Whatever Happened to SimCity? 

I would've never guessed there were so many SimCity spin-offs, a great video as well!

the whole reason sim city is dead is jsut because of 1 thing.......... EA..........they dont make games, jsut brake them

Thanks for making this! great video. SimCity forever. With the failure of Cities Skylines II it's now time for the return of a SimCity sequel in the style of SimCity 4, a beautiful isometric highly detailed accurate city simulator with depth

You did an amazing job braking this down and introducing the main "players" (no pun intended). I really hope you have success on this channel. Great job!

A video about spore would be cool since there’s pretty much a universal nostalgia for this game and it’s weird offshoots.

Great video.I think this is the time , when Simcity 6 should be announced ;].Ea 90% is preparing MAXIS for a city building game.Now the question is , if its going to be a mobile game , or online only game.I would love to see SiMCITY 6 , for new generation machines.

What a great video. You deserve so many more views! Thanks for bringing back memories of playing SimCity 3000 as a kid. Now I’m going into urban planning, and I wouldn’t be surprised if SimCity influenced that

Awesome video! I NEED to check out SimAnts haha

4:07 No mention of SimIsle, the best worst best Maxis spinoff

Speaking of SimCity, you should do a dive on the XO laptop. I remember my great aunt got in on the first wave of funding and got us one. If I recall correctly, it was a buy-one-for-one deal where we got a laptop and the company sent a laptop to a kid in a developing country to match our purchase. It had an older version of SimCity on it, if I recall correctly. Might have been the original SimCity. Had some other programs too. One for learning coding and another for music production. Also had the ability to connect to the internet, which was an absolute mistake.

nice video

I remember being hyped for CitiesXL, then resigning to wait for Cities Skylines to come along. Is SimCity 4's modding community still active? It was tremendous, and many of its modders came over to Skylines' mods

Whenever you say 'My name is Otto' me being the Simpsons fan unconsciously add 'And I love to get blotto' p.s. this channel rocks!

King of the city building genre is a title for CO/PI to lose. DONT FKN BLOW IT CO/PI! (All indications seem to point to CO/PI shit'n the bed). The city builder genre NEEDS competition!

10:20 A city builder that doesn't allow you to build a city, just a tiny village sized unrealistic clumping of buildings, is not a city builder. Sim city 2013 was not a good game in any way. It was horrible and i still regret ever buying it. And there are many many more reasons why this game was utter crap. Just to name a few: - Tiny city size. - No terrain editing even in-game on the city level. - No public transit options worth the name. No pedestrians or cyclists either. Only car dependency. - Density system linked to bigger and bigger roads again forcing car dependant cities. - Building expansions are not shown at the start of building the building, making planning for the future near impossible. - Building expansions waste tons of extremely valuable, limited space. - Extremely limited building size variety, one size per wealth and density level means it all ends up looking the same, and/or wastes tons of that precious space. - Water and power is managed automatically removing one of the basic fun parts of the game. - Traffic is just abstract and does whatever. No way to effectively track it or manage it. - Pointless industry system that is pretty much useless in single player. - Industry chews up a ton of that precious precious space. And so on. They basically threw out EVERYTHING that had made the sim city franchise great and what players liked about it, and replaced it with idiotic pointless gameplay and features. It was like this game was designed by people who never actually played any of the previous sim city games. No wonder it failed so miserably. Cities skylines came along at exactly the right time, and was the game sim city 2013 should have been. I spent more time in skylines' terrain editor and map creator than i did in the entire sim city 2013 game.

Sim City 4 you didn't mention it was probably the best one. Then the Simcity 2013 came and it was gorgeous, sometimes it kicked you out cuz drm but no biggie. The problem is that it lacked the depth that sc4 had like plumbing and power which cities skylines brought.

To quote SimPark "he is dead, his species was overeaten."

cities skylines 2 is awesome, its just really hard to run, the graphics are very ambitious

Marble Dops was a great puzzle game not a sim.

My footage 😢

The title should be “what ever happened” not “whatever happened” - it will make your videos look more professional

EA happened. The end.

The title should read "What ever happened to SimCity?". You are confusing "what ever" with "whatever". Typical American.

As much as I'd love to have good faith in a successful new Simcity. Its better if the IP was bought out & taken far away from EA. Video is a really nice loveletter to the game 🤌❤