Cities Skylines vs. Cities XXL

[anxman3]

Cities XXL is on sale for like $4.00. What's the difference between Cities Skylines and Cities XXL? Why would I want to play XXL if I already have Skylines? Thoughts? Opinions? Musings?

[Vinolik]

DO NOT buy CXXL. Its broken, its ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and the devs shouldn't get any money from you.

[kristofburger]

The performance of CXXL is horrible, quill18 called it possibly the worst city builder ever made.

[Metacritical]

the main difference between the two games can be summarised thus: CXXL is a terrible terrible game, CSL is a very very very good game.

[Big Andy]

I wouldn't call it terrible, it could be a great game in the right hands. Unfortunately it's not in the right hands. It's basically stitll the same game it was in 2009. Really buggy and with some odd design choices. The devs have added a couple new assets, tweaked the interface a couple times and even fixed a couple bugs. But its still the same game as Cities XL.

You are much better off with Cities Skylines.

EDIT: spleing

[kitchen]

Fine points of playing Cities XXL : Don't. It's laggy as balls, poorly optimised, pretty much identical to previous versions and just generally not that fun. Even worse, IIRC it was rushed for release before Cities:Skylines to try to get a slice of its success.

[Pirazel]

Cities Xl was designed to be a cash cow.Online multiplayer resource trade, Micropayment's for additional buildings and company sponsored contend. It did not work.
So to get back there investment they rename the game every one and two years. It's more or less a scam. Hand's off!!

[anxman3]

THANK YOU! I will stick with Cities: Skylines!

[B_Wald]

Originally posted by Metacritical:

the main difference between the two games can be summarised thus: CXXL is a terrible terrible game, CSL is a very very very good game.

+1
Nail ----> Head.

[Rina69]

Cities XXL is short for Cities Extra Extra Lies
I would even rather play the horrible Sim City 2013 than ever touch cities XXL ever, if i had to choose one

[neutrino]

Off-topic, but in response to the reply above mine, I don't know why people diss SimCity 2013 so much. It's only real flaw was that the map size was way too small, but that doesn't make it the worse game on the planet like everyone likes to pretend it was. (The other flaw was that it was online-only at first, but they finally changed that.)

Off-topic some more, but even though I have my old discs somewhere, I bought SC4 Deluxe today since Steam has it on sale for $5. Most, including myself, hail that as the greatest city builder ever, but wow, after an hour of playing, I couldn't get used to the antiquated graphics, square/grid-only roads, and bumpy roads (due to non-level terrain).

[Vinolik]

Originally posted by neutrino:

Off-topic, but in response to the reply above mine, I don't know why people diss SimCity 2013 so much. It's only real flaw was that the map size was way too small, but that doesn't make it the worse game on the planet like everyone likes to pretend it was. (The other flaw was that it was online-only at first, but they finally changed that.)

Off-topic some more, but even though I have my old discs somewhere, I bought SC4 Deluxe today since Steam has it on sale for $5. Most, including myself, hail that as the greatest city builder ever, but wow, after an hour of playing, I couldn't get used to the antiquated graphics, square/grid-only roads, and bumpy roads (due to non-level terrain).

Sc2013 didnt even have a citizen ai, so to conclude: traffic broken, citizens broken, tiny maps, really bad road construction, online broken, expensive dlc, expensive game...

[pviva]

a game is okay when it is addictive, and cities xl was for a while., well, for me. Like a puzzle. Unfortunately I found the game incomplete. No trains ??? Also buggy. But then... the updates !!!...where you had to pay for ! The same bugs ??? Still no trains ? Nothing changed ? Offensive, It looked like the creaters ran away with the profit of xl and dissappeared...
Nowadays the computers are also better and cities skylines is also much better

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by Kenneth:

Sc2013 didnt even have a citizen ai, so to conclude: traffic broken, citizens broken, tiny maps, really bad road construction, online broken, expensive dlc, expensive game...

Citizens went to first free job they found and they returned in the evening to first empty house they found. That really didn't work well and thus you couldn't do anything for the traffic etc.

[BrigadierRosen]

Originally posted by neutrino:

Off-topic, but in response to the reply above mine, I don't know why people diss SimCity 2013 so much. It's only real flaw was that the map size was way too small, but that doesn't make it the worse game on the planet like everyone likes to pretend it was. (The other flaw was that it was online-only at first, but they finally changed that.)

Off-topic some more, but even though I have my old discs somewhere, I bought SC4 Deluxe today since Steam has it on sale for $5. Most, including myself, hail that as the greatest city builder ever, but wow, after an hour of playing, I couldn't get used to the antiquated graphics, square/grid-only roads, and bumpy roads (due to non-level terrain).

it was bad due to a piss poor launch, having to be online 24/7 which is dumb for a city builder, various bugs and glitches that made the game unplayabale (save wipes) and because EA can't just take what makes simcity 4 good and expand upon that because that would mean using their brains.

if you actually had played the game you would understand.

[Stealthy]

[quote=BrigadierRosen;♥♥♥♥866813765816327

i because EA can't just take what makes simcity 4 good and expand upon that because that would mean using their brains.
. [/quote]

Er, no. They made a decision to reboot the series, not continue the existing one purely for financial reasons. Why the plot size was so small, was in the fact that it was supposed to be ported for consoles and tablets too (SimCity Buildit) with minimal extra work and expenses. It all was gearing up for micropayments etc. to become a milking machine but what they didn't realize is that city builders on PC are more for the hardcore gamers and not for some casual gaming and these people don't like the way it headed. Hence the PC version go discountinued very quickly but mobile version still lives on making money.