Recently got Skylines and g*med hard on it today, but, as someone who sunk hundreds of hours into SimCity 4, I'm not getting the appeal. SimCity 4 is just so much comfier?
Is Skylines really just a traffic simulator? I watched a video by a self-proclaimed city planner all about how to make efficient transitions from the highway to your town, and it seemed like the road building / traffic control is the whole point.
What am I missing?
I am guessing you are referring to City Planner Plays, who is very vocal about how you build and evolve your city toward more robust public transit in a way that is inspired from his being an American city planner and having to work within the confines of the interests of capital and other vaguely materialist factors.
If you want to see his mask slip a little watch the videos where he talks about parking requirements and building a Walmart/shopping center, I am 99% certain he is an anti-capitalist of some sort.
Also CS 2 will be incorporating some of the most essential DLC and mods into the base game.
Also also, this comparison shot is very disingenuous as that is the exact wrong way to build a city in CS and the game will punish you for that much sprawl.
Oh that's cool to hear about that tuber. The comparison shot was just a random google image search, but uhhhh, my current CS city is sprawling pretty damned hard lol