Thread by @TheSpiffingBrit

Cities Skylines 2 is on course to be the biggest disappointment in gaming this year. I have played hundreds of hours and this is my review of the current state of the game and what's gone wrong.

CS1 is the greatest city builder ever created and it took the world by storm.

Mostly because it was very accessible and could run on almost any system. It sold an absurd amount of copies and deservedly made a ridiculous profit. For a sequel to come along IT MUST do two things:
1. More Base Features
2. More Scale

Whilst running on normal Hardware.

In its current state only 7% of steam users meet the minimum requirements to run this game! Running this game is also capped at 30 FPS. The game will fluctuate wildly and you must run in low settings. Meanwhile your GPU will be setting itself on fire at 90% usage regardless.

You can't follow up the most broad and accessible city builder with a game that 7% of people can barely run without setting fire to their GPU. It doesn't matter that the game map is larger and you can fit in more population if most rigs can't handle more than 10,000 people.

This causes the issue of content to be more apparent because the argument becomes "Why should I play CS2 rather than the original I already own?".

There is NO reason you should not currently play the original over this game. The new features that make CS2 worth it can't be

Reached thanks to hardware limitations. There are no brilliant mods available. The graphics are arguably worse because you CAN'T run anything above low settings. There are naturally loads of bugs that feel systemic of a rushed release window. Culminating in this huge sadness.

CS2 might be the best city builder in the world. But it needs at least 6 months of more optimisation and improvement to release in a state that makes it worthy of succeeding CS1.
This isn't an improvement like CK2 to CK3. Paradox can do sequels but this ain't it. 😔

That said there are some positives I also want to finish with.
The game is super fun to play provided you have a £4000 pc
The scale is massive and brilliant
The new mechanics are awesome and really well designed
The Devs clearly love the game and have worked super hard!