I was reading the review for Cities: Skylines on Kotaku and was blown away by the graphics, attention to detail and seeming simplicity of the game. It looks amazing. The closer for me was when he said how easy it is by default. Just don't do anything profoundly stupid and you'll always have enough cash.
Cities: Skylines: The Kotaku Review
Well apparently I'm dumb because I don't get the game at all. Forget the complex stuff, I can't even lay down pipes and get a neighborhood plumbed. The area shows that it's covered but some houses are still blinking with a little sewer icon. And you have different lines for sewer and fresh water but they apparently can't cross. How does that work? You know how hard it is to make a grid where pipes can't cross? It's not hard. It's impossible. Surely I'm doing something wrong but then that blasted video review pops into my head and I can hear him telling me how easy it is.
So then they're bitching about not having a dump and so I build one and now the trucks are getting stuck in traffic but I don't have access to highways this early in the game and IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD THE SIZE OF 2 SQUARE BLOCKS.
It was so much work. I was waiting for the fun. It was legitimately frustrating and I finally said fuck it and shut it off. I was pissed at the game and more than that I was pissed at myself for apparently being so stupid because the reviews for the game are almost unanimously great. I just wanted to build a city in peace. With the old Sim City games you could get started relatively easily and not run into problems until your city got big. With this game I can't even get a 2 block neighborhood to run properly with all services without them complaining that they don't have any water, their shit spilling into the street, their garbage trucks getting stuck in traffic and oh yeah, I thought I powered the whole town but apparently not because they're complaining about that too. Also I'm out of money and with every passing day I lose a couple hundred more dollars.
I feel like such an old man right now. This legitimately has me pissed off and flustered. Does anyone else play this game? Am I just functionally retarded?
Cities: Skylines: The Kotaku Review
Well apparently I'm dumb because I don't get the game at all. Forget the complex stuff, I can't even lay down pipes and get a neighborhood plumbed. The area shows that it's covered but some houses are still blinking with a little sewer icon. And you have different lines for sewer and fresh water but they apparently can't cross. How does that work? You know how hard it is to make a grid where pipes can't cross? It's not hard. It's impossible. Surely I'm doing something wrong but then that blasted video review pops into my head and I can hear him telling me how easy it is.
So then they're bitching about not having a dump and so I build one and now the trucks are getting stuck in traffic but I don't have access to highways this early in the game and IT IS A NEIGHBORHOOD THE SIZE OF 2 SQUARE BLOCKS.
It was so much work. I was waiting for the fun. It was legitimately frustrating and I finally said fuck it and shut it off. I was pissed at the game and more than that I was pissed at myself for apparently being so stupid because the reviews for the game are almost unanimously great. I just wanted to build a city in peace. With the old Sim City games you could get started relatively easily and not run into problems until your city got big. With this game I can't even get a 2 block neighborhood to run properly with all services without them complaining that they don't have any water, their shit spilling into the street, their garbage trucks getting stuck in traffic and oh yeah, I thought I powered the whole town but apparently not because they're complaining about that too. Also I'm out of money and with every passing day I lose a couple hundred more dollars.
I feel like such an old man right now. This legitimately has me pissed off and flustered. Does anyone else play this game? Am I just functionally retarded?
