Sim City 5 vs Cities XL Platinum (SimCity, gaming, problems, builder)

[mos1992]

A lot of people are complaining about Sim City 5 but does this make Cities better or Sim City with all its problems is the game to play?

[natethegreatforlife]

I think Simcity wins. I always got bored of playing cities xl after an hour or so, it's just endlessly expanding. With Simcity, you can actually manage it, and the simulation in the game is kick ass.

[jeremy2788]

As unhappy as I am about Sim City, id still prefer it over Cities XL.

[lovesthebass]

I'm also with SimCity over CitiesXL. For a couple reasons, mainly.

1) SimCity runs better.

A "maxed out" SimCity city running on maximum settings @1080p doesn't bog down my gaming computer. A high density city that takes up maybe 1/8-1/6 of a CitiesXL map starts to lag. Once it reaches half the map or a million citizens, etc, it starts to run like total crap. There's nothing worse than playing a game that runs like crap. Not to mention the memory leak.

2) There's a lot more to spectate on SimCity.

CitiesXL just seems like a soulless builder/balancing act.

Those are the main two things. I do wish SimCity had a few things that CitiesXL did, however. Like park placement and mass transit routing. (could be used for garbage too) Then again, a better coded pathing algorithm could do a better job than what's there now and remove the hassle of routing the path yourself.

But yeah. It didn't take me long to get bored of CitiesXL. It's not a bad game, really, but it's not that great either.

[blackf150]

I prefer Simcity 5 because of easier to understand to build the city.

Simcity 5 needs bigger map like 4x4.