Is this game better than Sim City?

[Syndra]

I played Sim City games, but a lot of those games are old. Is this game better than Sim City?

[Your Neighbour]

This is actually the game that killed Sim City 5 lol.

Basically everything's better in all directions, compared to SC5 anyway. Sim City 4 was the last viable sim city game.

[Syndra]

I only played Sim City 4 and Sim City 3000. I looked at Sim City 5 and said no.

[Ghostrider]

With the Industries DLC they added a ton of depth into the game.. The best thing about CSL is that the developer is still releasing content for it..

[Your Neighbour]

Originally posted by Luv:

I only played Sim City 4 and Sim City 3000. I looked at Sim City 5 and said no.

This is Sim City on roids basically. Think it like the details of Sim City 4 with graphics of Sim Village- I mean Sim City 5, plus mods.

You can micromanage of you want there are options down to toggling lights at intersections in Cities Skylines down to how many bus runs in a bus line, I am more of a macro-management person, I tend not to bother with small details.

Something like this are very common in cities skyline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRMmK9qBNQ

I have done cities that are built on reclaimed sea floors as well. The water pump in this game can actually drain every drip of water if you find ways to isolate them into basins.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1128483021

[Humble]

I enjoyed play Simcity 4 and Simcity (old and new), Simcity (New) is nice and little diffient game but it's could better and they shouldn't forced player to be online in first place, it's should be option. Edit: it's waste lot of time, that chance dlc add up but they used time to fix that they should not forced online in first place. Is simcity better than this game? or This game is better than Simcity? Answer is No, it's diffient game, but it's based same building game as mayor but still diffient game. Long term EA stop working on Simcity (new) and this game is still supported and running.

[Filzbiber]

This game is to Sim City what the Internet was to TV!

[Duke Darkwood]

It's just an amazing game, on its own merits or compared to SimCity. And me, I actually liked SC5. I mean, it's no SC3kU (best in series for me), and it was a trainwreck at launch, but they pulled themselves out of that and were starting to make it a decent game. Sadly, it was too little, too late, so they pulled the plug. Also, I agree that they needed larger city plots. It might have actually beat SC4 for second-best SimCity if it had bigger plots.

(One thing I will say for SimCity 5 is that I was very intrigued by their change in approach, from just "building" a city, to "growing" one. It made your task a bit different than just "plop buildings until it's a city". Skylines, and SC4, did it to an extent, but SC5 really rolled with it, and could have taken it to some interesting places had the game kept going.)

But Skylines, here? Amazing. Pricey if you want everything, but hey - you don't NEED everything. The base game, alone, is enough to trounce SimCity 5 base. It even beats SC5 with its expansion, although by a more modest margin. And with the current sale, I say just GO for it. Try out the base game, no expansions, it's only $7.49 right now. Make your decision from there.

With the additional content, this is actually the best city-builder I've ever played - and it pains me to dethrone SimCity 3000 Unlimited. I've fond memories of that game, but in all regards except one, Skylines has surpassed it. (SC3kU has a certain charm to it - the advisors and petitioners really gave it character in ways most city builders ignore. That aspect, Skylines cannot match.)

I'd say that's my two cents, but I basically took the whole nickel. Sorry for the wordiness, but I hope it helps in some way.

[Streeto]

Simcity is basically a demo game compared to CS.

[Detail]

It would be a great game if not for the issues that surrond it's system interactions. You have to have the patience of a saint, and a very good maintained computer to play this. It seems to be everydau that you need to fight through one issue or another. Loading is a real crapshoot even with the loading mod and a set of other countermeasures.

[Foulcher]

Compared to SC5 yes because while SC5 is more innovative and have fresher ideas, exécution is poor.
Compare to SC4, Cs is nowhere near the refinment of the organic engine of it. CS is more binary and about content, maybe more casual like SC3000. More modern but artistically inférior to it though.

As a conclusion, CS is not really a replacement to SC unless you were more concerned about building a pretty city

[Humble]

Well, SC5 is more forced on trading resource with other city with more easier manage and based of USA City while
Cities: Skylines forced on more of traffic control with more harder manage with based european city. You could find mod, but only find south syte American, but no north american building syle.
I like SC5 because stronger usa theme (I guess I'm born rom there North) Edit: well not too hard for me, but based what I played both game offer.

[Mallow, The Bunny 💗]

It's a Paradox game, so it is easy to learn, however even the vanilla version will be extremely deep and will have you begin game after game because you find more and more ways to improve your city planning. With time, you begin to think "Oh, if only they had this and that kind of street, I'd be so much better!" - you look and find some modder having had just the same idea. The Steam workshop, as with every Paradox game, is huge.
So even if there wasn't any new content, I'm sure the game would stil live by now.

And despite you still see it's a game and lacks realism on some part, it's much, much more realistic than the last Sim City games, which showed you in every occasion that they are just dumbed-down games.

If you love to quickly build big working cities in which you just need to make "ticks" (Wasn't that the word?) efficient, then go to SimCity.
If you love situations in which your city actually develops itself, but you just think about if the city could be even better when you change this one lane from left turn/straight into a left turn only lane (as example), then this game is for you.

This is SimCity on steroids. You CAN plan 180.000 inhabitants cities that more or less work, but you'll still find loads of things to improve yourself on.

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Humble:

Well, SC5 is more forced on trading resource with other city with more easier manage and based of USA City while
Cities: Skylines forced on more of traffic control with more harder manage with based european city. You could find mod, but only find south syte American, but no north american building syle.
I like SC5 because stronger usa theme (I guess I'm born rom there North) Edit: well not too hard for me, but based what I played both game offer.

Sim city 5.

"Welcome to playing online. Your neighbor has never heard of "police" before. Enjoy that wave of hardened criminals coming in on the highway!"

[Humble]

Or that player want to spwan crime as crime lord mayor to toll other player, thankful you can play offline but resource trading is more stable, however. I'm not fan of online with other player, thoughts.

[Foulcher]

Vanilla CS extremely deep ? We have not played the same game, all decisions are quite straiggtforward and have predictable outcomes because the engine is more greedy than based on a complex equilibrium for the city as a whole.

In Simcity 4, you had harder time to figure out why your fully equiped suburb was still « poor ». In CS, you have a pretty linear view of how to upgrade buildings like more simplistic games (Anno...)