Cities: Skylines
 

Hey Subsim,
I know a lot of you are old SimCity fans and I bet most of you are just as disappointed about that terribad mess EA presented us than I am.

Now, in case you haven't heard, there is a new game being released on March 10th, that basically takes Sim City... and fixes it while adding lots of awesome stuff.

Steam store page
Official home page

From what I have seen and heard so far, it IS living up to the hype and I have yet to read a negative review and can't wait for release! :)

I'm definitely looking at this one with a great deal of interest. :yep:

Same here. Although I'll wait for some patches and a DLC or two and the buy it in a bundle during a sale.

Paradox makes great games (publishes in this case), but they have a bug problem that always plagues them at launch. A DLC later it's the sweet mana from heaven and a deathtrap for the private life

Looks intriguing. :sunny:

Can pick it up for some 20,- for the normal version, 27,- on the deluxe: http://www.greenmangaming.com/

First time using thatt retailer for me, but from what I can find it's not some scam or such. After creating an account it will show under the "VIP" section. Some rather nice deals in there at that.


Rather looking forward to this one. Tried CitiesXL at some point... Rather disapointing. Wouldn't touch SimCity 2013 with a 10ft pole.

Been watching a lot of streams and whatnot on this one. Hard to say how it really holds up in the long run, but it seems pretty competent.

I was about to post asking whether anyone had any impressions :D

Very curious, but I've always been a little wary of the Cities games due to mixed feedback I heard about both performance and gameplay :hmm2:

Wot I Think: Cities: Skylines

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Personally, I'm getting a bit tired of these modern city-builders. Would be like to see some other era for a change.

That's true, but I'd at least like them to get the modern one right first.

It's like the Silent Hunger games - it'd be really cool to see something other than U-boats/fleet boats, but it'd be even better to see one of those done completely right first!

My biggest complaint with city games has always been scale/simplification - it felt like playing a city-themed theme park more than playing a real city. This one at least looks big!

I can't help but be reminded of the 'Try the soup, captain' guy from SHV when I read 'Silent Hunger', CCIP. :03:

Anyway, C:S is out, the internet is speaking and so far it seems to be speaking favourably. On Steam there's 1,022 positive reviews versus 33 negative. It's sold extremely well, so I'd wager that there's definitely going to be DLC and a C:S2 is a given. Perhaps quite possibly the beginning of a new franchise which will take over now that Maxis has been culled by EA. It's rather bittersweet to see Maxis go, in fact if and when I do get C:S I will probably call my city Maxis in respect to what has gone before. It will most likely end up just like its namesake but most of my first cities in these kind of games tend to do that. :haha:

The only thing holding me back right now is my hardware. I have enough to run the game on 'Minimum' settings, but not enough to run it on 'Recommended', so I'm a bit iffy...but I might well look at this greenmangaming and if they still have the offer on at the weekend when I should hopefully get a bit of disposable income then I might well take the plunge.

I know at least one person on this thread has it, so I hope to see some screenshots soon. :up:

And I'm not surprised!
Didn't review it yet, I think it is too early for an in-depth review, but these numbers speak a clear language - and from what I have seen while playing for uhm... way too many hours, I can only agree.

It is like Sim City, just a lot of annoying things eradicated, some nice features added and overall way more user friendly. The game lets you do what YOU want, not what EA/Maxis demand you to do for whatever stupid reasons.

Also, day one mod tools, that is like a phenomenon these days.
Steam workshop is already thriving with maps and mods of all kinds.
Hours after release.
Can't imagine what we get to see in ~2 months. :doh:

Tl;dr: Worth every penny, a city builders wet dream, buy it!

I did not notice that at all until now! That's what I get for posting from my phone :haha:

And yeah, I'm ruled out from running it on my own system by the requirements, BUT I may be able to get my hands on a machine for it soon :)
If they finally nailed what the Cities series was promising all along, I'll open this game with open arms!

FYI to my knowledge there is no connection between the Cities XL series and this game, other than being city builders of course. Something we can all be very grateful about, as that other series was pretty terrible.

I am curious how this game stacks up to to Simcity 4 Deluxe/Rush Hour, a game that I still play. It does have an 89 metascore on metacritic too FYI (out of 19 critic reviews).

My two small towns Foggy Park and Florence. :smug:
http://i.imgur.com/P7eRo4C.jpg

Went pretty "blocky" in terms of building style. Post some screenies when they let me out of here. Just got up to 7k people, sprinkled some offices around and can finally begin burning of garbage in the incinerators.

Somebody decided turning off a PC while updating was a good idea. You know, when the text on the screen says "do not turn of your PC"... Windows is going all NOPE! so it might be a while. :roll:


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Right, so;
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...4A584E99ED79C/
City with industrial district across the highway. Farming district off across the river.

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...041195321F241/

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...08888EC2570D8/

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...A37879D4ADD4F/
New incinerators working away the thrash that had been stockpiling before, contributing a bit of energy generation to the oil burning plant in the process.

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...D0B5632CFD4B8/
Mess of an overpass. Don't really have the tools or resources to do it proper at the start, but it's doing the job so far.

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...1AE3A8093FE07/
String of offices sandwiched between the main artories in and out of the city, flanked by commercial zones and residential beyond.

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/...726D6470197AD/
After it bends around the hospital the commercial zoning ends, giving way for more residential. Once the commercial stuff starts upgrading you really don't need to zone a lot of it.

Overview of the city.

http://i.imgur.com/b6r8LG6.jpg

City entry - Before.

http://i.imgur.com/ACXtV2c.jpg

City entry - Now

http://i.imgur.com/TxnC2Wm.jpg

Oil industry closest to the camera, mining industry visible above the village, and the main city top left.

http://i.imgur.com/thoK03j.jpg

Labrador city

http://i.imgur.com/v5BAGIV.jpg?1

I'm still using too much grid, but I hate if there are empty green spaces between towers (give us a pavement brush)


Like every fat city, this one also has a clogged artery
http://i.imgur.com/t1uSUIs.jpg?1

And the line between the ''old village'' and downtown
http://i.imgur.com/irnBj5S.jpg?1

So, what is everyone's verdict?

I'll give it a solid 9/10 for the release version.

I dont want to go in any great or lesser details as to why, because it would be just rehashing what the older Sim City games did.
Basically, it takes the older SC games and updates them to 2015. There are some changes, but I have not yet come upon one that wasnt a good one.

Now, the things I would like to see added/improved:
-Day/Night toggle: I want to see what my city looks like at night.
-Tunnels: I don't think its possible to build tunnels through mountains?
-Fixed Anti-Aliasing: Not sure if this is an issue with unity, but they need to fix that.
-Separate views for all the transportation modes: Seeing your metro tunnels when planning bus routes is kinda distracting.
-Remove Film grain: Just, remove it.
-Option to build two-way highways: The current system is a bit messy, and a nightmare for a perfectionist like me. :)

I think that's about it.

Oh right, Colossal Order is a finnish game dev. Further proof of our awesomeness. SUCK IT SWEDEN! :O:

My review: also a 9/10

This game is a gem. Beautiful to look at, fun to play, very well polished (no bugs on my end, just a glitch here and there when you're bulldosing roads).
I wanted to complain about a lack of things to build (only one elementary, one high school, one kind of hospital), that lack of variety. But I can't, the modding community is already churning out content and I'm glad they worked more on gameplay than content and then left us with a modding tool.

Two things I miss: signs (the district names are just too hard to see) and in-game terrain tools. And maybe when building two one way roads, maybe a snap option like the one Train Fever has, when other road/line snaps next to the first one to follow it.

I wanted to give it an 8/10, I started making sick amounts of cash when I got to 5000 people, but I never tried the hard mode :oops:

yeah, I noticed that too. I'm on my 20th or so city, I usually play to the 7000 mark and start over as I like to make and manage these small suburban areas.
At 7000, they want University and offices and all that.
I wish there was a "low tech" city mode/policy. :hmmm: