Riding the bus - in New York

[Skybird]

Strange things they are releasing on the sim market since some time. Farming. Tractor-driving. Garbage collecting. Fork-lift trucks.

Or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XfVR7VOqQ

New Yorkers will love to learn that traffic problems in NY have been significantly reduced recently.

[SteamWake]

Im still waiting on the paint drying simulator.

[Letum]

It took me a long time to find out is wasn't a joke.
I'm speechless.

[XabbaRus]

OK can you close the door as people are getting on and drag them down the street?

Are you missions to drive bus routes and hit the times correctly?

OK it looks good but a bit pointless? Unless you are training to be an NYC bus driver.

[Schroeder]

It looks like it could be fun....for 20minutes.

The graphics look as if they were at least three years old (probably older), the animations of the people were a joke and the voicing a catastrophe. So it has everything a total failure needs.:yeah:

[GoldenRivet]

It looks like it could be fun....for 20minutes.

my thoughts exactly.

[FIREWALL]

More crap churned out to make a fast buck. :down:

This rates with Train and Subway sims. :yawn: :down:

[Skybird]

You do not know german game company "Astragon" which developed and released masterworks like this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS8H3sIsXnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwHloN-6qs&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5PnxH72_7Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7QaEFssc-Q&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POQJowqORs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDu6LCNPaVM&feature=fvw


Misery loves company. :D

[FIREWALL]

Euro truck maybe. :D

[SteamWake]

More crap churned out to make a fast buck. :down:

This rates with Train and Subway sims. :yawn: :down:

Hey lay off the Trainsims now :stare:

[NeonSamurai]

Dunno maybe they are intended as job training aids rather then games. I know they do that for crane operation and heavy vehicles.

[TarJak]

You'll need an extra large wheel to complete the immersion:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll206/ea90744c/RTC_NABI_974D.jpg

[Task Force]

The bus drivers around here need this sim... they have a habbit of takeing corners Extremly wide. lol


More crap churned out to make a fast buck. :down:

This rates with Train and Subway sims. :yawn: :down:


Hey... Train sims are alot of fun...

[Oberon]

I'd buy a UK based one, my father is a bus driver, well, was, he works mainly in timetabling now but still does the odd rail replacement. I was riding around on Routemasters and Leyland Nationals when I was four or five, got a look down in the pits under a National when I was about six and reverse-parked a Leyland Atlantean (double decker) (with parental assistance) when I was about nine.

Although, it's not easy to nail a good driving sim, perhaps it's because it's American based and I prefer the 70s-80s UK bus scene that I don't take so much to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpY89HArDTI&feature=related

This looks promising though, if not particularly stellar in the graphics department, the sounds are good.

And TF is right, Train Sims are very enjoyable too. :rock:

[Task Force]

I'd buy a UK based one, my father is a bus driver, well, was, he works mainly in timetabling now but still does the odd rail replacement. I was riding around on Routemasters and Leyland Nationals when I was four or five, got a look down in the pits under a National when I was about six and reverse-parked a Leyland Atlantean (double decker) (with parental assistance) when I was about nine.

Although, it's not easy to nail a good driving sim, perhaps it's because it's American based and I prefer the 70s-80s UK bus scene that I don't take so much to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpY89HArDTI&feature=related

This looks promising though, if not particularly stellar in the graphics department, the sounds are good.

And TF is right, Train Sims are very enjoyable too. :rock:

hey, and the AI is right also... look at 1:00 at the stoplight... they look to be rideing that buses bumper...:rotfl:

(and why are there no men in that thing, only women get on that bus...)

[FIREWALL]

If I want a real train sim. I'll buy a Lionel train set. But after awhile, YAWN. :yawn: :haha:

[Aramike]

It looks like it could be fun....for 20minutes.

The graphics look as if they were at least three years old (probably older), the animations of the people were a joke and the voicing a catastrophe. So it has everything a total failure needs.:yeah:Wait, so are you suggesting that with better graphics, animations, and voice-acting you'd be all over the City Bus Simulator? :haha:

[Task Force]

If I want a vehicle simulator... I will take a truck sim/ raceing sim anyday... lol

[Schroeder]

Wait, so are you suggesting that with better graphics, animations, and voice-acting you'd be all over the City Bus Simulator? :haha:
Where did I write that?:06:
But with all that stuff it might be fun for 30minutes....:up:

[FIREWALL]

What Next ? A Kitchen Sim. :haha: Or a Plumber sim includeing butt crack. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Task Force]

What Next ? A Kitchen Sim. :haha: Or a Plumber sim includeing butt crack. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sure... and a complimentary leaky toilet...:up::rotfl:

[SteamWake]

sure... and a complimentary leaky toilet...:up::rotfl:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqOVZ4_mYA

[CastleBravo]

Hows this.........for a sim?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivNwQ76mCs

[Task Force]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqOVZ4_mYA

What will they think of next.

[Tchocky]

Honestly, The Sims brought out the same reaction in me.

[Officerpuppy]

Based on the video.....

There needs to be more traffic, lots more! Might not be fun to sit on the bus and move two feet every five minutes, but thats what rush hour traffic is like.

There should be more people too, sometimes the bus gets so crowded you can barely get on or off it.

Not every street (the majority) don't have bus lanes. Another touch of realism would be to have delivery trucks or idleing cars at the bus stops.

Lastly, a few different bus types would be cool. The ones in the video are the older models, there are some newer buses in NY that look a bit like milk cartons now. Plus there are other busses that look like Grayhound style buses, even busses that are so long they have a divider in the middle that turns whenever the bus makes a turn.

[Takeda Shingen]

Wait, so are you suggesting that with better graphics, animations, and voice-acting you'd be all over the City Bus Simulator? :haha:

I hope so, because I feel the same way. I just can't wait for the assembly line simulator due next fall. :O:

[Oberon]

Based on the video.....

There needs to be more traffic, lots more! Might not be fun to sit on the bus and move two feet every five minutes, but thats what rush hour traffic is like.

There should be more people too, sometimes the bus gets so crowded you can barely get on or off it.

Not every street (the majority) don't have bus lanes. Another touch of realism would be to have delivery trucks or idleing cars at the bus stops.

Lastly, a few different bus types would be cool. The ones in the video are the older models, there are some newer buses in NY that look a bit like milk cartons now. Plus there are other busses that look like Grayhound style buses, even busses that are so long they have a divider in the middle that turns whenever the bus makes a turn.

And don't forget the AI who jump in front of the bus to try and stop it, and the vomit and leftover take-aways, chavs throwing bricks and fireworks, the inspector who complains because you're running late, the OAPs that take six years to board and another seven to find their bus pass and the occasional brawl in the back.

That's a true simulator! :haha:

[Skybird]

Another masterpiece: Achterbahn-Simulator (Rollercoaster Simulator).

It simulates you sitting in a rollercoaster and rolling with the coaster.

Brilliant, except the lacking steering wheel - gameplay is a bit linear, I fear.

As a remedy, there is an complete alternative way of playing the game: simulating you standing to the side of the rollercoaster and watching the coaster rolling all by itself without you being aboard. Fabulous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRgWzKahNo

[Schroeder]

And don't forget the AI who jump in front of the bus to try and stop it, and the vomit and leftover take-aways, chavs throwing bricks and fireworks, the inspector who complains because you're running late, the OAPs that take six years to board and another seven to find their bus pass and the occasional brawl in the back.

That's a true simulator! :haha:
One could integrate a wrestling game to it so that you can take part in the brawls and throw the punks out.:yeah:

[Oberon]

One could integrate a wrestling game to it so that you can take part in the brawls and throw the punks out.:yeah:

Fantastic idea, two genres in one!

LT: Brawl!

(LT = London Transport)

[Rilder]

I still think a farming Sim in the like of that April Fools parody "Farma II" would be bloody fun. :88)

[Task Force]

this sim is also missing ai that gets into a accident every once in a while... and the "hand jestures" If you make someone angry... lol

plus the trash in the streets...

[SteamWake]

[Kirk and Spock enter a bus headed for the aquarium... only to exit the bus about 2 seconds later]
Spock (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/): [to Kirk] What does it mean, "exact change"?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/quotes

Sorry couldent find a video clip :oops:

[LiveGoat]

I predict that as our lives get more and more technologically centered, in the next few decades there will be a trend toward "mundane simming". Here are the games I'm currently developing that will make me the Eldon Tyrell of the Post America Game Age:

Ellis Island 1905:

-Arrive in NYC harbor.
-Pass your examinations/physical!
-Navigate the labyrinthine streets of Little Italy and Brooklyn!
-Find work in a sweat/shop/shipping warehouse/organized crime
-Share a tenement apartment with up to five families!
-Search for the fabled "American dream"!


Sid Myer's Amish!

-Wake at the crack of dawn!
-Get your produce to market before those infernal Menonnites!
-Real buggy physics with true to life horse fatigue model!
-Barn Raising mini-game included!


1950's Housewife

-Dote on your favorite flannel grey suited man!
-Unlock authentic virtual Betty Crocker product achievements!
-Develop "forbidden feelings" for kindly (choose ethnicity) gardener!

[TarJak]

Ooooo that Amish one sounds like a real corker. When will it be released?:yeah:

[Jimbuna]

Fantastic idea, two genres in one!

LT: Brawl!

(LT = London Transport)


Bus queue disco dancing :hmmm:

[Sailor Steve]

And don't forget the AI who jump in front of the bus to try and stop it, and the vomit and leftover take-aways, chavs throwing bricks and fireworks, the inspector who complains because you're running late, the OAPs that take six years to board and another seven to find their bus pass and the occasional brawl in the back.

That's a true simulator! :haha:
Not to mention the ones who want to argue about their expired transfers, or the ones who don't have correct change and make you sit there while they whine about you not making change for them.

Here in Salt Lake we have an interesting wrinkle: The Free-Fare zone. Downtown (which is fairly small) all rides are free. This means that on an outbound bus you pay when you get off. I understand that they often have 'jumpers' who simply get off without paying. That would make an interesting addition to the sim.

[Rilder]

Not to mention the ones who want to argue about their expired transfers, or the ones who don't have correct change and make you sit there while they whine about you not making change for them.

Here in Salt Lake we have an interesting wrinkle: The Free-Fare zone. Downtown (which is fairly small) all rides are free. This means that on an outbound bus you pay when you get off. I understand that they often have 'jumpers' who simply get off without paying. That would make an interesting addition to the sim.

At which point you run them down and run them over. :arrgh!: