Comments on: Wot I Think: Tropico 3

By: Ivan-Assen Ivanov

Ivan-Assen Ivanov — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:57:45 +0000

Serengoose, please drop me a line at ivanassen blah blah blah gmail blah blah, I’d like you to test a micro-patch replacing those red/green gradients with grayscale ones – you were not the only colorblind person who complained. It’ll work on the demo, too.

By: Golden_worm

Golden_worm — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:57:30 +0000

reply fail. that should have been a witty addition to Lukasz reply to Serenegoose. I look a right plum now, thanks reply button.

By: Golden_worm

Golden_worm — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:53:10 +0000

he’s colourblind blind.

By: Psyk

Psyk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:43:43 +0000

well woody yeah he would http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

By: Jakkar

Jakkar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:57 +0000

The game gives me an odd feeling of intellectual maturity in the concept. I play it with a constant small smile, torn between the depiction of unhappy shanty-town life and developing prosperity, tempted constantly by the urge to lock up 90 year-old political dissenters until they die.. Amused by the fact my survival depends more upon selling bananas than appeasing the Soviet Union because I’m simply too small for them to care about.

The whole game succeeds in continually feeling lightly amusing and unceasingly cynical. There’s a subtlety there that makes every moment of it just.. Slightly, twistedly funny.

As for gameplay; if you can enjoy a slow, smooth, very pretty minimal-management game, you’ll like this. Think of it like a joke-version of Caesar 3 where you can’t -afford- to build 500 shacks at once just to boost your number of workers, and the island’s too small anyway. Everything is prideful and tongue-in-cheek and embarassingly small scale. Life in denial that you inhabit a rock 500×300 metres and sell bananas to survive, and remember; You are El Presidente.

By: Ayekay

Ayekay — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:57:22 +0000

>3D remake of the original game

I stopped reading there and bought it.

Well I didn’t, because it’s Rossignol so I automatically read to the end. But you see my point.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:23 +0000

The thing with the farms is easy:

If your people are starving, build another farm ;)

(Seriously: if the output-store of your farm(s) is always empty (and if the happiness regarding food is low , build a new one. Which also has the benefit that the overproduction can be sold. This game seems to be too simple for you I guess *g*).

By: Antlia

Antlia — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:08:12 +0000

@Serenegoose

You can set a custom crosshair for TF2 in the game options. It changes all crosshairs in game and also shows up in snipers scope. Really helps even if you’re not color blind.

By: uipop

uipop — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:44 +0000

Lak, there was no tone of anger in his post. I don’t know where you got that idea from.

By: Serenegoose

Serenegoose — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:28:15 +0000

mad? That was a succinct explanation as to what colourblindness was. I had no intent to convey anger, I just seen no reason to be wordy. It takes a lot more than not understanding what colourblindness involves to make me angry. Usually it involves 20 minutes of *holds book* "what colour is this?" *holds kettle* "what colour is this?" *touches sofa* "what colour is this?"

Now that gets maddening. :P

As to the game, and on topic, I am more convinced than ever that Tropico 3 is something I want to pick out when it comes to the £15 price range.

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:23:13 +0000

don’t be mad at him. he just did not how colorblindness works.

By: Carra

Carra — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:02 +0000

The statistics are indeed messed up. You can find someones companion (male or female) but it’s impossible to find out how much farms you need to build. I ranted a bit more about the statistics in a blog post.

I still find it to be a fun game but quite repetitive. Not something to play for hours on end but just start up the game and spend a few hours playing a mission. Repeat a week later.