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Cities: Skylines is what Simcity (2013) was supposed to be.

• exDM69 11y ago
  Spot on! I wonder if the developers had set their mind on building a city builder game before SimCity's non-success or did they realize the market gap and go for it reactively. They already had a pretty decent city and traffic simulation engine in their earlier Cities in Motion games (which I didn't like nearly as much, perhaps because I was really bad at it). So it's feasible (but still awe-inspiring) if they put Skylines together in that timeframe.
  • LoSboccacc 11y ago
    cities in motion was very interesting but the scope was a little too small and forced. there were some interesting mods tho. so far my preference goes to sim city 4 deluxe + rush hours. that has a very good traffic simulation and does a good job of simulating cities, has a lively modding community and it's quite cheap. haven't tested yet skylines, waiting for a sale.
• binarycrusader 11y ago
  At a gameplay level, I'd generally agree. But there are some things that the SimCity series got right that Skylines could have done a lot better with: certain gameplay aspects graphics music user interface SimCity (2013), despite some failings in gameplay, still gets a lot of things right. Now why some people might not care about the things I enumerated above, I do. I've been playing SimCity since the original classic was first released. For me personally, the peak of SimCity was SimCity 2000 or possibly SimCity 4 Rush Hour in gameplay terms, but graphically, SimCity 2013 was the most desirable. While Skylines certainly has that core gameplay feel to a certain extent that Simcity (2013) was missing, it's clearly not yet the best the developers are capable of. I think the next iteration they release will be the one that many have been waiting for.