Sid Meier's Civilization

RedDelicious said:
VII might be the first civ to just be straight up unsalvageable. It's just so utterly unfun. Since IV, every release has really been a watered down version of the previous game pending future updates. V was iffy and burdened by introducing a lot of new systems (hexagons) but eventually became a contender for the best in the series. Even VI became... playable, if still not as polished as V.
Meanwhile VII changes so much of what people like about civ that I legitimately do not know if any amount of updates can fix it. They straight up broke the core of the game. Sid Meier actually had a philosophy of '33s' for sequels, where he believed 33% of the game should keep established features, 33% should improve past features, and 33% should be new features entirely.
This feels more like 10%/0%/40%, and the other 50% is being saved for overpriced DLC.
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I haven't bought VII yet. I enjoyed V the most, though. I did get into VI after a while, but I got sick of constantly resupplying my cities with workers instead of just having them on hand to do whatever.
 
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biggie bundu said:
Yep. This is the problem. Nothing has been improved, other than, arguably, the graphics.

Seriously can someone tell me what there is to like about this one? The core gameplay is fucked, leaders fucked, civs fucked, map generation fucked, game customisation fucked, game length fucked, UI fucked, quick turns fucked, queuing up tech fucked etc....
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According to my friend, it's """fun""". Of course, his idea of fun is stomping others in a MP game where he spent thousands of hours of, versus a few dozen in the rest.
 
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The troonistan wokies are running out of 1990s franchises to destroy, at least the ones where the IP is not tightly controlled by Asians smart enough to not allow them to dev on it.

But I'm sure with the passage of enough time, NAMCO will fuck up and let a trooned out Ms. PAC-MAN release (where she's gobbling HRT pills).

If you keep your wallet shut, you will help this nightmare collapse faster. And they can't pay for their troon surgeries.
 
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Saving this gem here before the SMM wakes up and does something like nuking their tweet and re-posting with replies locked down.

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ToroidalBoat said:
The UI of the PlayStation version of Civ 2 version looks sort of like PC version.

Or why not use different UI on console? Blizzard did that with the N64 StarCraft.
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Money. "Why do two UIs when we know we're going to have to do the second one? Just aim for one that will work on both systems."

Press. "The UI in the console version is dumbed down and simplistic." Can't be dumbed down and simplistic if it's the same exact UI.

Equity. The people working on Civ7, based on that video, are probably 1/3rd gamers, 1/3rd token diversity hires, and 1/3rd old guard trying to survive until retirement. They probably don't even realize what the problem is, and if they do, the 500 pound tranny will scream bloody murder at them if you try and correct "her." Remember, UI is shit tier work they probably shove the midwits into doing so they can't fuck up anything else.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Civ 1 and 2: extrasolar colony
Civ 2 Test of Time: extrasolar colony and "transcendence"
Civ 3 to 5 & Rev: extrasolar colony
Civ 6: colony on another planet in the same solar system
Civ 7: just getting a guy into space?

And here I was predicting the next Civ game could have the moon landing as the Science Victory. I sense the Civ devs may be getting somewhat less optimistic for the future.
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The Civ devs now thinking humanity peaked during the 1960s is kinda depressing. The civ games once had future eras for humanity to look forward to and they were once a big part of the game.
 
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Kane Lives said:
There's a lot of niggercattle thinking of "oh this is just base vanilla Civ, they'll patch it" at the moment.
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In a recent live stream they admitted they have no clue what to do about certain thing and have an entire system in their Discord to have the fans help fix it. Basically they are functionally wet brained on design choices and need to farm out to the hive mentality.
Normally this work decently for fine tuning and balance but they are so incompetent they dont even know what they want to do for scout auto explore.
At best Civ 7 will be a game that feels like a patchwork zombie. Some good, some bad, but the gestalt will be terrible. 4/10 don't bother pirating play Civ 4 or 5 instead.
 
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The Pierrot said:
Even if you weren't there. It was so easy to identify an impending dumpster fire just from the promotional material they've been posting.
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I cackled when they introduced Harriet fucking Tubman as a leader, then I did it again when I found out she could lead the fucking Persians.
We wuz Achaemenids and sheit mang we ENSLAAAVED them Egypt niggas
 
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Evil Peter Griffin said:
Is this another case of wait for game of year to buy it?
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Looks like it to me. The last CIV game i played was V. Bought VI for ridiculously cheap on Steam and then realized that i would need to buy the rest of the DLC for the best experience. Haven’t touch it yet.

2 is my favorite and wish i could find a good guide on how to play it on my steam deck.
 
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