Do you like that Cities 2 has the American aesthetic of the city?

[Mazisky]

We can safely assume that the USA aestethic will be the standard in Cities Skylines 2.

That does not exclude other possible styles, but USA will be the standard.

Although I am European, I am very happy with this decision, because the games I've grown up with (Simcity, The Sims, etc.) all have the classic American style, so it feels very familiar.

[Isaiah53six]

Originally posted by Mazisky:

We can safely assume that the USA aestethic will be the standard in Cities Skylines 2.

how can we assume it

[Isaiah53six]

I do hope you're right in assuming. A little Simcity vibe would be a nice change, not excluding other city styles of course.

[LeonardMT]

Well there was no gameplay so I don't trust it.

[Junky Eyeballs]

"Not Actual Gameplay"

We don't really know anything about where the game is set.

[subjenna]

It's a shame there is no universal city sim that manages to incorporate different planning and building cultures

[Isaiah53six]

Originally posted by subjenna:

It's a shame there is no universal city sim that manages to incorporate different planning and building cultures

agreed. would be cool if there was one

[Rogue]

What do you mean "american" style? All the modern buildings are the same. Skyscrapers or concrete blocks. Modern cities all look the same to me (From tokyo to new york), with some landmark modern building like the suppository looking skyscraper(The Gherkin) in London or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or terrain that force some difference(San Francisco and its hills). Even the 15 min city is coined by a French mayor with regards to city planning.

Only suburbs might look different due to cultural taste. Even then different suburbs in a country can and will look different even in the US. That's about it.

The cultural style is mainly pass me down heritage buildings or systems ( E.g sewer network of London ) from few hundred years ago. No one build them anymore. Fundamentally just DLC skins for games...

[MTO]

Originally posted by Rogue:

What do you mean "american" style? All the modern buildings are the same. Skyscrapers or concrete blocks. Modern cities all look the same to me (From tokyo to new york), with some landmark modern building like the suppository looking skyscraper(The Gherkin) in London or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or terrain that force some difference(San Francisco and its hills). Even the 15 min city is coined by a French mayor with regards to city planning.

Only suburbs might look different due to cultural taste. Even then different suburbs in a country can and will look different even in the US. That's about it.

The cultural style is mainly pass me down heritage buildings or systems ( E.g sewer network of London ) from few hundred years ago. No one build them anymore. Fundamentally just DLC skins for games...

But there are also many cities, especially in Europe, where not only do the suburbs look different, but the inner cities also differ architecturally from other cities or have their own architecture. Especially when it comes to older (18th, 19th to mid 20th century) buildings. When it comes to modern skyscrapers or modern architectural styles, I partially agree that they are very similar.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by MTO:

Originally posted by Rogue:

What do you mean "american" style? All the modern buildings are the same. Skyscrapers or concrete blocks. Modern cities all look the same to me (From tokyo to new york), with some landmark modern building like the suppository looking skyscraper(The Gherkin) in London or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or terrain that force some difference(San Francisco and its hills). Even the 15 min city is coined by a French mayor with regards to city planning.

Only suburbs might look different due to cultural taste. Even then different suburbs in a country can and will look different even in the US. That's about it.

The cultural style is mainly pass me down heritage buildings or systems ( E.g sewer network of London ) from few hundred years ago. No one build them anymore. Fundamentally just DLC skins for games...

But there are also many cities, especially in Europe, where not only do the suburbs look different, but the inner cities also differ architecturally from other cities or have their own architecture. Especially when it comes to older (18th, 19th to mid 20th century) buildings. When it comes to modern skyscrapers or modern architectural styles, I partially agree that they are very similar.

Read my last paragraph... Basically it's about old buildings, not building the modern ones.... Basically skins, not "american" style as there's no such thing for modern cities.

Yes, I know there are many cities. I have seen cities where it's just flat shanty houses as far as the eye can see in Sudan, Africa made of sheet metal juxtapose with colorful roofed tiled houses in the wealthier area.

[Plushie]

Personally, I'm not one for the over-the-top americanisation of things. Just looking at the police cars driving down the road makes my eyes roll. Like others say as well, modern skyscrapers are all 'Samey' and i find anything modern to be rather bland, boring and just plain uninteresting in that respect. So I do hope we have some different styles available to us and different things we can do because right now I'm on the fence because of the heavy North American influence I've seen.

[Mazisky]

Originally posted by Rogue:

What do you mean "american" style? All the modern buildings are the same. Skyscrapers or concrete blocks. Modern cities all look the same to me (From tokyo to new york), with some landmark modern building like the suppository looking skyscraper(The Gherkin) in London or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or terrain that force some difference(San Francisco and its hills). Even the 15 min city is coined by a French mayor with regards to city planning.

Only suburbs might look different due to cultural taste. Even then different suburbs in a country can and will look different even in the US. That's about it.

The cultural style is mainly pass me down heritage buildings or systems ( E.g sewer network of London ) from few hundred years ago. No one build them anymore. Fundamentally just DLC skins for games...

Play Simcity 4 or The sims (american style), then play Cities Skylines with an European biome and you get what I mean.

[happysmash27]

*Will it* have American Style? The trailer is clearly a render/animation, everything marked as not actual gameplay, and the lack of any curved intersections shown up-close suggests that the entire thing was designed in a 3D software like Blender, not in C:S. In looking for assets to make cities in Blender instead of C:S, I have noticed that there are a LOT of North East American roads (the kind of weathering and traffic lights and such are in the style of New York) as well as buildings, and less of other styles. So if they designed this entirely in an external 3D program, and used external assets, they might have just used a more American style for all the mid-sized buildings and street assets, specifically like New York, because it was easier.

I personally wonder if anything at all in the trailer will be in-game, and if so, what. My best guess is the cars as they look lower-fidelity than everything else in terms of glass and the like, like they were designed to be able to be used without reflections or caustics.

[Distress]

I hope it does or has theming options. I love American street line rules

[mrmichael]

Originally posted by subjenna:

It's a shame there is no universal city sim that manages to incorporate different planning and building cultures

mmm but it's interesting that in the trailer voice says "This city has a story..."!!! there might be something

[Mr.Hemiroids]

Originally posted by Rogue:

What do you mean "american" style? All the modern buildings are the same. Skyscrapers or concrete blocks. Modern cities all look the same to me (From tokyo to new york), with some landmark modern building like the suppository looking skyscraper(The Gherkin) in London or the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or terrain that force some difference(San Francisco and its hills). Even the 15 min city is coined by a French mayor with regards to city planning.

Only suburbs might look different due to cultural taste. Even then different suburbs in a country can and will look different even in the US. That's about it.

The cultural style is mainly pass me down heritage buildings or systems ( E.g sewer network of London ) from few hundred years ago. No one build them anymore. Fundamentally just DLC skins for games...

Not sure where you're from. But the roads in cities skylines is nothing like the roads in America. That's what bothered me the most about the game. They had big four lane roads with no turning lane all the way down it. I would love to see American Style roads. Also America does not have electrified railroads other than in large cities. There was no option for American style Railroad