Cities Skylines II
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Rajaah
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Oh nice. Yeah the original is awesome.
Looking at this trailer makes me wonder who the terrible urban planner was who built a main highway that'd have everyone driving directly into the sun during morning rush hour.
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Seananigans
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Fucking rad, the first game is definitely the best city sim I've ever played. Definitely looking forward to this, and bonus is this sort of game is really hard to wokeify!
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DickTrickle
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I really hope they add more of a compelling city planning/management aspect to the game. The first game had a lot of systems and options but there wasn't really any difficulty or challenge.
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Yeah the two big features I'd care about are difficulty modes and scalability. I've played a lot of Sim City but got bored mid-tier in Skylines because it was kinda easy and just felt like a city "painter" instead of a city builder.
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Mist
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It actually just broke down into a traffic simulator, the choke point of every system was ultimately traffic.
There were also just way too many mods and DLCs that felt mandatory, or DLCs that were pointless, and impossible to tell the difference just by looking at them.
The base game felt better than before they started adding DLCs.
There were also just way too many mods and DLCs that felt mandatory, or DLCs that were pointless, and impossible to tell the difference just by looking at them.
The base game felt better than before they started adding DLCs.
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Hatorade
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Yeah played the shit out of this game for a month or so on launch, figured out how to make a city with no traffic because everyone walked to work and it was glorious. Checked back like 6 months later and they had like 200 bucks in DLC... Up to 331 now.
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Daidraco
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I played it a bit when it first came out like that, then put it down. Then came back and started playing it a bit when I was trying out Nvidia's streaming service from where I worked at the time. Felt the exact same way - instead of fixing basic shit in the game, they just monetized the patches as DLC's. Or at least thats the vibe I got.
Im curious if Skylines 2 is just going to be a graphical update, but they still continue to keep the same monetization plan going forward. "Ya. Traffic sucks, and we have the fix for it all for 4.99!"
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I got one DLC early on. Trying to remember what it was. I think it had something to do with snow? Like "add winter weather and cold streets for "9.99" kind of thing. Had some other stuff included, maybe new building types. I got it because I thought it'd be like a regular game and a DLC was a big deal.
Quickly realized that they were just releasing patches as paid DLC and now there's a ton of it. That gets a yikes from me dawg.
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Daidraco
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Im sure it makes more money nickel and diming it over just releasing an expansion - but apparently Im not alone in that I would consider paying $40 for an expansion before I spend $40 in $2 increments. Especially when the DLC's are as hollow as "New Building with no features, just cosmetic for only $3.99!" coming out every month.
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It's a Paradox game, they are the kings of DLC. Between Cities Skylines and Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris I think they've proven that pretty well. I don't imagine this game will be any different.
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They've kept the dlc model throughout their games but put in passes where you can basically lease all the dlc and play that way. If you're someone who tends to pick up a game, splurge, and then put it down for a while, just paying for a monthly dlc pass when you do play can work.
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Think that was Sim City 4 iirc. Funny how its predecessor had the buildings listed below. If they were a reality, lord knows how much pollution one would put out. But all would be forgiven with the ones that have the Park on top. Can see the lighter ones being ESG kings, but a literal hive of communism. Where as the black ones would only give you the illusion you have a choice. You know, uniparty things.
Sim City 2000 already had them.
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