I Made A Perfect City using Cruelty in Cities Skylines

Welcome to John City. The goal is to not die. It is a hard goal
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[@RTGame]

We've had almost heaven, this time I'm making heaven I can't wait for Cities Skylines 2

[@MaxiTano006]

L

[@nrdcrimsoncam-vet1225]

It works.....

[@jacobmeyer3185]

West Virginia... mountain momma...

[@cencordduetocringe]

Heaven 2 electric boogaloo

[@demonprincess5714]

see this is east virginia

[@lithium444]

I was so on edge the entire stream thinking Dan would instantly snap and lob 800 meteors at the city but it looks like this city managed to live happily ever after, congrats Dan.

[@whooshdatjoosh6146]

Were you there for the end of stream 2?

[@quirkyperson125]

The end

[@CasuallyShadow]

Gotta love how hes like Jerma, just some psychopathic monster

[@Parciwal_Gaming]

I don't know if happily is the right word.

[@kolerder]

Fucking spoiler alert bro, what the hell

[@weeelums5963]

As an American I’m very proud of Dan, he immediately beelined to oil, just added more lanes whenever there was a traffic problem, and made the entire city for-profit

[@masonelkins686]

And immediately started insider trading. A true politician.

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

​@@masonelkins686not enough lobbying

[@maximummike1092]

I could imagine a family moving into this city struggling to sleep as the giant doomsday clock counts down and they wait for their inevitable demise

[@magicball3201]

The countdown clock, every second of your lives, ticking, each beat louder than the last. You're unsure how much longer until you gaze at the towering clock the mayor had constructed. A hundred feet tall, no matter how far you run, you hear it, you see it, you dread it

[@cowboycurtis2229]

Imagine the real estate listing for a house in this city. "View the Doomsday clock from your front window, and the space shuttle launch site from your back yard!"

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything" ~ Plato

[@incognitoman3656]

He is literally 1987

[@toothbag3132]

​@@incognitoman3656THE MAN BEHIND THE SLAUGHTER

[@liamastill6733]

Problems: -Does not use the upgrade tool to fix road direction -Uses huge roads for normal residential streets

[@archimetropolis]

-Makes a city without annihilating it with tsunamis and shit volcanoes

[@tychostegink2265]

Are you guys describing the US or the video?

[@deadboyo2773]

​@@tychostegink2265based comment

[@mekacrab]

We should have huge roads everywhere tbh, better traffic.

[@foximacentauri7891]

He re-invented the strode, NJB is fuming right now.

[@jubal6654]

After years of playing the game, RT finally does it how it was intended to be

[@IdentifiantE.S]

Ahahaha that’s true

[@nxyuu]

even when he tries to do it the intended way he still creates chaos

[@DBT1007]

[@redmangc]

Just in time for City Skylines 2

[@abs_nobody]

now, to do it all over again in cs2

[@Violet_Knight]

The timer is actually so ominous, because when C:S2 releases, a lot of people will probably move on from this game. The city, and most importantly its inhabitants, will be left to rot. The timer counts down to when their god dies.

[@invurret9533]

"See this, citizens? This is the day The Rapture commences!"

[@MononymousM]

@@invurret9533 "Rapture" implies there may be salvation and/or rescue for at least some of them; I think we all know that ain't happening. With that in mind (and within the bounds of the _surprisingly dark_ thought experiment in which they are sentient and/or aware of their own existence), it's probably less cruel to go with a white lie here and just imply it anyway, given the hopelessly inevitable and total annihilation of their universe has rather morbidly come with a giant unmissable countdown on display😅

[@invurret9533]

@mononymousm9342 only one of them needs to be saved. John will carry over and the rest shall be abandoned by God.

[@rachelcookie321]

@@MononymousM one of the new parks is supposed to be like a teleporter that teleports citizens to cities skylines 2 so there could be salvation for some.

[@magicalnoodles]

I don't think so actually. The first game already has so many mods and expansions. It will take a long time for CS2 to even remotely get close to that level. The exception being if the new game has most things already built in.

[@femurremover]

Dan: "OH, it's 10 o'clock. I've been streaming for 7 hours!" People who also play city management games: "First time?"

[@CinderX5]

Civ 6 has entered the chat.

[@kleioslibrary5451]

"7 hours? Rookie numbers!" 🙂

[@Xalor69]

@@CinderX5 Hit 36hours straight, before streaming was a thing, in Civ and/or Civ2. Not healthy.

[@noodlelynoodle.]

@@Xalor69 I hit 36 hours twice in a week playing Hyrule warriors and had to force myself to stop even tho I wanted to keep going so I could finally see the shadow people lol

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*In a recent election, the residents of John City have voted to rename the town "Brownwater" due to the city's most prominent landmark.*

[@NerdyCatCoffeeee]

You mean the Brown Beach?

[@panic3815]

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee Brownwater Beach

[@Ed-1749]

I love how the stream starts like "watch out americans, actual road design" and it ends with bridges that would make uncle sam proud.

[@ashrowan2143]

I mean he sometimes looked at areas and went that should be a round about which is something no American and Very few Canadians have ever said and this is mister spaghetti junction himself

[@siennadae-knight5598]

@@ashrowan2143to be fair, I’d wager it’s still accurate because in my very ‘murican suburbia, we’ve actually started getting roundabouts In places that don’t really need it or don’t make fucking sense

[@F82TwinMustang]

I've never met an American that struggles with roundabouts. Canadians however...

[@ashrowan2143]

@@F82TwinMustang Canadians pitch a fit about round abouts despite the fact we have MANY seriously we had one put into an intersection on one of the primary highways in my province a few years back and their are still people loosing their minds about it

[@Only_Sleep]

Well you can’t forget the oil and stock market manipulation!

[@RoyalDogmeat]

Imagine hunkering down in a bunker, thinking that your family and friends are dead, your home is destroyed, and you have nothing to live for, only for the mayor of your town to open the bunker door and say he just forgot to let everyone out for a few weeks after the disaster. Oopsies

[@Alfar-2908-1]

I only can imagine what kind of horror he will create with the new tools and abilities in City Skylines 2

[@CaptDuty491]

Yes

[@bangtio23]

Just think about the roads he will build in CS2 His creative minds is hindered by the fact that roads collide with another road in CS1

[@CodyGissel]

Every time he builds another bridge it's the epitome of "just one more lane will fix the traffic, bro"

[@paincreatesfame]

“Dude trust me this is the lane”

[@CodyGissel]

@@paincreatesfame ace gang??? 😮🖤🩶🤍💜

[@Copper352]

RT game is a perfect example of what a you tuber should strive to be

[@Nosyaj1941]

Irish?

[@deadboyo2773]

​@@Nosyaj1941no silly, they clearly meant being good at market manipulation

[@pixal243]

@@deadboyo2773 so Irish?

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@pixal243 AHAHA

[@Hoodles321]

Fr

[@ehhhe]

As a john myself, I am proud of this city

[@thatpoemguy2083]

Good work Sir John. Excellent Johnning.

[@SketchUT]

And yet your account is named “Peter M.”? 🤨 (I kid :])

[@Franky566]

IMPOSTERATOR!

[@ehhhe]

@@thatpoemguy2083 middle name

[@johndriscoll4230]

i tip my hat to you, one john to another.

[@matthewferrigno3758]

"Oh, it's 10 at night" is the most relatable gaming experience

[@mistertea603]

It's fascinating to watch him do the game 'right' I've gone from being horrified of what he normally does to fascinated when he plays 'correctly'.

[@seungkwanbot3203]

horrified by how he plays "correctly"

[@invalid_user_handle]

As the god of the world of Cities: Skylines, he finally got bored of bombarding the planet with meteors and is now actually reading the instruction manual.

[@andrewgambardella9471]

As somebody living in NYC I felt it in my soul when RT put the toll down just to leave the city 🙃

[@1ManRandom]

As someone living outside Philadelphia, at least he didn’t put one down to get into the city.

[@rachelcookie321]

I absolutely hate the idea of tolls and love that they have none where I live so I refuse to use them in the game. I feel bad enough making people pay to go to the park. Why are my citizens paying more to visit just an ordinary park than a theme park?

[@Digiking2031]

First thing he says is that he plans to make a functional city... I'm terrified, excited, and very concerned. Glad to see you back!

[@philosophy_bot4171]

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[@GreenGearStudio]

A little bit of uncertainty goes away in the universe whenever RT starts a city skylines stream with "I'm going to simply try and make a functioning city" EDIT: Wait, he actually did it?!

[@apexkonchu2234]

Just ignore the literal sea of shit.

[@strawberrymilk9767]

Knowing that this might be the last city rt makes in the original cities skylines brings a tear to my eye

[@djdexcat]

The sequel doomsday clock certainly carries some existential dread. "Only _this much time_ until your existence becomes obsolete! A better world is coming, you just won't be in it :)"

[@judy3827]

"oh god we just spent 7 hours on this I completely lost track of time" is such a mood for every single time I've opened this game, it just takes you in a trance and you wake up in the middle of the night completely dehydrated and half-dead but with a great city!

[@GlitchUnpatched]

the master mayor is back

[@williamdocherty1816]

We’re saved from a functional life

[@matthewboire6843]

@@williamdocherty1816we’re saved from life

[@rumle5]

​@@matthewboire6843we're saved from a function

[@kingmatthewlego]

@@williamdocherty1816we’re saved from “a”

[@MadcapMachinations]

You mean the master of diisaster

[@thecanadianm8613]

On today's episode we're seeing how many nukes it takes to reduce this metropolis sized civilian flesh wall into a fine soup

[@faland0069]

i read this in Jeremy Clarkson's voice for some reason

[@MononymousM]

I think we all expected it; don't feel bad that you made the wrong call. Judging from the data pool we have of the interactions between RT and City Skylines, to say the odds were very much in your favour is an understatement.

[@Ayimii]

@@faland0069 This made this comment so much funnier. Edit: I keep reading it in his voice now. It's so fitting.

[@aboveaveragenerd3306]

I finished a grilled cheese and tomato soup literally 70s before finding this comment and I wish I didn't

[@calamaribowl8683]

"They'll have to bury you in a soup can!"

[@dragountastified8083]

The doomsday clock functioned nicely as a runtime timer for how long the stream went!

[@MrJFL]

3:03 thank you for selectively choosing which swears to leave in because it's adding emphasis and I love it.

[@jamesryan2115]

I love alternating between RT’s cities and City Planner Plays - so different yet both so fun

[@Arkiasis]

RT: "Okay let's make this 6 lane one way road snake around. Don't mind it destroyed half of my buildings." City Planner: "Okay, to encourage walkability and transit use we're putting bus lanes and throwing some higher density around here around the transmit hub to encourage transit orientated development."

[@Torika2724]

YES!!! ITS BACK!!! Also, a 7 hour stream? In 25 minutes? People weren’t kidding about your editor.

[@sg2126]

i need the video to be longer

[@HazeEmry]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Cloé is a godsend

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

19:50 *Dan has created a literal Fallout VAULT.* Fitting, considering all the social experimenting he's doing!

[@garrisontd]

16:48 - “I’m trying to run this well! I’m not even trying to mess this up.” Literally four seconds later - “They’ve got traffic lights too. Turn them all off.”

[@Mar_Marine]

7 accidental hours of Cities Skylines. As Paradox intended it.

[@jieunkim3585]

You literally cured my perfectionism. I mean, because I thought I had to create a perfect city when playing this game, I had been avoiding trying it. But after watching your videos, I realized I don't have to make a perfect city. This gave me the courage to start playing the game. You know, the whole reason to play this game is to enjoy it! 😊 So, thank you for having fun and being creative.

[@suboardi]

as a city planning student, this is indeed one of the cities of all time

[@Alazure_]

Not sure if anyones said this, but on the release date of CS2, RT should stream this city and level the city with meteors once the timer finally hits zero

[@sugoistalin7809]

How many times has he started with the phrase "We're actually going to make a functioning city this time"?

[@sugoistalin7809]

Huh. It's technically a functional city, functioning on pure pain, but functioning nonetheless.

[@quark751]

"I'm simply going to try and make a functioning city" God help the poor souls that moved into John City

[@OcelotsFilms]

After watching this, I'd love to see RT collab with a professional City Skylines player after this to see if they can teach RT some actual tips for building a decent city.

[@CMDRJakob]

I would LOVE to see Biffa come in here, critiquing this city while fixing it, but also kindly and encouragingly doing so since he would understand this is RT's first actual city, and thus has much to learn.

[@Foxy_AR]

Someone needs to tell him that you can just swap directions of one-way roads by right-clicking with the upgrade tool (Edit: nvm, he figured it out himself)

[@Hunter_238]

I feel like that woman who's crying from watching the one guy put all the shapes in the square hole

[@dylanlutchman5094]

I hope we get to see this town again because it seems like he genuinely had fun doing this stream

[@abyschaaf6985]

It's amazing how Dan just perfectly replicated normal American city planning

[@Doggywoof1]

it's nice seeing videos like this occasionally. still chaotic, but not to the point of destroying everything.

[@handsomelessking]

This is an amazing game to show how the "one more lane" works

[@pompey333]

Honestly love the city design Dan did has a lot of character

[@pembertr0n]

“We’re gonna have a functional city.” Immediately blows the entire budget on a suspension bridge.

[@mightykingwario]

Finally, the most grueling challenge of City Skylines. Playing it like a sane person.

[@drakovangorder8160]

HEY EV3RY !!

[@Aster_iskYT]

RT really got so invested in playing the game normally that he accidentally played it the best he's ever played it, and also managed to do it for 7 straight hours. 10/10

[@finn4012]

I love how Dan accidentally did Spiff’s investment tactics

[@blazethekat2458]

I remember i bugged the game so badly that the sewage turned drinkable like on the pollution tab i was clean but visually it was the darkest gray it could be in that city my water costs plummeted

[@_arkalis_5573]

This city pretty tame if you look at it from a RimWorld players perspective

[@MetalPipeGamingOfficial]

The timer counting down to the citys doom is a nice feature!

[@rattled6732]

Yes RT playing City skylines is always amazing

[@alisteruiz]

legit felt like throwing myself in front of a bus but then rtgame uploads cant miss this

[@OmiGundam777]

I know there’s a large chance you’re joking, but on the off chance you aren’t are you ok? Need some help?

[@alisteruiz]

@@OmiGundam777 im joking but also not joking at the same time im probably ok

[@OmiGundam777]

@@alisteruiz ok, glad to hear it.

[@A.I.Autumn]

Huh, nearly drove off the road myself yesterday, but my body locked up before I could crank the wheel. It's some sort of horrific serendipity here.

[@Guydude777]

Hope you're feeling better.

[@paragonflash8937]

I love how everytime RT wants to do something unethical and destructive on city skylines the game lets him do it with no difficulty. But when RT wants to play the game properly and try to make a good functioning city the game maxs out on its difficulty and rains hell on RT.

[@am3thysts]

1:34 Did the Irishman just say his land was too green? Sounds like blasphemy to me.

[@drafbear7769]

Daniel playing Cities Skylines like the average person 💀

[@simonthecucumberenjoyer1042]

While RT laughed at the concept of placing a basketball court next to a cemetary my IRL town actually has that lmao (the cemetary is between a kindergarden and school which is kinda funny to me.. The contrast is ironic. This is where you start and this is where you end. If you never leave the town that is ofc)

[@FishReallySucks]

Im still amazed how you make every single game, including ones i would never play myself, so entertaining. Thank you RT ❤

[@ndroidryan7659]

I’m convinced rt is an absolute psycho, and when he tries to be normal, he can’t help but create chaos.

[@b6oy1004]

it might have been difficult but I have a lot of respect for your restraint in not making a sewage lake

[@LimeInDisguise]

5:57 now you can be ballin while next door they’re bawling

[@technotwerp2724]

18:24 My college is right next a lake that is known for toxic algae and we are advised to not mess with the water because of it. One of the dorm buildings has a little landing by it that gives us easy access to the water though.

[@EllieEars]

After watching city planner plays for the past few weeks, I honestly don't know who makes a better city and I love that

[@Roguchii]

This game is one of RT's niche games. Ultimately entertaining!

[@twiharryfan212]

Honestly, the fact he's still able to enjoy a game so much that he loses all track of time is great to see!! A lot of gaming content creators lose that love of games over time.

[@braednirwin7527]

Actually seeing Dan build a functioning city is absolutely insane. Truly the scariest thing on this channel yet

[@ValueNetwork]

RT game city skylines videos are rare nowadays, but are always perfectly sadistic

[@manofsemantics7936]

So glad that RT had such a fun time streaming this. Maybe I can learn how to actually play Cities Skylines now!

[@namenamename390]

I can't exactly put it into words, but him claiming he will build a normal, functioning city and then almost exclusively using wide four or six lane roads deeply upset me. Never change, RT.

[@deedumdim]

Please keep working on this city, this was immensely enjoyable to watch

[@anametoignore2286]

"Its a beach campus... just DON'T swim in the water" this is just reality for the west coast US recently

[@the4bestgame]

Im so happy to see RT playing this game legit, this was amazing

[@theblaqknight]

RT, you need to play a game called Freeways. It's a puzzle game where you just create uncontrolled roads. You can learn actual traffic flow engineering through trial and error and it's a lot of fun.

[@novavqz3147]

I started playing this game after watching RTs videos and he has been a great master to not follow through most of the times, but now he has made the real advancedment of building a nice city

[@pennyjoe.]

Always happy to see more city skylines!

[@Foxy_AR]

I was surprised that it didn’t end with a meteor shower and country roads in the background

[@LivingAsAGhost]

The most like whacky thing I dealt with as a kid living in a small town was having the cemetery right next to the school and thus the playground (fence separating one from the other). Super eerie

[@StickMaster500]

“I Made A Perfect City Using Cruelty in City Skylines” Yeah, that’s a pretty accurate depiction of living in New York City.

[@F0rtuneLT]

man has been playing Cities Skylines for like 5 years now and doesn't know you can use the upgrade tool to swap road directions and you don't need to destroy them

[@imcjkirk]

Glad you’re back

[@ThyBigCheddar]

He left?

[@imcjkirk]

@@ThyBigCheddar just been a while since city Skylines is all

[@StarkoftheWest]

You have no idea how happy I am to see this, I binge the cs series constantly. It is my absolute favorite!

[@grimms1916]

Any time dan says "Im really trying to do it properly" you'll know he's lying when he throws down 12 haphazard bridges instead of putting in the effort to plan his roads

[@srenten]

Imagine going to a city and right front and center they have a clock that counts down until "Earth 2".

[@renakunisaki]

Elysium

[@idontreallyknow2885]

The roads went bad real fast…

[@AlexanderOnFire]

The best thing of that timer is, that you can only access it if you leave the city (until he "fixed" it though)

[@shiptomyhouse]

After spending over a year watching City Planner Plays and Biffa to learn how to make a realistic city, i suddenly feel much more confident in my abilities

[@ThatOneREDScout]

17:55 "There's a lot of traffic over here, so you know what time it is...time to pop on some more lanes." American Traffic Management Simulator 2023

[@waffles6280]

Rt sees traffic problems and can only imagine the bridges that solve it. Except for the time he used a roundabout

[@evanholt1752]

The greatest financial crime in history: "I just invested in deathcare!" "🎵Almost heaven...🎵"

[@astupididea]

I love this, please continue it

[@klausing7114]

We have some roundabouts in America at least where I live

[@tyreecepeterson3988]

Road heirarchy my guy!! That’s why the traffic is so bad and you red line the zoning so everything is far so everyone has to drive, great video ‼️

[@mapletreegames9053]

This is honest to god even more psychotic knowing you're trying to actually play the game this time

[@therealtony2009]

always great to see rt upload cities skylines, it feels like its been forever

[@wiftowi1891]

Oh how I’ve missed rt’s city sky lines, love to see it again!

[@vidk.6304]

I love this combination of relaxing cities skylines gameplay mixed with RT wackiness lol

[@maelynn7168]

Haven’t watched your videos in so long but my favorite were city skylines ,, just rewatched some of them the other day and now here’s a brand new one :0 currently addicted to this game rn

[@ukmoxy]

only went on the stream midway through so this is great to watch the vod in its entirety