I Played SimCity 2013 in 2023

Today we're checking out SimCity (2013) 10 years later! Cities: Skylines 2 is coming soon and I was feeling a bit nostalgic.

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[SimCityEA]

The fact that this game got fixed, and had big updates coming in (Planned to expand the borders 4x times bigger, and so forth, EA killed it off before the game could even recover properly. Gotta love the almighty EA for killing ANOTHER Legendary Franchise...

[_ryanjs_]

The biggest issue is probably the small city borders leading to all cities looking virtually the same if your goal is playing the game as efficiently as possible

[C-WEB]

They NEED to make a modern version of this game. Always loved the UI and art style

[painexotic]

I still prefer the simcity art style over cities skyline even after 10 years. It just looks much better to me. Cities skyline looks so bland and boring but has much more customization tools and mod support.

[lourencovieira]

the sound effects will always be my favourite, i honestly have more fun playing simcity than city skylines just because of how lively the city is with the missions, fun events at stadiums, missions and grand projects.

[siskavard]

As a lifelong SimCity fan, I've never been able to get into Cities Skylines. Can't quite put my finger on why but it's just never held my attention. I always go back to playing SimCity

[elijahlyons]

this game got so much hate (somewhat rightfully) when it came out due to the online-only servers. at it’s core, however, it was a polished and aesthetically pleasing experience that i loved creating in. the music, the sound design, some of the graphics still rival city skylines to this day! it’s sad we can forget about great games because of a bad launch

[johnnopeyy]

It's crazy how this one game handed the city-simulation monopoly EA had to Paradox just like that. What a cluster.

[Klaxn]

There's never going to be another simcity unless it's a cash grab mobile game

[Bagnon]

I still boot this up from time to time. The only issue I had with it was the city size and lack of ordinances. Had they used this style, and the ideas, and added them with what SC4 had, oh baby, what could have been.

[James-rmsr]

I recently went back and played. A lot of the mechanics actually weren't so bad, but more the biggest issue being size. Had they doubled the map size it wouldn't have been so bad.

[Idklmao]

The massive issues is.. EA. they strangle Maxis, pushing them to make more money, not caring about the customer satisfaction. If SimCity is like CS, which has a massive modding community, a whole map unlocked (no one city and then switch to another), this would be a massive hit

[vnshngpnt]

Loved the game back then, and love it now. It still plays great and has outstanding art direction and soundtrack. Yes cities are small, but it's countered by amazing agent system and possibility to build "tall". Also the point is to built multiple specialized cities and connect them, not gigantic "do it all" city.

SimCity city feels alive and real exactly because it's a simulation, not just painter like Skylines (they tried to fix in in CS2 but... you know the result if you played). Like, I can see my sims actually going shopping, work, to concert hall, I can see each tourist and hotels, I can see see individual sick sims, criminals, students being picked up for school, and all these sims actually realistically impact the data and in-game events.

It's quite unfortunate that historically Skylines approach is considered better... I think we lost great series and amazing potential of city builders future.

[TajmirTheRandomFan]

could not believe it's 10 years old and celebrated its 10th anniversary and i apologized about how the game didn't go well, but its still played by some people.

[snifrbelin]

I remember I was so excited this was announced and so disappointed wen it was released. The horrible launch and the tiny cities. There are couple of things the games very well: art work & music and the replacement of slider with expandable buildings. But the tiny cities is main flaw. I can’t believe the developers made the cities so small.

[jessf_]

This was fun to watch. In college one of my assignments was to build a city and write a report about it.

[consolecaito]

Now I want to try out SimCity...thanks a lot Dan

[spatial_awareness]

I really love this game, the art direction, the UI, the soundtrack!!!! Feels alive even if your city is as tiny as 100 people. Hard to face the fact that EA basically abandoned it but besides from that, the people at maxis always had that magic for their games (like sims2)

[BAD_LS]

I am playing it still today. I love the game mechanics the colors, the toy city look and the challenge to build in a hardly limited area.
I’m not using the futures buildings. Just the original ones and it is still fun today!

[davidguevara_]

2023 and only a few days left until 2024 and this city builder is still my favorite game in this genre, I literally spend several time playing it when I have time to play and wow, it's a gem 💎

PS.
I have also played cities skylines for a long time but without a doubt, my heart belongs to Simcity, this is my reason to paying for annual EA membership hahaha