Recently got Skylines and g*med hard on it today, but, as someone who sunk hundreds of hours into SimCity 4, I'm not getting the appeal. SimCity 4 is just so much comfier?

Is Skylines really just a traffic simulator? I watched a video by a self-proclaimed city planner all about how to make efficient transitions from the highway to your town, and it seemed like the road building / traffic control is the whole point.

What am I missing?

  • hypercube [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    love me some skylines, but it often feels like it's missing the heart that SimCity had, y'know? Like, none of the CS attempts at comedy land for me, and there's a lack of gamefeel - thinking about how each of the SimCity power plants had their own lil audio clips that played when you opened the infobox & did the coil whine "bweeooooo" when you first plopped em, the set of composers they bought in for the ost, that kinda thing. Maybe CS2 being bigger budget will help, I definitely prefer the art direction at least

    • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yep! You nailed it - Skylines really doesn't have the same heart.

    • triplebean
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      1 year ago

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