How is this different from 2013 Simcity?

[Exemplar]

side note: I'm going to buy the 90 usd package of this game anyway, so whatever

also side note: I have watched several CS2 gameplay videos on youtube

I really liked Simcity from 2013, so I'm very familiar with it. In many ways the two games have very similar functionality.

How is Cities: Skylines 2 fundamentally different from Simcity? or is CS2 just Simcity 2013 "with more stuff"?

[Helicopter200]

What is different? The map size alone is huge difference

[Exemplar]

Originally posted by Helicopter200:

What is different? The map size alone is huge difference

yes, i noticed it's a little bigger, not hugely bigger. or are there different sizes and i was only maybe watching gameplay demos with the smaller size?

[Haristess]

I dont think an explanation is needed to know the difference between cs2 and sc2013. Its day and night, really, in regards to the map size, megaprojects, always online connectivity, multiplayer "kinder" etc etc. simicty2013 was a completely different game, but had very similar gameplay traits, such as the service buildings which you can upgrade, which i hated, because of the ugly squared/rectangular plot around it.
Cs2 is going the same route, which promotes a grid system over any road laouts frombeing organic and flowey.

I hated simcity2013. its was simply awful in almost every possible way, and unplayable at times.
simcity2013, felt very kiddy-fied if thats even a word. was dumbed down and made for kids. Cs2, is looking to become the exact same thing, where there is no challenge whatsoever, and everything is braindead, plop down and forget, mentality.
very disappointed.

[Haristess]

Originally posted by Exemplar:

Originally posted by Helicopter200:

What is different? The map size alone is huge difference

yes, i noticed it's a little bigger, not hugely bigger. or are there different sizes and i was only maybe watching gameplay demos with the smaller size?

huh?
The map size in simcity2013 was tiny. it was a small town sized area.
CS2, and CS1 has vastly huge maps, which will take you forever to fill up.

[bish0p23]

I think Simcity has better gameplay in general, like the crime and health system, with better, immersive visual details (protests when sims are unhappy, garbage piling up, etc). But CS 1 and 2 give you greater control over how your city looks and runs.

[Exemplar]

Originally posted by Haristess:

Originally posted by Exemplar:

yes, i noticed it's a little bigger, not hugely bigger. or are there different sizes and i was only maybe watching gameplay demos with the smaller size?

huh?
The map size in simcity2013 was tiny. it was a small town sized area.
CS2, and CS1 has vastly huge maps, which will take you forever to fill up.

oh, i was just watching some more. from the original grid allotment you can add outside plots around the periphery.

ok. so size.

but what else?

[Haristess]

If you have no idea what cs2 is about, go play cs1. that will answer all of your questions.
cs2 is very much the same game but with mods brought in as a base game mechanic. notebly the roads tool.
theres alot more changes under the hood in regards to economy and simulation, but if you have no idea about what a cities skyliens game is, just go play cs1.

simcity2013 is no where near cs1 or 2. theres a reason why simcity2013 died a quick death. lol.

[32x]

Well for one, Simcity 2013 is the same game where im pretty sure, you paid for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Nissan Leaf and Charging station DLC.

[Peno11]

Correct me if I am wrong, but that Nissan DLC was free.

But anyway, Sim City's biggest issue were the forced multiplayer. From that came all the other issues, mostly the small maps. Once it went offline, it was pretty decent game. Not on the level of Cities, or, heck, even Sim City 4, but still decent game, as long as you can live with smaller map sizes.

[Chrispy]

SimCity's agent simulation was terrible. Sims did not have permanent homes and careers, instead they commuted only until they stumbled upon an unfilled job or housing. It's a very unrealistic model and is one on the many reasons city sizes were so small as this model doesn't work well at all over large, sprawling areas.

In Cities Skylines (1 and 2), the citizens have actual permanent residences and actual assigned jobs that they travel to and from every day. You can click on the citizens and see the address where they live, their job title, and where they work.

[Costarring]

SimCity2013 was a bathplug simulator.
Everything works like the sewage system.
Poop goes to the closest servicebuilding.
Same goes for people.
This causes them to NOT live in a certain house, work a certain job etc. but could live in a different house and work a different job every day.

Not to mention day 1 map mistakes (outside connections not connecting... Don't recall the map's name). They simply refused to fix that particular map because people were refunding and they wouldn't put the assets/money into that.
Which showed how terrible Maxis/EA are...
Last EA game I bought (and refunded (with the threat of not being able to play other, already bought, EA games)).
Worst games company ever...

[32x]

Originally posted by Peno11:

Correct me if I am wrong, but that Nissan DLC was free.

But anyway, Sim City's biggest issue were the forced multiplayer. From that came all the other issues, mostly the small maps. Once it went offline, it was pretty decent game. Not on the level of Cities, or, heck, even Sim City 4, but still decent game, as long as you can live with smaller map sizes.

Well it does say "Buy The 100% Electric Nissan Leaf® for SimCity", so im going to go out on a limb here and say it costs a couple of dabloons. (Correction it is free, but doesn't excuse the fact that it is an ad.)

[Microcosm]

If you're gonna buy the 90$ version, use a keyshop or official store. You can already get the base game preorder for like 32$... I think the Ultimate Edition was down to 68?

[Citrusz0rz]

Apart from the fact that you place things - this is obviously a completely different game from Simcity 2013.

Unfortunately, it's is obviously a very similar game to Cities Skylines 1.

Cities Skylines 2 needs more than a road mod tool and a better engine - it needs multiplayer.

[Mystic]

The one part of SC2k13 that I really liked was the building expansions, and it looks like that will be part of C:S2.