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?
One of the things I liked about the SimCity games (though I'm basing it on SimCity 3000 which is the last one I religiously played) is that if you did something like cut the garbage collection funding, or fail to increase it to meet demand, garbage starts piling up in front of buildings and on the streets. That fun little detail is missing from Skylines, where it's just a red garbage can icon floating above the building, but the building itself still looks clean as a whistle.