My REAL opinion on Cities Skylines 2. (Please read, it's important)

[Truffletoot]

Hello everyone. I'm BlitzercupGaming. Some other people may know me by 2 of my previous names, Car-Force Driving and Core 5. And I think it's time I reveal my true opinion on Cities Skylines 2. People who know me by my previous names will know that I did not like this game. I HATED IT. But that wasn't my opinion on the game. It was my opinion on the publisher, Paradox Interactive. I HATE Paradox Interactive. I DO NOT HATE the game itself, or even Colossal Order. I actually really appreciate them trying to improve the game, and people still hate on them, but it's not their fault.

Cities Skylines 2 would've been much better if the game wasn't released so early. In fact it could've been released a few months later as an early access game, as that's what it is in it's current state. If it was at least delayed, the game would've been a lot better received. But Paradox didn't let them delay it. It needed to be delayed. But Paradox demanded it would be released, and didn't care at all about the state the game was in. That's what happened with the game and it made me REALLY ANGRY at them. But the game still wasn't a "bad game". It was just not okay. The game had lots of good features even on release, such as having many things from CS1 DLCs in the base game. It also had lots of new features, such as much better road customization, traffic accidents, medium density residential and mixed zoning, and lots more. And it's gotten better since then.

Optimization is a lot better than before, but still not that good, as once you hit a certain population your cpu is done with you and the game takes a big hit on performance. But the game still has a lot of good features and I am quite pleased with the current quality of the game. Now would be the time to release the game if I were the developers of the game. That's my honest opinion on Cities Skylines 2. And for those who are wondering, the reason I had acted the way I did about the game was because I was curious on people's reactions. I wanted to see what results I would get. But I knew I couldn't hide my real opinion for much longer. So now you know what my real opinion is on the game. Now I still don't have the game, but it's because my old GTX 1050 laptop is too weak to run it well, but it still works somehow. I'm getting myself a new PC for Christmas with an RTX 3060 and Ryzen 5800x CPU though, so I don't need to worry about that. Thanks for reading this fully if you did.

[franzeusq]

I didn't read anything. If you're going to buy a new PC to play this game, keep in mind that its lifespan will be drastically shortened by this game and the power consumption will be considerable.

[Truffletoot]

Originally posted by franzeusq:

I didn't read anything. If you're going to buy a new PC to play this game, keep in mind that its lifespan will be drastically shortened by this game and the power consumption will be considerable.

I'm not getting it specifically for this game. In fact, I plan to play cs1 and many other games more than this game.

[TheKillerChicken]

I mainly got my Ryzen 9 7950x setup for multitasking and audio codec conversions, but it is a bonus having all of this power for games too. Especially running unoptimised single-threaded games with this power is also very handy. I also like playing games from the Dos/Win95 era, so Dosbox runs amazingly well from my former workstation setup. I swear though, Dosbox needs more fine-tuned power Cities Skylines 2, or even the other intensive game I play, Rust would ever need, because, emulation is just that inaccurate.

[Koles]

Originally posted by franzeusq:

I didn't read anything. If you're going to buy a new PC to play this game, keep in mind that its lifespan will be drastically shortened by this game and the power consumption will be considerable.

Out of all concerns for this game, this isn't really relevant. The wear you would realistically do to your desktop pc from this game (vs. your regular usage) would be either completely negligible, or negligible by the fact that you would upgrade your pc before it physically wears down.

Way bigger concern would be just having poor setup (bad airflow, no or bad cooling), cheap PSU, overclocking without knowing what you are doing. But even then, modern pc parts are pretty idiot proof and it would take some skills to seriously shorten it's lifespan.

[Mntoes]

Originally posted by Koles:

Originally posted by franzeusq:

I didn't read anything. If you're going to buy a new PC to play this game, keep in mind that its lifespan will be drastically shortened by this game and the power consumption will be considerable.

Out of all concerns for this game, this isn't really relevant. The wear you would realistically do to your desktop pc from this game (vs. your regular usage) would be either completely negligible, or negligible by the fact that you would upgrade your pc before it physically wears down.

Way bigger concern would be just having poor setup (bad airflow, no or bad cooling), cheap PSU, overclocking without knowing what you are doing. But even then, modern pc parts are pretty idiot proof and it would take some skills to seriously shorten it's lifespan.

Thanks for the insight. Am looking to buy a new PC soon so will give this some consideration.

[Al Capwned]

Protip:

After a few sentences, hit the "ENTER" button once or twice.

[Truffletoot]

Originally posted by Al Capwned:

Protip:

After a few sentences, hit the "ENTER" button once or twice.

Oh I actually was gonna do that, let me do that now.

[AIRwolf79]

Originally posted by BlitzercupGaming:

Originally posted by Al Capwned:

Protip:

After a few sentences, hit the "ENTER" button once or twice.

Oh I actually was gonna do that, let me do that now.

Dude if your going to upgrade your graphics card why not invest in a future proof one?
I mean I run a RTX3080 oc on my desktop and it struggles with CS2. Gen 5 is coming this winter so the 4 series should drop by loads.

[Truffletoot]

Originally posted by AIRwolf79:

Originally posted by BlitzercupGaming:

Oh I actually was gonna do that, let me do that now.

Dude if your going to upgrade your graphics card why not invest in a future proof one?
I mean I run a RTX3080 oc on my desktop and it struggles with CS2. Gen 5 is coming this winter so the 4 series should drop by loads.

I'm currently using a laptop, so I cannot upgrade. I have to get a new desktop, and unfortunately have a limited budget. I was going to see how AMD's RX 8000 GPUs would be and see if by then they or nvidia have something affordable that's worth it. I'm getting a prebuilt system with an RTX 3060 in it, because as much as I want to do a custom PC, I don't have the time or expertise to do it. If I could get an RTX 4070 in mid to late 2025 for $400 or so I would definitely do it. Cause the AMD 8000 series is probably gonna be better for $500 or $600. If a 4070 Ti super or something is $500 or $600 and AMD performs the same as that or worse, I'd get the 4070 Ti super. I really do want a better GPU than the 3060, and a 4070 or better would be perfect for me in 1440p resolution. But right now they cost too much money and keeping this old laptop alive has been so hard in the past few months. I had to upgrade the ram to 16gb because everything was getting way too slow. So even a 3060 will be a MASSIVE jump over the 1050 max q in my old laptop. (I'm currently using 1080p not 1440p btw)

[franzeusq]

pdx bad. CO and this game good. an artificial intelligence draws better conclusions.