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SimCity a disaster for you? Take a look at Cities: Skylines (not related to CitiesXL)
- Thread starter Mad Season
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TheAdmiester
Member
As long as the word "City" in the title is a truth this time, I'm in.
halopower67
Member
This seems like a game that took a massive amount of inspiration from the new Simcity and is going to try to make it what everybody wanted. I'm highly skeptical though. Making the city sizes bigger and adding more features is not the only thing that makes a good city building game. The new Simcity has an amazing feel to it that i think will be extremely hard to recreate. A good example being CitiesXL, it has some of the features Simcity lacks but it feels bland as hell.
Here's hoping that this game will succeed on the features and overall experience that people want from these types of games. If it ends up being a great city builder, i'll be ecstatic.
Here's hoping that this game will succeed on the features and overall experience that people want from these types of games. If it ends up being a great city builder, i'll be ecstatic.
Mad Season
Banned
100% agree. Can't get any worse, right?
Conkerkid11
Member
Three threads right off the bat.
This gon' be big.
This gon' be big.
it looks good. we'll see if it delivers.
fuck Cities XL though. fuck it even more than EA's Sim City fiasco.
having said all that, Paradox is a great great publisher. they're doing a great thing for the industry, appealing to these under-served niches. Cities in Motion was a game I (and maybe only me) have been waiting for my whole life. This looks to serve a specific niche too.
fuck Cities XL though. fuck it even more than EA's Sim City fiasco.
having said all that, Paradox is a great great publisher. they're doing a great thing for the industry, appealing to these under-served niches. Cities in Motion was a game I (and maybe only me) have been waiting for my whole life. This looks to serve a specific niche too.
thebisonxrc
Member
Pretty excited to hear more about this. I love me some city-building games. Mostly, just happy that there is actually going to be a Mac version at launch. Thank you!
Mad Season
Banned
what exactly did cities XL do to everyone that it gets such a bad rap? I'm curious
tim_pkmn89
Member
what exactly did cities XL do to everyone that it gets such a bad rap? I'm curious
Literally the same unoptimized game every year with a new coat of paint on top.
New game every year with the smallest amount of additions. Horrible engine which still does not have multi core support and suffers from memory leaks.what exactly did cities XL do to everyone that it gets such a bad rap? I'm curious
This has been going on since 2009.
what exactly did cities XL do to everyone that it gets such a bad rap? I'm curious
They released cities xxl which is literally a reskinned cities xl. They also initially listed multi core support as a new feature and deleted any mention of it on steam when the community found that multicore, while utilised slightly, is still fucked.
just looking at this sold me
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?833752-Cities-Skylines-%96-Dev-Diary-9-Info-Views
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?833752-Cities-Skylines-%96-Dev-Diary-9-Info-Views
holy, i'm in! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
it's... it's beautiful
my only concern is performance. these city builders run like garbage; even the old ones like Sim City 4 get choked up at around a million per city because it can't utilize multi-core processors.
So true.
Even though Simcity is fundamentally broken with many of its gameplay mechanics, it still carried me for 30 hours just on the feeling alone of building out a city. The music, the sound effects, the animations of buildings rising out of the ground, the feeling of having stuff respond under your mouse cursor was all sublime.
Yep.
And then you hit the barrier and it all just melts. Fuck. Fucking fuck. Urgh.
What a disappointment
DisgustipatedSA
Neo Member
Seriously, using the Cities part of Cities in Motion totally fucked this game over. It's probably too late to change the name now but even dropping the cities part would be better. Just call it Skylines. No brand recognition is probably better than the negative association with the completely unrelated Cities XL series.
notoriousKTR
Member
Has the infamous memory leak that plagued the entire Cities * franchise been fixed yet?
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
AuthenticM
Member
Do the people making this have a good résumé ?
Mad Season
Banned
wow! let's hope this ones good!
This is a different series, the game is being made by Paradox not Monte Cristo. So it hopefully won't have the same issues.
TimeEffect
Member
They really should have gone with a different name.
So is there a screenshot at how big the city can be?
The screenshot in OP looks nice, but feels "small" in comparison to something like SimCity 4, where everything looked tinier, giving it a bigger maximum look.
Unless the shots here are zoomed in, which is what I am assuming
So is there a screenshot at how big the city can be?
The screenshot in OP looks nice, but feels "small" in comparison to something like SimCity 4, where everything looked tinier, giving it a bigger maximum look.
Unless the shots here are zoomed in, which is what I am assuming
Pretty much. I assumed it was part of that franchise, but it seems it isn't, so my bad. But it's also their fault for choosing the name.
Not the same franchise. Colossal Order, the peope making this game, made Cities in Motion previously, and those games have ran pretty well even with larger cities.
plasmawave
Banned
It's the game we deserve, but not the one we need right now.
So we'll buy it. Because it can take it. Because it's not our simcity. It's a functioning game, an offline game. The Cities: Skylines.
So we'll buy it. Because it can take it. Because it's not our simcity. It's a functioning game, an offline game. The Cities: Skylines.
LumpOfCole
Member
The OT title needs to reference the fact that it's not XXL
Wolf Akela
Member
Poodlestrike
Banned
Oh, that's nice. That's very nice. The info views are one of the things SimCity2013 nailed, and this looks to be at least as good.
QFT. SimCity's problems are ones of scale. It's impressive how much else they got right, but the tiny size of the cities crippled the game. Which is a shame, because some of the stuff they introduced in the expansion was sublime. Give me those megatowers in a bigger setting, and I'd lose a month to it, easy.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
malboroking
Banned
Wow, there is so much wrong in this post I don't even know where to start. If you think the SNES Sim City was the epitome of city building games, then i don't know what to tell you. For people serious about civil engineering there's still plenty that hasn't been done and plenty that can be improved on. Literally any genre can be reduced to "just repetition".
I remember seeing some early videos for this and it looked really impressive, will have to pick it up.
... now all I need is a good historical city-builder and I'll be set. Nothing's really filled that niche since Caesar IV (Banished was pretty good though, just need terrain mods).
... now all I need is a good historical city-builder and I'll be set. Nothing's really filled that niche since Caesar IV (Banished was pretty good though, just need terrain mods).
TimeEffect
Member
SimCity is done with right?
If the issue is just scale... why cant they finally allow for bigger cities? Seems like a damn shame.
Also, is there anything lacking with Skylines? Seems really 1:1 with SimCity and then even better seemingly... The artstyle is really gorgeous, but what faults do these smaller games fall victim to?
If the issue is just scale... why cant they finally allow for bigger cities? Seems like a damn shame.
Also, is there anything lacking with Skylines? Seems really 1:1 with SimCity and then even better seemingly... The artstyle is really gorgeous, but what faults do these smaller games fall victim to?
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Some of the mods for SimCity 4 are incredible, adding much-needed complexity and fixes to a game that was and still is considered better designed than its competitors. I wouldn't shove the A-Train tycoon city-builder series aside either, as far as evolution goes.
Prototype Viktor
Member
That title..so suspect
Also link with the referrer in it still. Also this just makes me want that other one to get to 1.0. Vities City or something
Also link with the referrer in it still. Also this just makes me want that other one to get to 1.0. Vities City or something
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
They should really just call it "Skylines" or think of some other good name, though I guess it's kind of late in the process for that. I just foresee a lot of concerns about it being related to the existing 'Cities' franchise. We already have seen a bit of that confusion in this thread.
I feel it's actually a genre with a pretty crazy amount of potential.
Really looking forward to this one, although I will probably miss that classic SimCity charm.
Well, it's not out yet so we don't know exactly what problems it will have, but the foundations are good. I don't like the fixed lot sizes and the small ports/farms though, which is something hopefully modding would fix.