simcity vs cities skylines

[Julius159]

Hello I want to ask with is better simcity or cities skylines, this game not for me its for my cousin.

[Revel]

Why not both?

[Denned]

I'd say that both have strenghts. But overall I'd say Cities: Skylines is the better game. With whats already there, and whats comming, both in patches and from mods. It'll be well worth the money

[Julius159]

Why not both?

Because on his birthday he will get BF Hardline+ premium and Grand Theft Auto V I think simcity and cities skylines would be to much

[Smooth Bunz]

Cities: Skylines Is a lot more fun in my opinion 

[Misanthrope]

Without mods, Cities:Skylines already does offer you a lot more: better and more flexible roads, huge maps, some features that were inexplicably removed like water pipes and powerlines, much better mass transport options, etc.

 

Simcity doesn't even comes close to offer you as much flexibility even with the expansion and all DLC and all of that because they wanted to force always-online DRM (the myths about map size, performance issues, etc. were already debunked when the game was cracked for offline play and Maxis had to contradict everything EA forced them to say and patch in offline more like a year later) and the expansion stuff is completely bugged. There's no true simulation (i.e. people do not live or work at a specific place they just pick the first house type available on the road and the first job available on the road) and the mods that are available make everything even more buggy.

 

And that's not even mentioning how Cities: Skylines literally has thousands of mods already available only 5 days after release. The entire simcity community is flocking to this game, tons of modders have come out of retirement, etc. I cannot recommend Skylines enough, particularly over Simcity 2013. The only reason to consider something else is if your specs are not up to par in which case you should never get Simcity 2013 and you should just get Simcity 4 instead, if you must.

[typographie]

Out of all the entirely valid and objective reasons to avoid SimCity, I think the most damning is that it's development team was just dissolved by EA. It's support lifetime is over. No one is going to fix it's remaining problems, and there's no telling how long EA will maintain the servers necessary to play it.

 

Skylines, on the other hand, appears to be Paradox Interactive's most successful title to date and one of the best reviewed titles of 2015. With no online play requirement and Steam Workshop support, it looks to have a long lifespan with plenty of reason to make sequels.