Cities:Skylines

[Rex Francorum]

I am an avid city-builders fan. I played Sim City since the beginnings. I bought the now infamous Sim City aka "5" or "2013". I liked the graphics, the interface and the building's modular design. But the gameplay was disappointing because of the forced specialization and the limited space. I bought Cities XL too. This game had so much potential but the interface sucked and the game was not optimized. There is a new contestant: Cities: Skylines. I pre-ordered it today. It will be available on March 10. It will combine some interesting features: dams and hydraulic power, manageable districts, a terrain editor (not after map creation sadly but at least you can build the map you want to play on). Am I the only interested here?

[viper37]

Am I the only interested here?

I'm guessing Syt, Tyr and Darth Wagteros might be interested.
http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,11798.msg773316.html

Not my cup of tea.  The last Sim I played was Simcity 2000

[Syt]

I'm going to wait for reviews and user comments before buying this, but I'm following it.

[Caliga]

I used to love city builders, but the last few I played have been horrible so I pretty much lost interest in the genre.

[Grey Fox]

Have you tried Banished?

My favorite city builder is not really a city builder : Anno 1701. I just turn off warfare in the settings & play a fun game of putting everything in the right place.

[Sheilbh]

Banished is weirdly compelling.

I'll await your review on this Rex. (Also long time now see )

[Crazy_Ivan80]

if you haven't already: try colonial charter for Banished.

[Josquius]

After Cities in Motion 2 I am coloured meh.

if you haven't already: try colonial charter for Banished.

Mods are starting to appear for Banished?
Sweet

[Arvoreen]

So talk of city builders reminded me of my other old time favorite genre....transport sims, ala Railroad Tycoon. Which lead me to find this gem: http://www.openttd.org/en/

[Crazy_Ivan80]

After Cities in Motion 2 I am coloured meh.

if you haven't already: try colonial charter for Banished.

Mods are starting to appear for Banished?
Sweet

modding has been enabled for the past 6 months or so, so some good stuff is indeed available. Colonial Charter just seems to be the biggest of the roost.

[PRC]

Banished is very good.

[Syt]

Game comes out this week. I've watched quite a few streams (mostly quill18 and Arumba, but there's TONS others on Twitch and Yoobtoob), and it looks actually pretty decent. Will probably not hold a candle to a full modded Sims4, but it looks like a good start and much better than Cities XL or the 2013 SimCity.

[FunkMonk]

The buzz around this one is quite positive. Releasing the full, unfiltered game to streamers was a good marketing strategy on Paradox's part, letting the game stand on its own and show how solid it is.

Unlike EA's extremely limited SimCity5 demo which covered up all its weaknesses and fooled everyone into believing it was any good.

[Syt]

Indeed, though they've been very clear that proper reviews weren't permitted by the streamers. But again, things looked positive enough that I pre-ordered and I look forward to try it myself tonight for an hour or two.

[Kleves]

Sounds like they don't have any disasters or random events in the game, which is kind of a bummer.