CS1 VS CS2

[rogmar1]

If we compare CS1 with CS2, there is only one sentence for the result. CS2 is really and unfortunately a huge piece of ♥♥♥♥.
You don't have any kind of freedom to create your own city like we did in CS1. I know that there are still no assets for CS2 but still, I don't see the advantage of having a new game to replace CS1. Everything is completely different for the worse.
For me, a great example is the way it works, sea water, rivers etc. (or rather... it doesn't work correctly). I have the Water Features Mod installed and it doesn't work correctly.
I'm not happy that this is the case because I love CS1 and I expected to have a more pleasant experience with CS2, which is why I bought the Ultimate Edition.
Be Shame Paradox and Colossal Order

[Morducal]

You cant compare Cities 2 with Cities 1. Cities 1 has Content thats been coming for over 8 years or so (Mods+Workshop). Its not a fair comparison. I dont understand why people compare Cities 2 all the time with Cities 1. Cities 2 just started its journey a few months ago. Its going to get better and better and Mods are now there, so automatically new Content is being made by people.

The only fair comparison is comparing CS2 with the Basegame CS1, because CS1 also started out smaller. And compared to that CS2 is superior. Looks better and has better in depth features like the road system. You need in CS1 Mods to be able to do things that CS2 has with the roads features already ingame. For Graphics CS1 needs tons of Mods, Lut and assets to make it look better. Here in CS2 you have out of the Box better graphics, more realistic proportions of buildings size. Its not so cartoony anymore.

And thats the Problem. You say you expected to have a more pleasant experience with CS2. Sometimes its better to be realistic. Every Game needs time. And When a Game like Cities 1 has been improved by the Modding Community and with Dlcs for over 8 years or so, which are tons of people, that made mods, you cant expect to have everything of that at release of a very new game thats out for a few Months. There are people who enjoy playing Cities Skylines 1 more. There are other people, who prefer Cities Skylines 2. And a direct comparison to how Cities 1 is now is not fair.

[JohnyT]

Originally posted by Morducal:

You cant compare Cities 2 with Cities 1. Cities 1 has Content thats been coming for over 8 years or so (Mods+Workshop). Its not a fair comparison. I dont understand why people compare Cities 2 all the time with Cities 1. Cities 2 just started its journey a few months ago. Its going to get better and better and Mods are now there, so automatically new Content is being made by people.

The only fair comparison is comparing CS2 with the Basegame CS1, because CS1 also started out smaller. And compared to that CS2 is superior. Looks better and has better in depth features like the road system. You need in CS1 Mods to be able to do things that CS2 has with the roads features already ingame. For Graphics CS1 needs tons of Mods, Lut and assets to make it look better. Here in CS2 you have out of the Box better graphics, more realistic proportions of buildings size. Its not so cartoony anymore.

And thats the Problem. You say you expected to have a more pleasant experience with CS2. Sometimes its better to be realistic. Every Game needs time. And When a Game like Cities 1 has been improved by the Modding Community and with Dlcs for over 8 years or so, which are tons of people, that made mods, you cant expect to have everything of that at release of a very new game thats out for a few Months. There are people who enjoy playing Cities Skylines 1 more. There are other people, who prefer Cities Skylines 2. And a direct comparison to how Cities 1 is now is not fair.

My point of view with all this C:S1 vs C:S2 is that this time round they should of been more than equipped to produce something amazing.

They had years to gain experience from their success and failures. A huge modding community provides a wealth of good ideas, I would have looked at whats popular and easy to implement to the vanilla build. Comparing day one C:S1 vs C:S2 negates all that wealth of information, this should have been a no brainier.

The only reason C:S2 sold as much as it did day one is they had huge pre-existing community waiting for the next best thing. To say they've let us down would be an understatement. I think we all would have forgiven a few bugs here and there on release, that's just to be expected these days. But we all know the state of what we were given months ago and still have now.

[Scoup]

Originally posted by Morducal:

You cant compare Cities 2 with Cities 1. Cities 1 has Content thats been coming for over 8 years or so (Mods+Workshop). Its not a fair comparison. I dont understand why people compare Cities 2 all the time with Cities 1. Cities 2 just started its journey a few months ago. Its going to get better and better and Mods are now there, so automatically new Content is being made by people.

The only fair comparison is comparing CS2 with the Basegame CS1, because CS1 also started out smaller. And compared to that CS2 is superior. Looks better and has better in depth features like the road system. You need in CS1 Mods to be able to do things that CS2 has with the roads features already ingame. For Graphics CS1 needs tons of Mods, Lut and assets to make it look better. Here in CS2 you have out of the Box better graphics, more realistic proportions of buildings size. Its not so cartoony anymore.

And thats the Problem. You say you expected to have a more pleasant experience with CS2. Sometimes its better to be realistic. Every Game needs time. And When a Game like Cities 1 has been improved by the Modding Community and with Dlcs for over 8 years or so, which are tons of people, that made mods, you cant expect to have everything of that at release of a very new game thats out for a few Months. There are people who enjoy playing Cities Skylines 1 more. There are other people, who prefer Cities Skylines 2. And a direct comparison to how Cities 1 is now is not fair.

6 month after the launch cs1 had 2 DLC, thousands of assets, hundreds of mods, could play in higher resolution than hd, higher fps, smaller storage size and double of players than cs2.