Let's Play SimCity 4: Speedplay Part 1- From town to city 

It's 3D for one thing, but you wouldn't know that because of it's fixed prospective

With mods

@@ChaseMC215 The buildings are 2D, tho, right?

@@antoniovital4298 from wiki: The landscape and moving props such as vehicles are modeled as fully polygonal and rotatable 3D objects. Small buildings and props are drawn as flat images, which are pasted onto billboards; polygons with their surface normal facing into the camera. Larger buildings are modeled using a hybrid approach; a simple polygonal model defines the shape of the building, then textures are added to create detail such as doors, windows and rooftop clutter. Although a 3D engine is used, the camera in SimCity 4 is restricted to a fixed trimetric orthographic projection for performance reasons SC4 is amazing and to be honest in many ways better than cities skylines, though much less accessible

@@antoniovital4298 The buildings are 3D renderings with fixed view angles mapped onto 3D shapes ingame.

but just grapich is diffrent but SIM4 VERY REALISTIC

It’s because they are essentially 2D renders. Skylines is all 3D so the models end up looking crap in most cases

Agree with you, but EA ruined on SimCity 2013, SimCity 2013 is suck.

Yeah it's way more alive

cities skylines devs are just lazy and the game has a very poor artstyle 3d could look good if they had put more effort into it

fortunately my game doesn't crash until my cities get big and then it's about once an hour. I usually have some warning since it will start acting weird (buildings glitch out). I just hit ctrl alt s every few minutes to quick save a lot (you'll see in later videos)

There's an easy way to fix the random crash problem. SC4 was not designed to run on multiple cores. If you started the game, minimize it and check it in Taskmanager details. Change the affiliation to only one core and you will be spared from crashes This should help you out

that just happened to me now lol

@@rsf5828 you are a lifesaver

@@suhandatanker you're welcome :) Have fun

Agree!

only few can play that then. a low to mid pc will blow to pieces lol

I dunno, personally 4 turned me off of the franchise. It was too radically different from prior games. It was definitely pretty. But I personally still find Sim City 3000 to be the final iteration of Sim City, before it felt like it strayed. Basically Sim City 3000 actually felt like a proper sequel to the very successful Sim City 2000. It plays very similar to it but was an upgrade in almost every way possible. I think the first thing that rubbed me the wrong way when I booted up Sim City 4 was the UI looked too similar to The Sims, had The Sims incorporated features, and worst, moved away from Squares... a staple in the franchise even since the very original game. Everything felt too automated as well. I hated how roads appeared automatically when placing zoning, and there was no way to turn it off, so you had to well cheat the system to to speak to get around it but sorry that's a huge nope, I want complete control over road placement, absolute! Over all, I just didn't like the game at all. I still find Sim City SNES, Sim City 2000 and Sim City 3000 the definitive Sim City experiences. Sim City SNES because it's that good, if you've not played it, it's the best version of the original Sim City that was ever made, it actually set many precedents that continued into Sim City 2000 and 3000.

@@Alte.Kameradenyou can place zoning and stop roads being placed automatically without cheating, or do you mean that when the game first came out you had to cheat? Because you can just hold ctrl or alt (can’t remember which) to stop roads being placed when doing zones

@@neamhdhlisteanach6720 I got it on disk back in the day. So my experience us the vanilla out of the box no uodates/patches/expansions etc.

Not realistic for city hall to be sitting in the middle of a bunch of houses lol

@@danielbenitez6985 it's a historic neighborhood

Search "Jardim Catarina - São Gonçalo" on google maps, the neighborhood is totally symmetrical.

@@doormysh ade

@@diegobarros8712 j catarina é o maior bairro "planejado" da am. Latina (e ainda assim é uma merda)

Some of the jazz stuff that plays is pretty awesome! And I love it when that bass guitar is thumping.

This one and its predecessor. Them both have the best soundtracks ever made.

110% agreed! I used to play this all the time back when I was like 10-12.

Agreed. In fact, I'm playing it right now.

@@j.p.holiday8899 lucky mofo lol

Sim city 2000 was great too my first game !

@@dolioff on the subject of simcity 2000, i find it quite silly that Simcity 2000 is still purchasable on Origin, but 3000 is not :(

100%.

I think Cities skylines is better when it come to the actual simulation of the city and the detail it has but I agree .. they need far more unique buildings. They repeat the same building like 60-70 times

@@LuckyDaVinci Cities Skylines is better in simulation? Lol, get out of here. Cities skylines is a very easy game, it does not even feel like a simulation but a painting game

@@invoker7826 C:S is marketed as a city simulation game but it's really simple once you get past the basics. it is a pretty game with relaxing sound effects and a more upbeat less hardcore tone. Good game though it's about the aesthetic and relaxation more than simulation

I find SC4 both more realistic and more surreal.

iykyk

Skylines is the equivalent of putting some of Sim "societies" and "simcity 4" on an 3d Engine

skylines is complex with many feature city building game, but sim city 4 aesthetics is unmatched, imo

I played this game when I was like 6 or 7. This game was my first city building game. The name is just that simple for anyone to remember.

I tried to play cities skyline but i couldn't get into it because it was overly complicated. Simcity is complicated too but at least simcity has charm to keep me going.

its still like the second best city building game on the market

@@djolo5140 whats the first?

​@@bloodycomedy1927 Cities skylines maybe

@@djolo5140 I agree, next only to Cities Sylines. It's sad how the EA couldn't keep Maxis running.

@@nand87 couldn't keep maxis running? they have billions of dollars, they could have kept maxis for centuries, but they decided to it

Nah forget it! They are too busy milking their fans with micro transaction of The Sims 4.

@albert einstien when they're completely grid: that's what's wrong. I have tried playing with so many layout styles, from random sized blocks to perfect grids, even with long lines that I then turn into blocks, then fill on the inside. But all face the same problem once they grow to a point: they're too "locked". See with this layout type shown in the video, there's main roads and avenues then there's distinct, separate RCI blocks, that connect, but aren't next to, with the main lines. That way if you have a new need, say you want to install a new transportation system, it will become much easier to do so, or if you need to adjust your connections due to a neighbouring city, everything becomes so much flexible. Something that's very hard to do with all-grid cities: very locked layouts. In short, this "branched" layout offers the best flexibility, avoids inevitable traffic pollution penalties, and look aesthetically pleasing.

Keep watching the next parts! Those things get better

thanks!

@@doormysh maybe facecam sometime

hundreds and hundreds of buildings

@@doormysh I'm new to modding SC4. So do you mean that you downloaded lots for growable buildings? And you just zone a lot for the right size? How large are those big apartment complexes?

@@tylerbhampton yup! Some are 5x5 or 6x6

It's like 4 bucks on steam rn

@@_j_t_p_ Ive already got it on steam lol and the hard disk copy from 2003, also bought constructor for a fiver, city building bargains to be had!!

I'm intrigued, do you mean you were watching this in a class?

it's from the game

great!

older maxis soundtracks are always good

thank u for sharing

watch all 8 parts, 8 more farts i hope

😅

thanks I think

Sorry, i find the answer, in the comment ;) Thx

Arden tree controller, coastal version

@@doormysh will definitely try them, tnx!

@@deimos2k6 also I do the evergreen option because it's distracting if too many seasonal trees are constantly changing at different times

it's the mods, mod community make great HD buildings, HD terrain and textures

@@doormysh Thank you for your reply. I'm considering buying sim city from steam and then later install this mods.

Hey man, i just installed some essential mods, like the nam and other bug fixes. What mods would you recommend to increase graphics, textures and so on?

yes

this UI is actually a mod

doormysh which one? I like the cleanliness

Windows

Yea there is night, I think I show that in the end of the video

I use high which works best for big cities i think, yeah ultra is too much