. Literacy Program, Book Burning, Development Aid, and a bunch more.
Tropico 4 has almost identical edicts- something like 95% are the same in both name and function- but they're split up into "Ministers." In order to issue an edict, you have to build a Ministry building, and hire Ministers for the various cabinet positions. So, a Tropican with some teaching experience could become Minster of Education, and so on.
It's a neat system, but it doesn't really ADD anything, if you get what I'm saying.
So it was easily worth the 5 bucks I paid for it on Steam, but I'd be annoyed if I had shelled out 60 when it first game out.
Edit- Some more stuff:
Foreign politics are a bit broader- They added China, the Middle East, and the EU as kind of "minor powers" (i.e. they won't invade like US or Russia, but they can still help you out).
The interface is a bit more streamlined, and it's easier to find information about your nation in the Almanac.
Like, edicts. In Tropico 3 you could issue "Edicts" that would do certain things. Literacy Program, Book Burning, Development Aid, and a bunch more.
Tropico 4 has almost identical edicts- something like 95% are the same in both name and function- but they're split up into "Ministers." In order to issue an edict, you have to build a Ministry building, and hire Ministers for the various cabinet positions. So, a Tropican with some teaching experience could become Minster of Education, and so on.
It's a neat system, but it doesn't really ADD anything, if you get what I'm saying.
So it was easily worth the 5 bucks I paid for it on Steam, but I'd be annoyed if I had shelled out 60 when it first game out.
Edit- Some more stuff:
Foreign politics are a bit broader- They added China, the Middle East, and the EU as kind of "minor powers" (i.e. they won't invade like US or Russia, but they can still help you out).
The interface is a bit more streamlined, and it's easier to find information about your nation in the Almanac.
I amuse myself.
This message last edited by beetnemesis on 25/07/2012 at 08:22:00 PM
Now that the Steam Sale is over, what did you guys pick up?
- 23/07/2012 06:38:06 PM
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Too much. Blew through pretty much all of my spendable money for quite a while.
- 23/07/2012 11:36:18 PM
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Not that much.
- 24/07/2012 12:30:42 PM
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Crusader Kings 2; which I spent all weekend playing til 1:30am.
- 24/07/2012 02:17:28 PM
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I was doing pretty well (on CK1) with Scotland as well...
- 24/07/2012 07:27:32 PM
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CK2 autosaves at every January 1. You really need to upgrade your system. 
*NM*
- 25/07/2012 02:48:43 PM
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*NM*
- 25/07/2012 02:48:43 PM
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Tropico 4 is REALLY, REALLY similar to Tropico 3
- 25/07/2012 04:18:40 AM
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So, more like a expansion instead of a sequel? *NM*
- 25/07/2012 09:40:17 AM
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When you consider the cheap DLC, yes... but even then, it's not much of an expansion
- 25/07/2012 08:16:03 PM
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Pretty late to the party but
- 29/07/2012 07:17:00 AM
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Portal 2
- 31/07/2012 12:52:48 AM
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Re: Portal 2
- 31/07/2012 10:04:26 AM
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If you still haven't, you should.
- 31/08/2012 12:23:26 AM
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It's on my agenda. I just have so many games I want to play that some of them become neglected.
- 31/08/2012 02:10:40 PM
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