The 100-Year SimCity...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- For a nostalgia trip, I decided to come back to SimCity 4 and try a 100-year megalopolis challenge.
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Also featured:
Build Mode 6 from the Sims (also by Maxis and EA)
Intro Song:
Gaiety in the Golden Age by Aaron Kenny (TH-cam Free Music Library)
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Thanks for joining me on a trip down memory lane ~ This game and its soundtrack meant a lot to me growing up.
If any of the years seem weird or off it's because there was no autosave in 2003 and my computer kept crashing.
Hi
Music TOO LOUD
@@idkyet3573 Turn your ears down
my PC back in 2003 kept crashing too
Even if the music was a bit, aggressive... and borderline dystopian.
Citizens: What are the city's future plans?
Mayor: Let me level with you
we're going to improve the Flats.
Mayor: and by 'level with you' I mean 'level you completely and your homes and businesses to establish a new society in my image'
*"and I took that personally"*
underrated comment.
"Let me level you"*
The graphics still look great despite being so outdated
Something really is magical and timeless about that isometric style
And can be modded to look even more realistic, some have made them to look exactly like the town in your backyard down to every detail
@@metalisonline what's the point of realism? More realistic =/= more beautiful. It's mostly about artstyle, and the artstyle of Sim City's is superb.
@@kozlorog I'll throw your argument back at you. What if I find realistic models the most beautiful artstyle out there? That's the point, some people like it.
i prefer these type of graphics over 3d in many games i.e. aoe2 because 3d graphics always have anti-aliasing and it screws up with sharpness everything looks like 3d bulb
It's just so much more detailed the houses are nice in skylines but the skyscrapers are just so smooth and plastic
I will never forgive EA for destroying maxis and sim city forever. Rest in peace sweet prince
Same. Ever since they ruined Spore, I've despised them. Spore could had been something such breathtaking amazing thing. Schools and Research institutions wanted it because they saw the potential in it. But No. EA just, HAD To get their butterfinger in and ruin it completely instead of letting it be what the E3 had shown years ago. I'll never forgive EA for that.
Everything EA touches is ruined. The sims, sim city, spore all destroyed for corrupt corporate greed. Truly a shame.
@@Zeithri howd they ruin spore?
@@beef5able As far as I know they rushed the game and cut corners like crazy before putting it out. It was originally supposed to have way more content but they didn't feel like spending the time and money to finish it.
@@SimBits :(
My dad used to put tons of time into SC4 and my young self would just load up his marvels of cities, too afraid to touch anything and ruin his progress
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I forgot how lovely SimCity 4 is. Cities Skylines are good but goodness, SimCity 4 really is a gem
Yeep I agree both are great - I love all the things that Cities Skylines added, but there's just something nostalgic about SImcity's universe and Jerry Martin's soundtrack
@@ambiguousamphibian It almost feels like the buildings in Cities Skylines are "too big" compared to the old SimCity.
Was that a pun?
SimCity 4 still feels like the best city builder for me just due to the scale. Being able make a feasible massive metropolitan area with tens of different "cities" is something I wish came back in some form.
“Wheel of Progress”, “Deserted”, and “Terrain” are goddamn masterpieces; I think they even used the first part of terrain as a common sound bite in various different shows and media to emphasize desolation and despair
I cry for Will Wright, his creativity and genius crushed by the behemoth he helped create.
Eh, he kinda crushed himself by messing up Spore. He became the very thing he used to be the enemy of.
It was SIMPLY the Will of the people that HE do what was Wright for them--- can't fault a man for trying as my dad used to say!
@@SergeantExtreme Spore was such a disappointment but its sad one slip-up ruined what had been an incredible track record.
@@sayno2lolzisback Really? I think spore is his second best game he ever worked on. Sims 2 is number 1 tho by a long shot.
@@lucifer2b666 the overall consensus is that was bad. I played it a few times as the premise seemed so exciting but couldn't live up to it.
This one was just a masterpiece of all that came before it. Don't count on seeing any nostalgic playthroughs of Sim City 5 in the future.
I like to think sim city 5 never existed..... never thought time would kill this amazing franchise
@@notsoracistraspberry4168 nah Skmcity 5 is called "skylines" name changed but it payed off
@@trentr9762 actually yeah your right i forgot! Lol
@@trentr9762 You say that, but Skylines is barely a game. It's like declaring "Planet Coaster" is the new Rollercoaster Tycoon, but all you do is decorate a park and wait patiently for death.
@@Wourghk aye but for a first they did really well. And no other city builder that I'm aware of has that much mod support, land area and transit depth. It may not be perfect but it's a real good jumping stone. Though sadly it does burn out
I find the term "Dingus" offensive, can you please use "Architect" from now on?
I'll meet you at "Dunderhead" my friend
Yo
Great. We have a strongest shape measuring content going on.
OMG RCE
RCE 😀
I remember playing this as a child around 10 years ago.
No, I didn't know what I was doing, I remember very well me trying to link up a city that had a river crossing it's land right in the middle using airports.
when?
@@limpaney5464 Around 2012.
a w w w w
Same played via discs store in my country, build a ton of empire with DLC buildings and tree mods to see how insane As much of people in a city.
NGL that sounds cute
After six years of Cities Skylines I nearly forgot how elegant the Sim City UI was. It still looks so fine.
I haven't heard Build Mode 6 in over 20 years and It just hit me like a Mack truck filled with nostalgia.
I found a mod to replace the build/buy music in Sims 3 with those originals so I could dig that nostalgia more often.
Well, the game is from 2003, isn't it?
@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Build Mode 6 is from The Sims
@@MisogynyMan oh, now it makes sense. Thanks.
I'm in tears
I love how he just completely forgot about the challenge and went berserk terraforming.
“That was our other city motto: Work or-“
Ad: *”Embrace the chaos.”*
Sim city 4 was top tier gaming… like hands down some of the best music, fun and time sink hole
It is still the best city building game and one of the greatest game ever
Idk Simcity 5 has better soundtrack. 4 is hella weird and funky for me
Cities Skylines tries to carry this torch burning bright (specially after EA gave the middle finger to us) but people today don't value this genre so much and unfortunately we are faded to disapear in the middle of those predatory cellphone games.
@@LordSevla cities skylines has only 2 densities and it's way too streamlined and easy on the economic simulation side
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
1:00 "There is a FIRE... and the Sims are running out of *SALIVA* ! We need a Fire Station!"
Remember kids, next time you see a fire, spit on it!
I remember in one of the early sim cities just loading up this metropolis map that came with it and destroying it with disasters
@Wow a phishing bot?
Yes... SimCity 3000. :D
@@dirpyturtle69 always. Their derpy asses are everywhere. Tried to call it to attention on a fb page once, but they had dozens and dozens of accounts and we're able to get me blocked for a "hate speech" comment that didn't even say anything remotely bad 😂
Big corps like money, bots raise view counts, increasing there income thru adds, so they treat bot accounts better than anyone else.. smfh
@@Lokiip that’s not true in the slightest. These bot accounts are a net drain on TH-cam lmao. There’s zero gain for TH-cam to employ bots that are literally stealing peoples passwords, bank accounts, etc. the problem is the fact that they are next to impossible to get rid of. It’s a game of whack a mole, you ban one bot and then 6 more have been made in the time it took you to do it. That doesn’t mean TH-cam or Facebook isn’t doing anything about it, they are banning these accounts but they can’t stop new ones from being made.
You know those scam calls you get that claim to be the irs? These bots are sort of like that, except they prey on the tech illiterate instead of the old folks, by clicking on their link they can steal all of your data that’s in your cache and because no one ever clears their cache they can pretty much see whatever passwords you’ve entered into every website you’ve ever been to. The long and skinny is never click a link from a stranger on the internet
I also remember doing that and shitting myself at the sight of chaos and destruction
I always have a memory of my teacher showing this game to the class in primary school once, intrigued, but I never knew which game is it. And as soon as Amphibian showed the delicately pixeled terrain, it clicked immediately. After all these years (more than a decade) I finally got the answer. Thank you Amphibian and TH-cam.
Nice
The memories of SimCity 2000 and "Articulating splines!" Ahh, nostalgia...
Absolutely 👍
porntipsguzzardo!
@@Spearca Ah, yes. I figured I had it wrong but was close enough.
The LLAMAS THO
Couldn't help but notice that the map size in this game was much smaller than that of Simcity 2000.
"I'm not saying that the entire original city was just a ploy to collect taxpayer dollars in order to pave the way for the actual city..."
This man has a future in politics.
Your scripts are always shining beacons of rhetoric and memes. Thank you
"And so we continued the process of *suggesting* that our citizens relocate." A+ content lmao
This is really nostalgic. Now I wish that Cities:skylines make the farm industry the same as those big farms in SimCity4
Huge farms is something i would definitelly get behind
Yeah, i think farms in Skylines is locked behind Industries DLC (bunch of missing content is locked behind DLC in that game). Never the less i like cities:skylines after I bought all 20 dlcs (vanila is just demo for worldbuilding engine and tools that good expended), it really fells like something that i missed from my 2000+ hours on Simcity 4.
If you are Simcity veteran as i am then buy collection of Cities: skylines (yeah its more then 200 € and discounted 150€) and enjoy (i allready have 500 hours in it - didnt touched the mods jet so god help me if i do)
@@madkoala2130 not big farms
Everytime I played SimCity 4 I would build the perfect city by taking our hundreds of thousands of Sim money and after it eventually run itself into the ground with debt, I would begin the end of world. Earthquakes and random volcanoes everywhere.
Great reset
that's exactly what's happening since 2006. God is a sore lose
@@6884 It *was* gonna be 2012, but God's mum told him to go outside so he's leaving it running in the hopes it ends itself. He don't even wanna look at his savefile anymore.
The city obviously wasn't perfect if it was bleeding cash.
@Esh Any non-Democrat run area is going to be better than a Democrat run area that's for sure.
Maxis games have some of the best and most memorable music of any games I've ever played. I even heard some of the music from The Sims 3 in a commercial a year or two ago which I thought was fascinating honestly.
Simcity 4 by far has the best soundtrack for any city sim. Its just so perfect.
I enjoy the Sc3k soundtrack a little more, but only barely
@@Azmodaii Agree. Both very very good, but SC3k is just a bit better. To this day I really, really enjoy listening to both soundtracks while driving... its super chill and makes me think about the city planning (or just as often, lack thereof) that went into the roads, neighborhoods, and amenities that I see as I drive by. Awesome way to keep from getting bored when I run out of podcasts to listen to and don't feel like listening to "regular" music.
@@albertjordan3249 driving to Jerry Martin tunes will never get old. I also remembered the music from AA’s video being from the sims, loved that game too.
I miss the late 90’s and very early 2000’s
@@Azmodaii Yes, 3000 is still my favorite...
Couldn't chose between SC4 and SC3 soundtracks. I usually play with music off and both complete soundtracks in winamp on random.
This was such a blast of nostalgia. I even still have the cheat codes for this game memorized. Used to just sit and terraform for hours. I loved the crater and plateau tools. I would make plateaus and put craters in the middle to make these huge cliff rings.
SimCity 4's soundtrack, the beautiful jazzy sound of progress and hutzpah.
I feel like that AmbiguousAmphibian’s Motto for the city would be “the city must grow, no matter what”
"And, for your information, you Lorax, I'm figgering
on biggering and Biggering and BIGGERING and
BIGGERING!!"
I too remember when SimCity was good and not just a poor man's Cities Skylines.
Cities xl is a poor man’s Cities Skylines
@@mikeyreza Things EA would of had to change: Allow offline play, bigger maps, actual functioning economy, cities that actually work with eachother, road ai that makes sense, highways, and the list goes on and on. Literally Sim City 5 could have simply been an upscaled and bug fixed 4 and it would have been better than what we got. Don't get me wrong, Skylines has MAJOR design flaws when it comes to RICO and zoning, and it the primary reason I don't often play it anymore.
@@mikeyreza Cities Skylines blow both of them out of the park easily bro
@@mikeyreza and then stop playing it a few days later because the game isn't fun (based on a true story)
@@mikeyreza bro I have 0 DLCs and still build nice ass cities, just download mods. It’s free and easy to download mods
I really love how he hits the word "scholars" with the velvet sledgehammer of his voice. You can tell that and "Knowledge" are amongst his favorites.
When he said "Scholars roam the parking lot," I burst out laughing. The way he described random highschoolers loitering in the parking lot with such reverence was amazing.
Watching this video was like visiting an old friend. I played Sim city off an on my whole life, until it was driven into the ground.
Man I always forget how great maxis used to be, I always remembered them for spore and Sims but God they were the top dogs in PC gaming for a bit, all of those games are just timeless
This game is my childhood. I wish I had a way of seeing how many countless hours I've logged on it. Everything about this game is perfect to me, from the style to the music. Especially the music.
Modern games today just won't be able to hold candle to the classics, games like SimCity 4 and the OG Zoo Tycoon will always reign supreme.
This makes me want to re-visit the game after 10+ years again. EA games were so good back in the early 2000s. We've had games like Sims, Sim City and Command & Conquer. I miss the old days.
There's still a decently-sized and devoted SC4 community on Reddit and Simtropolis. Come on down and stock up on mods. Will be great to have you!
@@Holgast Simtropolis is THE place to go.
Back when EA was full of people who were making games for the love of it and not doing it for shareholders and cozy million dollar bonuses
You're the greatest content creator on TH-cam, period.
No fluff, no embellishment. No one even comes close to the level of entertainment that you provide.
Thank you.
I still get the SC4 itch every now and then, such a masterpiece. The art style and music are so timeless
I remember throwing in a 3.5" floppy in my grandmother's work PC to get some Sim City action in the early 90s, played many many hours!!
3.5" floppy in your grandmo-
wait. I apologize. I misread that
I feel like I need to spend some more time in the psychiatric _Chutzpital_ to recover from this video.
do you guys know what that means
U made me wanna play it again, this game was a childhood classic! I remember getting bored and starting downloading mods and making stories for my cities. Once I made a completely walled city (except for some farms in the outskirts) with a made up post-apocalyptic/Attack on Titan-like lore
This was like watching a amazing movie that made me forget about my surroundings. I know I won’t forget about this one for a long time
"Cram 'em in there!"
- The Motto of Wrightopia, Indiana
"Work, or else!"
- The OTHER Motto of Wrightopia, Indiana
Beautiful, thank you. Tomorrow I will listen to the Sims soundtrack while doing some work on my house, it'll be just like build mode, except real life!
"My advisors scorned me with the lowest of contempt"... very Shakespearian
SimCity 4 will always be one of the best games ever. A beautiful and nostalgic masterpiece ❤️
so *this* is where Armstrong got his cynical outlook and total disregard for life from... I didn't realize he came from next door to Indianapolis LOL
POV: You bought ocean front property for hundreds of thousands, and your mayor just announced that they’d be filling in the entire ocean: 👁👄👁
7:15 The world will expand now that Groundon's awake. Build them out, tear them down, no one puts the fire out.
Man this game really was my childhood. I drained so many hours trying fruitlessly to just make income green for once. What a magical game that they never quite replicated again
ah back in the days when I thought „Riot“ is people having fun and throwing a big party in the streets 🤣
One of my favorite Sim City games, glad to see it again in all its early 2000 glory.
I absolutely love the storytelling during these playthroughs. It's captivating and hilarious.
As a Hoosier I was deeply offended by the slight you made towards Indianapolis.
Thanks for this video! 4 has always been my favourite SimCity, and IMO the best. The soundtrack has been accompanying me on my walks to work for many years. I used to be quite active in the Simtropolis community for modding and city journals. I still need to put together the time and a proper modlist to make a full region and video playthrough. I'm glad that others have such fond memories of it, and hopefully your video will help the game find many new players!
8:49 my favorite part, made me laugh through my nose
Best SimCity lets-play I've ever watched. The commentary? Chef's kiss.
Aww man, Sim City 4 is a classic. One of my first games. Even my technologically illiterate mother plays this game a lot (it's pretty much all she plays lol). Thanks for the nostalgia, bro.
Citizens: "Think we should speak up about the mayor? He leveled forty city blocks with no notice!"
Other Citizens: "The man spent some money and replaced the ocean with land... YOU speak up against him."
Citizens: "Oh yeah... he terrifies me."
Used to play this when I was 10-ish, I loved this revisit to a lovely past.
I love how the chillax, mellow voice dissappears for half a second when you talk about how much you hate Outianapolis and Indianapolis.
this guy is like scooby if he had 30 more IQ points
So he has 0 IQ points?
Words can't describe how much I love this game franchise.
O frabjous day! Our favourite amphibian has uploaded once more!
I remember fondly about driving vehicles in SimCity 4; it was a mini game of its own, tanks, UFO, trains, attack helicopters, cars…it was all tons of fun
@5:20 _'Rush Hour' beatz _*_INTENSIFY_*
as someone who actually bought the game with money for the first time in life this year and played daily to get to 6+ million population in a single city and learned so many things about game mechanics... this commentary is pure comedy gold, i had to pause just to stop laughing omg ... epic!!!
I feel like the "Outianapolis" joke is underappreciated.
The fact that you speak with the inflection of an early microsoft speech synth makes this surprisingly entertaining.
The toughest goal is to get the space shuttle, which takes a ton of high tech industry, like, a ton.
Ocean/river connections are nice for town connections so try keeping a tiny bit of water next time.
dude, there is NO way. a few days ago, i watched old gameplays of this game to relieve some childhood memories, and now you've uploaded a video about it.
Truly a timeless game. Right down to the police chief dabbing on you. Literally.
As a resident of the state of Indiana I can confirm the city of Outianapolis is a real place, not many people know about it because its big brother is a jerk.
I've listened to you say "Yeesh." five times and it still makes me laugh my ass off. Thank you for being you, reclusivereptile.
That meta moment when you recognize the music because you to uploaded a video with it through youtubes music library....Neat!
This game has the absolute best soundtrack of any game I've ever played. It's so nostalgic, so relaxing.
Your videos are super creative and interesting. I could literally listen to you talk about loading copy paper into a printer and would still be memorized by what you came up with. keep it up bro
Sim city 4 + The Sims were my favorite games back then.The music alone is so great. It's a shame EA destroyed Maxis. I refuse to buy any modern EA products.
Yeah... I loved the interconnectivity.
You could use people from the Sims 1 to inhabit your town (in a limited function) and then the road maps in SimCity 4 could be used as neighbourhood layouts in The Sims 2...
I believe it was Simcity 2000 that I played back in the day. I accidentally found a sort of exploit while fooling around with the settings. I built a medium sized city and cranked up the taxes driving everyone out. I made enough money in taxes to tear everything down and rebuild, minus the roads. I rebuilt the city and charged no taxes. People flooded the city. I increased the taxes to a modest amount. I got some citizens complaining about the taxes being too high, but I ignored them as the population kept growing. Eventually I got businesses to move in a create office buildings. The city kept expanding and I almost filled up the map. Then one day the city caused my computer to crash. I was kind of proud of my self that the simulation was too much for my computer to handle. That lead me to start building my own computers.
Long live the dual kings of city builders: Sim City 4 and Cities: Skylines.
oh yes... I remember playing this as a kid with my mom's laptop. installed it a few weeks ago and went to sites, am surprised this still has an active community of players. they helped me fix problems and install mods. I love simcity
Simcity 3000 has got to be my favourite version, really loved Jerry Martin’s music.
3k was amazing. Also came out during a great time, life is so much more dour these days
simcity 3000 and the sims 1 both had the best soundtracks imo
@@paramike97 can’t argue with that.
Ah, my nostalgia cup runneth over!
I'm going to have to reinstall this classic from my steam library and get reaquainted with it like an old friend.
To build a city from the literal ground up will be a fantastic feeling to have once again.
Good form, A.A. Good form.
Fun Fact:
If you are playing in city mode and you hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT and click on God Mode. You get the full God Mode tools rather the restricted set of tools in city mode! Also the terraforming tools are free too since it's the full God Mode. So there's that.
Bureaucracy: When declaring something a zone is just as expensive as actually building something.
Did you use any mods to correct traffic? I remember that was kind of broken in this game and made achieving highest density in the late game nearly impossible with all the gridlock
There is an error where if a loop exists between 4 cities a sim near the edge of town 1 will travel across the border for work, then across the corner between town 2 and 3, then through to 4 before appearing back in Town 1... before repeating. dependent on hiw often the towns were loaded.
so the road says 1 car, then 2 cars increasing by 1 each time the city is loaded
200 cars on the loop becomes 400 cars then 600, then 800.
any city boundary loop between the cities will end up in pure red with 32,767 cars... from one house.
@@Human-hs8sp That's kind of awesome in an absurd way.
There are quite a lot of mods for this game. One of them - the Network Addon Mod - fixes traffic problems, now allowing you to build high density cities
@@GreenIsTheWayForward Now I just have to get SC4 to run on Win10 😅 and there's all my time gone...
I feel proud that I recognized SimCity 4 from the thumbnail :D
I had SimCity 4 Deluxe and played that one the most. But, I don't think I ever had a "successful" city. They always run into trouble and then I just destroy the city with volcanoes, robots, and aliens.
You convinced me to play this game again. The best City Sim ever, more than Cities Skylines arguably.
I find it's got more charm and is more quirky, Citiies skylines is just quite bland in a lot of their buildings
@@frostyboi312 Can't agree more tbh.
Vanilla Sim City has its fair share of glitches, especially with Sim pathfinding and crime, people not being able to work at high tech industry, job and housing demand across cities in the same region could also be wildly out of sync, and the game can get glitchy with corrupting your sims. Cities Skylines has more traffic and roadbuilding tools, is more stable, and more options for industries, offices and beautification.
@@bellairefondren7389 Fair point.
@@nathanebluepanda8207 Thanks!
Sim city was my favorite game growing up, and now I do GIS work for civic planers.
POV: You live in California
I used to play SimCity on macintosh back in 1995 or so, I loved that if you quit right after you ran the free money code you avoided the calamaties.
I like how you say you love the music, then you play music from The Sims (which I agree is amazing).
Always happy to see a new upload :)
The music brings me right back to playing sim city on mobile back in the day. Good stuff
I looooved playing SimCity as kid! So many memories! Thank you for remembering me of this gem. I think I'm gonna spare some time to play it now.
I replay this every year and it's about that time. The nostalgic soundtrack. Ahhh.
Oh dear, the music brings me back to a time when living was carefree and makes me realize how old i am getting.
0:33 Max Headroom
So, just thought of a fun idea on how to play Project Zomboid.
The Leech;
On apocalypse mode, you have a minimum of 3 players, a leech.
The leech has every single negative trait, and you have to be a Lumberjack
The hosts can be whatever character they want to build.
However, players can not have duplicates of careers. So there can not be another Lumberjack.
The goal is to keep the Leech alive as possible or to at least establish a settlement.
Whats considered an established settlement?
- Renewable food
- Renewable water
- Some form of a bed/mat for each player to sleep on.
I remember dumping all the undesirable constructions in the neighboring tile and paying them to deal with the chaos. So all the power and garbage were out of mind.
I just lol'd when he proclaimed so enthusiastically "Scholars walked in the parking lots", and the first thing I noticed was a guy in a wheelchair.
Please don't cancel me.