Riding the bus - in New York

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

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

Fantastic idea, two genres in one!

LT: Brawl!

(LT = London Transport)

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

[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: [to Kirk] What does it mean, "exact change"?

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

Sorry couldent find a video clip

[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?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Fantastic idea, two genres in one!

LT: Brawl!

(LT = London Transport)

Bus queue disco dancing

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Oberon

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!

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.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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.