Banished is more recent and is pretty good.
I hope Lirik is gonna stream this game this week. Enjoyed watching him stream SimCity and it looks like he's burned out on H1Z1. :d
Hope we can pre-load this game btw, even though it shouldn't be so big.
Guys what is the best city management game that I can play before this comes out? SimCity 4?
It's 20.43 EUR on GMG right now, under the VIP section.Damnit, missed out on the GMG offer, the only time it is actually cheaper to buy on GMG than from Steam directly.
Guys what is the best city management game that I can play before this comes out? SimCity 4?
Banished is more recent and is pretty good.
Banished is a great game, but it's like Dark Souls crossed with SimTown. Not really a "city" builder in the modern city sense, but it's colonial style still is fantastic. No traffic to optimize, nor any RCI stuff to balance out. The game is all about survival, and it's easy to make a few mistakes that can result in ruin and devastation. But that's why I find the game so damn fun too. I've played it for over 80 hours and I'm nowhere near done with it. And Banished has a great mod scene too, I've not even delved into that at all yet.
Now, as for which game is the best CITY builder currently, I'd still have to go with the 10+ year old Simcity 4 as the best. When modded out it's the most flexible and complete city builder out there right now (but this might be changing in one week). It is showing it's age however, as it's 2D isometric, not 3D, and it's not optimized for modern CPU's or GPU's at all. I want a modern Simcity 4 SO FUCKING BADLY!!!!!!
Cities XXL could have been great, but it's multitude of bugs and really poor performance hinder it a lot. It's a good game in concept, but sadly frustrating to play. I wish it had been better.
Simcity 2013 has a fantastic UI, awesome music, and looks great, but it's terribly limiting city size coupled with it's bugs and broken simulation really make it the worst of the bunch right now. It just isn't as much fun to play as the others, it's lack of gameplay brings it down so far. I even prefer Cities XXL over Simcity 2013, and that's hard to admit.
All IMHO of course!
It's 20.43 EUR on GMG right now, under the VIP section.
Banished is a great game, but it's like Dark Souls crossed with SimTown. Not really a "city" builder in the modern city sense, but it's colonial style still is fantastic. No traffic to optimize, nor any RCI stuff to balance out. The game is all about survival, and it's easy to make a few mistakes that can result in ruin and devastation. But that's why I find the game so damn fun too. I've played it for over 80 hours and I'm nowhere near done with it. And Banished has a great mod scene too, I've not even delved into that at all yet.
Now, as for which game is the best CITY builder currently, I'd still have to go with the 10+ year old Simcity 4 as the best. When modded out it's the most flexible and complete city builder out there right now (but this might be changing in one week). It is showing it's age however, as it's 2D isometric, not 3D, and it's not optimized for modern CPU's or GPU's at all. I want a modern Simcity 4 SO FUCKING BADLY!!!!!!
Cities XXL could have been great, but it's multitude of bugs and really poor performance hinder it a lot. It's a good game in concept, but sadly frustrating to play. I wish it had been better.
Simcity 2013 has a fantastic UI, awesome music, and looks great, but it's terribly limiting city size coupled with it's bugs and broken simulation really make it the worst of the bunch right now. It just isn't as much fun to play as the others, it's lack of gameplay brings it down so far. I even prefer Cities XXL over Simcity 2013, and that's hard to admit.
All IMHO of course!
Fuck dependencies, and fuck egos. I hope nothing like this appears in Skylines.
It's 20.43 EUR on GMG right now, under the VIP section.
Damn I want this game but Simcity 2013 still rings in my head making me scare of buying other game of this genre
Simcity 4 is 3D isometric with fixed cameras, not 2D. It still looks really good thanks to all the realistic mods that it has, even with the nearest zoom (apart from vehicles and citizens). No camera movement is a boomer, becuase you cant take beautiful shots from epic angles, that is true..
Fuck dependencies, and fuck egos. I hope nothing like this appears in Skylines.
Fuck dependencies, and fuck egos. I hope nothing like this appears in Skylines.
Is this the SimCity I have been waiting for?
.TotalBiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 16m16 minutes ago
Oh so we can talk about Cities Skylines now. Ermm so far it's great, like really great. The Sim City we were hoping for great.
Watching Quill stream , the games looks really good .
Anyway I've a very small opinion , the game doesn't seems to generate any human models even on max zoom ? Isn't this took away the immersion slightly ?
Cities: Skylines |OT| Sim City 5
Cities: Skylines |OT| Sim City 5
I'm dangerously close to buying this with no previous plans
There hasn't been a good Simcity style city builder for a while. The Cities XL line was mediocre at best and Simcity 2013 was a disaster. That's why so many people are hoping this game will be good.