This video unlocked a core memory i thought i had lost a long time ago. I was gifted this game by my aunt after she married and she had a little spring cleaning before moving away with her husband. I was 10 at the time. It was the first game I ever played. I used my dad's work PC whenever I got home from school before he got home. If it wasn't for this game, I would've never wished for civ v that I spotted on a shelf in a hobby store for my birthday. That led to me creating a steam account and my world of gaming was never the same after that. Pressing this video, hearing the music and watching the UI layout made me realize that if it wasn't for me being gifted this game, I most likely would never have started getting into video games as heavily as I did. My life would be way different in ways I couldn't even imagine. My friends would be other people, I wouldn't be who I am today. Sometimes small events have big impacts, sometimes the youtube algorithm actually works. You earned a sub.
RollerCoaster Tycoon SoundTrack For Sure! I love when the game started, the classic pyramid and roller coaster sounds. My god Hasbro Interactive nailed Microsoft 98' Gaming haha!
2:19:00 sim city mod that invokes a zombie apocalypse and if the player fails to keep it in check it takes the map, interperpates it into a Project Zomboid map and then you have to survive the apocalypse in the city. and the stats of your city also affect loot and what items you'll get in buildings.
We all know - and very well appreciate - the philosophical wisdoms from Mr. ambiguous. But I think this finally took the price. At 1:13:38, he says "A large fire station, is kind of like a small fire station, but larger". Wow.
@@1ajs exactly! NAM is awesome! I would love to play a SimCity 4 remastered where we would have cable cars, ski mountains, bike trails, etc.... it would be amazing! As I don't like City Skylines and I'm getting tired of SimCity 4 (I've been playing it for the last 15 years lol), I'm searching for a new city builder game. I've found that new one: High Rise City, but this one is still in the very beginning and doesn't have even airports and trains!
I have a game on my phone, its a turnbased pvp strategy game. because its completely sprite based & optimized well, the game takes a fraction of a second to load even on my brick of a phone, which means you don't have to have the game open to play it -- you can take a turn & immediately put your phone away, and when your opponent takes their turn you will get a notification. Click it & it instantly pulls up that match. It's built so well that I used to speed chess like 5 games at the same time while I was at work & nobody noticed -- me taking a turn looked to anyone watching like I was replying "lol" to something my wife said or something. It was great, I loved that game. It was what I wish phone games had become -- instead of what they are, IE call of duty but in a much worse format (uniwar btw)
fun fact when ever you start a new city, if there is land on the center of the map, you see sims in the middle cheering and celebrating, where the fireworks are set off, this only lasts for a couple of seconds, however you can set a few tiles of streets or mark the spot with a sign as point of reference.
After reading your comment, I'd started up the game & loaded my latest city that I'd started earlier today. It just became January and by pure chance, that location you described is where I'd placed my Mayor's House.
I can see that he's missing more roads in the downtown parts of this city. Expansion calls for higher capacity roads that have higher speed limits. He should have upgraded his roads from streets sooner.
These are the kinds of videos I need. No tutorials on the game, just some guy playing normally, while explaining what he’s doing. I love this game but hardly knew how to play it properly. This is the way to go.
I wish city skylines would allow multiple cities like simcity. I'm still amazed how awesome some early 2000s late 90s cp games are. They really did good for the technology they had.
Yeah but the multiple cities thing was only there because of the limitations at the time not being able to run a whole region. Obviously, the region is the real 'city' in sc4. London, Berlin, new York, San Fran in the base game are the regions. The sc4 cities are more like neighborhoods. The free roam large region on CS is what sc4 would've done if the specs at the time were better.
The power plants age overtime and become less efficient, more expensive and produce less, that accelerates when they are not meeting demand. Its worth levelling the oil plants and replacing with solar
Solar is expensive and takes up a lot of land. Then again depends what’s type of city you are building. I always try different things. I usually try to balance everything out. Whether it’s in one city type or stretched out many city tiles. I refuse to copy other people’s get mega quick guides or looking up how to manipulate the game mechanics. One time I was seeing if my city would survive if I slept at night. Simulating the effect that I was a real mayor on vacation. One night a really bad fire took place and water was very low. Woke up to a bunch of abandoned buildings and lost 70% of my population and I accumulated a lot of debt and expenses outweighed the idea of recovery. Instead of quitting or demolish the tile I decided to see if I can recover. As of today it’s the biggest city on my tile map of 9 tiles. I cut a lot of services and lowered taxes substantially I made a bunch of “train” only towns/sections where the only way to visit another section was by train. The designs I did worked very well. Eventually I created adventures and connected via road. Moral of the story it all really depends what’s type you are trying to simulate. I always try to simulate realism and cities of the future. I for one if I had money I would love to try to build a balanced economy. Where most people are not struggling but are not easily given a free pass. Basically try to be a mayor that can survive in a middle class home and don’t need an army of personal to protect me from my actions. Wouldn’t need a lot of money but I would like enough to keep a balanced family that knows the difference between lust and love. You don’t see that with common leaders today. Mostly see self serving entitlists. I’d also would not be opposed to free elections. If someone can do better I’m all for it and I would start a business that wasn’t fabricated by the political knowledge more of as to create good paying jobs and a morale reputation that was built on the idea of humans are designed to learn. I wouldn’t be extremely strict neither extremely lenient, cause those kind environments don’t sustain themselves. Which would imply I would create multiple businesses and limit my salary and focus sustainability and not pure profits. Cause the money doesn’t belong to who built the business it belongs to those that sustained it. Building these kind companies wouldn’t really imply how much money I have more as a reputation of generating success and the main benefit is creating long lasting jobs that pays people well for understanding the importance of these principles.
1:18:20 The traffic you see is not actually "real", its merely a visual representation of the underlying simulation and how busy each individual piece of road is. Unlike sim city 2013 and cities skylines where evey vehicle you see is an agent spawned by the simulation from a building and physically moving from A to B. That's why you see the vehicles constantly fading in and out.
I so miss this game...soon as I heard the song it brought back so many great memories of long nights working on making the perfect city...fine tuning and chipping away at it.
THE URBZ..never thought I would hear someone bring that game up. I swear I was the only one throughout my life who has even heard of that. The Urbz was so cool as far as The Sims goes. Being able to travel to different districts and becoming "cool" enough by wearing the appropriate clothing and earning social emotes. Truly nothing like it at least at the time.
Yo I refurbish vacuums that are used to make semiconductors AND our office is in a low-density residential zone. Sim City and Mr amphibian are accurate af
Hello ! If you're playing with the default game I strongly suggest you install a trafic mode. Because default settings makes every sims use the shortest road toward the destination instead of the fastest resulting in traffic jam. I used to connect my cities to a neighbour to buy water and electricity. This way they didn't become obsolete. The problem was that the neighbour never had any job to provide. And when a sims has to cross the border to work. The amount of worker capable to cross the border is devided by the amount of city you're connected to. So my commercial city always had demand for habitation. And when I switch to the habitation the demand was negative. Just because the sims devided the available job by the amount of city I was connected to. When you start a new city I strongly suggest you put your pollution on another tile. Because pollution doesn't cross the border. This pollu-town is gonna host polluting industries and can also host polluting energy (coal is the cheap one) Then pick again another tile where you can put your water pumping and a little bit of dense commercial just to generate monney. Once that's done you can go back to your main city and make Residentiel and Commercial tiles. Note : Residentiel will not generate enough revenu (even if you have skyscrapers) to pay for what they demand (schools, hospitals,police,....) That's why you need Commercial districts. Another and last tip is related to crime. There is a little bug. The larger it is. The more crime it gets. So, airports will ALWAYS have crime no matter how many police stations you put around it. I hope those tips are gonna help you. Have fun on sims city. (P.S. the game is kinda old and tend to crash on it's own)
People say about a lot of mods that are Essential in SimCity 4 but the only mod I think is truly Essential is the 4 GB patch, the game used to crush on me all the time in the past I would get about 5 to maybe 30 minutes before it would crush and now it never crashes.
@Matthew Singer while I agree it's the one of the best mods there is the network add-on mod isn't truly essential like the 4 GB patch is, it's not like SC4 isn't going to work or be a bad experience because you didn't get the network add-on mod as compared to the 4 GB patch.
I remember wanting to play this game so bad and finding it at my local library but the actual CD wasn't inside the case. Didn't notice until I got home. I was DEVASTATED.
"L'état c'est moi" perfect prononciation. I played so much of this game as a kid but I never understood how to make a profit. Luckily I had a friend who bought a magazine with the cheat codes and I was printing money 1 simflouz at a time haha gaming before the internet was a trip
Watching this video makes me think deeply. As a small child I played Sim City on the Super Nintendo . It really helped me learn to read. I mastered it by five years of age. After that game, I was hooked. I mastered every Sim City till Sim City 4. Now I'm mastering City Skylines. I feel lucky my dad got me into city games at such a young age. If only it payed the bills.
I really like this guys commentary, how he can just go from having a really insightful thought to going "well, that's just my stupid opinion" inside of just a few moments. 😂
Thanks to you, I had a mass blast of nostalgia and spent 4 hours working out NAMv44 and old mods I had (many of which haven't been supported for over 10yrs). Finally got the game to work and now I'm addicted all over again. Only old plugin I couldnt get working is SimPEG Mountain Pack cause it has a few puzzle pieces for avenues that make vanilla NAM shit the bed and crash
Man, I have recently played sims 1 with all expansions, and 2 , and 3. I still have Sims 3 installed with all expansions. The Sims 3 came close to being the ultimate video game.
Sims 3 was the best because it's the only Sims game that was open world and not instanced into tiny zones. I only quit because eventually all my saves became corrupted for long running games.
Dude I got Network addon mod, and holy cow. The most useful thing I've gotten from it is that people actually use my mass transit. My trains are SO BUSY, 10,000 usage a day, but only using 20% of their capacity. I LOVE trains in simcity man
"bohemian" just means something from Bohemia, wich was a country/kingdom in europe in Holy Roman Empire era, speaking high german, englisch didnt even exist back than.
Wow this brings back so many memories. This was my favorite SimCity game and I had played the first 3 as well, ever since I was 7 years old and had the original on SNES. I forgot that SC4 has the same sort of needs panel as the Sims. Cool to see this game again after so many years. I do think overall Cities Skylines has vastly improved the genre, but SC4's farming system was so much better.
The plural of moose is "Oh shit, don't fucking move." Cause those things will kill you. But no seriously, the plural of Moose is Moose. Same for Deer, sheep and Elk. The number one predator (besides humans) of the moose is actually the Orca. Y'know, Killer Whales. No bullshit.
Oh one thing lots of peeps don't know you can cheese the building placements. Like lots of missles, most of the things that only allow one item, you can in fact have MANY. So just before you place the "one item" hold center click, then left click...rinse and repeat as necessary.
I played Sim City 3000 a lot when I was a wee lad. I picked up 4 as a way to kind of relive it, but I don't remember 3000 being nearly as difficult as 4. I think it's due to the desirability mechanics such as commute time and number of customers. PS. Bohemia is a region southeast of Germany, and is basically the Czechs.
You have a great sense of humour and a way with words! I watched RCT videos, The Sims and now this, all games I spent too much of my childhood immersed in. Yet here i am in adulthood, looking back. You are a great game content person! "If i build high tech industry on a hill, will it be HIGHER tech?".
I am listening to Sim City 3 and 4 Soundtrack on spotify almost every day. I can recommend it for anyone that is learning, chilling, working or just wanting some good old memories.
3:10 "Maybe it's because were looking back on a bygone era where there weren't as many games to choose from?" Naw, we're playing these games because computers can still play them easily. Like, granted, an old DOS game or Sim City 4 needs a launcher, but once you get the necessary software hurdles jumped over, it's fine for any quad-core. Like with Cities Skylines, it takes 10 minutes to load a city! 10 minutes!!! Granted, once it loads, it plays fine. but modern games are so graphically advanced that modern computers still have trouble. I just want to play a game without having my graphics card scream in agony at me with 30 fps or something you know? Like Open TTD, I wish I knew about that simple but amazing game sooner
The phrase 'Don't hate the player, hate the game,' springs to mind, but the opposite, because the player has made all decisions to create that spiral. The game is static.
For the record, I think the word 'moose' is already plural. Love this game, the best entry in the series for me, by far, and it's one of the old childhood games I still play today (SimHospital, Civ 4 and Alpha Centauri being the others that stuck with me over the years).
I listen to AA to fall asleep, but I got jolted awake upon realizing that AA and RCE watch each other. Although considering I initially found both of them through the algorithm, I assume the algorithm too would naturally bring together both worlds.
I always wondered, since the simulation is already tracking where each sim lives and works and shops, why can't they figure out how the industrial zones stock those danged commercial zones? Thankfully, Cities: Skylines solved this, and maybe Simcity 2013 did but I don't remember
Cities skylines is terrible when it comes to gaming experience. Its just made for kids I guess. Building assets, lighting, textures and such. You need mods for almost everything 😩 that made me sick and went cold Turkey☹️
Sc4 doesn't really track individual Sims. It just simulates based on flat numbers. Buildings produce a batch of workers and calculates a commute route to a batch of jobs. There is no real shopping, but the commercial service due operate on traffic on the road next to it. Students is just a number based on a portion of residents in a zone and don't actually travel to schools. The only simulated Sims are the 5 Sims you add to your city in simmode.
Omg, 20 years later and I still have the same feels with this game as I once did when i got this brand new, boxed and on CD deluxe edition, back in 2003. I was a kid, and so eager to play it like I was with SimCity 2000 and 3000, back in the 90s. 🤓
This game was on sale this week Jan 24, 2023 on steam. I had the whole Deluxe pack and the 3D simcity on disc in a box set as a kid, but I wanted mod capability. It was only $5. Anyways, thanks for getting me back into it. A tutorial on making a profitable city would be great. I’m always like 200-700 Simoleans short on my budget!
Man I miss playing this game. I tried playing with the hardware configuration but my GPU just doesn't to run it instead running on the integrated processor graphics.
Make sure you buy the steam or GOG version. For some reason the version EA sells trough origin is based on the unpatched version that was on the last retail disk. But they ripped out the original safedisc copy protection and replaced it with their Origin DRM, which changes the .exe checksum. As a result you can't apply the last patch leaving you with a more buggy game . Worst, a lot of addons won't work because of it. On that note, the retail disc version of SC4 doesn't work because W10 because W10 doesn't have the drivers for the Safedisc DRM. The Steam and GOG copies have it removed and work however. You'll need to edit the games launch parameters to force it on one CPU core or it will cras a lot, likewise you need to add lines to run in any modern resolution. Worst case you need to edit some files to have the game recognise your modern video card as well.
I have to say that SC4 soundtrack, even if awesome, can get tiring. SC2013as a game was terrible, but its music was really enjoyable! I really likeplaying Cities: Skylines with SC2013 music.
nearly started crying first started playing this in seniors at like 13....miss those days before adulthood moving out jobs problems it was a good time to be a kid
@@HauntedCorpseGaming I remember when it came out you needed a beast PC to run it on high graphics. Now the problem is that its system resource cap is too LOW, which artificially slows it down.
Then comes the common issue, present in Any city building game, of never making sure your budget for your services never exceeds your revenue from taxes and other sources of income. Especially when you start expanding your city! Been dealing with that since SimCity 2K! Lol.
My first exposure to the series was SimCity 2000. Not sure where I got it from, but I had the CD for the game and tried to play it on the family computer. I didn't really understand what to do so my cities would usually just get destroyed by disasters when I got bored.
I have been playing SC4 on and off for 20 years and have seen the missile launch misfire MAYBE ONCE. AA puts it down and within FIVE MINUTES a rocket explodes in midair. Astounding.
Building games? You have the itch? Come, join us in Space Engineers. We build Icarian paths to the void! Try it out Amphib! I promise you'll enjoy it. I'm glad "Icarian" is a word and means what I thought it would :D
cities skylines is very fun, but i think that it definitely lacks a unique style. that's not necessarily a bad thing, the UI and interface is perfectly serviceable, but it just doesn't get me hooked aesthetically in comparison to the simcity games. same with the music, there are few city games that match the excellence of the simcity soundtracks.
Seriously though. After 15 years someone created cities skylines with worse music, sound effects, assets, lighting, visuals, game play. Only 3d effects, being able to build diagonal and curve roads, assets, not more🤦♂️
Just build streets, a school, library college first, just build a short highway near the border, for hi tech. Avoid watering farms. Check legalize gambling for easy money and fire detectors to avoid fire
The last console I bought was a Wii U. I have a switch now because mobile gaming that doesn't suck is pretty awesome, but I no longer bother with consoles that are stuck to a TV. If I'm going to be sitting there, I'd rather be on my computer as well.
I just fired this game up last week. The art assets are fantastic, the music tickles my nostalgia bone, and it's very fun. I'm having bittersweet memories... OMG I'm old
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco looks like its all there. I am running win 10 and i didn't have to do anything to make it work so far, its not crashed yet and i got about 8 hours of play time. lol
I used to have low density residential sprawl with a small park and a single tile of surface water in every housing block to pump residential prices. I forget which version I played though.
I had a SimCity game once, it had a lovely bug in the coding that resulted in anything above a zero percent tax rating sending your approval rating down the toilet and one section of road produced complaints over too much traffic.
The funniest thing is that this runs better on my old laptop than my new one. It has a hard time understanding the fact that the RTX3070 is a superior card to that of the Intel Integrated GFX... And I've tried everything possible to get it to use the RTX to no avail. Until I found some Voodoo emulator thing that lets me rig things around a bit more and actually use my RTX card. This is by far my favorite city builder of all time. The only thing that I still hate about it to this day is the way shore lots work, even with the best mods, its just such a pain in the ass to get waterfront lots to do what you want.
Still have the copy of Deluxe Edition I got at a Scholastic book fair. Never had a quite good enough pc to run it well, unfortunately, but still have some good nostalgia for it.
fun fact: the more experienced and better you get at this game, the more disgusted you become of your old playstyle.
this so much, kinda like programming
This goes for a lot of things
Same for cities skylines.
It do be like that though...
That was the most diplomatic way of saying "god man what have you done" xD
This video unlocked a core memory i thought i had lost a long time ago. I was gifted this game by my aunt after she married and she had a little spring cleaning before moving away with her husband. I was 10 at the time. It was the first game I ever played. I used my dad's work PC whenever I got home from school before he got home.
If it wasn't for this game, I would've never wished for civ v that I spotted on a shelf in a hobby store for my birthday. That led to me creating a steam account and my world of gaming was never the same after that.
Pressing this video, hearing the music and watching the UI layout made me realize that if it wasn't for me being gifted this game, I most likely would never have started getting into video games as heavily as I did. My life would be way different in ways I couldn't even imagine. My friends would be other people, I wouldn't be who I am today.
Sometimes small events have big impacts, sometimes the youtube algorithm actually works.
You earned a sub.
Lmao this is exactly how I got into strategy games, the simcity - > civilization pipeline is stronger than I thought I guess.
so in other words if your aunt didn't give you this trash game you would actually have a life? lol
@@ps5hasnogames55 Lmao
@@ps5hasnogames55 Name checks out.
@@ps5hasnogames55 your pfp is a pepe meme you obviously don't have one either 😑
I still remember the 8 years old Vladimir playing this for hours after getting home from school. What a game!
Dude the music of SimCity 4 is so nostalgic. This makes me want to play simcity, zoo tycoon and roalercoaster tycoon
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When you up in da club and the SC bangers start dropping 😂
The soundtrack is actually on iTunes!
RollerCoaster Tycoon SoundTrack For Sure! I love when the game started, the classic pyramid and roller coaster sounds. My god Hasbro Interactive nailed Microsoft 98' Gaming haha!
@@citricdemon a try like ikikjkkg
2:19:00
sim city mod that invokes a zombie apocalypse and if the player fails to keep it in check it takes the map, interperpates it into a Project Zomboid map and then you have to survive the apocalypse in the city. and the stats of your city also affect loot and what items you'll get in buildings.
We all know - and very well appreciate - the philosophical wisdoms from Mr. ambiguous. But I think this finally took the price. At 1:13:38, he says "A large fire station, is kind of like a small fire station, but larger". Wow.
the aesthetics of this game are, honestly, unmatched
Yeah, I prefer that aesthetics than cities skylines!
@@iannnavas then u add NAM and all the custom content still being made
@@1ajs exactly! NAM is awesome! I would love to play a SimCity 4 remastered where we would have cable cars, ski mountains, bike trails, etc.... it would be amazing! As I don't like City Skylines and I'm getting tired of SimCity 4 (I've been playing it for the last 15 years lol), I'm searching for a new city builder game. I've found that new one: High Rise City, but this one is still in the very beginning and doesn't have even airports and trains!
yea agreead a remaster would actualy be epic
@@iannnavas as me who have over 1000 hours in cities skylines just can advise you to give it another try with using mods. Makes this game awesome
I really love games with 2d sprites.
They're light, they're beautiful, and they're comfy.
And also hard as nails, I still can't be a millionair in Roller Coaster Tycoon 2.
My spite is 4k however.
This game is fully 3d but with a 2d camera
I think the term being gunned for here is isometric.
I have a game on my phone, its a turnbased pvp strategy game. because its completely sprite based & optimized well, the game takes a fraction of a second to load even on my brick of a phone, which means you don't have to have the game open to play it -- you can take a turn & immediately put your phone away, and when your opponent takes their turn you will get a notification. Click it & it instantly pulls up that match. It's built so well that I used to speed chess like 5 games at the same time while I was at work & nobody noticed -- me taking a turn looked to anyone watching like I was replying "lol" to something my wife said or something. It was great, I loved that game. It was what I wish phone games had become -- instead of what they are, IE call of duty but in a much worse format
(uniwar btw)
fun fact when ever you start a new city, if there is land on the center of the map, you see sims in the middle cheering and celebrating, where the fireworks are set off, this only lasts for a couple of seconds, however you can set a few tiles of streets or mark the spot with a sign as point of reference.
After reading your comment, I'd started up the game & loaded my latest city that I'd started earlier today. It just became January and by pure chance, that location you described is where I'd placed my Mayor's House.
I can see that he's missing more roads in the downtown parts of this city. Expansion calls for higher capacity roads that have higher speed limits. He should have upgraded his roads from streets sooner.
These are the kinds of videos I need. No tutorials on the game, just some guy playing normally, while explaining what he’s doing. I love this game but hardly knew how to play it properly. This is the way to go.
I wish city skylines would allow multiple cities like simcity. I'm still amazed how awesome some early 2000s late 90s cp games are. They really did good for the technology they had.
Yeah but the multiple cities thing was only there because of the limitations at the time not being able to run a whole region. Obviously, the region is the real 'city' in sc4. London, Berlin, new York, San Fran in the base game are the regions. The sc4 cities are more like neighborhoods. The free roam large region on CS is what sc4 would've done if the specs at the time were better.
1:13:43
"A large fire station is kind of like a small fire station but larger"
I can confirm this is accurate
The power plants age overtime and become less efficient, more expensive and produce less, that accelerates when they are not meeting demand. Its worth levelling the oil plants and replacing with solar
Solar is expensive and takes up a lot of land. Then again depends what’s type of city you are building. I always try different things. I usually try to balance everything out. Whether it’s in one city type or stretched out many city tiles. I refuse to copy other people’s get mega quick guides or looking up how to manipulate the game mechanics.
One time I was seeing if my city would survive if I slept at night. Simulating the effect that I was a real mayor on vacation. One night a really bad fire took place and water was very low. Woke up to a bunch of abandoned buildings and lost 70% of my population and I accumulated a lot of debt and expenses outweighed the idea of recovery. Instead of quitting or demolish the tile I decided to see if I can recover. As of today it’s the biggest city on my tile map of 9 tiles. I cut a lot of services and lowered taxes substantially I made a bunch of “train” only towns/sections where the only way to visit another section was by train. The designs I did worked very well. Eventually I created adventures and connected via road.
Moral of the story it all really depends what’s type you are trying to simulate. I always try to simulate realism and cities of the future. I for one if I had money I would love to try to build a balanced economy. Where most people are not struggling but are not easily given a free pass. Basically try to be a mayor that can survive in a middle class home and don’t need an army of personal to protect me from my actions. Wouldn’t need a lot of money but I would like enough to keep a balanced family that knows the difference between lust and love. You don’t see that with common leaders today. Mostly see self serving entitlists. I’d also would not be opposed to free elections. If someone can do better I’m all for it and I would start a business that wasn’t fabricated by the political knowledge more of as to create good paying jobs and a morale reputation that was built on the idea of humans are designed to learn. I wouldn’t be extremely strict neither extremely lenient, cause those kind environments don’t sustain themselves. Which would imply I would create multiple businesses and limit my salary and focus sustainability and not pure profits. Cause the money doesn’t belong to who built the business it belongs to those that sustained it. Building these kind companies wouldn’t really imply how much money I have more as a reputation of generating success and the main benefit is creating long lasting jobs that pays people well for understanding the importance of these principles.
1:18:20
The traffic you see is not actually "real", its merely a visual representation of the underlying simulation and how busy each individual piece of road is.
Unlike sim city 2013 and cities skylines where evey vehicle you see is an agent spawned by the simulation from a building and physically moving from A to B.
That's why you see the vehicles constantly fading in and out.
I so miss this game...soon as I heard the song it brought back so many great memories of long nights working on making the perfect city...fine tuning and chipping away at it.
...20 years?
There's no way it's been 20 years..
THE URBZ..never thought I would hear someone bring that game up. I swear I was the only one throughout my life who has even heard of that. The Urbz was so cool as far as The Sims goes. Being able to travel to different districts and becoming "cool" enough by wearing the appropriate clothing and earning social emotes. Truly nothing like it at least at the time.
Ah, I remember that game.
There was another PlayStation sims game that was similar where you went from house to house as a "roommate" and had tasks to complete
Yo I refurbish vacuums that are used to make semiconductors AND our office is in a low-density residential zone. Sim City and Mr amphibian are accurate af
Hello !
If you're playing with the default game I strongly suggest you install a trafic mode. Because default settings makes every sims use the shortest road toward the destination instead of the fastest resulting in traffic jam.
I used to connect my cities to a neighbour to buy water and electricity. This way they didn't become obsolete. The problem was that the neighbour never had any job to provide. And when a sims has to cross the border to work. The amount of worker capable to cross the border is devided by the amount of city you're connected to.
So my commercial city always had demand for habitation. And when I switch to the habitation the demand was negative.
Just because the sims devided the available job by the amount of city I was connected to.
When you start a new city I strongly suggest you put your pollution on another tile. Because pollution doesn't cross the border.
This pollu-town is gonna host polluting industries and can also host polluting energy (coal is the cheap one)
Then pick again another tile where you can put your water pumping and a little bit of dense commercial just to generate monney.
Once that's done you can go back to your main city and make Residentiel and Commercial tiles.
Note : Residentiel will not generate enough revenu (even if you have skyscrapers) to pay for what they demand (schools, hospitals,police,....) That's why you need Commercial districts.
Another and last tip is related to crime.
There is a little bug. The larger it is. The more crime it gets. So, airports will ALWAYS have crime no matter how many police stations you put around it.
I hope those tips are gonna help you. Have fun on sims city. (P.S. the game is kinda old and tend to crash on it's own)
People say about a lot of mods that are Essential in SimCity 4 but the only mod I think is truly Essential is the 4 GB patch, the game used to crush on me all the time in the past I would get about 5 to maybe 30 minutes before it would crush and now it never crashes.
CAM and NAM fix alot of the bugs in the engine. EA never let anyone fix the kernel, so they had to work around or replace the garbage under the hood.
@Matthew Singer while I agree it's the one of the best mods there is the network add-on mod isn't truly essential like the 4 GB patch is, it's not like SC4 isn't going to work or be a bad experience because you didn't get the network add-on mod as compared to the 4 GB patch.
I remember wanting to play this game so bad and finding it at my local library but the actual CD wasn't inside the case. Didn't notice until I got home. I was DEVASTATED.
"L'état c'est moi" perfect prononciation. I played so much of this game as a kid but I never understood how to make a profit. Luckily I had a friend who bought a magazine with the cheat codes and I was printing money 1 simflouz at a time haha gaming before the internet was a trip
Watching this video makes me think deeply. As a small child I played Sim City on the Super Nintendo . It really helped me learn to read. I mastered it by five years of age. After that game, I was hooked. I mastered every Sim City till Sim City 4. Now I'm mastering City Skylines. I feel lucky my dad got me into city games at such a young age. If only it payed the bills.
the music of simcith snes was wonderful :-)
I really like this guys commentary, how he can just go from having a really insightful thought to going "well, that's just my stupid opinion" inside of just a few moments. 😂
Thanks to you, I had a mass blast of nostalgia and spent 4 hours working out NAMv44 and old mods I had (many of which haven't been supported for over 10yrs). Finally got the game to work and now I'm addicted all over again. Only old plugin I couldnt get working is SimPEG Mountain Pack cause it has a few puzzle pieces for avenues that make vanilla NAM shit the bed and crash
LOL.. yea I just got back into this game.. searching for all the mods... good times!!
This is one of the best games ever made. If this gets remastered i will be elated.
fires fires everywhere, and lots of traffic too
Man, I have recently played sims 1 with all expansions, and 2 , and 3. I still have Sims 3 installed with all expansions. The Sims 3 came close to being the ultimate video game.
Sims 3 was the best because it's the only Sims game that was open world and not instanced into tiny zones. I only quit because eventually all my saves became corrupted for long running games.
Dude I got Network addon mod, and holy cow. The most useful thing I've gotten from it is that people actually use my mass transit. My trains are SO BUSY, 10,000 usage a day, but only using 20% of their capacity. I LOVE trains in simcity man
“Maybe they DO need a hospital now”
Never change Ambi
"bohemian" just means something from Bohemia, wich was a country/kingdom in europe in Holy Roman Empire era, speaking high german, englisch didnt even exist back than.
Wow this brings back so many memories. This was my favorite SimCity game and I had played the first 3 as well, ever since I was 7 years old and had the original on SNES. I forgot that SC4 has the same sort of needs panel as the Sims. Cool to see this game again after so many years. I do think overall Cities Skylines has vastly improved the genre, but SC4's farming system was so much better.
this guy is definitely my comfort streamer although I refuse to ever even open twitch
The plural of moose is "Oh shit, don't fucking move." Cause those things will kill you.
But no seriously, the plural of Moose is Moose. Same for Deer, sheep and Elk.
The number one predator (besides humans) of the moose is actually the Orca. Y'know, Killer Whales. No bullshit.
www.eatingthewild.com/natural-predators-moose/#:~:text=Killer%20Whales-,Wolves,to%20the%20survival%20of%20wolves.
Meese is funnier though
Oh one thing lots of peeps don't know you can cheese the building placements. Like lots of missles, most of the things that only allow one item, you can in fact have MANY. So just before you place the "one item" hold center click, then left click...rinse and repeat as necessary.
I played Sim City 3000 a lot when I was a wee lad. I picked up 4 as a way to kind of relive it, but I don't remember 3000 being nearly as difficult as 4. I think it's due to the desirability mechanics such as commute time and number of customers.
PS. Bohemia is a region southeast of Germany, and is basically the Czechs.
i remember seeing my dad play simcity a lot when i was younger so its very nostalgic for me
I'm getting visual nostalgia but not audio, played Sim city 3000 till the CD died. Thanks for playing!
You have a great sense of humour and a way with words! I watched RCT videos, The Sims and now this, all games I spent too much of my childhood immersed in. Yet here i am in adulthood, looking back. You are a great game content person! "If i build high tech industry on a hill, will it be HIGHER tech?".
I remember playing a lot of this game as a kid, and almost instantly ruining my city 10 minutes in because I was a dumbass
I am listening to Sim City 3 and 4 Soundtrack on spotify almost every day. I can recommend it for anyone that is learning, chilling, working or just wanting some good old memories.
You have reawakened some memories for me…..I used to play this for HOURS!!!
Would love another SimCity game vod if you get around to it. Hits right in the feels and you do a good job.
3:10 "Maybe it's because were looking back on a bygone era where there weren't as many games to choose from?" Naw, we're playing these games because computers can still play them easily. Like, granted, an old DOS game or Sim City 4 needs a launcher, but once you get the necessary software hurdles jumped over, it's fine for any quad-core. Like with Cities Skylines, it takes 10 minutes to load a city! 10 minutes!!! Granted, once it loads, it plays fine. but modern games are so graphically advanced that modern computers still have trouble. I just want to play a game without having my graphics card scream in agony at me with 30 fps or something you know? Like Open TTD, I wish I knew about that simple but amazing game sooner
One thing I hate about these games is how suddenly you can go in the red and into a death spiral.
The phrase 'Don't hate the player, hate the game,' springs to mind, but the opposite, because the player has made all decisions to create that spiral. The game is static.
For the record, I think the word 'moose' is already plural. Love this game, the best entry in the series for me, by far, and it's one of the old childhood games I still play today (SimHospital, Civ 4 and Alpha Centauri being the others that stuck with me over the years).
Moose is indeed both plural and singular.
I listen to AA to fall asleep, but I got jolted awake upon realizing that AA and RCE watch each other. Although considering I initially found both of them through the algorithm, I assume the algorithm too would naturally bring together both worlds.
One of my favourite games. I can't believe it has been 20 years....
I always wondered, since the simulation is already tracking where each sim lives and works and shops, why can't they figure out how the industrial zones stock those danged commercial zones? Thankfully, Cities: Skylines solved this, and maybe Simcity 2013 did but I don't remember
Cities skylines is terrible when it comes to gaming experience. Its just made for kids I guess. Building assets, lighting, textures and such. You need mods for almost everything 😩 that made me sick and went cold Turkey☹️
Sc4 doesn't really track individual Sims. It just simulates based on flat numbers. Buildings produce a batch of workers and calculates a commute route to a batch of jobs. There is no real shopping, but the commercial service due operate on traffic on the road next to it. Students is just a number based on a portion of residents in a zone and don't actually travel to schools. The only simulated Sims are the 5 Sims you add to your city in simmode.
Omg, 20 years later and I still have the same feels with this game as I once did when i got this brand new, boxed and on CD deluxe edition, back in 2003. I was a kid, and so eager to play it like I was with SimCity 2000 and 3000, back in the 90s. 🤓
This mans voice and humor
For more than an hour
What more do you want Goddamit
Your disappointment that it’s Elk and not Deer is hilarious
This game takes me back, man. I was a kid in 2003 playing this game, brand new! I still have my physical CD copy!
This game was on sale this week Jan 24, 2023 on steam. I had the whole Deluxe pack and the 3D simcity on disc in a box set as a kid, but I wanted mod capability. It was only $5. Anyways, thanks for getting me back into it. A tutorial on making a profitable city would be great. I’m always like 200-700 Simoleans short on my budget!
If you ever want a look at a good grid system look at the arizona roadways , theyre built like a str8 up grid
Man I miss playing this game. I tried playing with the hardware configuration but my GPU just doesn't to run it instead running on the integrated processor graphics.
1:09:15 "When the budget isn't balanced, I get viscerally uncomfortably."
Please run for office. We need more of that sense. lol.
still the best sim city game ever...
simcity 2000 is better cope
I got a severe impulse to buy the game because of the sheer nostalgia
did i just hear him say u cant play on windows 10??
@@leroycreemers6396 Nah, you can play on WIndows 10 I'm pretty sure.
Make sure you buy the steam or GOG version.
For some reason the version EA sells trough origin is based on the unpatched version that was on the last retail disk.
But they ripped out the original safedisc copy protection and replaced it with their Origin DRM, which changes the .exe checksum.
As a result you can't apply the last patch leaving you with a more buggy game .
Worst, a lot of addons won't work because of it.
On that note, the retail disc version of SC4 doesn't work because W10 because W10 doesn't have the drivers for the Safedisc DRM.
The Steam and GOG copies have it removed and work however.
You'll need to edit the games launch parameters to force it on one CPU core or it will cras a lot, likewise you need to add lines to run in any modern resolution.
Worst case you need to edit some files to have the game recognise your modern video card as well.
SC4 has the best soundtrack of all playable city-builder games in 2022, change my mind
I have to say that SC4 soundtrack, even if awesome, can get tiring. SC2013as a game was terrible, but its music was really enjoyable! I really likeplaying Cities: Skylines with SC2013 music.
nearly started crying first started playing this in seniors at like 13....miss those days before adulthood moving out jobs problems it was a good time to be a kid
Terrain..... Just play the song "Terrain" and leave it on repeat for.... Say..... 10 hours..... You'll be super chill. :D
who is it by?
@@michigandogman4 A wizard perhaps..... Simcity 4 Music - Terrain, Epic terraforming music.
This makes me miss 2003 me. Life was so much more simple. Just a nerdy kid and his video games…. Wait I’m still a grown ass nerdy kid inside..
1:19:00 I remember installing diablo 2 which was 2gigs and my brother was pissed cu it took up half the space and the computer....
Such a amazing game for its time...
Still is and nowadays runs on any PC you can fish out of the ewaste. XD
Lol it will probably run on my android if ported!
@@HauntedCorpseGaming I remember when it came out you needed a beast PC to run it on high graphics. Now the problem is that its system resource cap is too LOW, which artificially slows it down.
2:29:17 you need Large Fire Station boi
This vod was very bohemian in nature
Jesus man. Where do you get those names from? Cantstandinopole, Torsolo, Dingleberry, Pushmeat, Flap-a-boo. I love every single of them
Then comes the common issue, present in Any city building game, of never making sure your budget for your services never exceeds your revenue from taxes and other sources of income. Especially when you start expanding your city! Been dealing with that since SimCity 2K! Lol.
Personally, I would be proud to live in a town with a nuclear missile silo.
This game teach me how extremely important one way road is
Yes, yes... Agreed.
Dear Mr Ambiguous Dingus,
the energy doesnt come from the potato it comes from the nails sticking out of the potato
Sincerely Yours,
Anonymous et al
My first exposure to the series was SimCity 2000. Not sure where I got it from, but I had the CD for the game and tried to play it on the family computer. I didn't really understand what to do so my cities would usually just get destroyed by disasters when I got bored.
I have been playing SC4 on and off for 20 years and have seen the missile launch misfire MAYBE ONCE. AA puts it down and within FIVE MINUTES a rocket explodes in midair.
Astounding.
Building games? You have the itch? Come, join us in Space Engineers.
We build Icarian paths to the void! Try it out Amphib! I promise you'll enjoy it.
I'm glad "Icarian" is a word and means what I thought it would :D
cities skylines is very fun, but i think that it definitely lacks a unique style. that's not necessarily a bad thing, the UI and interface is perfectly serviceable, but it just doesn't get me hooked aesthetically in comparison to the simcity games. same with the music, there are few city games that match the excellence of the simcity soundtracks.
Seriously though. After 15 years someone created cities skylines with worse music, sound effects, assets, lighting, visuals, game play. Only 3d effects, being able to build diagonal and curve roads, assets, not more🤦♂️
@@hakansaribal5093 who exactly?
@@drai4077 don’t know don’t care 🤷♂️ someone from paradox a company that famous with releasing tons of dlcs just to make more money😒
man, i remeber playing this game as a kid. all of my cities became millitary bases & testing sites, and the still failed.
The soundtrack was/is 🔥
Ah simcity, God this game is truly a gem
The meaning of Dyngus or Dingus is: worthy, proper or suitable. Food for thought.
i was shit at this game, id always start by putting in everything, schools, hospitals, even airports, id make my city broke before i even pressed play
Just build streets, a school, library college first, just build a short highway near the border, for hi tech. Avoid watering farms. Check legalize gambling for easy money and fire detectors to avoid fire
This made me go buy sim city, lol. I just found out what was missing in my life. So many memories.
The last console I bought was a Wii U. I have a switch now because mobile gaming that doesn't suck is pretty awesome, but I no longer bother with consoles that are stuck to a TV. If I'm going to be sitting there, I'd rather be on my computer as well.
I spent so much time & had so much DLC, now Cities Skyline does all that 4 with DLC did & better, but the memories. Thanks for the nostalgia trip
"will they move into the middle of the cloverleaf?" You probably have never driven through LA
20 years?! Feels like yesterday.
Ah yes, placing agriculture next to an Oil Power Plant.
Well, what did you have as a PC back as a kid? I had a 386... When Pentiums were already out.
When he said M0N3Y I felt that.
I just fired this game up last week. The art assets are fantastic, the music tickles my nostalgia bone, and it's very fun. I'm having bittersweet memories... OMG I'm old
The modding community for this apparently is quite devout too. So if you ever want to delve into that, it exists.
I get nostalgic for my atari 130 xe games, I even used to use the music for ringtones.
Also AA ... elk ... lol
Did you play Simcity Societies? A very different but very fun little spin-off.
you made me go buy this game smh thank you very much. the deluxe editions is $4.95 on GOG. such an epic deal.
hi. are the patches also installed, or did you have to patch manually?
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco looks like its all there. I am running win 10 and i didn't have to do anything to make it work so far, its not crashed yet and i got about 8 hours of play time. lol
I used to have low density residential sprawl with a small park and a single tile of surface water in every housing block to pump residential prices. I forget which version I played though.
I had a SimCity game once, it had a lovely bug in the coding that resulted in anything above a zero percent tax rating sending your approval rating down the toilet and one section of road produced complaints over too much traffic.
The funniest thing is that this runs better on my old laptop than my new one. It has a hard time understanding the fact that the RTX3070 is a superior card to that of the Intel Integrated GFX... And I've tried everything possible to get it to use the RTX to no avail. Until I found some Voodoo emulator thing that lets me rig things around a bit more and actually use my RTX card. This is by far my favorite city builder of all time. The only thing that I still hate about it to this day is the way shore lots work, even with the best mods, its just such a pain in the ass to get waterfront lots to do what you want.
Powerplant in the corner.... Because.... Videogames. :D
This is the greatest game with gazillion add-ons
This randomly appeared on my recommended. It's my birthday 2moro, I'm spending the day playing Sim City 4 now!!!!
You have a fellowship of the ring GBA game? That’s insane.
Still have the copy of Deluxe Edition I got at a Scholastic book fair. Never had a quite good enough pc to run it well, unfortunately, but still have some good nostalgia for it.
Humanity learns through adversity man... Thats the only way we've been proven to improve.