SimCity impressions: We waited ten years for this? (GOOD article) not worth the buy save your monies

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3. You reminded me that Master of Orion 3 was a thing. Where shall I send the therapist's bill?

Star Control 2 was absolutely magnificent.

That said, with a lot of newer games you usually find better stuff when you're getting some distance from the A-list of companies and franchises. Independent stuff is hit and miss as always, but they're also a lot freer to make weird, experimental games that can be really interesting, and the mid-tier companies usually have more room to make more interesting projects as well.

The last big-franchise, big-company game I got was Mass Effect 3; it was a few years before that before there was another one that caught my eye, and nothing since really has.