@FatUberUddersOfChaos Well, that's pretty much what SimCity BuildIt is. I haven't liked every DLC for Cities Skylines, but at least they give you original content rather than just unlocking stuff that's already on your drive.
To be honest, I really like that the expansions aren’t “necessary.” It’s nice that instead of game companies selling half-finished games and then having to buy the DLC to complete it, you have the option to get what pack you would be interested in while passing on one you’re not interested in :)
You're only partially correct. Parks and better farming would be necessary to me. The Mass Transit thing and some of Snow Fall are absolutely necessary stuff to me. Even Disaster and After Dark have totally essential elements. Thanks god they have provided free patches, otherwise the game, like it would be at launch, would be okay but only because of the low price.
@@Zukhov1945 And today, lots of the DLC packs are on sale. Probably like 50 to 75, much more then what's Frontier is doing with Planet Coaster. Still, I love Planet Coaster. City Skylines can give me a break from carefully detailed parks.
What I really want is a dystopian cites expansion. Reeducation facilities that greatly decreases crime and happiness at the same time. mega scysrapers like the ones we saw in Sim City, A New Riot feature, Robocops, Genetic Research facility that kidnaps People from the street, etc.
It depends entirely on the drainage of whatever you have instead of grass. A gravel or sand bed, for instance, will behave much differently than just dirt
From my understanding grass may not be ideal for a house because it’s not native to the biome. I was thinking the lack of green here could be some sort of xeriscape idea where you use native bushes and things like that in gravel in place of grass in order to decrease runoff which will allow the ground water supply to increase and decrease chemical runoff into bodies of water.
@The After Dance Party having lived in the northeast for my entire life and in the same house I can tell you that we have never once used any type of chemicals on our lawn and don't have sprinklers and our yard is completely grass covered. I don't see where these argument about lawn chemicals and water use to maintain a lawn come from, at least in this region.
Yes, he created a device able to reorganize the flow of protons and neutrons in a counter rotating vortex, basically allowing nature to incorporate the fourth dimensional aspects of the zero point energy field. Zero point energy is just energy in the space around us. the energy in atoms. He wanted every person to have the ability to be self sufficient free of cost, but J.P. Morgan thought it was un american to not charge people continuously for a power source, so of course they ceased all his papers and threatened his life.
Yeah, having no greenery in the yard isn't very eco-friendly. There are plenty of plants that grow naturally and you can make raised beds and garden in the front yard. Make use of the space!
NerdyChat Eco friendly isn't about having life, it's about protecting it. Having grass isn't the best idea since homes do restrict its resources that it would get in the "wild" but not too badly. Plus maintenance and such isn't eco friendly. Yet I don't see why it could hurt to have a garden.
There are plenty of local plant life that you can grow in your yard. My friend is working on an herbal garden in her front yard. All plants that are native and can thrive in the environment you live in. Even in desert areas like where I grew up you can have cacti and whatnot as greenery. There is no reason for a city not to have natural yards while being eco-friendly. Like this game having brown yards is not necessary. I was expecting more vertical gardens in a expansion like this.
Having plenty of areas of soil with grass (in climates that aren't so hot and dry that you have to water it) is actually really beneficial. It reduces flooding of the streets during heavy rains and cools the area down during hot days.
I think this is mostly inspired by american suburbs in places like California and Nevada where having a grass lawn is absolutely detrimental to the environment since it requires so much water.
I personally LOVE this! I have been so annoyed that a lot of pollution, regular and noise, was kinda obligatory in the building of a city. So this is so welcome for me
This is actually one of the best. The building is so nice, and the IT cluster produce big bucks. I've used the first person mod and I must say, the architecture is breath taking. This is worth the shot!
I just bought this expansion for Cities Skylines and the creators must have listened to you! My Green Homes have tons more "greenery" around them compared to your experience. Green Cities is totally worth it! It honestly bothered me that the base game did not recycle and I definitely like how my residents are no longer sucking in obscene amounts of water and electricity.
Another great video about a subject I have little interest in, but I still can't stop myself from watching every upload! I loved what you said at the end, hence the comment. Keep doing what you're doing, it's always great to see another TH-camr just making videos about things that they have real interest in, however varied they may be, opposed to making ones that they feel will simply rein in the most views. It just makes every video a pleasure to watch. Cheers pal!
I could not have said it better myself! I however ended up buying Cities Skylines after watching LGR and have 250+ hours now, so I guess it's some good marketing too 😀
I definitely agree with the lack of diversity in the "green houses" thankfully the building asset tool is easy enough, that grass can be added to some plots, and probably add some elements to the original buildings and add them into the green specializations
Ana Sevi Agreed, though I think Cities Skylines does a few things better than any SimCity such as districts, the way zoning is handled and details like customising citizen and building names. But SimCity 4 was insane, especially the fact that you could build multiple cities in a region, check employee stats and so many graphs haha. I hope EA steps up their game or, if not, the Cities Skyline's sequel adds some of the stuff we miss from SimCity 4.
I see no return of Sim City. The Golden age of Maxis died when Will Wright left and now it's dispersed altogether the team doesn't even work for EA anymore and for good reason. EA is the number 1 company in the world you don't want to sell out to when you are an indie developer or a talented team. I know they aren't the only ones thanks to Activision a lot of franchises went downhill and Microsoft didn't do Rare any favours!
They should have used native wildflower/prairie grass yards for low-density housing in less arid climates. That would give the lawns a pop of color, too.
It's amazing how many expansions this game has gotten, considering the much-loved SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4 only got one expansion each despite how popular they were.
LGR, TH-cam would not survive without you, we need your comic reviews for city skylines and sims! I got here really early today as well. Can’t wait for cats and dogs to come out so we get another well made sims 4 review. Cheers for being a legend!! 😀😜 I’ve seen they’ve got a new window based chair 😬😵
Thanks for looking into the low-density green housing styles. I was surprised when I saw how unrealistically monotonous they were in a demo with Quill18.
@lazygamereviews Idk I mean this is paradox, the same poeple who are still releasing dlc and updates to crusader kings 2 which was released in 2012 so it wouldn't surprise me if they just keep updating this thing and just keep adding dlc unless cities skylines 2 has already been announced and I'm not aware of it
Though i do prefer it. Imagine if EA, instead of making you rebuy the same dlc every sims game just evolved the game into the next one and all dlcs were fully forward compatible. if you liked Sims 2, you could just roll back to Sims 2. Or if you liked Sims 3 but not Sims 4. etc. But you only buy Seasons once. Only buy University once. etc. And the content merely evolves as the game does. That is what paradox's model does. And it's pretty great. Even the core engine has received improvements over the years to make it work more efficiently. Where as EA just broke their stuff and left it to burn and if you want it fixed you need modders to fix it. Not optional extra content or personal tastes stuff, but literally the game isn't functioning properly and they won't fix it mod support, that is only excusable for stuff like Troika Games who literally went out of business and couldn't continue to support and fix the titles.
I actually love this. I wasn't super interested in the game till I saw this. The only thing that bothers me is those green resis are all dark grey and randomly have no grass :( They make me depressed just looking at them haha.
Say what you will about simcity 5 (Like for example: Its shit) but cities of tomorrow was such an interesting concept for a city builder expansion and I'd love for a competent game to tackle it. Just to give one example: Imagine planning out separate road and hover car routes to ease congestion.
The problem with grass is that it’s more of an invasive species than anything else. If I owned my own home, I’d probably replace the grass with a field of clovers. Requires less water.
the Electric car is called an Edison Model K and the Model W... I see what you did there Colossal Order; VERY Clever in Lampooning the Tesla Model S and Model X!
I like how a lot of the "green" houses have pools. Hippie: "I'm going to landscape my front yard with gravel to save water!" The same hippie: "I'm also going to have a pool, because public pools are icky!"
Traffic has been improved several times, most notably back when Mass Transit was released. Still not ideal of course, but it's better than launch by a long shot.
the biggest problem is that there is a very limiting limit on agents that makes big cities unplayable because factories can not deliver stuff to the stores and the factories can not get the materials from the farms, mines and so on. The game is broken at end game. There is no point in playing as you have to create new cities all the time.
Swedish Procrastinator there should be a way to cap your city. You should be able to pick that you only want to have 70,000 citizens so then the game stops asking for more zoning and you can just improve what you have. A giant city turns into a mess.
IDK, I got 130k people in my city and it still works nicely, with an absolutely decent traffic flow, even though I have not been obsessed with making a perfect traffic system.
Hey LGR! Long time stalker, new subscriber. :-P Love your reviews on retro tech and games and just...the era of my nostalgic childhood. I spied that you're a Sim fan and a CSL fan, and wanted to suggest another game for you. Emergency! 2017 is what you would get if you combined SimCopter with an RTS. You take the role of a city supervisor, whose job it is to keep Berlin, Munich, or a third city which I cannot remember, safe from all manner of disasters, from burglars to fires to acute influenza outbreaks. You do this through controlling your fleet of emergency vehicles, everything from standard police and fire vehicles, to fire boats, mountain rescue trucks, and triage vans. There are two main game modes, a campaign that both serves to tutorialize the game and provide an episodic format, in which each mission is self-contained, and a free mode, where you're set loose in the city of your choice with every tool at your disposal, and your job is to keep it safe as long as you can. Given my love for games like SimCopter and Search And Rescue, this game was a natural must-have for me. I hope that you can get as much out of it as I have. As an addendum to this, actually...in terms of graphics, while Emergency 2017 is definitely the slicker game, Emergency 4 is actually regarded as the better game, gameplay wise, and has a much deeper mod community and even a plethora of American mods, which convert the game to NYC, LA, and Everytown, USA.
Man seeing all these expansion packs for this game really makes me want to pick it up (and all the other expansions). I have the base game but I've never gotten a city that far off the ground before quitting due to my general lack of city planning skills (get in the red within not too long of starting a city). The ability to create a city excites me a lot and reminds me fondly of trying to build the ideal castle as a kid in Stronghold. I guess I can wait for a sale to buy the expansions, but I really should play the base game again and see if I can make something work. Also I really wish this company did a Sims style game. I bet they could come up with a beefy base for the game and make some pretty substantial expansions, and all of it would be a relatively good price I bet.
One detail i missed in the vid. The new noise system. Now the noise also cpmes from crowded places, streets and even cars. Its a detail but they improved the game😉
Maybe I'm just playing it wrong, but I find it very hard to enjoy Cities: Skylines for a few reasons: 1. I have to demolish buildings by hand. This is extremely tedious. 2. Deathcare. It seems like no matter what I do, building clog up with bodies that don't get retrieved and the whole thing become a abandoned and needs to be demolished. 3. Population sizes. This one may seem stupid, but it matters to me on a deep level of enjoyment: Cities has stupidly low populations. I can have what looks like a bustling megalopolis, and it scores as just 10 to 20 thousand people. SimCity's scores felt more correct to the size of the city, and thus more satisfying. These things seriously hamper my enjoyment. What am I missing?
bricknose the deathcare one is simple: you're zoning too much new residential at a time, so all the people move in at once, live through the standard life cycle... And die basically at the same time. So zone a smaller amount, wait a bit, then zone the next bit and that issue goes away (assuming your traffic situation doesn't suck so the vehicles can actually get there.) On demolishing buildings... I can't remember the last time I needed to? They seem to take care of themselves since... Probably the disasters expansion/patch? The RCIO ones, at least. Assuming you mean after fires and such. Abandoned ones repopulate after a bit once you solve whatever caused them to be abandoned. Or if you dezone the area they vanish really quickly. I remember it being a bit of a pain in the release version though, yes. Not much to be said about the population numbers. They count the number of person-things (cims) in the city (and being simulated) rather than the number of hypothetical real world people said person-things might be assumed to represent, and, like many of the game's limits, are as low as they are because setting them higher results in unacceptable hardware demands if the thing is to remain playable. So, yeah, that one's a matter of taste and technical limitations. Hope that helps.
Those green high density buildings look absolutely fantastic, but i'm not so sure about the organic supermarkets and yoga gardens.. Don't want to attract hippies and moronic yuppies
As someone who struggles to play with his Phenom II 955 and Radeon 5770's, I'm satisfied with game as is. Lol. Though I think it's more my CPU. Regardless of game options once I hit over 65 or 70k people I never get above 25fps
The Honest Author god no, the last time they did that they broke all our mods and made the game run piss poor even in high end machines, we had to wait at least 2 weeks for it to be somewhat stable again, yet we never got the same performance back.
Depends on how much invested in the game you are, I guess that base game provides good amounts of content already (plus mods) and each expansion comes with a patch of free stuff for non dlc users. It's not all that bad IMO.
Depends on how much invested in the game you are, I guess that base game provides good amounts of content already (plus mods) and each expansion comes with a patch of free stuff for non dlc users. It's not all that bad IMO.
Two things. 1) Would love to hear LGR critique the state of the current game and what he believes is missing or in need of fixing 2) I love the redundancy jokes where he talks redundantly about redundant things. For many youtubers it would come across as clumsy writing, but it always comes across as a fun joke and I always appreciate them.
I kinda like the strategy of the piecemeal stuff. It is sort of what has been asked of in the sports games section where you give small content packs for rosters and stuff but not brand new games.
Nice! I really will have to check this game out one day. However, it's time to reiterate that I'd love Clint to take on the Anno series on the channel. Please?
Hey Clint, Not sure if this is possible with Cities, and you may already do this already but it would be awesome to include the patch notes in the video to show any improvements under the hood we aren't aware of at face value.
I'm going to get this for the assets. I know you don't like those gray houses but I think they'll look amazing in my hideous, traffic ridden, horrendous sprawl-cities that feature block after block of dense residential.
Too expensive for me, but the inclusion of recycling centres and car recharging stations is interesting, given how they are starting to pop up around here. (In the UK) Also, clean options for stuff is nice, especially given how picky people were about it.
for me this is just what i wanted i always build my city green and having more options makes it way more fun for most people i can see this being a shit pack but as someone that tries to get pollution to zero for the whole city this is a nice addition.
The self-sufficient low-density residential areas should have had vegetable gardens in place of lawns instead of just dirt. Nice and green, and makes sense.
do you know what I miss when I was paying Cities Skylines, building tv, computers, microchip storage builing which you do in SimCity 2013, it would be nice to add that in a dlc for Cities Skylines.
Speaking of the issues with Cities, what do you guys do about the fact that the Cims wont use all your public transport options if you have more than one on a line? No matter what i do all my cims queue up to use the subway system and just wont touch the extensive monorail system i have in place to alleviate traffic.
I should really play this game... I only have the base game, I'm waiting for a big sale before I really buy any of the xpacks. Well that and I really need to actually learn how to play the game properly, because every time I try to play it I seem to go into the red very fast (I am new to city sims and am not very good at them). Excellent video as always. I somehow missed this in my subs when it came out, glad to see it now though!
Make a Theotown review also,is the City building alternative on Android to SimCity buildit, but more free game rather than freemium as SimCity buildit,
I spoke with the lead designer of this game recently. She's awesome. Basically she said that she refuses to compromise on simulation or design for the sake of sales or reaching wider audiences. It's a principled game. Like the unapologetically unique titles of the turn of the millenium golden age of PC gaming. People making products they themselves want to use and therefore want to be the best they can be.
I get that 'green homes' are supposed to have solar panels on the roofs, but they could've made them look cooler. What if solar panels instead of just being grey they were blue in reflected color of the sky, and had a hexagonal pattern on them?
They should make it so that the player has to make personal course-altering decisions in the game. For example, the twitter thing will indicate that there is a war or famine going on in a nearby country, and the city can either accept or decline the refugees. And also, the city would need to find a place for these people if they do accept. Scenarios like this that really add complexity to the game.
1:40 wow this is an amazing simulation.... they built up several building stories in the time a car needs to drive 500m. Their cars must go REALLY slows...
It's a fantasy game. In real life, it'd take months - or even years - just to get the paperwork to break ground sorted out. That wouldn't be fun for most people.
Each time this game gets a DLC you can hear EA crying in the distance.
+HollowKnight EA killed Visceral like Jim Sterling predicted they would.
If EA made a new sim city now it will contain lootboxes and it will be focus tested to please a "casual audience".
Yeah, for my money SimCity 2000 was their magnum opus. After that, it was all Justin Bieber and Kanye.
Now all we need is Sims competition.
@FatUberUddersOfChaos Well, that's pretty much what SimCity BuildIt is.
I haven't liked every DLC for Cities Skylines, but at least they give you original content rather than just unlocking stuff that's already on your drive.
To be honest, I really like that the expansions aren’t “necessary.” It’s nice that instead of game companies selling half-finished games and then having to buy the DLC to complete it, you have the option to get what pack you would be interested in while passing on one you’re not interested in :)
You're only partially correct. Parks and better farming would be necessary to me. The Mass Transit thing and some of Snow Fall are absolutely necessary stuff to me. Even Disaster and After Dark have totally essential elements. Thanks god they have provided free patches, otherwise the game, like it would be at launch, would be okay but only because of the low price.
@@Zukhov1945
And today, lots of the DLC packs are on sale. Probably like 50 to 75, much more then what's Frontier is doing with Planet Coaster. Still, I love Planet Coaster. City Skylines can give me a break from carefully detailed parks.
@Seven Ellen i still have fun with the game without dlc
@@Adven4U1thx for reminding me. Used to watch loads of planet coaster. Dont think its on console still year's later
@@Thawhid It's been on console for several years already.
What I really want is a dystopian cites expansion.
Reeducation facilities that greatly decreases crime and happiness at the same time.
mega scysrapers like the ones we saw in Sim City, A New Riot feature, Robocops, Genetic Research facility that kidnaps People from the street, etc.
Crystallking H It's really interesting that this is coming from someone with a minion as a profile picture.
Riots would be cool.
Militarized police "pacifying" the streets. Sounds great.
Crystallking H thumbs down for the minion profile picture
omg yessss
Not having grass in a rainy climate is horrible for the environment as the top soil washes away. Plants keep the soil from eroding.
It depends entirely on the drainage of whatever you have instead of grass. A gravel or sand bed, for instance, will behave much differently than just dirt
philip kerpen
I'm looking at it, and it just seems like only dirt.
From my understanding grass may not be ideal for a house because it’s not native to the biome. I was thinking the lack of green here could be some sort of xeriscape idea where you use native bushes and things like that in gravel in place of grass in order to decrease runoff which will allow the ground water supply to increase and decrease chemical runoff into bodies of water.
Not having plants, you mean. There's always a native plant that filled that niche
@The After Dance Party having lived in the northeast for my entire life and in the same house I can tell you that we have never once used any type of chemicals on our lawn and don't have sprinklers and our yard is completely grass covered. I don't see where these argument about lawn chemicals and water use to maintain a lawn come from, at least in this region.
Note the electric car is called an “Edison”... I see what you did there Cities Skylines
that's a fucking insult to Tesla, Edison is a lying idea thief
Slade Swanson Go cry a river
haha funny because tesla is a car company but the real nikola tesla would have powered our planet using the earths magnetic poles free of charge
Yes, he created a device able to reorganize the flow of protons and neutrons in a counter rotating vortex, basically allowing nature to incorporate the fourth dimensional aspects of the zero point energy field. Zero point energy is just energy in the space around us. the energy in atoms. He wanted every person to have the ability to be self sufficient free of cost, but J.P. Morgan thought it was un american to not charge people continuously for a power source, so of course they ceased all his papers and threatened his life.
Then why has no other person or company ever used that technology, or through research, discovered that technology and exploited it after Tesla?
"Oh yes Georgie they all float" made me chuckle
Yeah, having no greenery in the yard isn't very eco-friendly. There are plenty of plants that grow naturally and you can make raised beds and garden in the front yard. Make use of the space!
NerdyChat Eco friendly isn't about having life, it's about protecting it. Having grass isn't the best idea since homes do restrict its resources that it would get in the "wild" but not too badly. Plus maintenance and such isn't eco friendly. Yet I don't see why it could hurt to have a garden.
There are plenty of local plant life that you can grow in your yard. My friend is working on an herbal garden in her front yard. All plants that are native and can thrive in the environment you live in. Even in desert areas like where I grew up you can have cacti and whatnot as greenery. There is no reason for a city not to have natural yards while being eco-friendly. Like this game having brown yards is not necessary. I was expecting more vertical gardens in a expansion like this.
Having plenty of areas of soil with grass (in climates that aren't so hot and dry that you have to water it) is actually really beneficial. It reduces flooding of the streets during heavy rains and cools the area down during hot days.
Yeah, Houston has a major problem with over-development and new housing that lacks any yard space. The water has no where to go but inside the homes.
I think this is mostly inspired by american suburbs in places like California and Nevada where having a grass lawn is absolutely detrimental to the environment since it requires so much water.
The recycling plant doesn't take pizza boxes??
It’s certainly a rule for my local recycling! Used pizza boxes can’t be recycled.
why had nobody replied to this in 3 years
@@LGR Well Pizza can be very greasy.
I personally LOVE this! I have been so annoyed that a lot of pollution, regular and noise, was kinda obligatory in the building of a city. So this is so welcome for me
"Herbal" Dispensaries. Uh-*huh*. I'm from Oregon, I know what you're actually saying.
WInk wink, nudge nudge.
Exactly
You're a sharp one
I go there to buy my basil.
Alexander Case Weird because you're already able to legalize recreational use on the base game.
Ah, finally, a Vancouver DLC
This is actually one of the best. The building is so nice, and the IT cluster produce big bucks. I've used the first person mod and I must say, the architecture is breath taking. This is worth the shot!
I just bought this expansion for Cities Skylines and the creators must have listened to you! My Green Homes have tons more "greenery" around them compared to your experience. Green Cities is totally worth it! It honestly bothered me that the base game did not recycle and I definitely like how my residents are no longer sucking in obscene amounts of water and electricity.
Another great video about a subject I have little interest in, but I still can't stop myself from watching every upload! I loved what you said at the end, hence the comment. Keep doing what you're doing, it's always great to see another TH-camr just making videos about things that they have real interest in, however varied they may be, opposed to making ones that they feel will simply rein in the most views. It just makes every video a pleasure to watch. Cheers pal!
I could not have said it better myself! I however ended up buying Cities Skylines after watching LGR and have 250+ hours now, so I guess it's some good marketing too 😀
Damn Dude !!!
I just found this channel and it's ABSOLUTELY AWESOME !!!!
Keep up the good work !!!!
Grretings from Italy !!!
I definitely agree with the lack of diversity in the "green houses" thankfully the building asset tool is easy enough, that grass can be added to some plots, and probably add some elements to the original buildings and add them into the green specializations
Gotta get some of those *Healthy Weeds*. 2:28
Cities Skylines, the better Simcity!
Ana Sevi Agreed, though I think Cities Skylines does a few things better than any SimCity such as districts, the way zoning is handled and details like customising citizen and building names. But SimCity 4 was insane, especially the fact that you could build multiple cities in a region, check employee stats and so many graphs haha. I hope EA steps up their game or, if not, the Cities Skyline's sequel adds some of the stuff we miss from SimCity 4.
Over-complexity doesn't make a game great and that seems to be the only real difference between Skylines and SC4.
I see no return of Sim City. The Golden age of Maxis died when Will Wright left and now it's dispersed altogether the team doesn't even work for EA anymore and for good reason. EA is the number 1 company in the world you don't want to sell out to when you are an indie developer or a talented team. I know they aren't the only ones thanks to Activision a lot of franchises went downhill and Microsoft didn't do Rare any favours!
after simcity 4 yes
Soulifix I forgot the words worst company after number 1.
Is it bad that I want more expansion packs for this game just so LGR will make more videos on them?!
Man, I'm still playing SimCity 4... I really should get this game
Simcity 4 Deluxe is still better than the reboot. I have put well over 500 hours into that game over multiple computers.
Be prepared to spend quite alot of cash on the dlc's for Skylines, even sale prices still hurts
SimCity 4 is the best game ever. No doubt.
Make sure you have a beefy PC, this game loves using the CPU and RAM.
SC4 is better than skylines though...
They should have used native wildflower/prairie grass yards for low-density housing in less arid climates. That would give the lawns a pop of color, too.
It's amazing how many expansions this game has gotten, considering the much-loved SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4 only got one expansion each despite how popular they were.
Low density Eco-Homes look great in a snow map with snowfall, they really blend in more :)
just when i sat wondering if there would be a new LGR video and here it is!!
this addon makes buildings look more realistic which I prefer most. Always!
I was waiting for them to add a recycling center. Not sure if it's weird to be excited about that.
LGR, TH-cam would not survive without you, we need your comic reviews for city skylines and sims! I got here really early today as well. Can’t wait for cats and dogs to come out so we get another well made sims 4 review. Cheers for being a legend!! 😀😜
I’ve seen they’ve got a new window based chair 😬😵
Thanks for looking into the low-density green housing styles. I was surprised when I saw how unrealistically monotonous they were in a demo with Quill18.
4:30 : dirt road called “Green Way”
yea I definitely see some green there
Houses by Borg.
makes sense. true "green" means no jobs and no economy. Thus Communism and like structures
Yes because plants = communism /s
I litterally just saw an ad for this, on this exact video.
Im almost positive there is going to be a green yards mod for this
@lazygamereviews
Idk I mean this is paradox, the same poeple who are still releasing dlc and updates to crusader kings 2 which was released in 2012 so it wouldn't surprise me if they just keep updating this thing and just keep adding dlc unless cities skylines 2 has already been announced and I'm not aware of it
Though i do prefer it.
Imagine if EA, instead of making you rebuy the same dlc every sims game just evolved the game into the next one and all dlcs were fully forward compatible. if you liked Sims 2, you could just roll back to Sims 2. Or if you liked Sims 3 but not Sims 4. etc.
But you only buy Seasons once. Only buy University once. etc. And the content merely evolves as the game does.
That is what paradox's model does. And it's pretty great. Even the core engine has received improvements over the years to make it work more efficiently. Where as EA just broke their stuff and left it to burn and if you want it fixed you need modders to fix it. Not optional extra content or personal tastes stuff, but literally the game isn't functioning properly and they won't fix it mod support, that is only excusable for stuff like Troika Games who literally went out of business and couldn't continue to support and fix the titles.
I actually love this. I wasn't super interested in the game till I saw this. The only thing that bothers me is those green resis are all dark grey and randomly have no grass :( They make me depressed just looking at them haha.
I kinda do want some sort of multiplayer mode where cities interact with eachother
And end up like EA's SIMCITY? Nope. Not every game needs multiplayer aspect.
Sim City 2, make each plot bigger and each plot is controlled by a player/AI. Done.
This pack helps fix your garbage and pollution problems, helps you save money and make more money, overall, its a recommended pack
Say what you will about simcity 5 (Like for example: Its shit) but cities of tomorrow was such an interesting concept for a city builder expansion and I'd love for a competent game to tackle it. Just to give one example: Imagine planning out separate road and hover car routes to ease congestion.
I always want to like your videos more than once for being so damn -honest- lazy.
1:09 Green Hill Zone
gotta go.... *sees traffic* eeehhh slow :(
The problem with grass is that it’s more of an invasive species than anything else. If I owned my own home, I’d probably replace the grass with a field of clovers. Requires less water.
1:51 Is that a very sublte Soylent Green reference or is that just me?
Zzyzx Wolfe Caught my eye immediately.
*Tearing up* I was waiting for this all day. Thank you.
Haha, the recycling center is named "NO PIZZA BOXES"
My village in Ohio does not allow recycling.
Had NO clue this game was available for Linux. Maybe I'll pick it up!
the Electric car is called an Edison Model K and the Model W... I see what you did there Colossal Order; VERY Clever in Lampooning the Tesla Model S and Model X!
Kw is also shorthand for Kilowat which is a unit of electricity which electric cars use
This channel it's awesome!! Great reviews ☺️☺️
I like how a lot of the "green" houses have pools.
Hippie: "I'm going to landscape my front yard with gravel to save water!"
The same hippie: "I'm also going to have a pool, because public pools are icky!"
I assume they have not fixed the traffic problems still.
Traffic has been improved several times, most notably back when Mass Transit was released. Still not ideal of course, but it's better than launch by a long shot.
the biggest problem is that there is a very limiting limit on agents that makes big cities unplayable because factories can not deliver stuff to the stores and the factories can not get the materials from the farms, mines and so on. The game is broken at end game. There is no point in playing as you have to create new cities all the time.
Swedish Procrastinator there should be a way to cap your city. You should be able to pick that you only want to have 70,000 citizens so then the game stops asking for more zoning and you can just improve what you have. A giant city turns into a mess.
IDK, I got 130k people in my city and it still works nicely, with an absolutely decent traffic flow, even though I have not been obsessed with making a perfect traffic system.
Hey LGR! Long time stalker, new subscriber. :-P Love your reviews on retro tech and games and just...the era of my nostalgic childhood. I spied that you're a Sim fan and a CSL fan, and wanted to suggest another game for you.
Emergency! 2017 is what you would get if you combined SimCopter with an RTS. You take the role of a city supervisor, whose job it is to keep Berlin, Munich, or a third city which I cannot remember, safe from all manner of disasters, from burglars to fires to acute influenza outbreaks.
You do this through controlling your fleet of emergency vehicles, everything from standard police and fire vehicles, to fire boats, mountain rescue trucks, and triage vans.
There are two main game modes, a campaign that both serves to tutorialize the game and provide an episodic format, in which each mission is self-contained, and a free mode, where you're set loose in the city of your choice with every tool at your disposal, and your job is to keep it safe as long as you can.
Given my love for games like SimCopter and Search And Rescue, this game was a natural must-have for me. I hope that you can get as much out of it as I have.
As an addendum to this, actually...in terms of graphics, while Emergency 2017 is definitely the slicker game, Emergency 4 is actually regarded as the better game, gameplay wise, and has a much deeper mod community and even a plethora of American mods, which convert the game to NYC, LA, and Everytown, USA.
An LGR review? Why didn’t the notification tell me earlier!!!!
click the bell you must
'LGR review' seems redundant, doesn't it?
Man seeing all these expansion packs for this game really makes me want to pick it up (and all the other expansions). I have the base game but I've never gotten a city that far off the ground before quitting due to my general lack of city planning skills (get in the red within not too long of starting a city). The ability to create a city excites me a lot and reminds me fondly of trying to build the ideal castle as a kid in Stronghold. I guess I can wait for a sale to buy the expansions, but I really should play the base game again and see if I can make something work.
Also I really wish this company did a Sims style game. I bet they could come up with a beefy base for the game and make some pretty substantial expansions, and all of it would be a relatively good price I bet.
Love the IT references 😂 great review as always.
Designing cities to be more environmentally conscious is a huge deal in real life. Glad the game also incorporates it.
One detail i missed in the vid. The new noise system. Now the noise also cpmes from crowded places, streets and even cars. Its a detail but they improved the game😉
I'm glad the game is on sale now that I am going to be building my new PC.
Maybe I'm just playing it wrong, but I find it very hard to enjoy Cities: Skylines for a few reasons:
1. I have to demolish buildings by hand. This is extremely tedious.
2. Deathcare. It seems like no matter what I do, building clog up with bodies that don't get retrieved and the whole thing become a abandoned and needs to be demolished.
3. Population sizes. This one may seem stupid, but it matters to me on a deep level of enjoyment: Cities has stupidly low populations. I can have what looks like a bustling megalopolis, and it scores as just 10 to 20 thousand people. SimCity's scores felt more correct to the size of the city, and thus more satisfying.
These things seriously hamper my enjoyment. What am I missing?
bricknose the deathcare one is simple: you're zoning too much new residential at a time, so all the people move in at once, live through the standard life cycle... And die basically at the same time. So zone a smaller amount, wait a bit, then zone the next bit and that issue goes away (assuming your traffic situation doesn't suck so the vehicles can actually get there.)
On demolishing buildings... I can't remember the last time I needed to? They seem to take care of themselves since... Probably the disasters expansion/patch? The RCIO ones, at least. Assuming you mean after fires and such. Abandoned ones repopulate after a bit once you solve whatever caused them to be abandoned. Or if you dezone the area they vanish really quickly. I remember it being a bit of a pain in the release version though, yes.
Not much to be said about the population numbers. They count the number of person-things (cims) in the city (and being simulated) rather than the number of hypothetical real world people said person-things might be assumed to represent, and, like many of the game's limits, are as low as they are because setting them higher results in unacceptable hardware demands if the thing is to remain playable. So, yeah, that one's a matter of taste and technical limitations.
Hope that helps.
Those green high density buildings look absolutely fantastic, but i'm not so sure about the organic supermarkets and yoga gardens.. Don't want to attract hippies and moronic yuppies
That hippie slip up really cracked me up ;)
I wish they would do a graphics overhaul. The colors are so muted and the models are so bland :/
Mods, man. Mods.
Truuuu
As someone who struggles to play with his Phenom II 955 and Radeon 5770's, I'm satisfied with game as is. Lol. Though I think it's more my CPU. Regardless of game options once I hit over 65 or 70k people I never get above 25fps
Shawn Copen I'm playing with Phenom II 955 as well. Just upgrade your graphics card and you'll be fine
The Honest Author god no, the last time they did that they broke all our mods and made the game run piss poor even in high end machines, we had to wait at least 2 weeks for it to be somewhat stable again, yet we never got the same performance back.
it would be cool if they made a (Old City) Pack so we can make cities based on Early 1900s cities
Cities DLC are always a bit too price for what you get. Even on sale.
Sure sounds like Paradox too me.
Depends on how much invested in the game you are, I guess that base game provides good amounts of content already (plus mods) and each expansion comes with a patch of free stuff for non dlc users.
It's not all that bad IMO.
Depends on how much invested in the game you are, I guess that base game provides good amounts of content already (plus mods) and each expansion comes with a patch of free stuff for non dlc users.
It's not all that bad IMO.
A fair criticism. I still got this dlc as i really like this game and i will get my milage out of it.
Paradox does. They release a major patch then a DLC which is basically paid for mods (see Hearts of Iron 4 for what I mean).
Two things.
1) Would love to hear LGR critique the state of the current game and what he believes is missing or in need of fixing
2) I love the redundancy jokes where he talks redundantly about redundant things. For many youtubers it would come across as clumsy writing, but it always comes across as a fun joke and I always appreciate them.
I love your sarcastic reviews LGR :)
I kinda like the strategy of the piecemeal stuff. It is sort of what has been asked of in the sports games section where you give small content packs for rosters and stuff but not brand new games.
Nice! I really will have to check this game out one day. However, it's time to reiterate that I'd love Clint to take on the Anno series on the channel. Please?
Any geodesic domes? I wanna get my Bucky Fuller on!
Great idea!
Hey Clint, Not sure if this is possible with Cities, and you may already do this already but it would be awesome to include the patch notes in the video to show any improvements under the hood we aren't aware of at face value.
Literally just checked your channel for this 10 min ago. Next time I’ll be closer.
Thanks. Wasn't sure if I needed this DLC or not. Now I need to find one that reviews the snowfall one :)
Great time to mention this as, at least for me, Cities Skylines is on sale on Steam!
The reactions to the Green Cities DLC is like a political litmus test 🤣
i bought this mod and it massively helped with using the game fora school project
That's what I'm doing. Glad to see someone with the same idea
Finaly, been wating all friday for your video :P keep up your good stuff, love your contend :)
Finally! A TH-camr that uses farenhiet!!
I think the biggest change is how sound pollution is produced, which I believe is included in the free update.
I'm going to get this for the assets. I know you don't like those gray houses but I think they'll look amazing in my hideous, traffic ridden, horrendous sprawl-cities that feature block after block of dense residential.
Too expensive for me, but the inclusion of recycling centres and car recharging stations is interesting, given how they are starting to pop up around here. (In the UK) Also, clean options for stuff is nice, especially given how picky people were about it.
Cleaner sewage outflow pipes into the waterway is the nicest addition before Sunset Harbor
And floating garbage collectors.
for me this is just what i wanted i always build my city green and having more options makes it way more fun for most people i can see this being a shit pack but as someone that tries to get pollution to zero for the whole city this is a nice addition.
The self-sufficient low-density residential areas should have had vegetable gardens in place of lawns instead of just dirt. Nice and green, and makes sense.
That song with the typing sound amazing you should do that more but if not I still love your videos,
2:06 what's that big field in the middle? Cricket/baseball/golf? And how do you get it? Thanks!!
Driving Range, a Tourism & Leisure Unique Building. Requires After Dark. 5,000 squares of tourism specialization built to unlock.
"Resulting in Hippi- er - businesses" I love you clint.
3:27 “healthy weeds” this game and its healthy weeds.
So why are the "green" houses not bluish like solar panels? What's making them dark grey?
I can't wait for the loot crates to be added to this game too
do you know what I miss when I was paying Cities Skylines, building tv, computers, microchip storage builing which you do in SimCity 2013, it would be nice to add that in a dlc for Cities Skylines.
Speaking of the issues with Cities, what do you guys do about the fact that the Cims wont use all your public transport options if you have more than one on a line? No matter what i do all my cims queue up to use the subway system and just wont touch the extensive monorail system i have in place to alleviate traffic.
I should really play this game... I only have the base game, I'm waiting for a big sale before I really buy any of the xpacks. Well that and I really need to actually learn how to play the game properly, because every time I try to play it I seem to go into the red very fast (I am new to city sims and am not very good at them).
Excellent video as always. I somehow missed this in my subs when it came out, glad to see it now though!
Make a Theotown review also,is the City building alternative on Android to SimCity buildit, but more free game rather than freemium as SimCity buildit,
I spoke with the lead designer of this game recently. She's awesome. Basically she said that she refuses to compromise on simulation or design for the sake of sales or reaching wider audiences. It's a principled game. Like the unapologetically unique titles of the turn of the millenium golden age of PC gaming. People making products they themselves want to use and therefore want to be the best they can be.
Cities Skyline : Hipster DLC
Pierre Dubois
Unless it involves killing them, I wouldn't buy it.
I get that 'green homes' are supposed to have solar panels on the roofs, but they could've made them look cooler. What if solar panels instead of just being grey they were blue in reflected color of the sky, and had a hexagonal pattern on them?
Am I the only one to notice he made a reference to 2017's Stephen kings "IT" xD ?
Glad you snuck that in that tbh Cx
They should make it so that the player has to make personal course-altering decisions in the game. For example, the twitter thing will indicate that there is a war or famine going on in a nearby country, and the city can either accept or decline the refugees. And also, the city would need to find a place for these people if they do accept. Scenarios like this that really add complexity to the game.
I want to be able to mess around my city as a pedestrian.
You make such beautiful cities.
So, California, the expansion pack?
toasty DAY yeah, pretty much
We need a dystopian megacity expansion with huge skyscrapers
1:40 wow this is an amazing simulation.... they built up several building stories in the time a car needs to drive 500m. Their cars must go REALLY slows...
It's a fantasy game. In real life, it'd take months - or even years - just to get the paperwork to break ground sorted out. That wouldn't be fun for most people.