Simcity4 Still holds up, while modern games don't.

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[@Astrotamtv]

A literal masterpiece

[@DigitalRian]

Cheers!

[@TJusnow]

Still my all time favorite city builder til this day.

[@tonyzed6831]

That's because it still is the best citybuilder ever made.

[@CMC440]

When You finally build city wich started to live and people were happy that was big succes

[@DZIGIN]

Its called GOOD OLD games for a reason 😉😎

[@thebrandonbeatty]

Starfield - I clocked 40 minutes and gave up. Bought Simcity 4 because it was on sale - first week I clocked 40 hours.

[@DigitalRian]

Ha. It's crazy right? It's not nostalgia, it really is that games are just better then

[@PoluxYT]

Some weirdos actually enjoy games too, I heard this "chess" thing has been going on for a while.

[@idriveastationwagon1534]

Simcity 4 IS a MODERN GAME. These new games don’t have that as what the youth say nowadays…rizz.

[@putrasty]

Old but gold

[@YukarisGearReviews]

Sim City 4: "Now you must acquire a taste for free-form jazz." Edit: I'm 27 in June and I remember CYA books quite well.

[@JackNapierKnows]

City Saved

[@codyroycroft9064]

I still play too it’s awesome

[@brandonbeattytrance7024]

I just bought this game bc it was on sale. Not only is it better than Starfield - It's also less than 1.5GB . While I just downloaded a 100+Gb game and felt no emotion while playing it.

[@DigitalRian]

Oh get into simtropolis, it will add up fast

[@cresentslice2052]

Nice work in this video Rian!!!

[@DigitalRian]

Thanks!

[@circleinforthecube5170]

@@DigitalRian i wouldn't say new games suck, atleast indie ones, its just simcity4 was insanely good for its time, especially the music, my parents played it while i was still a baby as it just came out that year, also simcity3000 has similar music

[@barongaslight4615]

"The Case For Games"

[@Caim6311]

Game plays great on steam deck

[@DigitalRian]

I'd assume so it came out for the Pentium 2 😂

[@Ghostface-rt3zx]

Sim city 4 was great

[@AdoradorStarcraft2]

FML Now I will lose some days of my life again

[@DigitalRian]

Already ahead of ya

[@sluggo562]

You've really outdone yourself with this one.

[@DigitalRian]

Inspired to leave the sphere

[@sluggo562]

@@DigitalRian When I was writing my PhD thesis, I wanted to do anything else. I was crawling up the walls, finding new hobbies in the strangest places. After all that was over and with some time I regained interest in the material. I wouldn't be surprised if your drive for main channel content comes back after book three's all wrapped up. If not, at least you'd leave us with three great books and a back catalogue of videos with solutions to every problem.

[@maedero05]

The fact it's a post Cloud created game, game developer and less bothered with commercial issues !

[@tyguy104]

I've heard youtuber say, "I like how quick the city was built". You can build quickly in this game. And make quick neighbors, quick development. Cities Skylines takes longer to develop an area, less population per density of building. Agent based traffic (which is a good difference though) Now with ilives reader with the data files manipulations. NAM customizes it, but encouraging customizing the traffic simulator further to aid you in your region's needs. You see, the original copy was rushed to market. With these mods/tools 20 years later, still affords you the opportunity to unlock potential features of the game that have never been seen before... until now!

[@DigitalRian]

The issue isn't the speed

[@marcom9103]

What killed SC4 for me was that I got spoiled by not having a grid in C:S. If someone could create a mod for SC4 to remove the grid I'd be hooked again. Sad that this is impossible.

[@DigitalRian]

You mean the ; key? It removes the grid

[@menofmayhemmm]

This, and Team Fortress 2.

[@DigitalRian]

Good call, great example

[@johnwatts3862]

Arc-ah-pell-li-go

[@DigitalRian]

no, I like my way better

[@detaaditya6237]

Ohh so that's why, aside from SimCity 4, games like RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, Factorio, and OpenTTD are such a time sink. They allow us to do whatever we want, with minimum rules and loose goals

[@bolt9110]

watching whilst modding sc4

[@kicker_leopard8685]

SimCity 4 best gamer ever and rulez 😎✊

[@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333]

I want to take a look at how youve made Kowloon.

[@DigitalRian]

Funnily enough the closest is putting low density housing on steep hills

[@PreemSardine]

if you like simcity 4, you should really check out anno 1800

[@DigitalRian]

Nebr heard of it, any good?

[@Nonameformychannel]

​@@DigitalRian yes it is a really nice game aswell

[@Wooplot]

woo

[@CMC440]

I thinking about making game like cim city 4 but make it more advanced building. i Loved this game it was my favorite game FOR SHURE. II had like40 giga of addons

[@DigitalRian]

same

[@subway2227]

didn’t realize this was an ad at first, good job 👍

[@DigitalRian]

Ha ha. I ain't selling anything but nostalgia friend 🤣

[@tonyzed6831]

@@DigitalRian I'm a buyer of that kind of stuff... it's pretty addictive.

[@ochinchin1048]

Modlist pls?

[@DigitalRian]

Oh god it would take forever. All the biggest 300 from simtropolis but the buildings are custom, you pick the genres you like

[@makinot7122]

Sim city 4 is the best ...it should be remastered ....

[@johncofd2228]

Those midwest treeline property lines are so fucking nice

[@Eth3realwarrior]

I'd rather play Final Fantasy 3/6 than Final Fantasy 16.

[@DigitalRian]

Dude, that's the play

[@lamhkak47]

Funny that your gameplay is a region that's based in Hong Kong

[@lamhkak47]

As a metropolis enjoyer, would literally carve out hills to become (dangerous) cliffs for the maximized city center land use in the region, just like how real life kinda be (though with more slope management)

[@DigitalRian]

I love Hong Kong film and the region is fun

[@dikshantsharma19]

Brother, can you solve my problem My Nam mod is not working..... Nam roads are not being build ......

[@DigitalRian]

Dependency issues

[@dikshantsharma19]

@@DigitalRian how to solve this ......

[@DigitalRian]

@@dikshantsharma19 only buy fun games

[@dikshantsharma19]

@@DigitalRian 🥲🙄🙄 But it's solved now I didn't opened the bat file .....

[@DigitalRian]

haha, never open the bat file @@dikshantsharma19

[@illegalsmirf]

Sounds like you've had a good life, now I am jealous and don't want to watch the rest of your video.

[@DigitalRian]

Don't. I had to do a lot to get what I have, so it's not a gift, it's work

[@DokisKalin1]

I wonder why I'm always drawn to SimCity4/SimCity3000 but Cities Skylines feels so empty...

[@Chronostra]

For me it was the opposite. I feel like SimCity series are more constraining than Cities Skyline. But that's just me though.

[@WickedMuis]

@@Chronostra Think it's the fact that SimCity games are more defined and straight forward: only based on USA, using strict grid lines, less transport options. While Cities: Skylines has WAY more freedom and possibilities. The more neatly defined gameplay can feel more comfortable than the vast amount of posibilities. Like staring at a blank sheet of paper and not knowing what to draw or write.

[@DigitalRian]

Yeah, creativity needs constraint.

[@Wooplot]

I love SimCity4/SimCity3000, but Cities Skylines doesn't run well on my laptop

[@bigchungus7876]

hmm, i love both, i have thousands of hours in each game. no idea what you mean about CS tbh, its probably one of my favorite games of all time, i like it more than sc4 (that being said, i do have about 60gb of mods and assets for CS) so much that i went and literally bought more memory solely for CS. vanilla cities skylines i have no idea about.

[@andrewdietz1312]

If that's actually you playing then you are masterful of SC4 Cities Skylines will have just as much staying power

[@DigitalRian]

It is I've been playing it since 05

[@DontUputThatEvilOnMe]

Sim City 4 is the city skylines of its time.

[@maedero05]

CSKL will never reach Simcity 4 level of excellence ? CXXXL, SC2013, City State 2 same average modern non varied modern skylines ? Alternative to the dragable highway creation way ? Strange game mechanics ? Any game perfect, No but this era of meodrice ?

[@Chronostra]

.......I don't think SimCity is appealing anymore since I play Cities Skyline. But that's just me personally though.

[@Astrotamtv]

I enjoy cities skylines but i prefer sim city 4. It was way ahead of its time. Its so simple yet so complex and the ice on the cake for me is how well it handles the wealth classes and population better than skylines. I’m def hyped for cities skylines 2 but in the meantime i’m sticking with simcity 4.

[@LizVanLee]

the game was utter garbage. not saying the following sim cities weren't worse, but the engine was so bad, they should've named it sim village. and the automatic street placement when zoning was infuriating. HATE

[@tonyzed6831]

What??

[@adrianmoore1279]

Get the zoning mod.

[@vapingfury4460]

Public transport used to make me so angry and the fact that there isnt fucking roundabouts is absurd

[@DigitalRian]

As compared to what?

[@user-si4ic4fd2c]

SimCity 4 sucked ass

[@WalterWasserman]

False