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Which is the best SimCity (by whatever criteria you find important)? The only one I ever tried was the OG, which I absolutely loved at the time.

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I loved SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4. The modding for SimCity 4 in particular was (is?) out of this world.

SC4 is the best SimCity.

Cities Skylines isn’t a SimCity but it’s a very very good modern game.

I absolutely am not looking to start an argument here, but do you have maybe a link to a discussion or exposition on why CS is an SC? Genuinely curious about the reason for that statement. I have a reasonable understanding of the differences, but for the context of your statement, what qualifies the statement?

Cities Skylines is what SimCity 2013 should have been.

Played 2000 for perhaps thousands of hours for years. Didn't get 3000. Got 4, played for a hundred hours, and decided that it wasn't as much fun. It felt too complicated compared to 2000, and the traffic simulation never liked the way I built cities (everybody would always use the busiest streets, ignoring the completely empty streets running parallel to it).

Cities: Skylines is probably the best SimCity these days.

I've played a lot of Skylines but it doesn't quite feel like a SimCity. I think it has a dearth of quirkiness (e.g. it has 0 llamas)

The quirkiness is in the building art, the Twitter clone, and the radio stations. My favorite is the radio commercial for "The Law Accounting".

Personally turn off the stupid twitter clone and radio stations. The fake commercials and radio DJs and stuff are ok once, but you’ll hear each of those clips far, far too often. Just play your favorite music in the background.

But I agree that SimCity had a unique character that Cities: Skylines doesn’t try to replicate. Instead of trying to clone SimCity they went their own direction, which is on the whole a good thing.

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