Old man here!....I began playing SimCity 4 in 2003 when I was 50. I had never played any kind of computer game before. It could be addictive and I played it a lot for at least 10 years, then stopped and recently picked it up again and I am 70, now. I love that it is a relatively slow game, and there is no violence or killing. It is kind of meditative,...the preprogramed music is interesting, though over the years I began editing them out. My favorite is the GOD mode,...laying down forests, creating rivers, and mountains, landscaping , & earth moving. At the time I began playing the game, I was an active member of my community, and that meant I had opportunities to shape and grow the community I lived in. I was tickled by how close the operation of the Sim City, paralleled my reality. The housing stock resembled my real neighborhood. Sometimes I would just get lost in the scenery, and lose touch with reality.
a lot of the architecture ingame is either 1800s or 90s postmodernism, if you look online in places like simtropolis you may even be able to find real life local buildings.
Greatest City Builder of all time. CitiesSkylines is so easy and not challenging at all after you learn it (still a great game). This game still challenges me 20 years later. Amazing soundtrack too.
I sincerely think that you deserve a lot more subscribers because you really have the feeling of being a youtuber and I think I'm not the only one to feel it. The editing is quality on top of that and it makes for a great video. To come back to SimCity 4, it totally rocked my childhood and it was the first management game I had, but it will still be much better than SimCity 5.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏😄 Think the first management game I played was SimCity 3000. My friend had for PC, though SimCity 4 was the first SimCity game I owned myself (for my parents money) 😂
I know this video is several months old now. But if you come back to this, a few helpful tips: - Your city growth is limited somewhat by neighbourhood connections. Build a city next door and they’ll both do better. - Agriculture is basically decorative without mods and so isn’t really helping your city. - The reason you kept getting fires in the industrial area is because only the area covered by the ring is protected (same for all service buildings). Ideally you want the entire city covered in fire stations. - I know it’s a mod but you really need NAM, it includes some bug fixes and lots of extra transport tools, which make this game much easier.
Thanks for the tips! Always helps. I'm still playing on and off when I have some free time between being an adult and making videos 😅 I guess a lot has fallen out of memory over the years of not playing, or maybe just getting used to Cities Skylines 🤔 Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video, even with my mistakes 🙏
Will probably only happen if EA sells the franchise. Considering they are still making 20$ a pop off SimCity 4 this many years later, I don't see that happening.
@@marekkos3513 agreed. Sim city is a much deeper simulation that skylines 1. Once you satisfy all the needs of a section of the map all you need is good traffic flow and it runs perfectly. Even SimCity(2013) had more depth in this regard. Hopefully they can bring that to SC2.
@@marekkos3513 The most recent developer diaries and feature highlight videos confirm two SimCity features: modular service buildings, and intercity trade of city services.
So about the police kiosk, buildings like that do in fact exist. The most famous one in my opinion is the NYPD Times Square station. It’s called a station but if you look at an image of it, it looks like a kiosk.
Really! We don't have kiosks like that in Denmark, at least not where I live. Might be that the country is not big enough 😅 Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏😄
I never played sim city before up untill now and I'm having a blast! I can say that even without the nostalgia factor this game is just objectively fantastic :) Seeing you play was so much fun, I'd love to watch a series from it
Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏😄 Always great to have people go back to these games! They may be a little outdated in some aspects, but if you enjoy the retro style they are definitely worth it 😅
Aaaah, this brings me so.much high school nostalgia of 2003 😭 In the midst of Ragnarok Online popularity that time, Im the odd one playing this game And yeah, my first city is a dumpster fire where I have no idea what im doing. Everyone protests, some citizens in my city threaten me with violence and eveyone in my advisor board hated me 🤣💔 not to mention the reset of the city resembling a rapture, its incredibly scary! Glad seeing your Simcity playthroughs getting so much love!
I have so much nostalgia for SC4, it was amazing for that time. And one with a great community and a lot of user generated content that made gamereplayable a lot. SimCity 2013 was a really big step backwards in my opinion, mostly because of the small plot sizes. really liked the video, keep it up!
The background music can drive you nuts. And some passages are not always played. There was one bit of music I didn't often hear, and I was pleased that I found it on You Tube recently, as a stand alone sound clip. It was a haunting number,...an odd mixture of old time sounds, that reminded me of a Funeral dirge and modern "trance" music, or house music.
Simtropolis has some add-ons you would enjoy in order to make the cities better and more profitable, as the original game wasn't that complete. "Super cash park", network add-on mode", peg farms mode, etc....
No road access is a bit of a glitch, but if it doesn't go away, it just means that the jobs are too far away for the people to go to. The no jobs will also go away if you make more connections to the industry and create more jobs. If you had put down a highschool in town and some small parks in the industry areas, you would have created high tech industry which also employes high wealth residents.
In this game there used to be some cheat codes - and some Easter eggs as well. Typing somewhat with „dollysheep“ turned all these nerving consultant’s faces into goats 🐐😂
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is an amazing city builder. In nowadays computer we need to use the SC4 Launcher to make the game works with mods and in 1080p (otherwise it will close suddenly). It made my childhood so much better lol
My version of this game is formatted for MAC, and I think it has some limitations, not associated with the PC version. In the early years when I played it, there were all sorts of CHEATS,...or key configurations that awarded you endless amounts of money, & you never had to resort to taking out loans, and you also accessed prized properties, without having to build really successful cities. You could have an airport or amusement park, without having to have a certain amount of citizens. When my MAC was updated/upgraded, sometime along the way, I was blocked from accessing those CHEATS. I still play the game but it is slower going, and I am forced to keep a realistic spending budget. Bankruptcy and complete failure is a possibility.
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i saw a police kiosk for the first time this year when i traveled to the philippines
My only problem with SC4 is that it didn't have Asian buildings SC3000 had and that's why I always end up playing SC3000 more because I can recreate a relatable town.
I wonder why suddenly we all are playing SC4 again lol I have built multiple cities, and finished the one I was working on 15 years ago when my computer just couldn't handle me filling the big map.
This game gives me such a rush. There's a huge learning curve, but there is with CS1 also and will be with CS2. That's part of what makes the game fun :)
You don't want to compare them but you should. SC4 is a great citybuilder, SC2013 isn't (and skylines isn't either. Skylines is a terrible public transport game with hints of citybuilding put on top, nothing more. Even cities XL is a better citybuilder than Skylines)
I agree SimCity 4 is a better city builder. I think SimCity 2013 has its pros but definitely also its cons! I have high hopes for Cities Skylines 2, I think the devs learned a lot with the first game. At least it seems like they are adding some awesome features to it! 😄
Old man here!....I began playing SimCity 4 in 2003 when I was 50. I had never played any kind of computer game before. It could be addictive and I played it a lot for at least 10 years, then stopped and recently picked it up again and I am 70, now. I love that it is a relatively slow game, and there is no violence or killing. It is kind of meditative,...the preprogramed music is interesting, though over the years I began editing them out. My favorite is the GOD mode,...laying down forests, creating rivers, and mountains, landscaping , & earth moving. At the time I began playing the game, I was an active member of my community, and that meant I had opportunities to shape and grow the community I lived in. I was tickled by how close the operation of the Sim City, paralleled my reality. The housing stock resembled my real neighborhood. Sometimes I would just get lost in the scenery, and lose touch with reality.
a lot of the architecture ingame is either 1800s or 90s postmodernism, if you look online in places like simtropolis you may even be able to find real life local buildings.
@@circleinforthecube5170 Cool!....Thanks.
Greatest City Builder of all time. CitiesSkylines is so easy and not challenging at all after you learn it (still a great game). This game still challenges me 20 years later. Amazing soundtrack too.
I sincerely think that you deserve a lot more subscribers because you really have the feeling of being a youtuber and I think I'm not the only one to feel it. The editing is quality on top of that and it makes for a great video. To come back to SimCity 4, it totally rocked my childhood and it was the first management game I had, but it will still be much better than SimCity 5.
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏😄
Think the first management game I played was SimCity 3000. My friend had for PC, though SimCity 4 was the first SimCity game I owned myself (for my parents money) 😂
I know this video is several months old now. But if you come back to this, a few helpful tips:
- Your city growth is limited somewhat by neighbourhood connections. Build a city next door and they’ll both do better.
- Agriculture is basically decorative without mods and so isn’t really helping your city.
- The reason you kept getting fires in the industrial area is because only the area covered by the ring is protected (same for all service buildings). Ideally you want the entire city covered in fire stations.
- I know it’s a mod but you really need NAM, it includes some bug fixes and lots of extra transport tools, which make this game much easier.
Thanks for the tips! Always helps. I'm still playing on and off when I have some free time between being an adult and making videos 😅
I guess a lot has fallen out of memory over the years of not playing, or maybe just getting used to Cities Skylines 🤔
Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the video, even with my mistakes 🙏
As much I cant wait for CS2 , I hope we going to get a new Simcity game in the future
Will probably only happen if EA sells the franchise. Considering they are still making 20$ a pop off SimCity 4 this many years later, I don't see that happening.
@@Secretsofsociety Its good we have Colosal Order and Cities Skylines 1,2.I hope CS2 will be a good mix with Simcity games.
@@marekkos3513 agreed. Sim city is a much deeper simulation that skylines 1. Once you satisfy all the needs of a section of the map all you need is good traffic flow and it runs perfectly. Even SimCity(2013) had more depth in this regard. Hopefully they can bring that to SC2.
Waiting for CS2 aswell! But I agree I new SimCity or at least a reboot of the Franchise would be fun 😄
@@marekkos3513 The most recent developer diaries and feature highlight videos confirm two SimCity features: modular service buildings, and intercity trade of city services.
Keep playing Simcity 4! It’s such a good game.
It was fun going back! Will see if I can do more! 😄
So about the police kiosk, buildings like that do in fact exist. The most famous one in my opinion is the NYPD Times Square station. It’s called a station but if you look at an image of it, it looks like a kiosk.
Also nice video
Really! We don't have kiosks like that in Denmark, at least not where I live. Might be that the country is not big enough 😅
Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏😄
I never played sim city before up untill now and I'm having a blast! I can say that even without the nostalgia factor this game is just objectively fantastic :) Seeing you play was so much fun, I'd love to watch a series from it
Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏😄
Always great to have people go back to these games! They may be a little outdated in some aspects, but if you enjoy the retro style they are definitely worth it 😅
Great video! The nostalgia and the game of my childhood/early teens. THIS is the game that created by love for city building games, love love CS4.
Glad you enjoyed the video!🙏 I think we are in the same boat! SC4 was my introduction to City Building games as well 😄
Aaaah, this brings me so.much high school nostalgia of 2003 😭
In the midst of Ragnarok Online popularity that time, Im the odd one playing this game
And yeah, my first city is a dumpster fire where I have no idea what im doing. Everyone protests, some citizens in my city threaten me with violence and eveyone in my advisor board hated me 🤣💔
not to mention the reset of the city resembling a rapture, its incredibly scary!
Glad seeing your Simcity playthroughs getting so much love!
SimCity 2013 is more dead than SimCity 4 💀
Can't deny that 😅
shockingly yes, but it's more alive than 10 years ago
I still play it
@@Early2000sPs2games me too
Iam also play
I have so much nostalgia for SC4, it was amazing for that time. And one with a great community and a lot of user generated content that made gamereplayable a lot. SimCity 2013 was a really big step backwards in my opinion, mostly because of the small plot sizes. really liked the video, keep it up!
It was, it really was. Its a shame though there was so much potential for SC 2013 to be great.
Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏😄
I still play sim city 4 till this day. Amazing game and ahead of its time
Definitely was! Still is a good game, scary how little I remembered 😅
Amazing game. The NAM improves the game and unlocks the road connections you were trying to make there near the end.
that no road connection sign when they do have a road connection means they cannot get to the jobs they can have, as a medium wealth resident
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoy the video 🙏😄
The background music can drive you nuts. And some passages are not always played. There was one bit of music I didn't often hear, and I was pleased that I found it on You Tube recently, as a stand alone sound clip. It was a haunting number,...an odd mixture of old time sounds, that reminded me of a Funeral dirge and modern "trance" music, or house music.
Simtropolis has some add-ons you would enjoy in order to make the cities better and more profitable, as the original game wasn't that complete. "Super cash park", network add-on mode", peg farms mode, etc....
Might have to look into that! I have never been the biggest mod user, except for Skyrim 😆
No road access is a bit of a glitch, but if it doesn't go away, it just means that the jobs are too far away for the people to go to. The no jobs will also go away if you make more connections to the industry and create more jobs.
If you had put down a highschool in town and some small parks in the industry areas, you would have created high tech industry which also employes high wealth residents.
Ohh okay, thought it might be a glitch. I figured out a bit late that more transit should have been put in.
That is for the future to fix 😄
I loved playing SimCity as a kid 😂
Me too! I have some fond memories of failing my Sims 😂
In this game there used to be some cheat codes - and some Easter eggs as well. Typing somewhat with „dollysheep“ turned all these nerving consultant’s faces into goats 🐐😂
Really? 😂
Never explored the cheats in the game, don't tend to use them 😅
I played it recently and it has aged like fine wine.
Agreed! 😄
I was addicted to this game as a kid
It was/is a great game 😄 wish I understood more of it when I was a kid, but I didn't know English at the time 😂
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is an amazing city builder. In nowadays computer we need to use the SC4 Launcher to make the game works with mods and in 1080p (otherwise it will close suddenly). It made my childhood so much better lol
My version of this game is formatted for MAC, and I think it has some limitations, not associated with the PC version. In the early years when I played it, there were all sorts of CHEATS,...or key configurations that awarded you endless amounts of money, & you never had to resort to taking out loans, and you also accessed prized properties, without having to build really successful cities. You could have an airport or amusement park, without having to have a certain amount of citizens. When my MAC was updated/upgraded, sometime along the way, I was blocked from accessing those CHEATS. I still play the game but it is slower going, and I am forced to keep a realistic spending budget. Bankruptcy and complete failure is a possibility.
i saw a police kiosk for the first time this year when i traveled to the philippines
its crazy how gaming chagned, I dont even have CD port in my PC anymore
Ohh yeah, even my Xbox doesnt have a CD port 😅
@@victiusplays sad for all the games that we have in disc though. I really want to play sims 2 again but no chance
This game is screaming for a remaster.
My only problem with SC4 is that it didn't have Asian buildings SC3000 had and that's why I always end up playing SC3000 more because I can recreate a relatable town.
That's true actually now that you mention it. I never really thought of it 😅
I wonder why suddenly we all are playing SC4 again lol I have built multiple cities, and finished the one I was working on 15 years ago when my computer just couldn't handle me filling the big map.
I would guess it's the wait for Cities Skylines 2 combined with some nostalgia. Is for me at least 😅
Or maybe just that it still is a great game 🤔
and if you get unlucky and got a scratch on one of your favorite cd disc you couldt play it anaymore ;---;
That sucked! I remember that happening with my original Sims 2 cd. Had to beg my mom for a new one 😂
@@victiusplays for me it was black&white 2
A scratch is how I lost my SimCity 2000 CD. 😢 I had to wait for it to be available online to play it again.
This game gives me such a rush. There's a huge learning curve, but there is with CS1 also and will be with CS2. That's part of what makes the game fun :)
Yea, I don't remember to much about the game, but I honestly thought I was better at it than I turned out to be 😂
Do you know the Game "Locomotion"? Its one of my fav childhood games. If you played it as well you could make a video out of it ;)
Never played it no, it came out around the same time as SimCity 4 right? 😅
How do they compare?
@@victiusplays I think release was around 2004. Basically its like Transport Fever in old 😁
Wait, this game is 20 years old 😮😮😮
Yup, quite scary to think about actually 😅
Damn why do you have so few subscribers
You don't want to compare them but you should. SC4 is a great citybuilder, SC2013 isn't (and skylines isn't either. Skylines is a terrible public transport game with hints of citybuilding put on top, nothing more. Even cities XL is a better citybuilder than Skylines)
I agree SimCity 4 is a better city builder. I think SimCity 2013 has its pros but definitely also its cons!
I have high hopes for Cities Skylines 2, I think the devs learned a lot with the first game. At least it seems like they are adding some awesome features to it! 😄
this game needed 2 cds to install
It was definetly something back then! I remember installing WoW in like 2006, it needed 4 cds to install😅
I recently played this again after 12 or 13 years later….still a trash mayor
Hahaha same! 😂
Your accent is so weird
Yeah, that's the Danish interfering 😅