SimCity 4 - The Rise of New Jonton

SimCity 4 is one of my favourite games of all time, and one of the finest city builder games ever created, so this week, I'll be revisiting this classic, starting off by founding the beautiful little town of New Jonton...
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[@EverythingNerdifying]

My favorite thing about this game has always been the music. I love the soundtrack!

[@DimensionO]

I shudder to think that Simcity 4 is a classic! It's a brilliant game, absolutely, but I still think of it as contemporary. I'm having an aging gamer crisis.

[@Seralious]

SimCity 4 will always have a special place in my memories. I remember being 6 or 7 years old when I got my copy (late 2005 I wanna say) and playing it on a Dell Dimension 2400. The lag was unbearable at times but I poured my little child soul in to that game. The soundtrack alone (particularly the "Area 52" track) makes me incredibly nostalgic. Thank you for doing this LP, it's nice to see some people still playing this excellent game in 2016.

[@Jaxvidstar]

31:08 the soundtrack is giving faint vibes of a song from Wolf's Rain.

[@mikek2971]

See now this is making me want to play Tropico. That's a game I'd love to see Jon play, just need to see if evil Jon comes out to be rum baron dictator with an iron fist.

[@ShadyDoorags]

I have watched this several times, Jon. I hope you plan on revisiting it in the future.

[@toaofpi]

16:50 Roads Rule in New Jonton, but Streets Becoming Endangered? What does that even mean? I love watching city builders. I am dreadful at them myself, but I just get such a satisfaction over watching everything just move around. I can't wait to see more. Thanks for the video!

[@aggroknight4259]

Niel Fairbanks, your City Planning adviser, doesn't like it when you use more roads (or avenues and highways) than necessary. The problem is he's VERY picky about it. If you look at the way cities are laid out in real life, you'll notices roads tend to be in areas with higher traffic, while the opposite is often true for streets, especially in suburbs. This video by MATN isn't a good example of how to play SC4. You'll notice late in the video he bottlenecks ALL commute traffic into the industrial sector on a single road.

[@NoPlaceForTheDead]

One if my favorite things in any Sim City game was to build farming communities in SC4.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

+NoPlaceForTheDead Oh no... It's very space inefficient and it poisons the groundwater like crazy...

[@NoPlaceForTheDead]

I just like to look at giant swaths of wheat.

[@AnesidoraAston]

+Many A True Nerd You're opposed to poisoning groundwater? Aren't you supposed to be a megalomaniacal super villain or something?

[@ncr_ranger96]

+Peter Uhlenberg What do you mean? We all know Jon is an egg carton.

[@xx_fedora_appreciator_xx6783]

+Peter Uhlenberg yeah dude! check your facts!

[@Kr0nicDragon]

The last good sim city game ever made, R.I.P. sim city we will remember you fondly

[@Kinemagichemistry]

"There's a whole bunch of new content I've never seen before!" *Proceeds to NOT really do any of the Rush Hour content...*

[@KOT_AMV]

Kinemagichemistry honestly, I'm just glad he played SimCity 4 in the form of a series.

[@jupiterzombies]

i only had the demo for this game as a kid and even though it was on a timer i played it SO MANY TIMES ;__; such a good game

[@SiriusSam]

00:44 There were tons of commercials when Rush Hour came out. You probably did not get them in your country

[@Xoron]

Jon, you can use shift, alt and ctrl when placing zones. Shift will omit the small roads, alt will turn the orientation of the zones and ctrl will condensate into one single zone.

[@geekreport]

It's telling that my immediate reaction to the title was "OH HELL YEAH!" Perfect marriage of game and player. Hope there's more.

[@Rateus_Johanson]

"Their favourite Mayor." Of all the 1 mayor we've ever had you are by far the best...

[@deadserenity95]

I love the mini series of some of your fav games, so much variety lately, we are spoilt! Ive never been able to get into SimCity 4 but you are making me want to try again, the terraforming alone looks hella fun

[@yourethatmantis5178]

just came here from new vegas and I never knew he did this, this is a very pleasant surprise

[@willbroome8891]

@manyatruenerd, I came to this channel almost a year ago for fallout, but I can honestly say I genuinely enjoy all of your videos. I've stuck around because you make even the most ridiculous games worth watching. I love your personality and everything you do is golden. Thanks for doing what you do good sir.

[@MrGregoryKershaw]

I'd like to see Jon Try Theme Hospital

[@ManyATrueNerd]

+Gregory Kershaw I've never played it - I was more into Rollercoaster Tycoon in those days.

[@TRGTACE]

+Many A True Nerd I played Theme Hospital and Theme Park before finding RCT. I would highly recommend you play Hospital! Also, i would love to see Dungeon Keeper!

[@FraserM1995]

+Many A True Nerd Theme Hospital would suit you down to the ground with silly humour, but a rather large complexity and that small amount of creative freedom!

[@cerberus0225]

+Many A True Nerd Simcity 4 was such a good game. Shame they never made a sequel, but at least City Skylines picked up the slack. What're your thoughts on that game? It seems to me you'd quite enjoy it.

[@noahforsbergclausen3823]

+Many A True Nerd i have the sims City 4 limited edition

[@roachbaitfnv2591]

On the main screen, the oval on the top left, with a map-looking texture on it, well, if you open it, you can choose other large region maps, one is actually London, another is Berlin, there are a few more in there too, plus, you can create your own Large Region maps, with city areas. You can have the whole region be flat with nothing but grass, or break into the terraforming tool, and do pretty much anything you desire (I used to have a continental North America map, from Canada to Mexico). The nicest thing about this game is this, you can incorporate nearby areas and make them set up for nothing but power/landfills/industrial. effectively limiting pollution for the nearby populated cites (they will commute to work there, when you connect them). The industrial power centers/areas can be used to sell power back to nearby areas/population-commercial centers, with power lines, linking nearby areas the same you can with roads. The smaller areas are ideal for this. It also leaves you more area for your regional population, which will unlock better things down the line. Sticking to lower/light zoning is best to start out. Taxes are the teeter-totter that everything else hinges on, and if you start out with them low for things like the rich, and jack them up for the poor, you will keep a lot of crime away, which is a big problem later on, especially if you end up with a bunch of arsonists, or riots...fire can decimate your cities pretty fast. Schools and higher education are also key to building a successful city, you won't need so many police when your educated Sims are rich and happy. It all feeds into an upward-spiral of growth, if you take care, and don't try to change too much, all at one time. You do have to watch when terraforming, it can be steeper than it looks like sometimes...a good rule to go by, is that trees will grow where houses can usually go. You can use shift to enlarge your area effect area when terraforming, and control will shrink it (or vice versa), which is handy, and will keep you sane when doing rivers...Smoothing is a good idea, and so is wind erosion...and add as many trees as you can, while they are free. They keep pollution down. Well, I could probably write you ten books on this, but, that should be enough to get you going for now. Rush hour is pretty cool, and will also help keep you sane, and, you can drive the cars around, but, I'm sure you saw all that in the tutorial map in Timbuktu...I usually stay off that map, because once you save to it, it's pretty much permanent (unless if you change it back or exit before saving a city there, no city=no changes), and being a default map that I hardly go to, because of the tutorials I leave that one alone, so it's file size remains the same... :)

[@blarg2429]

+Roachbait FNV That's quite an impressive wall of text. Care to tl;dr it for me?

[@roachbaitfnv2591]

I've considered doing a sort of mini-tutorial video on it myself....for clarity.

[@blarg2429]

Roachbait FNV I think you should. It looks interesting, but I'm a bit intimidated by the sheer quantity of words.

[@roachbaitfnv2591]

Well, I don't think Jon is a stranger to reading anything at length. and, like I said towards the end of it, I could write about ten books on parts of it. It makes me wish I still had my old hard drive, with my earlier work, My North America map was quite a bit of work, I already had the whole East Coast populated, and had worked across to past Detroit. Then I'd started on the West Coast, and had most of it squared away.

[@blarg2429]

Roachbait FNV True enough. Maybe consider paragraphs, though?

[@DisKorruptd]

finally, a competent youtuber playing this!

[@MrRichardG22]

Oh the memories!!! Best sim city ever! ;) Can't wait to see what you'll build!

[@Drokash]

A week of Simcity 4, Jon you know how to make a guy happy! (Also New Jonton, was that a subtle reference to Jontron?)

[@ManyATrueNerd]

+Drokash Entirely accidental

[@MarquisSmith]

"Entirely accidental". That was his parent's excuse, too.

[@MattiosUK]

+Many A True Nerd www.maparabic.com/place/Indonesia/East-Java/7405965/Jontong If only it didn't have a "G" at the end.

[@lukaluquetti]

I think it wasn't gabe. now can you please get on making half life 3

[@gerryatric1549]

Funny enough the title "new jonton" is funny because jontron just started making video's again

[@TRGTACE]

Years of you not playing it, and you still know what you're talking about. lol. Also, i love how for almost half of this game, is easy to grasp, but i love how you explain things.

[@michaelkeller6309]

Who else read that as Rise of New Jontron?

[@gaminreasons8941]

I don't even watch Jontron. But I did read Jontron.

[@starwarsnerd100]

+michael keller Clearly MATN is attempting a hostile KZbin channel takeover. Afterwords he'll change the brand to MATJ, Many a True Jontron.

[@rifflerunderhill7006]

+michael keller I did, which almost made me reflexively dislike the video. I'm glad I reread it and watched for myself.

[@zekiah2]

I got excited for a double Jon collaboration

[@sansandpapyrus4121]

me

[@Pluta101]

Just wanted to say I love how you always play older/indie games unlike most KZbin gamers. Love your videos!!!

[@saltshaker1691]

Spectacular closing! Well done.

[@chuckufarly5]

i know the video is kinda "old" now, but i still suggest getting the NAM and NWM for this game, and perhaps a slope mods as the default slopes are horrid... this is a first watching anything by this guy...actually didnt know of him till now, but i can agree, this is one of the greatest games of all time, and the mod community only makes it better...actually that what has kept this game alive 13 years after its been out....

[@justinkroboth360]

*tenement housing goes up* "The city's going rapidly upmarket" I, uh, I don't think you caught that, Jon. Made me chuckle.

[@Reflectanon]

Simcity 4 honestly has one of the best video game soundtracks I've ever heard. I played the game for about 20 hours, but I would've only played for 5 if the soundtrack wasn't so great.

[@GhostMurker]

Tbh I didn't think I would like this but I actually would like to see you keep playing this

[@l9m241]

DID YOU KNOW?: While in City mode, if you hold SHIFT and click the "God Mode" toolbar, it opens the God Mode tools in full mode instead of city-god mode? No more money going down the toilet! Could you play this game more often? (Besides a week?) I would love to you jump into this game a bit more than that!

[@samirm]

OMFG yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss. Best Simcity ever. I hope you're running the transportation mods.

[@operationmonkeyman8259]

many a true nerd is the real mvp and the nostalgia critic

[@UncleCarpsGamingCorner]

SC4 is one of my favourite games ever. I always found building another city full of agriculture next to your main city to be a good tactic as it removes that agricultural desire for your main city. Another very good city building simulation that's a bit more modern is Cities: Skylines, which came out in 2015. Those guys have clearly played loads of SC4 and loved every bit of it.

[@TheNellehFox]

Definitely want to see more episodes of this! I loved it.

[@masmoredear]

medieval II and Simcity 4 in the same week. All hail Jon of MATN!

[@staraito]

I was always so bad at Sim City but this has really made me wanna play it again!

[@johnsmith-qv2nv]

You should play city skylines

[@torg1]

Heck yea he should

[@justinjjs1]

+john smith Yeah, its what should have came after Sim City 4, if EA was not incompetent .

[@chrisb5005]

+john smith Everyone will

[@baley7]

Definitely!

[@adamz3966]

He would love it!

[@bloodrunsclear]

I'm convinced. I got this on sale and it looks great :D Also, you have a new sub

[@LazyStormTrooper]

This game, Spore, and Lego Star Wars II were my childhood.

[@gtaxmods]

You should use the ctrl, shift, and alt keys to change how the zones lay out.

[@FluffalEevee]

Welcome to the comments section. here you will find. 75% - people claiming that they saw jontron in the title 20% - people commenting about how much they love city builders 5% - other random comments

[@aterriblememe9565]

1% this

[@DZ-1987]

0.1% me being DZ.

[@theyorkshireshadow7081]

i want to play simcity4 again...

[@nathandompe1868]

This was one of my favorite games of all time 1000+ hours

[@AtheAetheling]

Always loved this game, even though I sucked at it and always failed hard. Kept coming back anyway, the sign of a good game!

[@alanmorrison4438]

I read the title as New Jontron

[@davidjames4890]

This is the only SimCity game I have,and now I look back on it... Damn,the graphics and 2d citizens.

[@Michael-sl5qx]

I loved this game. I still love this game. ^w^

[@AreWeLearningYet77]

Your city planning makes me want to tear my hair out, but I'm glad you're playing Sim City. Ever tried Cities: Skylines?

[@KMS00000zero]

I have absolutely no problem with a full simcity series.

[@KMS00000zero]

In fact, a series of a non-actiony non-roguelikey game once a week would be perfect. Maybe total war? You always have so much fun with those.

[@thewizardblundermore]

Yes! Make this a series!

[@jodroboxes]

I played this so much.

[@DecodingInspire]

Oh nice its the First Video of SimCity 4 i have ever seen in 2016 ok i saw every time lets play of 2011-2012-2013 these were the normal date but wow i wanna see i until its finished

[@deacon6221]

Love your videos Jon!

[@mikechu01]

Yes! I absolutely love SimCity 4

[@jonahbrown4408]

I'm new to your channel True Nerd I have subscribed and let me tell you something you're a amazing KZbinr.

[@tan5231]

I recommend watching his why not Wednesday series. A lot of fun. And all of his other series a lot of fun.

[@F.Y.M.B]

Did anyone else notice how happy he was to put his house across from the elementary school

[@Shna_na]

Jon, you really need to play Cities: Skylines. You'll cry tears of joy at how good it is.

[@michaelborrego6165]

I couldn't get this working without massive lag on Windows 10 when I bought from Steam, even after following loads of instructions and guides on Steam :/ Love this game! Played it so much when I was younger

[@ManyATrueNerd]

+Michael Borrego It took a little work to get it working - there are some good guides on the Steam forums to getting it working

[@michaelborrego6165]

+Many A True Nerd I just had no luck, unfortunately! Really glad I can watch you play it haha

[@rifflerunderhill7006]

Dear Jon; two words, 'pause button'. lol Although I love your frantic manner of trying to stay on top of everything. Well done good sir.

[@kieran8101]

Man I love this game

[@bruhernandez8607]

I CANNOT be the only person that read the title as "The new Jontron".

[@AWOOGO]

Ive never played this, but ive played cities skyline, which as far as i know is considered and amazing successor. So if you want a newer fancier version, its worth checking out

[@wss3751]

amazing commentary

[@donashcroft93]

OMG i loved this game

[@lordrynogaming1553]

I love this game yay I'm going to enjoy this.

[@justderp5713]

Does anyone else realize that hank scorpio is actually a reference to a episode of the simpsons?

[@racsostrebor]

Yeah, that was an amazing episode. I was looking at it and wondering where I knew it, and it suddenly came to me

[@FluffalEevee]

yep.

[@NunOfDoloresDei]

AS A MATTER OF FACT, I DIDNT EVEN GIVE YOU MY COAT!

[@justderp5713]

+AlisaMaederGodN9gga wtf does that mean

[@NailheadCarpentryTile]

+rekki the shadow its literally a reference straight from that episode.....

[@Edkins460]

10:50 I came here from the Brutii playthrough... "plaza" *eye twitch* FOR THE GLORY OF ROME!

[@cowoftheseas]

I've played this game a long time ago and I've practically always spent the time building the city only so I could destroy it with numerous ways.

[@STOTTINMAD]

so many memories

[@apertureemployee215]

I can't believe Jon has never played cities skylines on the channel

[@tomatlars]

I have not played SimCity since SimCity 2000. so it been a while

[@5Andysalive]

you gotta love the "new stuff" in SC4 :-P

[@asenwolf3441]

Would like to see a series actually! :D

[@willking3779]

I enjoy watching this

[@JesterAzazel]

There's a button you can hold while zoning (control or shift, can't remember because it has been a while) that'll make it stop adding roads.

[@xerror_d4042]

I'm tempted to buy this on steam.

[@neonness10293948576]

sim city week ay? exciting

[@matthewlebo1841]

The little wind turbine that could

[@atlasbugged6731]

Drunk happiness = ManyATrueNerd

[@eey-bee]

I've been playing SC4 for years and yet I never realised people appeared under the fireworks..haha

[@connorburton1009]

Oh god the nostalgia

[@motman199]

Wow, thanks Mr. Scorpion...

[@catalyst336]

the nostalgic in me is happy, the fallout survival mode junkie is screaming for the next ep >.

[@pellaken]

This game without the RHW mod is like 1/10th the size it could be. With the RHW mod this game will still be played 10 years from now (not joking)

[@pellaken]

+Teddy Boragina AFAIK you can also, with RHW, change to left-hand drive like in the UK for your cities.

[@iamnotanumber3578]

Fun. Nothing interests me more than 40 different systems functioning symbiotically with one another

[@jackalblades6822]

suddenly i realize why i like city skylines so much >

[@jodroboxes]

If you hold down shift or alt or whatever, you can disable the road generation while you drag.

[@Grumpydrawer]

I remember I'd spend hours messing around in the God/Creation Mode, let alone the main game haha.

[@Kaizerworks]

Jon, just so you know, the reason moose doesn't pluralize like goose does 'ie geese/meese' is because goose is a germanic word, and follows their rule of vowel tightening. Moose is from native american language, and thus doesn't follow the same grammar.

[@gman210977]

Haven't played this in years. I spent hours on this.

[@pinguisimo]

I've never played this before, but I did play cities skylines. Now I understand where they got the idea from :) So many similar things, but they did improve on the roads though.

[@skorpion7132]

29:41, this is curious. I have the Simcity 4 Deluxe version that also features Rush Hour elements. I have the tutorial and the commute stuff. but for some reason I don't have the building style setting. Does anybody know what this is part of specifically?

[@Tubilakken]

Yes a sim city series please

[@ManyATrueNerd]

+Tubilakken There'll be parts every day this week, plys other videos too :)

[@Dayalexc]

+Many A True Nerd you are the hero we don't deserve

[@alexg.1764]

+Alexander Day But the one we need?

[@racsostrebor]

Series, series!!!

[@TacticalSandals]

You should def play Cities:Skylines. its everything that sim city 5 should have been and more. Probably one of the best city building games ever created. and the mod/steam workshop content for it is expansive. people have added a first person flight mods, drive-able cars, thousands of real buildings, ect.

[@Tannerbanner]

41:41 Look at the top right corner for a while! WHat happened!?

[@pizdocivka]

SC4! man I played this way too much :)

[@adamoore8073]

could've sworn that said Jontron in the title.. but I recommend cities skylines. it does everything sim city does, but I think better.

[@animedudevid]

+Joseph Moore And Bigger.

[@adamoore8073]

Very