Luke wrote:Trying to find a job in the US right now would be my best guess.
Made my day Luke. lol
Maybe a bit off topic but I have a hunch I'd probably absolutely love the Sim City games if I played them (I've only played the SNES one, which is fun but basic...), I say this since building and harvesting resources in RTS's is honestly probably my favorite element of those games, lol. So maybe it'd only be natural I'd love simulator kind of games... the Civilization series sounds intriguing to me as well.
There have been several notable Business Simulation games over the years. Its a sub-genre of Construction and management simulation (CMS) games, where sim city and roller coaster tycoon reside. Of course all CMS games have business aspects and are all viable choices (Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2 being my favourite). Ive not played any of these but some of the most notable strictly Business games Ive heard of are:
The Movies (I own it, I should try it out) Football Manager Series Capitalism
kingmohd84 wrote:haha I am not looking for a business simulator, maybe it would be cool if it existed, but I just dont recall having a game about owning a business and making a profit.
Recettear: An Item's Shop Tale is great. I highly recommend it. The game takes place in a typical JRPG setting, but instead of being the hero, you are the item shop owner.
You might also want to try Greed Corp. It's a turn based strategy game, which involves warfare and capitalism.
You should also try The Guild. It's about running a business during the Middle Ages of Europe.
My favorite one is The Tower SP on the GBA. You are trying to build and manage a Skyscraper. I have never gotten to the end if there is one because I always start over after deciding on better layouts.
As much as I like it that game makes me feel like I have OCD because I go crazy if any of the rooms on each floor have too much dead space around them. Also I normally play until either I start over or my GBA dies because I can't turn it off once I start messing with it. On second thought maybe I don't really like that game.
Economic games are my favourite genre so here are my top picks:
1) Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 with Rollercoaster Tycoon scenarios
Most fun building game with a good balance between building and economics. The RTC2 scenarios are pretty poor but you can download the original ones so you ahve the best of both worlds.
2) Simcity 4
The best of the Simcity series. Tough but probably the tighest economic videogame. You always need to expand, you always have a goal and it's always interesting and meaningful. It's the only snowball-economics game that manages that without scenarios.
3) Railroad Tycoon 3
RT3 is the best game in the series. While RT2 was good, it really suffered from simple track building and snowballing, by midgame you would be spamming trains everywhere and just rolling in cash. RT3 makes everything more expensive and each train counts. It really forces you to plan and think which routes are worth it, you never swim in money. A truly great game.
4) OpenTTD
This is a building game, snowball economics soon render money meaningless. But it's, by far the best building game out there. Building your networks inch by inch is simply addictive and soon your computer bogs down because it can't handle two thousand trains. It's an open source version of the classic Transport Tycoon with many improvements and expansions.
I have been playing this game or variations since I was 3 and I have yet to get tired of it, amazing.
And an untested one:
1) 1830
Railroad Tycoon's main inspiration was the 18XX series of boardgames, a number of train games based on Francis Tresham 1829. The 18XX games are not just about track-building but contain a detailed stock market that ties into the route-building with players commanding several companies at once, leeching other's work or using more modern trains to make the ones your rivals use obsolete. You can even crash a company and "dump" it on another player, causing him to go bankrupt when he is forced to buy trains with his own money.
It's untested because I have not played the boardgame or the old PC version. Giving my recent interest in boardgames I plan to buy one but so far I have only read about them but it's worth checking out.
