Simulation Games???

Can you imagine you can experience realistic life in the computer? Yes, Games these day can give people a realistic simulation. Human’s life is not everlasting to cover every aspect in the world, and there are lots of things we cannot imagine. Simulator games give these “unexperienced” feature to people to feel and experience. These simulator games give people a taste in certain “realistic feature” that people never experienced. However, these simulator games can be or cannot regard as “fun” to people. 

One of the specific example can be “Euro Truck”. This is a simulator game where you become a truck driver and drive a truck. In this game, you are given a task where you need to move supplies through truck and you need to successfully drive to certain location. Everything is realistic, you drive through the highway, follow the driving law in road, and give penalties if you go against the law. Not everybody will experience to drive a “truck” than a car which Euro Truck give a interesting experience. However, people think it is a good “experience” but not fun. Indeed, these simulator games make people think it is fun, but once they experienced, people started to feel “boring.” Other example can be “farming stimulator”, similar to Euro Truck but the theme is agriculture. You can plant seeds and use vehicles to harvest the crops. 

These simulator games became a hit after 2008, bring a huge profit to the companies but also brought negative views from the players. Simulator games are not expensive as regular games, normally priced between 20 - 30 U.S dollar (normal CD games priced between 50 - 60 Dollar) but many people think these games are  “waste”. There are limited task within the game, especially the task that cannot appeal the user very long. Unless, the player is very unique, many people cannot stand the simulator. Personally, if you are asked to play a game where you have to drive or plant things all the time, Would you going to continue? I would Not. 

Many companies continue to print out these type of games but also make an alternative type of games to appeal the users. The - Sims series can be one of great example. The game where it shows the life - simulation of your own personal character and live in realistic virtual world. Or, Sim-city / Skybuilder is also one of the spot light simulator games where you can experience, the profession of building the city. Calculation of the geographical and people’s happiness to build cities successfully as possible. 

These type of games give a great “experience” but cannot give every people to force to feel fun. Many companies now these problem and suggest many variety to add in these type of games to attract more users but still have difficulties. Personally, I will also buy these game in the taste of it not for the usages to keep playing the game. Depends on the users’ taste whether it is good or bad, simulator games are evolving into many different forms.