LGR - Cities: Skylines Campus Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Taking a look at the eighth expansion pack to Cities Skylines! Does the new university gameplay improve the simulation and is it worth the asking price? Find out in this overview of Campus!
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I'll be honest, In addition to the usual good content, I am also here for the bit about how Cities: Skylines got a University pack before the Sims 4.
I would rather have an vacation pack for Sims 4 then university.
@@thegamingwolf8755 - also already in Cities: Skylines, but not in The Sims 4.
The GamingWolf87 There already is a vacation pack. Kind of.
@@thegamingwolf8755 apparently there's an upcoming Island Paradise pack for the Sims 4
@@estignatic i hope they finally allow you to swim in the ocean if true
"they sent me a review code, so here i am, reviewing it, although it took a little longer than i'd planned"
so you mean to tell me... this is some sort of... "lazy game review"?
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Honestly C.O should just make a life simulator at this point, seeing how dedicated and creative they are they would blow the Sims 4 out of the water.
Exactly.
Imagine having the ability to have a "cim" living in you city kinda like Sim City 4/The Sims 2 integration.
@@pedrofelck huh yeah i remember that. That would be pretty sweet.
@@pedrofelck Always wanted my sim to live in this kind of city. Not necessary full open world, but view from your house would be immersive.
Yeah...I keep suggesting paradox throw their hat in the ring. Something to fill that Sims/The Guild hybrid void that neither game series has managed to scratch perfectly. Something where you can make a roleplaying life-sim sandbox in a specific time period and all that entails.
That was and remains one of my biggest complaints about the Sims 3 (aside of course for just getting a new engine optimized to run that sort of game). Despite chronologically being a Prequel to Sims 1, it has even more advanced tech and every human being is born with a cell phone in their ass that can cause the game to break/work strangely if you try to remove them to create a town set in like the 70's or 60's).
They focus almost more on the varsity sports over the education. Just like the real education system!
A true simulation game
Well not in Europe
E3kHatena actually it’d be more on the city being more interested in a multi million dollar stadium rather than the schools education.
i'm actually glad they expanded on the sports and stadiums, match day was fine since it was free but i did wish for more sports stadiums since it isn't very realistic to make an american city with just a football/soccer stadium
@@TheLionTurtle nOt iN eUroPe, Europe has more parks for elders than sport infrastructure, that tells a lot about the region we live in, Europe sadly has no Sport culture, it's youth is focused getting high and drunk....
You know its a good review when you watch it for entertainment and not to know if the dlc is good or not
@@CarrotConsumer why not?
I like this DLC a lot
Oh yes, that sweet shade towards the Sims 🍵
I’ll wait for them to release a homeless pack, so I can accurately simulate downtown Seattle.
@@LordBruuh Don't forget LA Skit row zoning
I'd love to see really ghetto parts forming in certain conditions. Would be interesting. It's made by Finns so they have no clue what a ghetto is though.
In this case they should already add a bad drug and existential policies, with a corrupted politicians pack.
yaya
@@OpiumBride imagine paying 4k to live in a literal shithole...and no, im not happy about the sate of SF nowdays :(
You know what would be kind of cool? A City-States expansion. It would have a few more buildings, probably, but also upgrades to public services so they can function independently of any county or national government, the ability to enact policies that a nation would usually deal with, a governance system consisting of: elections, having to work with different caucuses of representatives, drawing voting districts, things like that. It would require a hell of a lot of research and it would take a while, but I think it would certainly shake things up.
cities: Statelines
@@jackalenterprisesofohio Lol
Feels like something Paradox would do, I would like that and buy it as a separate game. Cities: Politics would be cool to see.
literally the game named Citystate
@@h.f6364 I'm gonna check that out, thanks!
I'm a simple man, I see a new video on LGR and I cry out in an unreasonable amount of joy and enthusiasm, startling my coworkers in the process. I bull-rush through the cubicle isle, knocking women and children out of the way as I scream in excitement "LGR! LGR!" A tear comes to my eye. A tear of joy. I wipe it away as I remember I need to stay macho. Everyone begins to stare. I don’t care. I’m already out the door and starting my car. I speed home with the fury of a starving lion taking down a gazelle. But the lion is malnourished. So am I. I haven’t had a new LGR video in a few days. I finally arrive home, my palette whet. Work clothes off. Comfy clothes on. I sit back, relax, and begin the journey. Oh sweet heaven. I am home. I watch the episode and it really lubes my gears something swell. 8 sweet minutes later I fall asleep from the crash after the adrenaline rush. I awake the next morning to a phone call. It’s from the boss. I’ve been fired for leaving work on a Monday at 8:30 in the morning with no notice of absence. I don’t care, LGR!
Why were there children in the cubicle isle?
Well, that was an unexpected rollercoaster of emotion and dubious heath and safety practices.
@@AgentWaltonSimons Not at all; he wasn't foaming at the mouth, he didn't crash his car, he changed into his comfy clothes instead of whipping off his pants; all in all, a calm, measured response to an LGR video
I love how depending on the college you have it has different benefits for the city.
So Much LGR goodness the last couple weeks. I love it! I really need to get around to playing this game ...
Absolute must for Tycoon/Sim lovers. Mind you it took me quite a while to get the hang of it. It's not like other Tycoon games. And every map deserves it's own approach. And just start with the base game - or you must find a good deal - 'cause that has already a lot to offer.
My main problem is that it's just an US campus. While parks and industries look roughly the same everywhere, campuses look vastly different from country to country.
That's why there's mod support
Everything in this game is more US related and I think it's odd choise and don't know why they do it in that way. There are no reason to pleasure only US gamers. Why wouldn't support at least both: europe and US... and maybe even asia? Three big ones. There are huge amount of gamers from both areas. It's mostly (not completely) just a visual type of change. And developers are mostly from a EU area (Finland). I found its kind of funny too.
I can't wait for Paradox Interactive to make their own Sims Game.
If they work hard, not like this thing in the audio department. Sims 4 has 7.1 surround sound and atmos support if you hook up your PC to a XOne.
Fast forward , they are working on a life simulation game😃
I can only imagine the amount of work you've been doing to pump these shows out in such a short span of time. Good job Clint.
Beibee alright calm down beibee
I feel like it’s time for cities skylines 2. They could introduce a different coding that allows for changing seasons and real time wind that can cause things like pollution to blow to different parts of the city for example
I enjoyed an option in one of the flight sim games I used to play that used to copy the weather outside. So what ever the weather was outside it was just like that in the game.
Definitely agree. With Intel and AMD battling over who can cram more cores onto their CPUs, it's a good time to look at making a new game with new system requirements for better AI. Not to mention, as much as people like modding, better streamlining would help (for instance the loading screen mod should be something baked into the game from the start)
Not only that zoning has always been wonky where roads curve and meet at angles besides 90 degrees, so that could use a fresh look as well.
Finally, the network add-on mods for both Cities Skylines and also past sim games (notably Sim City 4) really speaks to players wanting more robust options for roads and transit, and the road mod tool they added some time ago is nice, but it would be much better to have some sort of dynamic road system and a lane chooser when placing roads.
It doesn't have to be Cities Skylines 2. It could be DLC or Free update, just like they do in CK2. The game is VERY young in Paradox Calendar and there are still so many opporturnities to explore, like environmental change, local politics, social demographic, Holidays and Vacation themed DLC, etc.
In other note, they really should rework dating syatem because a few day would pass and the sun hasn't setted yet. Also there is no overall trebds, for example people just build according to level, but there is no change in housing style trebds, or highrises change, like if you already have a mature city, it'll remain that way which could resulted in a pretty boring gameplay inthe long run.
@@AlexS-oj8qf yes, but the fixing day thing would be crazy, the sun would set like every 3 seconds, but they could change the length of 1 full day
You got your wish
Personally I would like to see the traffic algorithm tweaked so that the cars make full use of the roads and not just one lane.
Damn this has turned into a deep and complex game... This dlc alone is more complicated than many Steam games.
Someone hasn't found Paradox Development Studio games yet.
@@R3GARnator Technically Cities: Skylines is a Paradox game. Well published by them anyway.
@@sunnycorax I think that's what he meant. He's saying it's an example of the stuff they publish
@@R3GARnator I'm actually a big Crusader Kings fan. Yes, that game is also deep and complex. There can be multiple games that put the majority of steam to shame.
No, only published by them. Their studios games include Europa Universalis IV, Victoria II, Hearts of Iron IV, Stellaris. Each of those is more deep and complex than this i'd say.
I can't stress enough how much I enjoy listening to you talk about city building sims after playing Bloodborne for eight hours. It's therapeutic.
at some point we're just gonna get a The Skyliners which will completely overtake The Sims
With a build in option to import your Cities Skylines city into it.
The Sims 4 would have to be the last decent sims game and 10 years have to pass with a disappointing reboot in order for a game studio to produce a true spiritual successor to The Sims. That is if it follows the same trend that we saw from Simcity and RCT.
Following the five-year release pattern, we probably should’ve heard about a _The Sims 5_ by now. I feel like EA is leaving that franchise to die because they can’t turn it into a “LiVe SeRvIcE”, and I never got invested into 4 so the sooner a proper successor to 3 comes along, the better if you ask me.
Raymond Shades Skyliners are called Cims
Gameactive They’re not leaving it to die, the 5th game is probably in development but they’ve confirmed the Sims 4 has a few years left
Next up, Cities Skylines Supernatural! I think that's the only pack missing? Eh, who knows...
World Adventures, Ambitions, Pets (?), Supernatural, Seasons (kinda as we only static summer or static winter) and into the future are the ones missing.
Cities Skylines Kaiju Invasion maybe?
@@han_2803 Now there's a good one! Like the SimCity 2016's Cities of Tomorrow. I'd pay good money for City Skylines Future DLC.
I don't think we're going to go too fantastic, that's never really been a thing in Cities Skylines. The recent DLCs have all been about expanding the unrealistic tiny prefabs into free-form areas that can serve the entire city, and I think there are a few more things in the game where that would be somewhat easy to do.
Prefabs relating to outside connections other than highways are one big area where districts could improve realism dramatically, as airports, harbors and railway terminals are all way too under-sized currently and it's hard to get the AI to use them properly. (For example, you can't just add extra capacity to a busy cargo terminal by building another one next to it, as the AI will always drive to the closest one even if the other isn't busy). Being able to build a large harbor, train yard or airport facility and have the game reward you for it by actually making use of everything would be really nice.
Another thing that could do with expansion is hospitals - the closest several hospitals to where I live are all huge, sprawling complexes where the original building is more of an administration office now and basically every specialty has their own building, from trauma medicine and orthopedics to oncology and maternity wards. There's one hospital in the general area that tried to build tall, but even then a bunch of services had to move out into adjacent buildings because of capacity issues. The only problem is that it'd be difficult to sell a DLC that only does hospitals for 13 or 15 dollars, and while you could combine it with a free-form cemetery system, I don't see how you'd level that up in a similar way to a hospital. :(
@@Winchester1979 Maybe there could be a more "emergency services" DLC where you could plop a bunch of different police departments, fire departments and big hospitals.
so cities skylines got a university pack before sims 4
how
And hasn't get surround sound yet, 4 years after launch.
Dont worry,we are getting another stuff pack next month
Traffic DLC?
-More roads like 5 Lane roads or roads that can support trees bike lanes and parking all at once.
-Overhaul traffic and make the AI a bit smarter. Make it where the could do U-Turns or wait to turn until cars stop coming. Cars move to the side or stop when emergency vehicles are approaching.
-Add signs like no u-turns or yield near schools. Add street signs and no parking or add red curbs.
-Accidents and just inconveniences. Car accident maybe a very slim chance a semi tipped over. A tree fell down on the road or the lights are not working.
-New lights like traffic lights that have the regular three but with the turn left light too. Lights that you can change the length of how long the lights are green before it changes to red.
These are the basics I think and there should be more that I can't think of right now. I live in Los Angeles and I am basing these ideas on the stuff I see on the road.
Admit it, you just spend weeks starring at your shiny new dot matrix colour printer!
That color printer episode has me looking for color ribbons now for my printer
Love your game reviews, Clint! It's my favorite type of content on your channel!
I'm hoping to see one more of these, but for shopping. Paint a mall zone, then throw together a stip, open air, or closed mall.
I can RICO and parking lot roads up something close, but I'd like an official capacity.
"As always, thanks for bringing some high quality content".. :) - loooots of nostalgy/fun on your channel...
You should review surviving mars. It’s a a Mars colony simulator that I think would be right up your alley.
This looks kind of cool, actually. As a SimCity kid I find this fascinating to play! Building your bustling metropolis and managing it is a wonderful pastime. I always just enjoyed watching little Sim-cars drive around the roads.
Simple pleasures.
Seeing a new LGR review makes my day.
Gotta be honest tho, these new ones are good, but the classic windows and dos ones are where its at.
I wish I had more time to play this game. I don't think I've bought a single expansion for it since it came out.
Life is short, take your time to enjoy things before it's too late. Everybody says it's never too late but these are just comforting lies.
Why not wait for a sale? You can buy at a reduced price or better, wait for a free offer if you're lucky enough. I bet you, it'll be very good if you have one of the expansions.
I wish they add something revolutionary like it was in transportation. Maybe, city politics expansion pack or mafia expansion pack.
politics yes. mafia, add that with the politics stuff as well as car crashes, as well as other little stuffs that make the city more lively, like rush hour y'know
I had a really shitty time today, and this cheered me up. Thank you ❤️
Franklin School of Farts?? Good to see you're still keeping it classy around here!
Love the review! Clint are you planning on doing an updated review of No Man's sky?? The game has changed so much since your first review!
Hmm, specialized museums and libraries sound really cool
7:12 "Rushed Script District" gave me a good chuckle.
The sameness of the mechanism was also a problem for me about buying this. It makes sense, they put effort into adding this capability into the game, so they're milking it. Maybe if it weren't third in a row using it, it would have seemed more worth it after something else.
IMO, and I'm working out a good way of wording it, the game needs underlying changes to how the game "works". And things like traffic management, asset utility and pedestrianised areas could help add more "world" to the game, if the game had the ability to do this. You can make your own roads to allow just heavy goods through an area, or use districts one road wide to forbid anything but city services access, but these are both fairly cludgey, they are part of traffic management mods, though. You can't mix industry (say, for example, the local machinist or business baker, to supply workplaces or shops some local goods) with residential (the old world had business owners make the housing for the workers right next door so that the workers could get to producing quicker), and things like the Mall are not shops, but tourism spots. Why not add policies that allowed housing to mix in an industrial zone that mitigates the downsides of pollution for residents (at a cost)? Add policies that allow industrial zones to produce without much pollution (at a cost) in residential areas, so you can mix up housing with urban residential appropriate factories? Make ploppable buildings able to count as X cells of Y type, not only allowing the Malls to act as actual shops, but also allowing modders to add those features to their plopable assets?
As always, the problem for game writers is how to do this so that you can sell it and make money.
Yeah, this DLC feels very lazy. Also very US centric. Many universities around the world don't run on "campuses". Students just live somewhere in the city, university buildings are in different places and none really cares about university sport teams in Europe.
They need to fix the cargo system for example, like make a cargo train terminal that is worth it's name and can deal with all the cargo coming in (apparently a limitation of the code, because even after all those years there's no single mod or asset that fixes this). Or give control if a cargo terminal is used for inner city or import/export only. Or make a cargo terminal only service the district it is placed in.
A change on how buildings grow would be nice, too. Currently higher level buildings are "denser" as well. Would be nice to have low level, but "dense" buildings, with more pollution, crime and less tax payed per inhabitant. And how many people live in a building should somehow be related to how many other buildings are near it and how populated they are. You don't have a skyscraper among simple apartment buildings on the edge of a city. But that's what happens in this game.
I'm here for the LGR in LGR! I know its not the breadwinner, but I always look forward to your game reviews.
I hope they'll release a "Mixed Zone" or "vertical city" pack. Where you can zone Industrial and Commercial "Platforms" that we can build road and other transportation on top of and then zone other zones. For example, build a high way on the ground, then commercial platform block on top of that highway, then ramps that go above the commercial block block where we build regular roads and residential zone. The platform zone are always high density but anything above them can be low or high density.
After watching tons of these videos Im wondering where all the parking is. Does it not take into account parking spaces and lots? Like the industrial and commercial areas should really make you build parking lots for workers and shoppers. Homes can have garages and street parking but the city area should make you take parking into account.
Thanks for making this! I've watched a couple other reviews and still didn't know about campuses potentially losing reputation until now.
Yay I'm in time for your new uploads for once! Thank you for videos as always, your weekly upload was something I look forward to every weekend.
I miss your old intro... mostly because I'm nostalgic about things
[jazz plays all jazzily] best CC I've seen in a while.
One of these days I’ll have to actually play Cities Skylines. It looks pretty good.
I would like to see a more in-depth simulation of policing, crime and crisis management from a human risks rather than a natural disasters perspective. Intelligence agencies uncovering the organised criminal underground, terrorist plots or hacker groups. Critical infrastructure protection and security management. Swat teams raiding locations. Police car intercept chases. Riots and riot police with crowd control and agent-based modelling. Terrorist attacks and organized crimes (bombs, hijackings, hostage takeovers, robberies). Generally, I think the developers should focus more on creating more complex organisational problems for one to manage. Ideally, I would like a more gritty city simulation experience looking at managing social conflict and insecurity in megacities. It would be awesome to manage various doctrines, policies, equipment, staffing levels and critical infrastructure locations or investing in their structural hardening and watch events unfold at random based on the local self-organising interactions of multiple agents (gangs, groups, state units etc) within a megacity that you manage indirectly through strategic policymaking.
Another great video LGR,such great review,you nailed it,and all great explained in just 8 minutes.I love your work LGR and so keep up good work. 👌😊
Another HUGE LGR fan ... best reviews can be found here :}
The closed captioning is hilarious...
[jazzy music]
[floppy drive sound]
YES! I have been waiting for your review!
Clint didn't get to this yet because.....lazy game reviews.....thats the name of the game....
Hahaha, nah, im just yankin yer chain. Clint's one of the hardest working tubers out there.....to the point it almost makes his brand name a paradox (see what i did there :] ). Great content and an all around good dude!!
Thank you so much for all the Skylines reviews! They’ve been super helpful for me deciding which things to buy. Luckily with this series, there’s not really been any stinkers.
I wish this pack was a bit broader in scope. Like, I wish primary and secondary schools were also part of the equation, and other aspects of education. How about private companies such as tutoring institutes, foreign language institutes? Or other stuff like homeschooling policies? And then a whole thing about how all these different forms of education affect the populace and city.
What's weird about the sims 4, compare it to the sims 3 and you'll see a lot of new features the sims 4 has, were already in the 3rd game before it ended.
The dragging walls and everything staying where it was? The Sims 3 had it too. Granted near the end but still; the sims 4 barely has any big content beyond that strangevile one and usually they'd be into expansion 6-7 by now.
Where the university campus? The holiday location? The superstar studios? Even the sims 1 had more stuff at this point. Did EA just give up on the game? Or are they too busy giving us tiny stuff packs?
Spoiler alert: it's the stuff pack thing.
Does this allow you to make citizens that will work in industry even though they are educated? i hated making stupid towns so my industry doesn’t die out.
There’s a policy called industry 4.0 which makes all zoned industry require only well and highly educated citizens.
not gonna lie that "hehe" at 1:13 fucking killed me, another amazing review pal, keep it up
I actually kinda want them to use the same district-painting template they used for Parklife, Campus and Industries but apply it to sports, so we can design things like golf courses or racetracks or ski resorts/mountaineering ranges
A week long trip? Well, that's certainly better than, say, tuberculosis!
Honestly I like these packs cause I think with these they're experimenting for how they wanna do industries, parks, and schooling and even more propably for cities skylines 2 to have at launch
That is not how paradox works lmao sure they make good games but they are after your money these will not be at launch
Does anyone else want the Cities: Skylines devs to try their hand at a household simulator or is it just me?
It would love it if they tried to be the next Maxis.
The Cims would be so cool!
They can call it "Houses: Backyards"
IF and only IF they get the audio on par with Sims 4. Cause this game still plays in Stereo.
I love your reviews, very happy every time I see you upload one.
Been waiting for you to make this review!
I really enjoy all your content, but am already lookng forward to your review of the next DLC - Sunset Harbour!
The slight shade to TS4 and me snickering.
I can’t wait for this to be on console
ima rank the dlcs.
1. After Dark
2. Mass Transit
3. Green Cities
4. Campus
5. Industries
6. Natural Disasters
7. Snowfall
8. Parklife
Parklife is much better than Campus or Natural Disasters. I mean, in real life all cities have big parks, not little boxes that act like parks.
3:51 - Why are these cars on the left using just the same lane on the street?! 🤔
The stock traffic AI does no dynamic lane switching leading to unrealistic traffic on roads with many lanes. The TM:PE plugin rectifies this.
@@jobw Thank you!
Between you and Move the Mouse, I have been anticipating getting back into skylines despite I stopped playing back when After dark dropped. However there's a game similar to this but allows you to go into 3 person and drive around your town as the mayor. Not saying they should but it would be crazy if they actually managed to implement that idea. After hours of hard work just open the tab and go to a walk options and walk and drive amongst your citizens. Coding would be intense but could be done
Probably vacations, make your own vacation destinations
I would love some type of city life update: actual crimes being committed as seen in SimCity 4 and SC 2013, car accidents, etc.
I think a politics or civic update would be interesting as well. All other notable city-building games functioned off of mayoral approval. This game doesn't. It would be interesting to see achievements and advances to how you govern your city. Local politics creates different scenarios, people actually have different mindsets based on where they live. Rallies, protests, demonstrations, etc.
I saw the expansion pack when I opened my game and immediately thought "when am I going to see the LGR video" and here we are
Not into these types of games. However will watch and listen to LGR talk about them all day.
"Unexpected weeklong trip" I guess now we know why, the Computer Reset video.
4:56 thats some serious horsepower
I don't even play modern PC games or really modern games in general, yet I'm oddly drawn to your videos nonetheless just for that soothing, radio DJ-like voice of yours...
I'm taking a break from the game but I know I'll be getting this dlc soon. After 5 years of release, I'm glad this game is still alive and well.
I just found out that some businesses have the universities sports team name on some of the buildings.
It can't be an accurate university or gambling casino simulation--without a ring of abject poverty around the upscale area, because money always flows uphill.
I now wonder; Did you ever get some sort of education, Clint?
Not judging if you didn't by the way, just curious.
Rushed Script District. Yeah. Pretty much every public Dutch university.
Cool little overview. Thanks :D.
Yep, went to college for a BA in graphic design!
Now whether or not I actually _finished_ said degree is another story, ha.
@@LGR That makes two of us. Well, the finishing part. Having me do anything graphic-related would be a recipe for disaster.
I think you mentioned this somewhere before tough, it sounds familiar.
Whatever you did and finished, you win the Internet now so all is well.
I stopped playing Cities Skylines after the second expansion, as I felt it gotten just to complicated for me. Still seeing your review about this pack specifically, as I happen to love school and school policys, makes me want to play again. And all the small details you can control suddenly seems like a win in this pack comparing to the rest of them... not sure why, as "it's to complicated" was the reason I stopped XP
This is why expansions exist and still should be. Not as cut into pieces base game (mostly shame on you EA and Ubisoft), but mostly as expansions for existing mechanics or adding new ones if you need more. And they are mostly done for people who wants to have their game more complex and customizable and fitting for those who love micromanagement in city building sims (most of fanbase of this game). If you don't want make your game more complicated, when you can without a problem stay with base game, that mostly it's pretty solid.
The Sims 4 could never.
AireDaleDogz probably
They can't stop making these types of pack until I get a commercial version :P
HOLY CRAP finaly a real reason to change my aspect ratio to 4k. this is the only normal video ive come across that was 4k 60fps. THANK YOU for making the rest of the content creators look like scrubs :)
Ahh... at least there's an engineering school unlike _The Sims._ Makes me happier as an engineering graduate. Man, I miss my laptop already. Can't be an engineer without three things complete: calculator, a table and a laptop.
with this DLC... no more uneducated childs driving cars on my city
My brain has come to associate you so closely with retro tech I forgot you did game reviews
1 am in the morning, a new LGR video
I would love it if there was an overhaul to how police and prisons.
For the next pack I would love a crime/police pack, where you get to build a criminal empire ( building will make extra money off illicit activities but will bring crime) and you could have some police building trying to dismantle the organized crime hehe
Looks very nice, though it looks very complicated. Would be very worth it to try this DLC (I have to wait for a discount or limited-time free offer) and to make my city look even better. Thanks for the review, LGR!
I'm a huge college football fan; do your college teams have records, watchable games, etc.?
Yes to both, although it's pretty limited compared to say, a football management sim.
@@LGR Oh, that's cool. Regardless, it's a neat feature rather than just the game running some looped animations for a bit then declaring a winner. Might get me in to a city management sim then. :)
Even though it is very derivative of the previous 2 expansions, Campus actually does do one or two things better than those two. One of my biggest complaints with both Parklife and Industries is that legacy parks ploppables and legacy zonable industries weren't really forward-compatible with the respective expansion. It was one of the key points in a video critique I recently made for Skylines expansions:
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You couldn't place legacy park ploppables along paths in Parklife park areas, nor did legacy zonable industry produce or process any resources for the Industries areas. IMO, it basically made those legacy contents obsolete, except in rare edge cases where maybe you needed to place some in a location that wasn't big enough for a full area.
Campus mostly avoids this problem. The university areas take in exchange students, which may prevent local students from attending university. Even if there's plenty of capacity left, I've noticed that many citizens simply don't go to the university. I'm not sure if this is a function of tuition being too high, or the non-attending students being out of the range of the university area's service area, or something else entirely, or some combination. In any case, from my experience with the exp so far, the university areas do not serve all your city's eligible students. This leaves the legacy university ploppables with a very defined and valuable role of acting like "community colleges" that explicitly service local students who can't (or don't want to) attend the bigger university areas.
I just wish that the Match Day soccer stadiums could be converted into varsity sports... :(
This review makes me more excited to incorporate these into my cities - while also making me more angry about industries. Parks was clearly well done & comprehensive as this one appears to be but damn, only 3 industrial sectors in that pack - and all three were already in the base game! Sh*t, I woulda been happy of they just added fishing/seafaring stuff in that pack.... Ooooh hopefully that they in a Oceanside/sea-life game pack
Honestly... I hope to see in C:S someday a mix between this idea of "paintabe districts" with airport-seaport zoning (SC2K), idea that is in execution by a lot of modders of the game. That would be awesome!
I want either a crime expansion (one that adds different kinds of crime) or a pollution update. Its weird how my city is 40% industrial but there is no wind pollution or negative side effects to the surrounding land.
I KNEW HE WAS GONNA MENTION THE SIMS !!
Three LGR videos in one week, and that after a thrifts episode no less! Fantastic!
"Franklin School of the Farts" . I tip my hat to you.
Skylines is now the Sims 4 with the constant expansions luckily I got quite a few yesterday with a humble bundle but I wouldn't pay full price for nearly all of these. I'm expecting skylines 2 next year it's been 5 years since this game came out but its now on consoles so there's more money not it make a sequel
The last time I watched your channel was when you made a review on Sims3 Island Paradise
I gotta say, this is the first DLC of the game that I'm not that excited about.
...but I'll probably end up getting it anyway