What Happened To SimCity?
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- With obvious technical and game play problems could this reboot to the SimCity franchise manage to live up to the hype?
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Sim City 4 with updated graphics and features is what the people want.
Na we also want the commerce system and the modular upgrades from the new sim city, just gtfo out with forced online and that stupid city size limit.
explain what you mean a commerce system? like beyond rci into business creation or something? that's interesting
Simcity 2013 had this system where you could for instance make computer chips at factories , then export those chips, or pump them into a factory that made computers and export those and they added to you own money,
Skylines has that but very stripped down where you just zone for what resource exists (eg. oil) and you start getting cash from it, but it's a little "lite" for me. but don't get me wrong skylines kicks simcity 2013's ass all day long. just mentioning ONE thing that I DID love about it though, oh and the modular upgrades.
@@everythangtexas and i want cities skyline to be like sc4.. like the module system from 2013 though.. should be added to CS..
Yep
What went wrong? This:
"We want a single player mode that doesnt need to be online." "Well you can't, its impossible. The game cannot work without its online components." "Fine then we're not buying your game. "Okay, you can play in single player offline." "I thought you said that was impossible?"
And they never acknowledged it.
Not to mention this game got buried by Cities: Skylines.
Way better game
munky. ur that 5% people that dont like cities, we all love it, even some country administrators and architectures use it for testing their traffics. and city planning
the game completely destroyed by cities skylines, sim city is utterly defeated
@@zondor8123 cities skylines doesn't have that magic SimCity has
@@RGE_Music i'm not for or against the decision. when i was 12 (almost 13) that time and saw that game trailer. i knew i needed it. i had no hate against ea that time, because they were prioritizing the player instead of their own wallet. but since they had other thoughts i didn't know, they made it online connection only, which is okay for me. i like to play with other city builders. i already was a big fan of the game city life and city life 2008 edition that time. but now with all the expansion and where we are now, i don't look further to play simcity anymore or get the dlc. the bastard company destroyed the franchise and that made me sad. now i am looking to get cities skylines (waiting for my birthday). but i just want to get the normal version and not with all the dlc's they come with.
@Munky Bidness i think city skylines is more fun because you can make a goddman real commusit coutry and tank or tank mod everywhere and put that tank infornt of the road to show him the power of commusim
If Maxis/EA would have removed the limited small boundaries and had allowed for the creation of large cities in vanilla version of SimCity 5 it would have made the game great. The game certainly has charm, beautiful color, eye candy, American buildings and roads but sadly the boundary limits kill repeated game play for me.
They removed that requirement later on. Also remember what Maxis/EA said when SimCity 2013 released: Cities are not build in a bubble.
The way SimCity was intended to be played was to build multiple cities which concentrate on different things and contribute to each other. You think that approach is easy? It's actually challenging.
I liked that and still like that approach. It makes you THINK. Add to that Cities of Tomorrow expansion and how your City changes when more and more High tech buildings rise. It's fun to watch. Graphically it blows Cities Skylines out of the park for me (shocking cause Cities came 2 years later and don't look as good as SimCity imo).
I enjoy it. Also Cities without mods is worthless imo.
infonator07 mods are free to download. Are you high or something? I’ve made sprawling, dense metropolises in Cities Skylines with complicated interconnected transport networks. It blows SimCity away.
infonator07 mods are free to download. Are you high or something? I’ve made sprawling, dense metropolises in Cities Skylines with complicated interconnected transport networks. It blows SimCity away.
@@info0 you literally can do that in cs, get a big map make multiple cities lol
ITS GREAT OVERALL BUT THE SIZE OF THE CITY SUCKS THATS WHY IM PLAYING CITIES SKYLINES
me to.
Logan Carlino theres multiple cities for a reason dickhead
I noticed EA/Maxis are always making up excuses on to why they couldn't do something a certain way and yet there is plenty of games out there with game devs that are always pushing the boundaries. EA always take the easy way out.
Faye I don't exactly get how they took out the open-world aspect in Sims 4 myself. Sure there were performance issues stemming from streaming contents within the game, but TS4 seemed like a half-arsed experience in comparison to TS3.
I 100% agree with you. Sims 4 the only real thing I like about the CAS ( making sims ) everything else it just feels like something is missing. I hope if they do sims 5 they bring all the aspects in the sims world that people really loved and that being one of them the open world.
At least Sim 2 is better than Sims 4.
Mate you obviously didn't listen through the video. You're saying EA takes the easy way when they didn't develop it.
they should've let will wright make a new simcity...
I really like the modular system though. I wish it was implemented in Cities: Skylines.
The modular building upgrades? yes that is a good point of simcity, also the commerce was really fun, but the limited size KILLED it for me.
heck, someone could even mod the feature into C:S
same
the only reason i still sometimes play simcity is because of the futuristic stuff, megatowers and omegaco are fun
once they add the modular stuff and future stuff to CS i dont need simcity anymore:D
@@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega I also wish we could control the size and distance of our skyscrapers, some buildings are so suffocated and close to each other i fell quite bad for the sims having to stare ar windows all time
They charged me $100 for the game, $50 for the Dlcs. Now you can buy all that for around $15...
same....
Or you can just pirate it.
Same xD
got less than that. bought at amazon for 7.50 with all dlc in 2015
And I bet it still sells as much as it did during the price hike.
It died due to cites skylines
IMO Cities: Skylines is the true spiritual successor to Sim City 4. I liked the realism in the SC series up until the 2013 reboot. It was truly a city simulation. The reboot seemed to devolve into a plop and watch game where building realistic cities was no longer needed. Cities: Skylines brings that back and I have high hopes for what it will eventually turn into if the Colossal Build team keeps up the good work.
SC5 got cucked
Why I Hate Skylines: 1: High Requirements, 2: Game Engine Slows Down When I Reach 100k Population.
You know your production quality is garbage when Unity is a better alternative than you brand new, fancy, million dollar engine. But this is EA we're talking about...
OfficiallyCJ city skylines has tons of stuff sim city needed
I had a lot of fun with simcity, until the map size became a problem. With cities skylines i can just keep on expanding, but i don't find it as crisp and visually appealing as simcity felt. It's also less fun overall. A hybrid of these two games would've been unbeatable.
I still play this game simply because I love building industries and focusing on things like processors and electronics while figuring out how I set it up to accept the fastest trade and traffic. I just don't like building a city just to build one. It was challenging, and I wished they had stuck with it and added more space later. The expansion was fun as well.
I still think simictys gui is beautifully simplistic compared to most games released nowadays.
My favorite part about Simcity was the sleek UI, beautiful music & the modular building feature. Such a shame :(
The Sandbox Social same :/ if they made another simicty game and learned from everything you said in this video it would actually be a very good game.
Hm can someone find ex-Maxis employees? Start a petition? Fundraising project? You know game like Planescape got released due to crowdfunding... So maybe there is hope?
The ex-devs of Diablo and Diablo 2 created much better game than Diablo 3 imo, Torchlight and Torchlight 2. Think about it. If there is a demand, devs listen. Paradox released their City builder because there was no other like that on market (I mean SimCity 2013 was a disaster on launch and SimCity 4 although great, was released in 2003 lol).
I hope they make SimCity or a spin off series under different name, cause Sims are now proprietary to EA...
One thing great about Sim City 2013 was the sound effects, when you clicked any objects in Sim City 2013 like stadium or car, there will be interactive sound effects for it,when you clicked a human being they will say hello to you.
The thing that makes me come back to this game is the Modular system, I love it. As soon as Cities Skylines has a modular system which I highly doubt at this point, I will never touch Sim City again. Great video as well!
Bought Cities skyline and I think im doing it wrong. It just seams like a empty and easier version of Simcity with larger maps. It gets dull pretty fast and there are no research or such to make you want to progress.
Marcus Nyberg yeah that’s why I quit cs unless u buy expansion packs it will stay that way
Cities: Skylines wiped SimCity off the city builder game list. Though I still hope for a SimCity 2018 to become a reality.
You must know guys that the Maxis devs idea was to build on the entire region and merge the city. But EA since that era thought that allways online was the future of gaming. So Behind the scenes there was a several problem of optimization because the server do the simulation like the client. So they needed to choking some aspect of the game. And they have working so hard to resolve this problems and indeed they couldn't concentrate in bugfix and new features like routing the mass transit. I feel so sad like the story behind SPORE 2. I hope that the series isn't dead because cities skylines hasn't the magic and the fun gameplay of simcity with wonderfull graphics. Cities skylines is only a good painter city
I hope so. The city simulation in cities skylines is too off for me
I could answer the question before watching the video
City Skylines
There's not enough fuckin room to build shit
I recently started playing Sim 3 and finally got an idea why simcity looked the way it did and why the sims kept using weird language and signs.
It seems they were using the sims team to develop a city builder - otherwise I cannot understand how they completely failed to connect to their target audience.
Online DRM mode for (usually) single player city builders?
The promise of "cloud computing" for a better simulation which was the "reason" for online mode which was debunced within weeks of the launch.
The graphics looked great, but the engine, game rules were just lacking, which killed the joy longerm. It was not possible to ban left-turns, there were no one-way streets or high ways, roundabouts, ... Sims would take the shortest route even if it meant going a single track dirt road while there was a longer 6-lane faster road available. Next they would inflate the number of simulated sims. In a city of 100.000 listed you might have actually 1.000 sims.
I felt cheated, disrepected and lied to. IMHO the game should have never been shipped in this state - maybe even glasbox scratched and rebuilt. With andromeda this is an example that EA does ship games that are not comsumer ready and I will wait for the better ones to appear on GOG when they are hopefully patched or at least cheap enough to stand their bugs and shortcommings.
Didn't pick this up until about the release of the future city DLC, and so, didn't encounter many of the issues that plagued the game at launch. I really enjoyed playing this game multiplayer with some friends and build the big projects together. This multiplayer feature however, is the only good thing about this game nowdays. City Skyline is better in every way, has hassle-free mod support through steam, and just looks and runs great on my PC. Same PC struggled with a full-size city in SimCity, and traffic was a nightmare to try and fix, and would usually run my cities into bankruptcy... not so in Cities Skyline... Only thing I really miss is being able to play multiplayer, and contribute together on a regional project. That idea was an awesome one, making a very much single-player game genre work in a multiplayer setting (Cities XL tried this even further back, but never really succeeded).
Interesting: the Sims 4 doesn’t have terraforming tools either, but its predecessors had.
Mads D you're hot
It has now
@@jan6258 *said three years later*
Hey Guys, Sorry for the delay in videos! been super sick this week, however back on track with new Planet Coaster vids and some classic sandbox dig-ups on their way! in the mean time I hope you enjoy this next episode of "What Happened To..?"
What was your experience playing the SimCity reboot?
Jesus, you sound like a channel for 5 year olds.
The lack of portability annoys me more than it's other flaws, if I spend hours/days/months building up a city/region, I like to keep it in storage forever, at first you can not rely on EA servers, then comes the offline mode which I presumed they was great, and when I attempted to copy my region over to another machine, it all broke up, and then became corrupt on both machines. oh well, RIP SIMCITY 2013, I wait if there's a 6th sequel.
What happened to SimCity? EA happen.
What Happend to Darkspore and Lego universe would be a great episode :)
I like the COT expansion a lot, but the city boundary size is freaking annoying. It's tolerable if each region was totally flat land, but most of them have mountains or oceans making only %50 of the ground build able.
I had spent millions to fix my traffic but as soon as any cars would come to a stop light they would just sit there for the next 7-8 green lights. Also different aspects of the game would just stop working spontaneously. I really want to play it but stop myself because I know I’ll just be disappointed again
I'm the same, I sometimes go back to play and stop myself because I know I'll just get disappointed. I really love the look and feel of the game, its just the mechanics that are all broken and clunky. it's such a shame :(
Honestly I didn't even realize that the game was disliked so much by the community until I watched this video. I still like it
I actually had a lot of fun when I just got it but the traffic and everyday life was so off from reality that I started to not like it
I wish SimCity came back ;-;
Me too :'v
One of the things I loved about sim city was the complex trading and tourist systems, like if you have ore you can line it and sell it to a city that wants to make iron to make tv for a spaceship in their spaceport, I saw that in an interview that the producers wanted to make the whole map accessible and had many dlcs in mind that would’ve been great but couldn’t because of angry people because of the launch, like people should chill, there was an error, doesn’t make the game suck, if sim city had bigger city sizes and a bigger modular community and AI it would crush cities skylines in one blow, I love both games but can’t wait for sim city 6!!
beautiful graphics in simcity.
I Loved The Game And I Didn't Know That There Was This Much Hate
Should've just simply re-packaged SimCity 4, fixed ALL the bugs & gittches (i.e. more SEAMLESS commutes literally across the region/metro like quite a few people do in real life), and put in an online aspect where YOUR FRIENDS can help build your entire region!
"Alright, now I have the basic transportation & other essentials laid out. You build the midtown and rich suburbs, you get to building a heavy industrial sector for the lower class to get work experience, and I'll build up the Downtown and middle class as y'all build your areas up!"
2:06 you get a small city spice from which to build on, you can not build outside the city space at all.
cities way too small and spread from each others
I know, we should be able to increase the city size!! It is a good game but that is what I would change.
Occasionally I go back to playing SimCity, but I can never commit to it for long due to countless bugs and game-breaking glitches. The worst of it is how the mass transit never seems to function properly, whether it is through the busses moving in droves (as opposed to, you know, spreading through the city and acting like ACTUAL BUSSES), needing to build 5 train stations to accommodate around twelve tourists each day, or cars that go up and down the same street for three days and blocking all productive traffic.
I'm the same... I sometimes go back and play simcity. I really enjoyed the feel of the game, the controls were very responsive, the UI was sleek, the music was beautiful and my favorite thing was the modular buildings. I enjoyed making a small town and having the ability to grow and expand the buildings without having to demolish them.
It was only the game play for me that was the real let down... it's so unfortunate, brain dead AI that fill the first available job and return to the first available house. Buss's that conga lined the streets, it was so annoying! :(
I originally liked the idea of multiplayer but never seemed to find a server with people who were active or near me. It added nothing and, in fact, became something of a hinderance
dude the game was released like 4 years ago i remember i wanted to preorder it as a kid i was 13 back then i mean i was so hyped because it was simcity it was one of my favourite game genres at the time and then as it got released i was happy that i didnt get the game :D still feeling a little old time goes so fast >->
If you have a nucular meltdown and building become abandoned, eventually the building collapse... Or thats how it was supposed to be. Instead, they building dont know what state they are in, so they keep going from derelict to rubble dererlict to rubble every minute or so (real life minute)after they turn to rubble for the first time. Its like the values are conflicting and causing issues.
The irony of the SimCity game makers receiving lots of complaints from their fans. I began to play the PC version of SimCity way back in 1991, and let me tell ya, this game has always been difficult to play and manage. I was never truly satisfied with the game play. I felt (and still feel), that the creators cheat us out of it. It's just a freaking game, they should have made it a lot easier, and it did not have to be so realistic! Why can't it be up to the players to allow crime, pollution, etc in their cities? I had successfully made all my citizens happy (100%) at least once, but my city looked bizarre and it needed more room. Years later, still playing it, even on the Playstation, and it's still difficult. Many disadvantages. SimTheme Park is A LOT worse. That game is virtually impossible to succeed in.
What made me leave Simcity 5 was the release of Cities Skylines. CS had so much better mod support, community an alot of stuff Simcity didn't have such as city expansion.
Glassbox was an interesting engine in principle - but it sounds like the agent system simply can't scale well. Unfortunately, lack of scalability was likely a result of how the engine worked at a fundamental level (I wonder if anybody on the team was well versed in computer science). If they ever, ever want to bring back SimCity again, they're probably going to abandon Glassbox. I don't see them keeping it.
That said - sadly, I think the SimCity franchise is dead. I don't see EA bringing it back. It'll probably come back if EA sells the trademarks and somebody else picks it up.
Maxis ex-devs can make such game, but under different name as Sims belong to EA (it's still a money cow after all xD)
City skylines runs the show. It's perfect all round
If you want a good city building experience, I highly recommend Cities Skylines
I liked it and I still like it. Of course it was a disaster on launch, but you really shouldn't judge a game by its launch. EA had its deadlines, and they did not care wether the game was finished or not. I know and knew what the game was supposed to be. Now, in late 2016 I think everyone can say, that the majority of its problems has been fixed (although sometimes the AI seems weird. What I mean with that is, that your peolple need a job: I decrease living areas and increase shops and they just don't care...) Of course the map size is something you can discuss about, but that's just how it is. I don't think it completely ruins the game. I like the game and if I have the chance to play it with someone else, just hook me up!
it COMPLETELY ruins the game....
It's 2017, four years later, this game still has the same bugs that plagued it at launch and it's obvious EA isn't going to get off its ass and fix their mistakes or actually improve upon the game.
TNT , EA still haves control over Simcity , and updates it very rarely and they are only very very minor updates.
Try using Simcity Mods ... It's not bug free but allows you to have a bigger map
EA makes unreasonable deadlines for all their companies. They alone managed to butcher so many great franchises for a quick, greedy, buck. Fuck EA.
Great to see your back
+Clay Wallace Thanks! I'm excited to show you guys what I've been working on. Got some cool PC builds coming out this week :)
Cities: Skylines did with SimCity the same thing PoE did to Diablo3.
I think it was kinda too late when they added the offline mode, cuzz people probably wont play it ever again
SSCOT- Is really a super good game in stile. Unique is the word, and Sim City is known for creating a new stile. The first SS was new, 2000 was unique, and 3000. SS4 was a better looking SS3000 :) Now- SS2013 .. totally unique with a deep industrial leaderboard HQ.. Regional LB Stat System.. 1000s of people play this game everyday because it is fun to play.
Yes- I know all about Skylines- two totally different games. One is not better than the other- there totally different.
Couldn't agree more! I really enjoyed Simcity however the issues, frustration and disappointment for some that came with the game can't be ignored and this topic is merely pointing out some of the issues that popped up in development and release.
Understand- some people just cant get over it, all games has bugs. I admit this one is loaded with bugs- but most of them can be worked through. Besides not all issues is bad- some is good.. like the park glitch (free land value).
I noticed most players can't create a good layout and therefore say- it is a bug (traffic glitch). Every big City faces a traffic issue in real life.. and SSCOT is no different- there is a real traffic glitch though, and it is in the GW sites (mainly the Space Center).
I been hearing about SS6 coming out in 2018- crossing my finger's. Thanks for the post.
I've never tried SimCity because of all the bad stuff I heard about it. I was a huge fan of the older Sim City games. One of these days I'll check out City Skylines, which I hear is what Sim City should have been.
+Michael Haneline I loved the old simcity games so much, my favorite was SimCity 4! you should definitely try out Cities Skylines it's a lot of fun :)
The map size was a major disappointment to the game, I gave up playing the game after a few months. A few separate Windows 10 issues saw me never installing it again
You know why Simcity failed and city skylines is better? Cause skylines actually worked on launched.
city skylines is the new best city game in town back away simcity 5
idc what anyone says about graphics i prefer the look of 3000 and 4 to whatever this is
I wan't a pc to play cities : skylines but all my money goes to gas, oil, pistons, and tuning my bikes. Guess you just can't have too many hobbies with limited money :(
I loved it but I agree, the maps were too small
They should have allowed highway going through the cities
i BOUGHT IT THE DAY IT CAME OUT IN THE STORES ! i loved it :D
i wonder why they can't make a larger plot of usable land, even just doubling it, with their sims, and i have cities 10 times theirs in cities skylines with more advanced cims behavior
I almost bought this game, boy am I glad I got cities: skylines instead
I can't play Sim City Build It no more! Because club wars are hacked with level 10 attack cards and our club always lost against these clubs with hacked attack cards! :( I can't wait to get my own pc and start playing Cities Skyline.
As of 4/14/18 I still have a lot of problems from original. I have all updates and xpacs, fun game but gets to be a real chore at higher populations.
I still think its a Great game! It needed some work but maybe it was released to Early. Sim City Rocks!
I didn't find it hard to play the way you mean (just failed with the economy at the same place every god damn time I played). But I missed the map size from Cities XL.
EA should re release 3000 and/or 4 for Windows 10 with updated features and graphics
its underrated
Video starts at 2:20
You never told what happened to simcity!!!
But here in brazil the "good" games of EA are very expensive
I don't know what happen to simcity,maybe CITIES SKYLINE TAKE OVER THE PLACE
My thoughts are :Cities Skylines!
idc about the simulation i just like 2 build
What happened to SimCity ? EA happened
Most of the times I played the map wouldn't load and there was nothing but blue and I didn't know where to place building and zones but after an year due to it was mostly off and on like that I uninstalled it then got bored then went to play simcity 4 I still have it but lost the codes to install it and I got an new laptop because my desktop broke and it was cheaper to replace it.
maybe you could do a video of what happened to ghostmaster?
Yeah!
I got Spore. I still have it. I came to hate that game. It really did screw you over.
for me some of the disaster really press my button like the unbelievable zombies and godzilla wtf when i came across cities skiline after really checking it out i was bought in
Thankyou EA for ruining another great game studios, ive got the same problem when they released Command and Conquer 4 and RTS but have to online to play like fck that shit man
Simcity 4 is the best version. Sad that EA destroyed an awesome franchise.
Don’t answer this until 2030
What simcity are you playing on?
Boring game that has you spending most of your time repeating the same monotonous tasks like upgrading roads plopping small tree line parks and destroying large parts of your city for sewage and water utility buildings. The worst part about the game is you run out of space for many of the fun and interesting buildings forcing you to choose between having a boring grid city for high population or an fun looking city with low pop. I was really disappointing with this game as I grew up playing the original game on SNES and enjoyed its simplicity yet challenge of getting high population, this game looked like it was going back to its roots unfortunately left EVERYONE wanting.
i feel that cities skylines is the only worthy successor to sim city 4 rushour.............hell i still play sim city 4 rushour with all the nam mods
What a neat game for mac
I got this on mobile and deleted it almost immediately
Still like the old Sim City, still like the look of this one. Still stick with Cities, because EA tends to milk a cow until only dust will pour out. And that cow are we. It's a shame, as Sim City absolutely had the same potential as any other City builder game. Let's wait if someone starts SC all over again. and FCK EA.
i dont know why, but i still like it
I still like it too
Play with me John Read
ok orgin id please
i hated this game at launch due to the bugs and the smaller citys but after a while iv grown to love it like all the other simcity games.... ok but not buildit i still hate that
JamJam Calder You'd better play Cities Skylines ;) Look for it at Steam
John Smith i have it they both are diferent , if i want to get into something simple and i can actualy understand what happens in the buget section il play simscity if i want something more advanced il play cities
they dumbed the game down for the bleep bleep kid with adhd
Nobody needs the fucking sharing online. We never did so before 2005, so why do it now ?? Only that shitty network multiplayer option braught all the flaws.
cities skylines still reign while sim city had died long ago lol.
utterly and completely defeated
flawed by its engine.
But Why the Glass Box Enging was to bad to incrisch the Map Chises the the 4 X bigger maps was easy to Create i not understand this
you and me both xD
I cant understand you.
This is the best game ever much better than that terrible bland boring city skylines.
maps too small ... trafic bugs ... trash trucks SUPER buged .. etc etc.
I dont hate Simcity byt Cities Skiline is way more more awesome. Simcity supposed to be like Cities Skyline.
Cims > Sims
これは、何だぁ？
Sounds good, doesn't work