SimCity | Ep. 01 | Best Cities, Worst Game, Ever | SimCity City Building Tycoon Gameplay

[@Raptoria]

OH BOY - Let's see how good and bad this game is back from 2013. Not much has changed, but the music certainly is the best in the city building genre. Glory to Raptoria!

[@matiasnieminen5430]

You should test star wars empire at war its pretty olf game but itd super good with the mods

[@samuelysokoniki7904]

Thx raptor for bringing back simcity. I have been playing it since i was pretty young and would some times play it felling alone

[@samuelysokoniki7904]

Also could you do a online server so OG's could help out

[@lolGuiPereira]

Thanks for the memories man. I played this game a lot in the past and probably still have it installed in my computer.

[@-hydro]

One hour video next time please

[@toadsage7194]

so much potential. if they had just made the square they gave us 4 times larger i think itd be fantastic

[@nirutjeenchuem6472]

Playing Simcity : I wish they'd gave us 4 times larger room to build the city. Playing CS : I wish I'd subscribe to that Metro overhaul mod, it'd look amazing in my city! (Go to the workshop and subscribe to a ton of "I could use that later" and never use them)

[@tienatho2149]

@@nirutjeenchuem6472 CS: do you wanna buy a ton of our DLC ?

[@tugrulserhat]

everyone complains about that but I find it a challange to create great cities in small areas. I am playing it again today in 2020 and the only shitty thing about the game is its bugs man. if only goddamn ea let maxis to actually work on the game...

[@pranavsingh6395]

@@tugrulserhat it may be a challenge but those who want to build their dream city will find that the designated area would be too small

[@luachamuchacha]

I really loved the game, but the maps were just so small

[@droe2570]

This game had some great ideas. The modular buildings system is fantastic, and it has a lot of art assets. There are a few things this game does very well. Sadly, the tiny build areas really killed it, and Maxis never dealt with that issue. I suspect that if the game had been a success, EA/Maxis wold have dumped a ton of DLC for it.

[@Idklmao1502]

EA is the culprit. They gassed the hell out of it and destroyed the whole game

[@woody4077]

r.i.p. simcity 1989 - 2013 you had good life; now all hail the new city biulder emperor cities skylines

[@droe2570]

Yeah, and CS is not that good, either.

[@snfang56]

Simcity Buildit: Am I a joke to you?

[@woody4077]

@@snfang56 to paraphrase a harry potter line ["we do not speak of mobile games"]

[@davethewave119]

@@droe2570 I mean CS is the best one so far I'd love a much more detailed game without the use of all the mods

[@marifelgarcia4988]

@@davethewave119 simcity has better graphics

[@shinkicker404]

Sim City 2013: An example of corporate greed ruining a franchise.

[@bonyfinger]

Ikr! Sim City 4 with this graphics would have been a great game

[@Priyo866]

Yeah, it is called "EA effect".

[@Priyo866]

@@bonyfinger That would've been one of the greatest game ever, indeed.

[@Jabberdau]

Remember EAs old company intro video? "EA, CHALLENGES EVERYTHING!". I always thought of it as "including good behavior, the law, ethical practice" and so on.

[@nikhildeshmukh6851]

But on android it's amazing to have this game 😍😍

[@stevieg6418]

I really do miss Sim City. The new one had a great feel and had a lot of elements to it that had the potential to be a truly great successor to the Sim City series. EA totally throttled and killed this series and it should be held as a beacon to EA's history of taking over successful studios and running them into the ground.

[@Echo_4609]

as theyre doing to Dice in the Battlefield series. although recently they are making a huge comeback for DLCs in Battlefield and now its more Dice is ruining the series with more and more bugs and glitches

[@takumifujiwara9072]

And they did the same to real racing

[@belland_dog8235]

Everything EA touches turns to crap. Not because of the studios, no they have great studios that make good games (Some of them at at least). It's EA trying to find a way to monetize the game, rushing them, scrapping them when they take more than a year, it's absolutely disgusting.

[@adronius147]

SimCity is one such example sure, but nothing beats what they did to Spore. That game has been and probably forever will be the tallest monument to EA's destructive greed.

[@LoneWanderer101]

Sim City was nice looking but the small city size was such a handicap that it completely negated all the positive aspects of the game. I thankfully picked it up when the offline mode was added because if I was forced to be online all the time I wouldn't have given it the time of day.

[@jmitterii2]

You literally couldn't build a quarter of the various possible things the game offers in one city. Even specializing in something like a college town, it essentially took up all the room.

[@LoneWanderer101]

@@jmitterii2 Tell me about it. I once built a gambling city and it was in debt because I didn't have enough room for more residents and commercial areas (for hotels). My giant super expensive casinos were usually empty.

[@Vespuchian]

I think the city size was limited as much by the assumed-online nature of the game as by Glassbox. Being able to track, even in summary, what other players were doing live must have put a limit on what the engine could have handled while building your own city. I can't even speculate how much Glassbox could have handled if the game had been designed for offline regional play like SimCity4 from the outset but it must have been an improvement. (shakes metaphorical fist at EA for ruining everything)

[@draggy76]

The small size isn't really a handicap.... In fact there were mods made for it (like any game) that expanded the city size. and the fact every map you play on has multiple cities you can make making the building creations for each region nearly unlimited makes it actually better then some. Sure cities skylines has boarder extensions, good an all, but working within an area shows how creative and skillful you can be, How much of a problem and situation solver you can be. Which is what sim city was always about. People are just spoiled these days by games that give them massive sandboxes they can play in and only end up using a tiny percent of it.

[@LoneWanderer101]

@@draggy76 Buddy I get what you're saying but the fact of the matter is that Sim City FORCES you into its small city sizes. It FORCES you to build other specialized cities. Before the patch it FORCED you to always be online. It did all these things for little to no reason . Cities Skylines is better because it doesn't force you do anything. It gives you an open space and some tools then tells you to go crazy. Your imagination is all you need for CS. It sets your limits and your goals.

[@Foxtrot0265]

20:54 "and I think we'll put a brainwa... i mean err a house of worship" dude you got me :))

[@ParabolicGains]

I remember I was so fucking hype for this game ...

[@MNHambali]

i remember too.. this is so sad..

[@ec5897]

Biggest letdown in video game history

[@ParabolicGains]

@@ec5897 I really don't think I've ever been more let down by a video game

[@ec5897]

Joe to this day it amazes me that company survived the massive PR nightmare SC2013 devolved into... corporate greed... a cautionary tale...

[@ParabolicGains]

@@ec5897 I think EA peaked around a 700% return from the day this game came out lol

[@ahmaudmuirhead4686]

the parks determines the type of homes $-low wealth $$-medium wealth $$$-high wealth

[@nichsa8984]

@Richardo Frankie r.i.p update like a skyline have no larger map

[@cionxdistan]

Despite all the issues with this game I still loved it and I always go back to it every few years, so I'm happy to see you playing it.

[@ggldmrd5583]

Simcity + KSP player ? Are you me ?

[@captainr800]

Maxis, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

[@CaptPatrick01]

I'll admit that I did really like how the game looks during night, especially the lights. Cities: Skylines' night visuals always looked a little, _off_ to me, as if the buildings were just facades without depth.

[@clericdan4375]

just use the mod bro

[@TheBeetress]

Sim city was the first game I remember playing, early 90s, at a friends house. Its the reason im here today, watching this

[@davis8326]

simcity walked so cities skylines could run… 😔

[@angiebyrne6249]

Sim city build it is actually terrible this game is better though city skylines is better sadly

[@ixaacm]

Don't get mad; but I haven't played cities: skylines yet.

[@arkane3168]

@@ixaacm cities skylines is literal light years ahead of this game

[@bestofsmall]

I still have and sometimes still play Simcity 4

[@Human-hs8sp]

Took me 11 years to get 1 million sims in one city. Still play SC4 every now and again.

[@steadybacon1606]

Yup. So many good mods for SimCity 4. Still a very enjoyable game.

[@Vespuchian]

There are a couple of things SimCity still does better than Skylines: the music, obviously, the way it selectively muted certain tracks when you went through the menus was genius; building plots weren't restricted to a grid and bent with the roads and came in variable depths; speaking of roads, being able to draw squares and circles (as well as auto-connecting roads when intersecting) was a huge convenience; power and water was auto-built under the roads, which is one of the annoyances from older versions I was glad to see go (shame about the loss of subways though).

[@help3102]

and that's why there are mods lol does SimCity even have q workshop?

[@Unalek]

City Builder? More like County builder! - Billy, calm down

[@CrossriderBankai23]

Tile City Builder

[@Unalek]

May depend on the city, Atlanta consists of almost a dozen counties and that's what was going through my mind.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

In China, usually it is municipal/prefecture come first then county, after the province.

[@Medic494]

more like neighborhood lol

[@blendomatik1368]

more like bore ragnarok

[@Kadbros]

Simcity was actually fun for me, the city limit was just too restricted. Raptor be grateful for the low traffic, high traffic creates more harm than good.

[@bryanchang4226]

Great commentary over your video! And of course nice city building!

[@wesleyshirley326]

If you think about it SimCity isore realistic that itakes you work with other cities. No city can produce everything it needs and must import and export to survive. Now raptor has me wanting to play it again.

[@soniwatts8128]

Everyone in the comments saying that this game "used" to be awesome, and how they remembered when it came out lol....meanwhile, I just started playing simcity a few months ago and I am absolutely addicted. My husband and daughter have lost me to this game and I would not have it any other way.

[@Adspecter]

I don’t know why, but simcity 5 gives me this nostalgic feeling, from the music, creating multiple cities, great works, and the overall simplicity of the game. Cities skylines is a great fantastic game and all, but I feel the simplicity of this game is what that’s really nostalgic and wanting to redownload the game.

[@KingLeno]

If sc2013 was any good, it wouldn't be simple

[@jeffhurtson5211]

@@KingLeno simple isn't bad, simple is relaxing.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

@@KingLeno complex games can be bad too, especially if theyre too complex

[@trafichat]

I wish they allowed bigger cities. Obviously, keep them small enough to allow online multiplayer, but at least allow me enough room to make a decent city, with room for trains and stuff.

[@brandonlyon730]

I guess the idea of the tiny spaces was to encourage players to set up multiple cities to provide each other specialize resources which also in turn encourage multiplayer. If you have one big self-staining city you would never need them, so they just simply blocked you from ever making them bigger. I can see their mindset, but I think this was a major flaw from the beginning of the development of the game. I.E trying to encourage multiplayer as much as possible, but the majority of city managers players play alone anyway so it was not something everyone wanted and it was never optional because it is always online so they were always desperate in getting people to use this system that they over compensated for it. I’m sure there were other factors to like EA wanting to stop piracy and other stuff, but I image this is what the developers wanted to do with the game, and unfortunately this is the type of system that doesn’t work for a city management game or at least being forced upon its player base.

[@kasparvg]

Simcity 2013 broke my wallet and my experience. WTF EA you can't even expand the map/building area! Even Simcity 4 is better.

[@vrk1131]

I actually love this game.

[@juanjimenez6227]

I mean, despite all the issues I can’t hate this game. It’s just beautiful, the graphics, the effects, the mechanics. I just can’t. Trust me, if I had the money to re-do this game, I would keep all the effects and mechanics, I would improve the graphics to be even better, and of course I would change the things that made this game fail.

[@jcb5782]

Man, I remember playing this with the electric cars back in 2013 and thinking; damn, these things drive on electricity? And now you’ve got them everywhere. How time flies.

[@crs]

No One - Literally No One - Raptor - Wanna watch Simcity from 2013? Me: SURE!

[@StriKreator]

Before placing sewage plant and industrial zones, you should look at the wind flow.

[@IvailoStoychev]

Simcity 5 was what was considered the beginning of EA's bad reputation, as after this game was made 2013 onwards, they have went down a spiral staircase of corporate greed.

[@trentr9762]

Simcity does have its charm, it's just such a shame that the area is so small!

[@Secretsofsociety]

I love this game for the specialization mini game. The graphics are also really good and I like how your city turns into a slum when Crime gets out of control with graffiti everywhere. Also the online is kind of fun. I like picking up peoples abandoned cities and fixing them. Great works are fun mini games too. Map size, traffic management, and the difficulty of actually working with a neighboring City are the drawbacks but I still sank a lot of hours into this game.

[@JP11155]

I am back here, happily to say I am playing Simcity today and have never EVER regretted getting it and is honestly to this day one of the best city building games today. Sadly, the game does not work on newer operating systems but I still got to play due to an older computer. I still recommend buying the game if you have an older computer. It’s one of the best experiences ever. If anyone wants to play with me they can. 😂 So Many old memories.

[@avinashvenkatesh4791]

The sim city is absolutely amazing and works on windows 10 built on rtx 3060 intel i7 12th gen i am really loving the game

[@maxirunpl]

Now works on windows 11 too

[@andrewgacutan7335]

Not the best City Building game anymore... But the nostalgia that gives me... Makes me smile.

[@steph_man372]

There's definitely stuff from this game that would have been great to have in cities skylines.

[@izokido]

I think City Skyline is more like traffic management games. The more building you make the more street congestion it will be and you need to clear the road or it's game over.

[@billybrown6815]

You’re not the only one who plays SimCity 2013

[@kennotrogzeug7012]

I bought this game in 4th grade for 60 dollars, and I do not know why I still enjoyed it.

[@artur39111]

I like this game. Unlike cities scyline this game have spirit! You can feel yourself a mayor. All those little details, like trash collection, police chasing criminals. Here you have a city! Not just a pretty picture

[@zondor8123]

Fools, this game doesn't have realistic aspect, citizen looking like a robots, EA Greedy, the worst city builder ever Like it or not, Cities Skylines is THE CURRENT KING OF CITY BUILDER

[@FestArc]

I actually really like this game and still play it to this day. I understand the frustration for those who want larger cities. But that's not how the game works. Each city is meant to be built with its own specialization and all the cities are supposed to work together.

[@bryancordeiro410]

Yeah I get that, and recently started playing again. However even when playing with multiple cities, things dont work. Ex: I had a mining city/industrial/low wealth next to a city with higher wealth and lots of commercial. Theoretically, workers should commute to my city to work in factories and high tech spaces, while my factories shipped freight to them. But in reality, I never had enough workers and enough shops to send freight to. This kills the experience. I wish this game had a better connection online, allowing changes in city to feel real time and changes in cities act realtime and not a 15min delay. Everything that should work such as commuting and traveling for school in the region doesnt work consistently, which sucks. But who know if they evey release a new one with similar gameplay and better connectivity and multiplayer interaction.

[@jameswatson7270]

"GLORY TO RAPTORIA" never seen this game before thanks :)

[@justvibemybro9763]

Glory to Arstotzka!!!!

[@maikerukuku]

Is this game still available? I like the way the elevated lands never go flat and there is a road down to the beach

[@jameswatson7270]

@@maikerukuku yes it is it is on steam go to raptor chann. see the link have a good time awesome game

[@maikerukuku]

james watson thnaks ill try

[@Matt-iy2hk]

Gamers: "Screw EA" EA exec 1:"Why are they angry?" EA exec 2: "I think they must hate Maxis, let's shut it down!" EA exec 2:"Yes... and then buy another beloved franchise/developer in its place" EA boardroom: "Muhahahaha..."

[@sherlockjay7401]

"Brain Wash" 😂😂😂😂😂 No bueno bro 😂

[@magggie22]

I just like listening to your awesome accent lol.... yes I used to play this game didn't mind it....used to love watching the buildings being built and the sims rushing about etc.... enjoy your videos keep them coming :) have a great day :) magz :)

[@Salvadorzin1]

I'd love a futuristic Cities Skylines.

[@mrenemy7674]

Literally just been playing cities skylines while listening to the sim city soundtrack and this was a suggested vid. Definitely a lot both franchises can learn from each other.

[@wildmnexplore9660]

Play the original game sim city 4 please! Would be a great series

[@droe2570]

SC 4 is not the original game...it's the 4th game.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

SC4 took longer time to play, as well as a lot of mods (most essential: NAM) just to keep the game fresh.

[@LtViper]

I absoulety love sim city 5. And I'd never thought I see SimCity 5 in 2019 since ya know, cities skylines just exists and is nearly superior in every way. *still wish I could personally customize buildings like you could in SimCity*

[@Slider-Man]

20:55 lmao...i saw what u did there, sneaky sneaky, made me laugh out loud but we on same page.

[@Beastphilosophy]

My first experience with this game was paying loads of money for a pre-order, and my second experience was having the game be online only and unplayable at launch. I felt cheated. Once they fixed their servers and I could actually play the game, I initially liked the game for the ability to upgrade buildings and the usual Sim City humor. My last experience was when I rage quit after being unable to get the power and water agents to actually find all my buildings. I can believe that they limited city size to keep the agents from having this problem. Cities Skylines had the advantages of some improvements to computers, learning from the failures of Sim City, and being developed by a studio that had previously worked on Cities in Motion. There probably won't be any city builders with realistic populations represented by agents until mid-range computers have the power to model millions of agents, or someone expands upon the more spreadsheet-like model of the older Simcity games.

[@PeggyV69]

Glory to Raptoria! I always enjoyed Sim City. I like how you can expand a service without having to add more of them. The school, fire dept, hospital.. etc..

[@IfbbProRolandcHazard]

I actually loved Sim City, many hours on the game, just the limited size of your city you could build was my only down part. One thing I noticed from Sim City to City Skylines, Sim City residents actually sleep at night, the road are nearly bare, which gives it a feel of realism, City Skylines the there is major traffic at 2 am, eeh the little things make a difference to me.

[@JimSendre]

its like in gta 4 the car you drive spawns parked in any area you visit. kinda kills the emersion.

[@Nexusryan]

When he talked about the yellow things on the sidewalks, i never knew they were for blind people....

[@LadyLexyStarwatcher]

You tube random suggestion viewer here, NEAT! I loved this game! Shame it didn't pan out too well. I really should try to recover my EA account and this game working again. (RIP Maxis)

[@LadyLexyStarwatcher]

Been playing it a bit. Annoyingly it doesn't like steam in house streaming or Linux.

[@melbournemeliodas215]

I like playing city building games. I have my heart for simcity because of its graphics and the way you can see your people living in it. The sounds in simcity was really relaxing too. Man, I wish I could play simcity 2013 again.

[@michaell1473]

Hey Raptor I worked on this game (did all of the roads, vehicles, and a bunch of other stuff), your assessment of EA strangling the production was spot on.

[@tomcat_1484]

Cool, could you tell us what kind of things could have been in the game had EA not strangled product?

[@jnusslein6301]

Miss the old days

[@guadalupearias7118]

Me too bro, me too

[@lucaortolani2059]

If only it wasn’t so spatially limited, it would be at least a viable game

[@fellelelleanonim5664]

Simcity has one of the best game soundtracks ever

[@black_beast4129]

Ahhhhhh nostalgia hit hard while watching this 😢😢

[@gus7587]

I actually like this more than the latest. There was so much more to do in simcity. I find joy in this game like no other. Though I use to always go bankrupt in the past I still loved every second of it. And still do.

[@NemraRPG]

in Cities skyline you need to put down the eletric grid and water pipelines so you snap both water and sewer to the pipeline.

[@ashleighr.8113]

My suggestion is to make wider blocks because your homes/commercial/intrustry wont have room to upgrade. However space is a huge issue. Oversight on EA obviously lol

[@ogchipotle]

In Cities: Skylines, you don’t put sewage outputs next to roads.

[@ali6125ali]

Glory to “not really the one or the only” Raptoria

[@LuigiCotocea]

Pro In simcity trucks come from highway and build houses Npc come to houses *Cities skylines con* House build themselves, then npc spawn in it!

[@ImmanuelCan]

Glory To Raptoria! Relive the, well, at least fun experience :) For me, the Top-Down design killed the fascination with the workers just teleporting to their workplaces and back. The Bottom-Up design from Cities Skylines is just so much better. I still don't understand why they went Top-Down all of a sudden when the Sim series was all about the much superior Bottom-Up design. Well, ok, if you're in love with Excel you're probably much more into top-down :D

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

SimCity's biggest flaw was using a game engine too similar to the Sims 3 which made the game have such small maps in order to not make the game much slower. at least there are a few mods for SimCity.

[@ali6125ali]

I love this this game despite the hate and still playing it now and then

[@Knight7562]

i still have the game never uninstalled it i grow with Simcity since 2000 when i were 19 years old so i can't hate this game i love it

[@Knight7562]

burger sign lolllllllllll 😂😂😂

[@jaydenegreen354]

You know what? I've missed the calm music and sound effects of this game, it's so therapeutic to listen to. If only they implemented it into Cities Skylines, I think many more people would enjoy it 😍🤔😂

[@musclee-mac8768]

Couldn't you just import the soundtrack into Skylines?

[@jaydenegreen354]

@@musclee-mac8768 I have no idea, maybe someones already done it or maybe theres a mod. Bears looking in to 🤔😂

[@musclee-mac8768]

@@jaydenegreen354 Mods have brought SimCity 2013 pretty close to what Skylines is. I haven't played Skylines, but heard it's a phenomenal game

[@YouriHL]

Although the game has mány flaws, including 'cannot connect to the servers after 2 hours of playing', 'unable to load city after working on it for DAYS' and roads that somehow cannot be straight while the [square roads] option is enabled, I still enjoy playing it after 5530 (!!) hours hehe. It's actually always on when I don't play other games. I have a music studio at home and mostly during producing music, the game runs in the background. It's great to just look at it and just do some stuff during music production. It helps me to get my mind straight and avoid a producer block.

[@tjpickering9330]

I had to play Sim City as part of a school project where we design futuristic cities.

[@strangerthingswei1524]

I like the additional sound effects:)

[@maturingmind964]

If you combined the building & upgrade mechanics of sim city with the transport management & policy’s of city skylines, then you would have a near perfect city builder.

[@TheLeonhamm]

If only there had been .. Glory To Raptoria! At least we can share in it now. Yeah!

[@TooLateForIeago]

What got to me is how much less there was in this Sim City than its predecessors. And all for more $ and online checkins.

[@tengu190]

Sim city 4 was awesome!

[@D3ATHBYFIR3]

mods make this game better

[@f-acebric8989]

Raptor : A lot of people call my channel the sewage out flow pipe me : who would dare say that, show yourself and feel my Raptorian wrath

[@AntonyShannon]

Like you, I expected a lot from this game and was sorely disappointed but love someone is redoing a series on it.

[@daviddave4985]

I love how music changes with the city size

[@AmyEdwards1986]

If only we would have a Simcity 4 with the Simcity graphic and the module feature, it would be perfect.

[@fascistphilosophy5649]

are advanced versions of this game how global elites plan actual civilization?

[@amberlewis012]

Huh...What if...What if SimCity (or Skylines, whatever) made a 2020 version that's super amazing and stuff? Also idk why but I'm still so excited about the free charging thing in SimCityyy

[@kennethwinn7064]

Never played this game. I am amazed at the ability of the game. Loving it. Glory to Raptoria. Also if it matters at all. I like the evil cities name to be T-Rexia. Just a thought Cheers

[@jonathangarmuth8975]

The control in this is so smooth. It gives you full control but never makes you micromanage stuff like water/sewage pipes and power. It really is a great game.

[@crabdos7647]

Im playing simcity btw

[@Alex_catz]

me too lol

[@carbon1080]

Same

[@samanthahughley9020]

Lol I still play all the time, I would love some new dlc to make it like skylines

[@guadalupearias7118]

This gives me so much nastoliga when I played in 2017 at 8 years old. But those years are gone.

[@sheehanp07]

Skip to 3:20 for gameplay

[@LeonidSaykin]

I am waiting for him to neglect trash, so Godzilla could show up.

[@chickenluverful]

I would love to see expandable assets in cities skylines

[@whatmichaelfilmed]

This game was ace to play waited ages for it to come out and then the maps were too small 😩

[@tombaesl9875]

i loved sim City 4s ability to make several cities into a megalopolis. Being able to name stuff and connect services, etc. Better graphics and new ideas, for a Sim City 4.1 would have made it the best city building game by far.

[@liamofthesky9960]

Music 10/10

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

I love SimCity 2013 and Cities Skylines respectively, but I’ve experience more game-ending bugs the longer I play SimCity 2013.

[@jonathangarmuth8975]

It's so disappointing that the game just breaks when multiple cities build toward the archeology. I really wish they had polished the endgame

[@JohnDulleckA]

The upgradable town center reminds me of the throne room in the original Civilization or Civ II, I forget which.

[@deoxyplasmic]

I played civ 2, test of time. Completely forgot about it.

[@Perktube1]

Which one had the funny radio commercials? Remember your daily intake of selenium.