Imagine Earth Promises Sustainable Sci-Fi City Building on PS5, PS4 in May

What a load of preachy, reductive nonsense. I'll play the game but spare us the hyperbole please devs.

Interesting ideas,. Ill be waiting for a sale on this one., but adding to wishlist

Here's the Game Page by the way:
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10001900

I imagine this is going to upset certain people. I have friends who find this kind of talk so frightening that they react with hostility.

This kind of game looks right up my street, though. I like building games. I'll certainly have a look.

The trouble is, as with drinking games, I'd be playing to lose - I want to see the climate catastrophes!

@Gigawatt-Kapow Interesting, you mean people that go berserk when hear the word Green? It's Hulk stuff probably..

@Joooki Yeah, pretty much. To stay friends, we avoid getting too deep on particularly inflammatory topics, like religion, the environment, gender politics, wars, etc. It's safer that way.

@Gigawatt-Kapow it's a shame you can't have a conversation on topics where you don't agree without worrying about losing friendships. If there's anyone you should feel at ease to talk about important subjects affecting society at large it should be friends. If you lose friends over just talking about such matters they're not really friends when it matters, only when it's easy. They sound more like aquaintances.

@riceNpea @MikeOrator seems to be the case for many simply mentioning that preserving environment and human living conditions on a planet might be a good idea for making civilization sustainable.

@riceNpea Oh, I agree. But we share such stimulating discourse on so many other subjects. The world is a complicated place and there's no sense upsetting those amongst my friends who lose reason when faced with things they're scared of. And pointing that out to them only causes them further distress. On other matters, I'm sure I'm just as unreasonable. Our friendship is based on a lifetime of sharing the things we love and knowing what topics prove to be nothing but time wasted in an argument.
I don't need all my friends to feel the same about everything, but some topics simply can't be resolved so easily. At least not without harsh words.

They're also not fans of building games. But I am. And I've not seen one done like this, so I'm excited. Just lamenting that it will be a game I'll play alone.

@MikeOrator I was commenting on the quotes in this article. Didn't watch the vid.

@Joooki "But what if we make the seas cleaner and remove the pollutants from the air for no reason?"

This sounds amazing. Love me a good city builder and an intriguing premise to boot. PC version has an 83 on opencritic so looks solid.

@Gigawatt-Kapow I'm sorry to hear that they lose their sense of reason with having to scrutinise their position when faced with an opposing argument. That unhealthy for them. Good on you for having an open mind 👍😊 hope you have fun playing

@riceNpea Thanks. Sincerely. We're none of us perfect and they're very patient with my failings as I try to be with them. Here's hoping the game is as good as it looks!

@MikeOrator putting the blame solely on the shoulders of corporate greed, as if that's the only and primary reason for environmental damage. It's has equal billing with political corruption and compromised regulatory bodies, amongst other things.

@Gigawatt-Kapow that's an awful way to live. If I can't disagree with my friends and all remain friends, we aren't friends.

@Cutmastavictory Is it? That's an odd absolute. I don't dictate rules to my friends. Life is rarely black and white. We've come to certain understandings that have taken a lifetime to reach. A rich lifetime full of joy from gaming, music, movies and all the things that come with growing up together. A lifetime that you've reduced to "awful" based on comments under a videogame article. Who between us is truly in need of analysing their life choices?

Nice, very nice. Now let’s see Super Earth.

@Gigawatt-Kapow I have a really close friend who I love dearly but we have got into some blazing rows because we are polar opposite in so many of our ideologies. For that reason I completely understand where you’re coming from on all this. When you have been friends with someone for so long you know nothing you say will change their mind on a topic so what’s the point in getting into an argument that’s going to leave you both frustrated and angry. Our arguments have never got in the way of our friendship and never had lasting damage but they also haven’t contributed anything either. Some friends you can debate with and some you can’t but it doesn’t mean you should just instantly drop them as a friend.

This all got very philosophical and off topic didn’t it. Annyyywayyy fun looking game I will dive in!

@GeeEssEff Genuinely. I couldn't have worded it better myself. Exactly that.

@Cutmastavictory looking at my earlier wording, I can see how I may have muddied the waters in an attempt to keep things brief. Sorry for being so defensive.

Completely ignoring politics: this just doesn’t seem like a fun mechanic for a city builder. I want to build the most extravagant power hungry neon cities imaginable dammit!

I'll stick to nuking cities and blowing up the icecaps to flood my enemies in CIV 6, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.