No. :( I had no optimism. I was sure EA was going to fuck it all up hard, especially after Societies (bleck). As soon as I see EA is the publisher of something my mind goes to "Well, better wait for a bunch of reviews first before I decide to even invest any time in thinking about getting it."
After playing the beta of SimCity 2013, I was sure the game was going to be a flop. The game wasn't even alpha quality during the beta! I felt like the game was being rushed out as some kind of EA sudo kickstarter. As far as I know, SimCity 2013 never supported Fullscreen (Windowed) mode, which was a basic and common feature even then!? It was frustrating having a game act like a game from the year 2000.
+lies damnlies Societies wasn't made by EA, nor was it a full game or a title in the main series. It was a spinoff sold at a reduced price compared to the actual series and made from some contracted 3rd party dev focusing more on social issues than city building.
Sim City 4 was the last great sim city sadly. When they started making all the terrible ones I'll never forget what EA officially told the fans who called them out on it. "Sim City is moving away from simulator based play as this is a niche market and we want to broaden the base of sim city fans" --EA. Thankfully they were proven dead wrong when Cities Skylines came out and out sold all of the sim cities since sim city 4. Lesson for game developers: DO NOT ALIENATE YOUR CORE FAN BASE.
But it's EA if they aren't making half a billion dollars off of it than it is not a successful game and must be reworked to "appeal" to the largest market possible, or in most cases completely drive it into the ground and kill the studio with micro transactions.
Unfortunately to “broaden the appeal” of a game often means To rework a game in such a way that those who love the franchise will now hate it, but possibly those who didn’t like it/know about it might, possibly, LIKE it. That is beyond foolish and will end up killing game franchises yet so many developers insist on going down this path. In the end greed ruins everything
The SimCity 4 music (and to a lesser extent SimCity 3000's music) is just so good for relaxing, kicking back, or just for...anything. The music just has a perfect feel, and I listen to it all the time while on my laptop or in the car.
***** Music from SimCity 2000? I'm not sure, but it's probably one of the versions of SimCIty or SimCity 2000, considering the subject of the video and it's MIDI quality.
+zazarays It's called 'Railroad Rap' from 2000, there's a few variants of it depending on the version but I think the one here is from the SNES game (watch?v=muEIijrt4vo).
I loved having that possibility as a child, but also confused me, like how come Sim City is already in it fourth entry when Sims is only in its second? Obviously Sim City takes its name from the Sims so Sims must have come first!
I just realized that Will Wright has some serious ADD. He makes a game, finds a portion of it more enjoyable than the rest, and makes it into a full-fledged game of its own! And we all love him for it.
yeah...but the mind set for really any innovation is the idea, Hey I bet someone would like this.....now whether or not the intended market SEES the value or not, is a completely different story. That's people say some things were ahead of their times. The market was either too short sighted to see what they had, the inventor didn't have enough ambition/charisma to properly market it, religious/political BS prevented it from catching on or actively stomped it out, etc.
Skylines just feels too easy even if you get a hardmode mard that makes everything more expensive and well "harder" I have yet to fail in a city I've built but in SimCity 4 I'd overlook some small issue early on then next thing you know I'd be bankrupt because of it.
This. I found deluxe for $5 at a thrift store and with the mods I ended up putting years and hundreds of hours into it. Made some crazy interchanges that couldn’t really be utilized in game to the max due to the software placed limitations for how far people were willing to commute for work. Cities skyline can more easily make these interchanges and utilize them better but I still think SC4 plain looked better.
I can’t believe this video is a decade old. I feel like we don’t get videos like this anymore in TH-cam. There would be 100 sponsorships about VPNs cluttering half of it
Gumball Yeah, true. The thing is, though, Cities: Skylines is pretty much the "true" sequel to SimCity 4; the sequel we all wanted all along. If you're not aware, this guy actually made a video on that recently.
I don't even consider SImCity 2013 SimCity 5. My main reasoning being that the backward compatibility feature of being able to forward port your cities that had existed since the original game was just GONE. I could have forgiven it if it had been worth playing...
Man, I loved SimCity enhanced CD-ROM. Those cheesy videos while you were playing were the coolest thing when I was a kid. I still love playing that game in dosbox!
In 1992 I worked for a large real estate development company for a time, and was an assistant to a honcho who was in charge of this whole planned community they were building. She told me, to my great surprise, how she was really into this video game SimCity. Because she definitely didn't seem like a gamer. She explained she could set things up and see how they worked. Her development has grown into a whole town now!
Hopefully, you also grew up and realized that Will Wright was a f u c k i n g Atheist moron that did not understand how religion plays vital roles in how cities are built, as well as avoided his mistakes on city building, like ignoring the existence of the agricultural zone, mixed usage zones, or certain buildings and facilities like ambulance service centers (yes, they can exist outside of hospitals, as well as inside of them), school bus garages/parking lots, city bus garages/parking lots, malls, sewage treatment plants, scrap yards, junk yards, recycling centers, waste disposal plants, etc., and The Sims was even worse about that whole barring religion thing, as, like it or not, a. Atheism is ironically still a religion, regardless of the claims and protests otherwise on the matter, and b. the 'real life simulation" of the people that are in those games where such a thing is a priority is about as realistic as a scripted Hollywood television show, or, more accurately, some pseudo-reality drivel like Big Brother, Survivor, Jersey Shore, etc. I, for one, want to build a far more realistic city building simulation game that fixes not only the flaws of the Sim City games, but also those flaws in other games of its related ilk, and The Sims as well.
Ahh I remember getting overwhelmed by sim city 3000 and never knowing what Todo and just being broke so used to mess with cheats but sim city 2000 different story entirely I had it for the game boy advance and I loved it and spent so many many hours playing to the point I managed to build a hole city kept earning money and balance everything basically beating the game still have my copy to this day with my save file was such a fantastic game and my favourite in the series
Watching this years later has a different feel. The game has a rich and storied history but I cringed when he mentioned they sold it to EA. Watching now we know it's going to have a tragic ending and EA kills the golden goose once again.
Great vid, thanks for putting this together. You're one of the few who has thoroughly complied all the old games and gameplay footage. I've been playing SimCity since the early Windows and SNES days, this brought back a lot of good memories.
@@wta1518 yeah, the main issue with cities skylines is they keep making crappy dlcs with a whole bunch of things that really should've been in the base game.
Haha I was watching this and didn't realize it was a ten year old vid. So when LGR got to the simcity reboot, I didn't expect him to say we will have to wait and see to see if it's any good. Quality vid that's a decade old.
I'm so glad you mentioned the enhanced CD version of Sim City. It's my easily my favorite version. Those FMV sequences were horrendous and awkward and oh so wonderful.
Agree 4 wasn’t terrible but 3000 unlimited was good, there was a sc3000 version that was NOT unlimited it wasn’t so great. Cities skylines is a masterpiece though, what sim city should have been.
I think it would make since if it was 'Sim life" and not The Sims where everyone in the game is called "Sims" which is awkward if you call them by their full names.
Sparks (Pichu 90) It had the name Dollhouse at one point during it's development. It was changed to the Sims just as branding and as an additional note. The Icon Plumbomb was not featured in the first game on it's cover art but now it's as essential for the image as the name itself.
I worked for Maxis back in 97 when EA took over. Everyone in our studio was promptly laid off the next day. All our projects were either cancelled or given to other studios and had our names removed from the credits. One of the other folks from the Walnut Creek main office quit (or whatever) and formed a media company and hired me on as a graphic artist. I remember he had that original "Godzilla-like" toy that was featured in the original box art sitting on his desk. I will never forgive EA for effectively ending my career in the video game industry.
hey man just wanted to let you know your vids are great and I can tell u put a lot of effort into them. I live in NC too and its cool to think one of my favorite youtubers is in the same state. keep up the great content!
I know this is a bit late in the game to mention it but there was a port of SimCity 2000 to Windows CE/Pocket PC 2002. It ran just like the Windows version and save files were compatiable between the two. I was amazed the find it when I was in high school and had all the same music and graphics, just on a tiny touch screen in your pocket to boot. I haven't seen it mentioned so I thought I'd throw it out there. It had the issue of costing $30 USD at the time with SimCity 3000 already being out on the market.
angelived Yeah, that is correct, actually, and just like the Beatles, SimCity (the overall series, not counting the new one) really blew away millions of people worldwide and just like the Beatles, it's legacy is still strong to this day.
The Sims was released in 2000, and then The Sims 2 in 2004. I think it's pretty sad that they never continued the series and never released The Sims 3, 4 and 5!
I really enjoyed this video. It brought back so many memories. I really miss being able to manufacture my own terrain as well as being able to drive through view your own city. Keep up the great job.
Sim City 3000 Deutschland was so awesome! I loved the scenarios so much. The other located scenarios such as "London Fires" and similar were also fun but even from an international perspective they stand no chances against the reunification of Berlin! It was so cool to demolish the Berlin Wall, connect the separated infrastructure and renovate the fucked up eastern Berlin. I missed such scenarios in SC4 (even though I loved the game because of the mod community). The scenario of "A better Betterfeld" (?) was also amazing because it is based on the real story of Bitterfeld - maybe the city with the lowest environmental life quality in whole central Europe (and it is so clean, calm, modern and green today!). Don't have to talk about SC2013. Societies had it's moments but was to limited in all points.
SimCity 3000 for sure was such a good game. I can remember as I jumped of the chair after seeing that Ive got my first population. It was such a great feeling :D
I really don't understand why Maxis doesn't release a commercial down load of Sc3000 Unlimited since there is a download for every other game in the main series.
You can come upon free titles if savvy enough, my point was being with current EA with downloadables and their store. If i am wrong please correct me. I am a huge fan of using Virtual box, but if we truly want to appreciate these games, we should make sure it is accessible to a modern audience.
I remember going over to a friends house and playing sim city 4, with the rush hour expansion and destroying his city with one of the helicopters that you could fly. He was so pissed that I didn't go over to his house for an entire month
Brendan Clark I remember leaving Sim City 4 running on my laptop while I went out so I didn't have to endure the loading time. When I came back I discovered to my horror that my aunt had closed the laptop lid while the game was running which corrupted the game and the hard drive ;-;
Hey LGR, since SimCity 3000 Unlimited is FINALLY on GOG, are you planning to Review it? It really deserves that. All those little Details ("A happy Sim is a produktive Sim" written on a Factory Wall, that hilarious Newsticker, the animations on some Buildings like a Vehicle driving around the Backyard of an Factory or the Military Base. And the Soundtrack is veeery Simlish, it's just a Masterpiece of a Game. Greetings.
So after like six years, this video popped back up in my feed and inspired me to waste an entire Saturday afternoon...it turns out Simcity 3000 works on Windows 10 with minimal effort! That was a nice dose of nostalgia. Thanks
I just bought SimCity 4 because of this video. I was never really into the Simcity games, I'm a HUGE Sims fan though. I would have gotten SimsCity 2013 but after hearing mediocre it is, among other annoying things, I'll just stick to the classics.
It's actually a pretty decent game. The problem is that map sizes are limited, there are no building sets, too much emphasis on multiplayer, and not enough "god mode" aspect. But I mean--it's still an enjoyable game. I've clocked 60+ hours in it.
Good Decision! Then maybe you want to look for some custom content. New stuff is created even now 11 years after the initial release. That contains new buildings, various fixes for several bugs in the vanilla game and even new network types (the Network Addon Mod). Therefore you should take a look at simtropolis.com where most stuff is released (more than 18000 files right now), whilst at sc4devotion.com/csxlex you get high quality content only, which might be better for the beginner. In order to download stuff you have to sign up at both sites.
True. And it doesn't offer much in terms of replayability, either. Once you reach the edges of the map and have achieved everything (which can be done in a day) the game is done.
After everything I have seen about SimCity lately, this is a VERY welcome change. You know what you are talking about. Lately I have been thrown into a slew of horrible videos run by people that think they know what's up, but really don't have a clue. Thanks a lot for finally giving me something worth watching!
Sim City 3000 will always be my favorite. Detailed yet simple. All they needed to do was keep updating graphics but they just kept adding and changing shit nobody asked for, leading to the games of today like Cities Skylines where you need to be a literal city planner to properly build a city. Simply too much work required.
10:00 Marble Drop, a sub-par game?! I loved it as a kid! It was a fun puzzler...also I played it on the school computers, so it cost me $0 to play it...
Great Video! I started with SC Classic on Windows and loved all the sequels since. But only 3000 got my really hooked, I didn't know that it was originally planed as a different game. I never got into part four but recently bought it on Steam so I must try it out some time. And Sim Copter was awesome back then.
"Societies" had some cool elements - the way the city, environment, and even music changed based on what you placed was really interesting, and earning points in different categories was ahead of its time. Whatever Maxis comes out with in the future, I'd love to see elements of SCS mixed with more advanced city simulators like Cities: Skylines, Cities XL, and even oldschool ones like CityState, Pharaoh, etc.
LGR, I want to start iff by saying that I enjoy your reviews. I remember as a kid I would play SimCity on the SNES with Game Genie and I played it a few times on the PC. I remember as a kid waking up in the middle of the nite seeing my brother playing the game. To let your city grow, you had to leave your SNES on. For my old Apple, I loved Sim City 2K but I found it hard. The same with Sim City 3000 anf Sim City 4. I did not know that there was a Sim City game on the wii.
Does anyone else remember maxis man from simcity 2000? When your city reached 50000 people you would have the option of building a military base and if you declined it whenever a disaster struck your city he would show up, sometimes, and do things like put out fires fight the alien and I even saw him put down a riot once lol
I tell ya what... Your videos are just perfect. And the music of Jerry Martin rules my mind and dreams. This was such a joy to watch-- as are all of your videos
"Sim City 2013... Is it any good?" Ah. Remember when there was still mystery and optimism? lol
No. :( I had no optimism. I was sure EA was going to fuck it all up hard, especially after Societies (bleck). As soon as I see EA is the publisher of something my mind goes to "Well, better wait for a bunch of reviews first before I decide to even invest any time in thinking about getting it."
After playing the beta of SimCity 2013, I was sure the game was going to be a flop. The game wasn't even alpha quality during the beta! I felt like the game was being rushed out as some kind of EA sudo kickstarter. As far as I know, SimCity 2013 never supported Fullscreen (Windowed) mode, which was a basic and common feature even then!? It was frustrating having a game act like a game from the year 2000.
+lies damnlies Societies wasn't made by EA, nor was it a full game or a title in the main series. It was a spinoff sold at a reduced price compared to the actual series and made from some contracted 3rd party dev focusing more on social issues than city building.
I think I'm one of the few people who didn't have all those problems and enjoyed the game even though it was pretty bad.
Not when you have City Skylines. Last good one was 4 in my opinion.
Wow, SimCity 5 came out two years ago today. Time flies when you're playing Cities: Skylines.
Cheeky
I dead to think how many hours I have unwittingly lost to that game.
+William Kulich *dread
i wouldnt know, i dont have a PC nearly capable of running C:S....so im back on SC4
SC4 is the best anyway chuckufarly5
Sim City 4 was the last great sim city sadly. When they started making all the terrible ones I'll never forget what EA officially told the fans who called them out on it. "Sim City is moving away from simulator based play as this is a niche market and we want to broaden the base of sim city fans" --EA. Thankfully they were proven dead wrong when Cities Skylines came out and out sold all of the sim cities since sim city 4. Lesson for game developers: DO NOT ALIENATE YOUR CORE FAN BASE.
But it's EA if they aren't making half a billion dollars off of it than it is not a successful game and must be reworked to "appeal" to the largest market possible, or in most cases completely drive it into the ground and kill the studio with micro transactions.
@@White_Tiger93 in Japan gamers don't mind micro transaction.
It literally takes a game which is popular, bastardizes the name from its roots, and leaves a game with no audience or message for the market.
Unfortunately to “broaden the appeal” of a game often means To rework a game in such a way that those who love the franchise will now hate it, but possibly those who didn’t like it/know about it might, possibly, LIKE it. That is beyond foolish and will end up killing game franchises yet so many developers insist on going down this path. In the end greed ruins everything
I just wish something like that could happen with The Sims because after 4 years The Sims 4 still bad
The SimCity 4 music (and to a lesser extent SimCity 3000's music) is just so good for relaxing, kicking back, or just for...anything. The music just has a perfect feel, and I listen to it all the time while on my laptop or in the car.
***** Music from SimCity 2000? I'm not sure, but it's probably one of the versions of SimCIty or SimCity 2000, considering the subject of the video and it's MIDI quality.
+zazarays
It's called 'Railroad Rap' from 2000, there's a few variants of it depending on the version but I think the one here is from the SNES game (watch?v=muEIijrt4vo).
Best soundtracks ever.
i still listen to SimCity 3000’s music from time to time when i need relaxing music to work to. puts me back in that old focus mode from playing SC3K!
Fun fact: You could make small cities with nothing but roads in Simcity 4, take the map file (.sc4) and make it into a neighbourhood for The Sims 2
I loved having that possibility as a child, but also confused me, like how come Sim City is already in it fourth entry when Sims is only in its second? Obviously Sim City takes its name from the Sims so Sims must have come first!
I just realized that Will Wright has some serious ADD. He makes a game, finds a portion of it more enjoyable than the rest, and makes it into a full-fledged game of its own! And we all love him for it.
or he FOUND a game.
therrydicule
Isn't that the story of every innovation that's ever existed.
yeah...but the mind set for really any innovation is the idea, Hey I bet someone would like this.....now whether or not the intended market SEES the value or not, is a completely different story.
That's people say some things were ahead of their times. The market was either too short sighted to see what they had, the inventor didn't have enough ambition/charisma to properly market it, religious/political BS prevented it from catching on or actively stomped it out, etc.
wait i don't know what ADD stands for, or else its just written in all caps and is just addition.
ok
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition + mods = childhood complete
Can't thank enough for Simtropolis bringing mod support like never before for such a great game.
***** For one to play it for +3 years, mods really did expand the game without having to rely on Maxis or EA.
I still play it, while most people play Cities Skylines.
Skylines just feels too easy even if you get a hardmode mard that makes everything more expensive and well "harder" I have yet to fail in a city I've built but in SimCity 4 I'd overlook some small issue early on then next thing you know I'd be bankrupt because of it.
This. I found deluxe for $5 at a thrift store and with the mods I ended up putting years and hundreds of hours into it. Made some crazy interchanges that couldn’t really be utilized in game to the max due to the software placed limitations for how far people were willing to commute for work.
Cities skyline can more easily make these interchanges and utilize them better but I still think SC4 plain looked better.
The NAM alone nearly remakes SC4 into a whole new game. I swear I've put almost a thousand hours into that game and never regretted any moment of it.
SimCity 4 is the best of the SimCity series.
Too bad it needs some modification of the game files to run on modern systems :(
***** yeah, I have a 750TI, it couldn't initialize the graphics driver without a few tweaks
NAM hype !!!!!
It's mostly great because of the mods tbh. As a standalone game, it had a few issues specially with the transport stuff.
SimCity 4 basically brought all the necessary features that simcity series needed .But EA yet again messed the amazing series.
I can’t believe this video is a decade old. I feel like we don’t get videos like this anymore in TH-cam. There would be 100 sponsorships about VPNs cluttering half of it
I still don't include sponsorships in my current videos either :)
@@LGRthank God for that!
You're the best dude. Love your vids!@@LGR
And now it`s the time to give the crown to Cities: Skylines.
Gumball Yeah, true. The thing is, though, Cities: Skylines is pretty much the "true" sequel to SimCity 4; the sequel we all wanted all along. If you're not aware, this guy actually made a video on that recently.
Stephen Kovok I know.
Oh, okay.
Gumball R.I.P Maxis i will miss u like my first baby mama. Much love to Cities :skylines
+Jon b The studio that creates the sims ain't dead :P
I bought Cities: Skylines and I never opened Sim City 2013 ever since.
“Have you heard of black holes? that’s what this game franchise will become if you don’t make a good SimCity game immediately!”
SimCity 3000 Unlimited is my childhood nostalgia game. It was fantastic, I'll never forget the amazing soundtracks
SimCity (2013) is a lesson in why corporate should keep its nose out of the game developers' business
Another good franchise dead thanks to EA...
Cristian Villavicencio I heard a rumor that Disney wants to buy EA
And that's not to touch on the rumors of Apple wanting to buy Disney.
Sanity Plays wait a minute that means we have crappy crysis and BF like what they do to Star wars
That "good franchise" was Maxis. It was shut down.
More like euthanasia, but a botched one. Maxis died like a dog after so much wonderful games they did thanks to EA.
He had no idea of the horrors that would arise from SimCity 5
Jesse Vermeulen Hahahahaha the pain
Jesse Vermeulen we weren't ready
I don't even consider SImCity 2013 SimCity 5. My main reasoning being that the backward compatibility feature of being able to forward port your cities that had existed since the original game was just GONE. I could have forgiven it if it had been worth playing...
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And our hero in the form of City Skylines.
"If you build a road over water, you automatically build a bridge". This bullshit has been stuck in my mind for like 25 years.
May as well accept it's just the natural order of things.
science shows that roads being in contact with water automatically turns said roads into bridges
Simulation, the incredibly life-like experiences like roads becoming bridges in contact with water
Man, I loved SimCity enhanced CD-ROM. Those cheesy videos while you were playing were the coolest thing when I was a kid. I still love playing that game in dosbox!
In 1992 I worked for a large real estate development company for a time, and was an assistant to a honcho who was in charge of this whole planned community they were building. She told me, to my great surprise, how she was really into this video game SimCity. Because she definitely didn't seem like a gamer. She explained she could set things up and see how they worked. Her development has grown into a whole town now!
Simcity 3k Deutschland and Simcity 4 + rush hour are amazing. These, together with Rollercoaster Tycoon are *the* simulation games IMO.
Used to love reticulating some splines back in the day. Great game!
Sim City dominated my childhood. Now in my 20s I have a degree in Urban Planning.
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g Atheist moron that did not understand how religion plays vital roles in how cities are built, as well as avoided his mistakes on city building, like ignoring the existence of the agricultural zone, mixed usage zones, or certain buildings and facilities like ambulance service centers (yes, they can exist outside of hospitals, as well as inside of them), school bus garages/parking lots, city bus garages/parking lots, malls, sewage treatment plants, scrap yards, junk yards, recycling centers, waste disposal plants, etc., and The Sims was even worse about that whole barring religion thing, as, like it or not, a. Atheism is ironically still a religion, regardless of the claims and protests otherwise on the matter, and b. the 'real life simulation" of the people that are in those games where such a thing is a priority is about as realistic as a scripted Hollywood television show, or, more accurately, some pseudo-reality drivel like Big Brother, Survivor, Jersey Shore, etc. I, for one, want to build a far more realistic city building simulation game that fixes not only the flaws of the Sim City games, but also those flaws in other games of its related ilk, and The Sims as well.
Sim City dominated my childhood. Now in my 20s I am a monster that attacks cities once their creators become bored.
I laughed when he said "will simcity 2013 be any good" ah back when we had hope ;-;
Ahh I remember getting overwhelmed by sim city 3000 and never knowing what Todo and just being broke so used to mess with cheats but sim city 2000 different story entirely I had it for the game boy advance and I loved it and spent so many many hours playing to the point I managed to build a hole city kept earning money and balance everything basically beating the game still have my copy to this day with my save file was such a fantastic game and my favourite in the series
Watching this years later has a different feel. The game has a rich and storied history but I cringed when he mentioned they sold it to EA. Watching now we know it's going to have a tragic ending and EA kills the golden goose once again.
EA already killed it with the 2013 game.
Fukk EA
Great vid, thanks for putting this together. You're one of the few who has thoroughly complied all the old games and gameplay footage. I've been playing SimCity since the early Windows and SNES days, this brought back a lot of good memories.
"Had a seasonal cycle that changed over time"
Damn, even Cities Skylines or Simcity 4 don't have that feature today.
One of the most annoying things about the Snowfall DLC.
@@wta1518 yeah, the main issue with cities skylines is they keep making crappy dlcs with a whole bunch of things that really should've been in the base game.
@@lumbagoboi1649 welcome to the paradox interactive dlc system
Haha I was watching this and didn't realize it was a ten year old vid. So when LGR got to the simcity reboot, I didn't expect him to say we will have to wait and see to see if it's any good. Quality vid that's a decade old.
The SC3K soundtrack is so damn good. I have it on my phone since there is the possibility to put music on your phone. Damn, is it good.
Lmao, I listen to it on Spotify. Not everything is on there, but I get my fix :P
SC4 also has a really good soundtrack, I reckon.
Caleb Jaaniste I played SC4 always with the SC3K soundtrack, haha.
The sim city 4 soundtrack is pretty awesome too.
Dude. We played SimCity 3000 music at the cocktail hour at our wedding in New York.
I'm so glad you mentioned the enhanced CD version of Sim City. It's my easily my favorite version. Those FMV sequences were horrendous and awkward and oh so wonderful.
I liked Simcity 3000 the best.
It's the one I played the most by far.
Amaranthus616 Same.
indeed 3000 is the best game played it alot. But now i walked away from EA and play Citie Skylines.
I like Simcity 4 the best
Agree 4 wasn’t terrible but 3000 unlimited was good, there was a sc3000 version that was NOT unlimited it wasn’t so great. Cities skylines is a masterpiece though, what sim city should have been.
sim city 3000 was the ABSOLUTE best sim city game in my opinion
So Simcity = Simulated City
Does that mean
The Sims = The Simulateds
Sparks (Pichu 90) You hadn't gotten that yet, little pichu?
Gotten what?
Sparks (Pichu 90) That sim stands for simulated? The sims has always been simulated life, after all.
I think it would make since if it was 'Sim life" and not The Sims where everyone in the game is called "Sims" which is awkward if you call them by their full names.
Sparks (Pichu 90) It had the name Dollhouse at one point during it's development.
It was changed to the Sims just as branding and as an additional note. The Icon Plumbomb was not featured in the first game on it's cover art but now it's as essential for the image as the name itself.
I worked for Maxis back in 97 when EA took over. Everyone in our studio was promptly laid off the next day. All our projects were either cancelled or given to other studios and had our names removed from the credits. One of the other folks from the Walnut Creek main office quit (or whatever) and formed a media company and hired me on as a graphic artist. I remember he had that original "Godzilla-like" toy that was featured in the original box art sitting on his desk.
I will never forgive EA for effectively ending my career in the video game industry.
Microsoft killed the Age of Empires studio. Seems like a trend
How did you join Maxis?
@@ntl9974 They had a job application in the paper (it was the 90s).
hey man just wanted to let you know your vids are great and I can tell u put a lot of effort into them. I live in NC too and its cool to think one of my favorite youtubers is in the same state. keep up the great content!
Thank you very much!
TheNastyBAGL NC here also!
I know this is a bit late in the game to mention it but there was a port of SimCity 2000 to Windows CE/Pocket PC 2002. It ran just like the Windows version and save files were compatiable between the two. I was amazed the find it when I was in high school and had all the same music and graphics, just on a tiny touch screen in your pocket to boot. I haven't seen it mentioned so I thought I'd throw it out there. It had the issue of costing $30 USD at the time with SimCity 3000 already being out on the market.
You own all of these?! Man, your awesome.
you're*
SimCity 3000 unlimited was one of the first games I played, and god the soundtrack is probably one of the best ones ever.
They thought no one would buy it XD it's like the producer who wouldn't sign the Beatles because he said their music would never sell.
angelived Nice analogy!
angelived Yeah, that is correct, actually, and just like the Beatles, SimCity (the overall series, not counting the new one) really blew away millions of people worldwide and just like the Beatles, it's legacy is still strong to this day.
I wouldn't say that as SimCity 2013 turned out to be pretty bad.
+angelived Someone said the same thing about Michael J Fox "not having the type of face that would get on a lunchbox." (Prior to BTTF.)
+ShopGirls yeah...just like the Beatles. No King rules forever.
RIP SimCity Social.. and all the people who spent real money on it only to have the game shut down. One reason never to trust Facebook games.
I'm still waiting for The Sims series Retrospective :D
He kinda did that with the sims 1 and 2 playthroughs. Though he never finished it unfortunately.
The Sims was released in 2000, and then The Sims 2 in 2004. I think it's pretty sad that they never continued the series and never released The Sims 3, 4 and 5!
@Tom Duhamel this is sarcasm right?
I really enjoyed this video. It brought back so many memories. I really miss being able to manufacture my own terrain as well as being able to drive through view your own city. Keep up the great job.
I was so obsessed with simcity for the nintendo even though i never got anywhere
I'm so glad that you mention the scrapped 3D Simcity 3000 screenshots. They looked absolutely amazing at a time when people were using Voodoo 2s.
SimCity 4 deluxe edition with NAM. Best version of the game to date. Still good in 2019 :)
SC4+Rush Hour > everything else
Cities Sylines with DLCs is the next best thing to SimCity 4 Deluxe.
@@quoniam426 Yeah, but that's over $200.
"Sim city jr" probably has a bigger plot of land than sim city 5 lmao
Watched this video months ago, then I played SC3 and 4, and now I'm back to rewatch it. Great content LGR!
Sim City 3000 Deutschland was so awesome! I loved the scenarios so much. The other located scenarios such as "London Fires" and similar were also fun but even from an international perspective they stand no chances against the reunification of Berlin! It was so cool to demolish the Berlin Wall, connect the separated infrastructure and renovate the fucked up eastern Berlin. I missed such scenarios in SC4 (even though I loved the game because of the mod community). The scenario of "A better Betterfeld" (?) was also amazing because it is based on the real story of Bitterfeld - maybe the city with the lowest environmental life quality in whole central Europe (and it is so clean, calm, modern and green today!).
Don't have to talk about SC2013. Societies had it's moments but was to limited in all points.
I love your casual, documentary style videos! Thank you
Sim Towns = Sim City 2013
Nicely done, I can't think of how many hours I've spent playing Sim City over the years.
SimCity 3000 for sure was such a good game. I can remember as I jumped of the chair after seeing that Ive got my first population. It was such a great feeling :D
Thanks for the blast from the past. SCURK and BAT became part of my vocabulary through Simtropolis.
I'd love to see one of these for Civilization
I like all the hope and excitement you had in your voice for sim city 5 lol..Boy that was dashed fast
I really don't understand why Maxis doesn't release a commercial down load of Sc3000 Unlimited since there is a download for every other game in the main series.
Also no official download for SimCity Classic.
+Lazy Game Reviews Also, good luck finding Sim Tower.
+Lazy Game Reviews On eBay you can buy both Sim Tower and SimCity Classic.
You can come upon free titles if savvy enough, my point was being with current EA with downloadables and their store. If i am wrong please correct me. I am a huge fan of using Virtual box, but if we truly want to appreciate these games, we should make sure it is accessible to a modern audience.
www.mediafire.com/download/w8i47b3c9476ctz/Simcity+3000+Unlimited.rar
I really enjoyed this historic look back on the SimCity franchise. I learned a lot.
Playing SimCity 4 Deluxe right now. :)
15:26 i remember the hype. i am still sad 10 years later.
I remember going over to a friends house and playing sim city 4, with the rush hour expansion and destroying his city with one of the helicopters that you could fly. He was so pissed that I didn't go over to his house for an entire month
Brendan Clark I remember leaving Sim City 4 running on my laptop while I went out so I didn't have to endure the loading time. When I came back I discovered to my horror that my aunt had closed the laptop lid while the game was running which corrupted the game and the hard drive ;-;
NCC-1701 Damn, did you get to buy another console and finish the game?
I remember playing sim city jr/town back when I was younger at the community center in Washington. One of the first computer game I ever played.
Hey LGR, since SimCity 3000 Unlimited is FINALLY on GOG, are you planning to Review it? It really deserves that. All those little Details ("A happy Sim is a produktive Sim" written on a Factory Wall, that hilarious Newsticker, the animations on some Buildings like a Vehicle driving around the Backyard of an Factory or the Military Base. And the Soundtrack is veeery Simlish, it's just a Masterpiece of a Game.
Greetings.
So after like six years, this video popped back up in my feed and inspired me to waste an entire Saturday afternoon...it turns out Simcity 3000 works on Windows 10 with minimal effort! That was a nice dose of nostalgia.
Thanks
New sim city from maxis, oh the excitement!
Little did he know....
THANK YOU for remembering the C64 version!
I remember i had this game. I tried to make Tokyo based on the actual place in real life... Got attacked by Godzilla 5 times that day.
Which game? He mentions like 30 dude
Nothing will ever be better than SimCity 4.
I just bought SimCity 4 because of this video. I was never really into the Simcity games, I'm a HUGE Sims fan though. I would have gotten SimsCity 2013 but after hearing mediocre it is, among other annoying things, I'll just stick to the classics.
It's actually a pretty decent game. The problem is that map sizes are limited, there are no building sets, too much emphasis on multiplayer, and not enough "god mode" aspect. But I mean--it's still an enjoyable game. I've clocked 60+ hours in it.
Good Decision! Then maybe you want to look for some custom content. New stuff is created even now 11 years after the initial release. That contains new buildings, various fixes for several bugs in the vanilla game and even new network types (the Network Addon Mod). Therefore you should take a look at simtropolis.com where most stuff is released (more than 18000 files right now), whilst at sc4devotion.com/csxlex you get high quality content only, which might be better for the beginner. In order to download stuff you have to sign up at both sites.
taranova12 the problem is they wanted like 50-60 dollars for it when it first came out and still sim city 4 is better
True. And it doesn't offer much in terms of replayability, either. Once you reach the edges of the map and have achieved everything (which can be done in a day) the game is done.
get the network addon mod from the simtropolis forum. sim city 4 has a pretty vibrant mod community
SimCity 2000 Was freaking incredible! I can't tell you how much fun I had with that game or how many hours I blew away on it!
And today we play Cities: Skylines
After everything I have seen about SimCity lately, this is a VERY welcome change. You know what you are talking about. Lately I have been thrown into a slew of horrible videos run by people that think they know what's up, but really don't have a clue. Thanks a lot for finally giving me something worth watching!
I miss my Simcopter game I wish they would reboot.
*That* was a classic!
I beat it twice... I Loved it!!!
Great video yet again. I love watching stuff like this - so interesting and informative.
"Lazy Game Reviews" "16:00" Seems legit!
10:36 These piano chords were my life back when I was a child. Getting up early on saturdays, just to build my town called "Chickennuggets" 😢
Sim City 3000 will always be my favorite. Detailed yet simple. All they needed to do was keep updating graphics but they just kept adding and changing shit nobody asked for, leading to the games of today like Cities Skylines where you need to be a literal city planner to properly build a city. Simply too much work required.
yep. i know traffic is important in a city simulation but i feel like cities skylines is too much of a traffic simulator
10:00 Marble Drop, a sub-par game?! I loved it as a kid! It was a fun puzzler...also I played it on the school computers, so it cost me $0 to play it...
Of all the development studios EA has ruthlessly killed, Maxis has the biggest tombstone.
atleast maxis is still making games even if poor quality, we havent had a new ultima game in over 20 years
Great work, man! You really filled me in on the history behind the series.
"The most controversial game in the SimCity series" Oh my, nobody even remembers it now because of how bad 2013 was...
I remember when EA tell u cann't get bigger than this....
Then Cities Skyline goes out and show EA how SimCity should look
Man this was an amazing video! I loved the Simcity game since SNES days but had no idea there was so many versions and history.. great video!!!!!!!
R.I.P. Maxis
I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for the look back. Memories!
You forgot the subtitle as you mentioned EA.
"We destroy everybody's dreams."
Brain damage 1 billion! Critical hit!
Sim City 3000 is just the best!
The soundtrack, omg the memories! I loved to build and manage a town with that sweet jazz running on the back ground!
i remember stealing a Military helicopter in Simcopter and destroying my City while Hearing the valkyre :>
And hunting UFOs
I loved that game :D
Great overview. I learned of a few ports I wasn't previously aware of. I have a lot of these. I have been a SimCity fan since I was 6 years old!
Sim City 4 was the last good SimCity.
Nice brief on SC series. So much memories on the SC 3000 Unlimited and SC4 RH, what makes SC4 great is the addon mods
My favorite is Sim City 4, where you can hop in a fighter jet or a UFO and just blow shit up. :p
Great Video! I started with SC Classic on Windows and loved all the sequels since. But only 3000 got my really hooked, I didn't know that it was originally planed as a different game. I never got into part four but recently bought it on Steam so I must try it out some time. And Sim Copter was awesome back then.
My favorite is probably SimCity 4. SimCity 2000 and 3000 are kinda tied for me. They're all excellent though.
"Societies" had some cool elements - the way the city, environment, and even music changed based on what you placed was really interesting, and earning points in different categories was ahead of its time. Whatever Maxis comes out with in the future, I'd love to see elements of SCS mixed with more advanced city simulators like Cities: Skylines, Cities XL, and even oldschool ones like CityState, Pharaoh, etc.
Best one: 3000
Secret Best One: SNES
LGR,
I want to start iff by saying that I enjoy your reviews.
I remember as a kid I would play SimCity on the SNES with Game Genie and I played it a few times on the PC. I remember as a kid waking up in the middle of the nite seeing my brother playing the game. To let your city grow, you had to leave your SNES on. For my old Apple, I loved Sim City 2K but I found it hard. The same with Sim City 3000 anf Sim City 4.
I did not know that there was a Sim City game on the wii.
Does anyone else remember maxis man from simcity 2000? When your city reached 50000 people you would have the option of building a military base and if you declined it whenever a disaster struck your city he would show up, sometimes, and do things like put out fires fight the alien and I even saw him put down a riot once lol
I tell ya what... Your videos are just perfect.
And the music of Jerry Martin rules my mind and dreams.
This was such a joy to watch-- as are all of your videos
10:10 Little did they know they were signing their death warrant anyway... Fucking EA, Maxis could still be alive today if not for their greed
5:05 THAT"S the sim city I played as a kid! Thank you LGR! lol I remember all the cheesy scenes.