All DLC to this one or Wait for Cities Skylines II?

[sauron2012]

As title says, I have only basic Cities Skylines game without any DLC's (Mehhh) but I would like to finally dive more into sim city like simulator of building mega cities.

Wanted to buyy all of DLC's to first one, but since they showed us sequel game and so far seems better, I'm shattered between decision to wait for new game and then collect DLC's to it or give up on new one and get all DLC's to first?
I can wait for the new one if it's worth, time is not a problem with so many good releases around, but the decision itself is hard because I wouldn't want to waste moneys if the Cities Skyline II is more worthy than all of the DLC's to this one.

[OldyButCrafty]

As I wrote elsewhere;

Get CS2, most of the (us) veteran CS1 players likely won't even open it after CS2.

Save yourself the cost and pain of all the DLC most of which you must have to make it fulfilling to play.

Use your time and money to grow with the new game as us day 1 players did with CS1

Lastly, you do not need any experience of CS1 to hit the road in CS2

Play on!

[Captain Wolf]

I'll offer my counter-opinion.

My bet is that CS2 will take about a year to catch up with CS1. I think it will take that long to get optimization, performance, and stable mods in play. For about $20, you can get CS1 and a bunch of DLC and content creator packs. There is a massive sale now. You can learn the game with stable mods and time tested DLC. I think that experience will be better than vanilla CS2 for at least 6 months to a year.

[Tsubame ⭐]

If you have a beefy PC I recommend waiting.

If you either do not - especially on the GPU side - or want to delve in mods right away, then you can buy this one, on a sale, and wait for CS2 to get in a sale.

I do not recommend getting every DLC from the outset. If anything, focus on true expansion packs rather than content packs that just add music that you can stream yourself, or assets, alternatives of which may be found for free in the Workshop.

[sauron2012]

Originally posted by Tsubame ⭐:

If you have a beefy PC I recommend waiting.

If you either do not - especially on the GPU side - or want to delve in mods right away, then you can buy this one, on a sale, and wait for CS2 to get in a sale.

I do not recommend getting every DLC from the outset. If anything, focus on true expansion packs rather than content packs that just add music that you can stream yourself, or assets, alternatives of which may be found for free in the Workshop.

I have RTX 4070, latest i5 with 32GB Ram so I guess it's ready for Second one. Unless it require realy monster PC lol

Edit: 32GB Ram, not 64.

[ebrumby]

Originally posted by Captain Wolf:

I'll offer my counter-opinion.

My bet is that CS2 will take about a year to catch up with CS1. I think it will take that long to get optimization, performance, and stable mods in play. For about $20, you can get CS1 and a bunch of DLC and content creator packs. There is a massive sale now. You can learn the game with stable mods and time tested DLC. I think that experience will be better than vanilla CS2 for at least 6 months to a year.

I totally agree! CS2 is being released too soon. Wait until CS2 is finished and the CS2 Workshop is up and running. CS1 is really a good game.

[OldyButCrafty]

Originally posted by sauron2012:

I have RTX 4070, latest i5 with 32GB Ram so I guess it's ready for Second one. Unless it require realy monster PC lol

Edit: 32GB Ram, not 64.

I think you have the perfect setup right now to hit the road in CS2!

Play On!

[Niviob]

Any money spent on any 9 year old ancient game when a new modern update is available is a total waste of money.

Buy the new game and grow with it rather than going down recollection road wishing you had done otherwise.

[Wenatchee Willie]

Originally posted by OLDYBUTCRAFTY:

As I wrote elsewhere;

Get CS2, most of the (us) veteran CS1 players likely won't even open it after CS2.

Save yourself the cost and pain of all the DLC most of which you must have to make it fulfilling to play.

Use your time and money to grow with the new game as us day 1 players did with CS1

Lastly, you do not need any experience of CS1 to hit the road in CS2

Play on!

Totally agree.

[OldyButCrafty]

Originally posted by Wenatchee Willie:

Originally posted by OLDYBUTCRAFTY:

As I wrote elsewhere;

Get CS2, most of the (us) veteran CS1 players likely won't even open it after CS2.

Save yourself the cost and pain of all the DLC most of which you must have to make it fulfilling to play.

Use your time and money to grow with the new game as us day 1 players did with CS1

Lastly, you do not need any experience of CS1 to hit the road in CS2

Play on!

Totally agree.

Not to mention it's a 9 year old reluc game,

Would you buy a nine year old console or PC?

How about a 9 year old car without the thousands of improvement and expect to drive it every day?

How about a 9 year old TV or cell phone.

All of the above is simply stupid, right?

Add the fact CS2 can do ALL THE things that CS1 players like me have been dreaming of and demanding for years.

It's just silly to even consider CS1 even if it was free. Your time is worth too much to spend it in the past with a game still on training wheels.

The above said by this 71 year old gamer who's record shows total addiction to CS1.

Play On!

[MarkJohnson]

You only need to wait a little over a month for CS2. Even if you bought all the main expansion DLCs only, it will still be over $100, for a months play time, just buy CS2 for $100 instead.

You could even do both, but that is a lot of money for a game nearly 9-years old. It would have an advantage of being more stable though. It will be end of life (EOL) and no more major updates to break the game from constant patching, like CS2 will have again. It sucks to wait a couple weeks while devs patch up the game with each new DLC. Even longer, as some fixes will have bugs in it and you get to wait a few weeks again on a patch to fix a patch.

But it's your money, spend it how you like. If it makes you happy CS1, go for it. I find a lot of old games are very much worth playing and have better replayability than newer ones.

You never know, CS2 could flop. I am not very impressed with it at all. It just feels like too much of a photoshop and not challenging enough. I don't want to just end up buildings any way I want have have them just work. I prefer my simulators to be thought provoking and very challenging. That's why I liked CS1 so much, it had tough simulation, plus odd game mechanics (that made sense), plus mods to mod out the gamey aspects if you needed it to.

The core of CS1 is After dark, Snowfall, and Natural Disasters. The rest just reuse the existing mechanics and mix and match mechanics for more gameplay option.

Some downsides to CS1:

Shopping is optional, cims are happy to stay home and starve.

High Unemployment has zero negative effects on the game. I have had nearly 100% unemployment without a single complaint, plus still collect a full paycheck every week and live rent free. (No homeless)

No sickness mechanic in the game. Only pollution can poison your cims. If you keep pollution out of residential areas, then no one gets sick. All of my cities have 0-sick cims.

Gotta run. maybe others can fill other issues with CS1.

[SickTag]

I would recommend getting the DLCs for SC1 if you can afford it. It will take a while before SC2 comes out with a lot of the expansion packs that you see in the first game. I think a lot of SC2 players will not be full time because it will be a lot like SC1 when it first came out, lacking a lot of content that comes later.

[Liralen]

My experience has been that if you're new to playing the game you don't need any of the DLCS. If you play it and like it, then you'll know which DLCs will appeal to you, and can add those later.

Your risk is pretty low. You can buy Cities Skylines for $6 now (until Sep 27), then decide if you like it. At risk is $6, which is less than lunch money here. Odds are that if you don't like, you won't like the DLCs or CS2.

[Siozen]

There is a deal on humble bundle right now that lets you get the base game and a bunch of dlc's for up to $20. Might be a cheap way to see if you really are interested in these games.