Review: Civilization VI
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
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George where the FUCK was the noodle shot I ain't fuckin around
Writing on Games Hey I've seen you before...
no you haven't my name is guy incognito
Writing on Games don't worry, I preserved its majesty
Hes to busy doing Blackface remember? ;D
The memegreed is strong in this one.
i hear in Civ 7 the game literally takes place on a tech tree
It's cleaner for the environment that way.
"I read on Kotaku that it's even better than Civ V with the Brave New World expansion pack." - Ice T
Go home gamergirl!
damn campers
LEVEL UP!
I CARE NOW!!!
I suppose it's better that it keeps asking you to invent Facebook as opposed to sharing things _to_ Facebook.
It wants you to invent Facebook so you can share things on it.
Malhekrow you need to research Social Media first
Thank you for making this genius comment sir!
wait a minute who the fuck are you
Minty Mag
a.... uh... hi
Super Bunnyhop was so hyped about Civ VI he didn't have time to finish the description.
GammaDelta I kept reading the description thinking I was just looking at it wrong.
Not mentioned: it gives you intense headaches if you play too long.
lol im almost done with lets plague dark souls, love how you poop all over the stories inconsistencies xD
That's true of all games though.
I thought it was just me. One's eyeballs just need training. Be strong!
I think it has to do with the alien races you encounter in civ6; Your human brain can only comprehend these et look-a-likes for so long.
Oh, it's not secret.
Oh god that "You are in debt, I don't like it!" dialogue is soooo broken in this game. I had a game as America were I was making roughly 60 gold per turn for most of the game. (Though it was on normal, I am a noob don't judge me.)
And Brazil would just constantly praise me for being rich, then chastise me for going bankrupt a few turns later. And my financial situation had never changed between both points. They just seemed to randomly like me/hate me every few turns. It's just broken.
It's probably flagged to play as that nation is making more than you. Think of it as the AI taking the piss if you have a small army or not enough/too many wonders.
Least that's my take on it.
SirusDiarota Well then it is horribly written. If that's the case the AI should say that by making fun of your nations economy. It should not say "You have too much debt", because that's just plain not true.
Amaror2
*shrugs* I'm guessing at the end of the day. The AI does bork out sometimes.
Is this a joke, because Brazil will never have a better economy than the USA XD
TheBrazilRules
And this has nothing to do with this comment chain, this video or even Civ6 in general.
If you need to jump that quickly on the defensive, you'd need to have a second look around yourself.
George, I read on Kotaku that this is better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack
welp looks like it's true then :(
OK that subthread, Imma need the link
They leveled up.
Is that a jab at a certain "Law and Order" episode?
GO HOME GAMER GIRL!
Well you mentioned it, but I don't think you made it clear that a veteran Civ player will NOT be able to find a challenge in this game. The AI constantly makes incredibly bad decisions in just about all aspects of its play. Higher difficulty levels don't improve the AI, but just give it an increasingly large set of semi-arbitrary bonuses against you.
The tactical AI is much, much worse than Civ V. I watched Germany try to attack a city state with four catapults and some cavalry; more than enough to crush it. Unfortunately they never actually attacked the city with the catapults, preferring to mill them around inside the city state aimlessly while weathering fire from the city center until they were all destroyed. It even embarked them on the ocean next to the city a few times for no apparent reason.
It is truly unplayable if you care about the war aspect of the game. If you like peaceful building, it's probably the best Civ yet. Gives you a lot of peaceful things to do.
Is this vanilla civ 5 or the dlc included? Specifically Brave New World.
Also which one are you alluding to in the final paragraph?
Civ V had terrible AI as well. In fact, every Civ has had horrible AI opponents.
@@frak4981 Whereas that's true, the Civ V AI at least knew how to attack a city. Putting districts on the map has REALLY confused the shit out of the AI.
Basically Civ 6 is way too complicated for the AI to play, whereas 5 and earlier had simpler rules and weren't as difficult for it.
@@frak4981 civ5 has AI mods that edit the DLL, civ6 doesnt.
Oh, also, I dislike its interface. Civ V's interface was fairly colourful and each unit had nice artwork. Here it's just...well, Mobile.
Your comment did not age well
Egg of Tartsburg I’m lost explain why
@@1929-x3x they released Civ VI for the iPhone and iPad
@@zeroquiche That would mean it aged well since his observation was accurate lol
They don't build road like they use to
where's the noodle shot tho
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So the political progression tree constantly pops up nagging messages and consists of seemingly pointless tiny cumulative changes that deliver no gratification, with only a very periodical explosive game-changer?
This may be the most realistic Civ title yet.
I mean you could always just play Egypt.
If somebody ever asks how to win Civ 6, you can usually just say play Egypt.
For religion, do Russia.
The most immersion breaking moment of AI dialogue came to me in my first game. Started as the Romans and I had just upgraded my basic warriors to Legionaries, when Ghandi straight up announces to me and the world that we will bow to his nuclear missiles -_-' So while the world is still proud of the invention of the pointy stick Ghandi is discovering the secrets of nuclear fusion in his mud hut. Really Firaxis?
Barbarossah I don't see the problem. That's actually historically accurate.
nit pick but nuclear weapons rely on the power of nuclear "fission"
Lol
You didnt even talk about the most important feature of Civ games. Is Gandhi still an asshole in this game? This is an important question.
From what I hear, yes. By this point it's traditional.
xenoevil
Yes and no. He'll typically avoid armed conflict until the Modern Age, where he'll make a goddamn sprint towards nuclear technology.
I think this is the first Civilization where the game explicitly states, "Ghandi is fucking nuke crazy." It's no longer a charming throwback to the game's history, it's a major component to diplomacy with India.
Civ V had him not declare wars without a good reason, but would stock pile nukes and use them as soon as war starts. I'm pretty sure it's the same in VI
All is right in the world.
It harkens back to a funny bug from Civ1. Ghandi was the only leader to have less than a 3 in his Aggression score. He had a 1. This made him extremely peaceful and basically the nicest guy in the game... Until the modern eras. As I recall, one of the techs related to Democratic Government lowered the aggression of the Civ that decided to take it by 2. If you have any understanding of how Hex works, you may see what happens next. Ghandi's aggression lowered by two and underflowed the value. This made his aggression roll back to 255. In Civ, the most warmongery of the warmonger leaders usually cap out at a 10 in Aggression.
Ghandi became 25.5x more violent then them. At that point, he went from being the nice historical figure he truely was into being an avatar of Khorne with a love of dropping atomic weapons on everyone that wasn't him.
"Expanding and Exploring is fun."
It's actually half of the whole 4X concept. So it's probably a good thing.
I want a mod to make the missionaries look like they just start slap fighting and tackle one another and roll on the ground. lol would be way funnier
the visual theme of the UI is like windows vista
how
Buttons like opaque neon gems
Neon Gemesis Evangelion
It's better than the flat minimalistic UI that is spreading like cancer
I'm liking Civ 6 a lot, but one thing I am disappointed about is the lack of personal involvement in the science victory. Once again, they fail to recapture the wonder of achieving a science victory from the earlier Civs.
There used to be meaningful input in building your spaceship. You could decide to take a "Russian" or "American" approach to it by prioritizing efficiency over safety (because your spaceship might not even make it to its destination) or vice versa. When you launched your ship, you had to wait however long it would take it to reach its destination. Another civilization could conceivably beat you there even if they launched their ship after you, because they may have focused more on thrusters, for example. A lot of decision making emerges from the mechanics. Do you launch your ship early before it's completed because you might lose the race? These were meaningful decisions.
But now, as with Civ 5, you just build off a checklist of required projects, and the game is won as soon as they're finished building. The victory ends up feeling very flat, and is the most boring to work for. I really wish they would have harkened back to past Civs with the science victory.
Risky ideas 1 and 4 are completely unacceptable by this very long time Civ player. I absolutely hate them. Also the art style and leader figures feel like downgrades. 3/10 from me.
My biggest complaint so far is that the AI ends up with everyone hating everyone else for arbitrary reasons (the agendas may be broken or not working correctly) and making very bizarre decisions.
Colin Kauffman Just like real life if you really think about it.
"My biggest complaint so far is that the AI ends up with everyone hating everyone else for arbitrary reasons"
let me remind you we live in a world in which a war was started over a stolen bucket once
what war was that?
The War of The Bucket in Italy in 1353, IIRC.
okay, will definitely look that one up
Social Media is the end of the Civic tree, so, like Future Tech, you just keep researching it over again. When you hovered over it, it even says 'can be researched repeatedly'.
I'm about 3 minutes in. Wondering if Bunnyhop is going to notice the incredibly, comically bad AI that absolutely ruins the game for anyone hoping to take it seriously.
The district system seems to be lifted straight from Endless Legend.
As someone with more time in Endless Legend than Civ, I have to disagree. Districts in Civ VI may appear to be similar (you place a thing on the map), but their actual use and function outside of that are very distinct.
Can you please review the blackface edition?
was waiting for that reference.
I was a little stressed about school and lack of a job, so just seeing a new bunnyhop video up cheered me up.
Then I saw there was no noodle shot and now I'm in a spiraling depression again.
Wholeheartedly agree on the civics tree criticism. I just find myself picking whatever sounds nicer and only switch the policies whenever I'm going for something specific, which is only ~3 times per game.
Alpha Centauri is the best Civ game.
So I hear. It is kind of old by now, though :/
Henrik Munk Madsen
Chess is 1400 year old game, people still play it and hold championships.
Poker is an 18th century game that is still played worldwide casually or competitively.
What does "old" have to with anything ?
Once you get past the aggressively outdated UI, I think its still a solid game.
CerpinTxt87
That's highly exaggerated.
The first time I've played Alpha Centauri was in 2010 in my first year of college and I picked up on it really quickly.
Bucky•JaKRBT Yes, it was meant to be exaggerated, but your experience was not my experience.
I played aa the Germans. I tried to have a powerful army. I had the weakest army even though I was just pumping units out like crazy. Everyone hated me, and Gandhi was in the Atomic era when everyone else was juat starting the industrial era. He ended up winning via religious victory.
I'm really glad they've worked on making it much more active to play on a peaceful route. I always found myself mashing "next turn" in previous Civs around the mid-game, and that was typically after an early-game war, and before a late-game one that the AI would declare on me.
I would play Civ 6, but I don't have enough amenities to pay for it.
something something pylons?
Pirate it?
Well I put 103 hours into CIV V:BNW, I absolutely love that game.
I put about 8 hours into CIV VI, and I gotta say it's weirdly annoying. Like every action feels like I'm not doing anything or progressing. I'm never 100% sure whether or not I'm doing well, and the Civics feel pointless.
My question is, is Civ 5 BNW tough on laptops?
I want to get it on my HP Chromebook (it has Steam and an Intel graphics card/processor) but if it’s too tough I’ll wait until I can afford a windows laptop or Pixel
I want a George plushy...
Would instabuy tbh
How would you feel if George autographed a copy of the mediocre Gamecube game "Dead to Rights" by Bandai Namco Games for $9.99?
Civ6 have that casual cartoony feel, well it looks like sims. That's a weird complaint but enough for me to not to buy it.
Also was all that changes nescessary? As if someone copied Civ5 completely but had to toss something in so it can be called a new game :D
It feels like it's not a nation ruler simulator but a board game with overly complex rules.
At least, they fixed Ghandi's Nuclear Rage in this one...
I have some really stupidly petty gripes with this game. Mostly border related, I really don't like how geometric the borders are following the hex grid to a T except for different terrain like rivers and coasts. I really liked the round borders of Civ V it actually made me feel like I was building a country, and the minimap kinda bothers me too. Again too geometric and grid like. I like to look down on the map in the late game and see how far I've spread my influence and feel like I've accomplished something and I just don't think that's going to happen with he map looking like that. Another thing that is detremental to the feeling of "I've made an empire" is that the minimap now shows you your entire territory including all sea territories. That is something I can see absolutely ruining any feeling of accomplishment as a relatively small map with a buch of civs could soon turn into a mosaic of territory where you can't even tell what of that is an actual landmass. And the problem with the trade routes can be fixed easily by just bringing back the "Previous trade route" marking. I honestly don't know why they even removed that, I mean sure it's nice to consider some new options that might be better for you economically every time you review your trader but given the significance those units have in this game by being the only thing that can create roads, removing that piece of information could be potentially catastrophic. I seriously hope for some mods that can fix this but until then, good luck against Gandhi.
Came here for the ramen clip, heard that those noodles are top tier.
nice review ! happy to see you coming back to this format ;)
Sounds like the "Restart Science" girl is a unit in Civ 6. "You can use black magic to call down lightning on your enemies!"
Can't change city name to Pooptown?!? Unplayable..
TFW Call to Power still goes completely unacknowledged
World congress is coming back with the Poland DLC I think
Also, where are those missionaries you promised. It's been 0.5 turns. I am so warring you now.
a little stressed about school and lack of a job, so just seeing a new bunnyhop video up cheered me up. I need a little stress relief right now.
Same here friend. Here's to hoping for a future for us both.
Hey, as long as you're not Shaun Murray, it's all going to be OK :)
***** What's that from?
***** ouch.
Or, maybe promotion? Ok poor taste, sorry.
Know the feeling man, being 26, having no job, no savings left, climbing out of a depression. But I got an interview for an opening as an account manager next thursday. Wish me luck!
I uninstalled Civ 6 after a week. It is significantly better than Civ 5 which I consider the weakest Civ ever produced. The many changes almost make me like Civ 6, but the fact that the AI functionally still cannot even pretend to play the game on the hardest difficulty setting is just a problem. Civ 4 continues to remain my favorite Civ and I'd really like a replacement that isn't coming from Paradox Interactive.
Fair 'nuff. I haven't played the game yet myself, but this game seems like something to look forward to despite the sleep walking AI. Though it helps that I haven't cared for the AI much since Civ 3.
Review some paradox game already pls pls
Reinventing Facebook over and over again is an awesome metaphor.
I've pretty much given up on the Civ series. The core premise is great, but there's just so little difference between iterations. aside from the increased fidelity, there have really only been three actual innovations to the formula since CivIII... which is pathetic. It just gets harder and harder to justify the same irrational AI and pathetically limited diplomacy systems that are the same in each. ew game, let alone the lack of imagination regarding endgame scenarios, win states, cleaners, etc.
Play it for entire week, too many flaws. I liked Civ V graphic and art deco more, Civ VI graphic and UI just horrible, fog of war just annoying after modern era, tree tech just broken. How horse archer can be built without needed research of archery, that's fucking stupid. AI just annoying as hell, the worst one if AI go religion route and clogged the map with missionaries. AI will hate me for everything I've do and not do. The game does not feels rewarding, districts just useless most of time especially pre industrial era because bonuses just too low. Housing is just unnecessary merchanic burden, just there for sake of complexity. The game also punish me too hard for wage a war, this game sucks.
I think I like this cartoony style more than CiV's realistic look -- it's the reason I keep playing Civ3 instead of anything else.
Why are so many people bitter in the comments that he likes a game lmao
It certainly feels like an even harder shift to 'board game on a screen' - which is not a good thing. SBF's "four risky ideas" seem like veiled changes that exist for no other reason than the lead Dev is a board game fanatic: social policies are now some odd swappable card game for example, and the diplomacy has been completely gutted.
Civ needs some revitalisation but those changes need to be built on the problems of the previous games, not wild arbitrary shots in the dark in the hope they work with the old game mechanics - they don't... and the AI is still busted...
This is not a video review; it is a comparison video.
religions victory? ... can I make the GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND victory? lol
You mean Trump Victory?
Maybe constantly reinventing facebook is social commentary on the layout changes. They need to add constantly reinventing smartphones too.
I acutally adore the artstyle of civ6.
Worthless AI kinda destroys the whole purpose of these games. What's there in it for me if there is no challenge? Looking at evergrowing numbers? Boring.
I don't think the models look like aliens. The stylization is a good substitute for realism. They look like Pixar characters.
When you started talking about your Japanesse Shinto Theocracy my hearth almost stopped. It was a perfect moment, but you missed the oportuny. I miss the noodle shot.
As a newcomer I am massively impressed by how beginner friendly this game is. Not because it's streamlined or anything but because the game is really good at reminding you what actions you have left every turn and then telling you you're ready to finish.
The other issue I've found is that you can't raze cities you get from peace deals, and can't raze cities if you annex them once.
I have to mention it everytime I hear the word doom stacks.
Artillery is a major counter to doom stacks in Civ IV. You can do collateral damage to the whole stack. There is no real need for 1UPT in my opinion, but it's here to stay so I accept it. Thankfully Civ VI allows for corps which is better than nothing.
We can't build roads like we used to, but we have our ways...
My favorite part of this new Civ is when you have to wear blackface in order to negotiate with some countries and I'm astounded that George missed talking about his favorite feature. In the podcast he even mentioned he avoids using the blackface with lipstick because it doesn't offend the other nations that much and still get benefits of being an old timer nation with the other nations.
I'm surprised you enjoyed the late game, Bunny. I've played one full run. I had a shot at science victory and achieved it. In order to do so it took me 150 turns of grind. Like, incredibly dull. No war (yes, I could have started one but it wouldn't have been in my interests.) I had deployed spies to protect my science and was constantly pestered to tell them to keep doing what they were doing. And, yes, as you say in the video, you have a lot of traders by then and so you are constantly having to retell them where to go.
So I very much enjoyed the early and mid games but the late game was so incredibly dreary that I think I may return to Civ V with the Community Balance mod. Or, as I have been doing instead: play Stellaris from Paradox.
I'm not clever enough to think of a joke
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Without FOCUS Without GENERATION Without PEER ;)
It sounds like Civilisation is moving even further away from historical simulation into board game territory.
That's probably fine for a game, but that's the problem, it's just a game. Civilization could have been so much more than that.
Jugal True. The feel you get when talking to the leaders in CIV 5 is just gone now.
Mostly because some of the leaders are just...ugh.
Jugal nah, Civ VI changes make much more sense in historical context.
Honestly, some historical board games do a better job at simulating history despite having way more limitations than a lot video game historical sims. Heck Paradox and Creative Assembly games use a formats based in Risk and Diplomacy. So the decision's basically a no brainer really.
This is the most dumb comment I think I've ever read in my life. Congrats.
The AI cheats so insanely ,even on King.
I've had AI's offering me all their GPT, gold and surplus luxuries/bonus resources to end a war they were starting to loose, only to trade with them a turn later, finding out they still have the same GPT available for other trades.
I managed to do another trade for about 200GPT from China AI and a third turn later, he still has about half of that GPT available. SERIOUSLY.
Also late game the AI trade logic is awesome. They eagely offer from 50GPT up to almost 300GPT for 5 or 6 different luxuries from you.
If you try to buy from them luxuries, they'll first ask all your GPT, gold and everything else tradeable, besides cities but you clear all that and give up about 20x less GPT and some 200-300gold, voila they agree.
I must say I disagree with the civics tree being a bad change I find it to be a much more interesting system than the civ V policies were and it means you have a bigger reason to care about culture even if you don't go for a cultural victory, I will agree the fact that you have to keep 'inventing facebook' is super annoying but the future tech has the same problem, they are set up like that because they are supposed to be for the score victory (serious who the hell plays with that, I always disable the score victory) but it should just be a simple "keep researching these techs getting more points every turn". Also you didn't talk about support units! That seems like a big change to just gloss over, I love support units, and the lack of them are going to make civ V seem that much lamer if I go back to play that.
Would be curious of your thoughts now that the game is finished
im surprised you haven't talked about the music at all.
The game is a lot different when using ludicrous-size (230 x 115 hex) maps
with true starting locations for civs and city states, and for resources.
The AI acts differently: more consistent, sensible and aggressive. It still has some senior
moments, but it is far better than on the small to huge maps that come with the game.
The last time I was this early, George wasn't in black face
Be interesting to see your thoughts with the current version of the game here in 2021.
Here comes the review i was waiting for.
I really wish they had put in the ability to queue buildings. It wasn't a well known thing in CIV V, but for those of us that knew about it it was great.
You know, you should try Endless Legend, it has it's points in common and differences in comparison to Civ 6.
it be great if civilization implemented what I would like to call the propaganda meter that way if your citizens get really unhappy during a long protracted war you can actually pay in game gold for propaganda to be produced to get your citizens spirits up and more happy so you can stay in the war long enough to win. also you can also use propaganda attack against your enemy send planes over the enemy territory with propaganda leaflets and it might lower enemy morale.
where was the footage of Civ 1-2-3? i didnt notice it anywhere in the video
I hope im not the only dumbass taking entire days of his life just to advance a couple centuries
Noodles, George! Where are the noodles dude?!!! You've started it, bro, noodles bro!!!
Spsssst! Pandora's First Contact, trust me, you won't regret it. As far as Civ 6 goes, it's meh, it's not bad, but I've played it and it feels like Civ 5. I need more different, I need to design my own units, form armies at will, not be annoyed with trade every darn turn, ect. Hence, why Civ 6 is a good game, it's just not satisfying my itch.
Builders Don't use up charges when they repair improvements.
Finally! Something that isn't a Japanese pachinko machine!!
All this time later and I'm just as happy with Civ IV BTS as I always was, especially with mods. So... yeah.
I'll probably try this when it's content complete I suppose, though I never got in to V all that much even after all the expansions.
It's a CIV game, it's OK on release but will be awesome with DLCs
To be honest, while the game sounds fun in its own right there was something about the transition from Civ 4 to 5 that lost me, and Civ 6 certainly does not look like it brought back anything that I'd want in the games.
The biggest beef I have with this game is the road system. How am I supposed to do war now, when I can't build roads to my enemy? Just send them a warning with a trade caravan? Yeah, there's a unit that can build roads, but it costs too much and does too little. Who thought two roads was going to be enough from a large investment in production, anyways?
Let me build my own damn roads augh!
Within the same post, you lament that you can't build roads to your enemy, and acknowledge that you, in fact, can. Also, traders don't cost much to make at all, and what else did you want them to do if they do too little? I'd argue that it's both faster and easier than ever to build roads to other civs. If you're waiting on building a road, would you rather dedicate multiple workers to take 30 or more turns to build that road (which can't even enter the opposing civ unless you have open borders), or would you rather a single unit achieve that feat in 10 turns and not even require exploiting the diplomacy mechanics? Laying down roads for war is faster and easier in Civ 6, not harder.
As an aside, you can build your own roads as well, with military engineers. You're just going to need a lot of them to make a road of any decent length.
Good for Firaxis they decided to play Endless Legend and learn something from it. Now only if they learned more and made a good Civ with that knowledge.
No love for Sean Bean in this video. Aww.
So here Is my strategy in Civ 5 for destroying civs
step 1: get nukes on nuclear subs. Also put stealth bombers in nearby cities.
Step 2: Use nukes to destroy concentrations of enemy military units and cities if you still have more nukes to spare, than use stealth bombers to bomb cities. After all that, Your giant death robots or modern amour should be able to plow right through to the city and either annex it or raze it.
Step 3: rebase bombers and nukes accordingly and heal your modern amour every now and again. Than repeat this again.
Or if you don't have nukes yet:
Step 1: Amass a huge assortment of artillery and cannon units, rifleman/musket men.
Step 2: move this Army to the front lines(doing this over oceans is long and HARD).
Step 3: keep your melee units at the front while leaving openings in the artillery for more melee/artillery to come through. Than try to take on cities like this
Step 4: Since your units definitely aren't invincible, keep producing more. Much more.
So I am the only one who nonironically liked the new Civ VI artsyle? I found it so refreshing, with these cartoony stereotypes of world leaders and almost plastic looking assets. It really made me feel the ridiculous nature of the premise and how I was basically just... playing a game. No suspension of disbelief needed. I was trying to convince a broken AI to like me while rolling my eyes every time they made a mocking commentary in my debt and running a civilization like it was a huge working and producing doll house.
I always felt in old Civ games that the history baggage was kind of... obnoxious? Don't misunderstand me, I loved every bit of it, but in all games I couldn't but feel the game was taking itself a tiny bit too serious while celebrating the amazingness of humankind, and that made it feel a bit preachy. From the narrator to the quotes everything felt so "HUMANS ARE COOL!" that I could only rise an eyebrow at it. It was like, a pulp magazine but in graphic novel style, charming but a bit "meh, okay"
The new alien, weird, caricaturesque designs made feel that the authors are well aware that the theme of the game is not why we go for it, that we play it and love it as a game, not as a complex piece of subtle art critiscising or cheering on ever expanding empires. It was like the authors nudging and saying "Isn't it funny? You are an immortal ruler competing against other immortal rulers who take the personalities of big people of history to compete on a frantic race of who is the greatest by completly arbitrary systems by 2050!" And it works, it is campy as hell and that makes it even more charming
I'm glad you point out what anyone who has objectively played every previous civ game... Some things are flawed, but it's still probably the best Vanilla launch yet. Including 4 and 5.
It has most of the features that we found in CiV with all it's expansions. The AI isn't "great" but it's still commendable on some levels, it has improvements over 5 (it can move and shoot now), and considering the complexity of the new mechanics and how I don't even think the devs are 100% sure what is the most optimal way to play this new game, the AI is very serviceable.
I've been exploring this game for a week straight, with reading things on gaming forums, and I'm still discovering new ways to play or approach the game. I can't wait for people to start posting Deity challenge maps, or for the mod community to sink it's teeth in this game. I'm also looking forward to what the devs will add and change themselves.
Risky Idea, putting the noodle shot
I think you should check Titanfall 2, it's Single Player is really surprisingly well made, with very interesting level design. it reminds me much more of Portal than COD with lots of platforming, time manipulation. sure it's nowhere nearly as complex, but it's really intuitive and the combat itself is superb.
George is your logo based on Meryl's tattoo?
In a way yes. Its animation is based on a loading screen for an old Metal Gear game on MSX: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. That's when the FoxHound logo first appeared and that's where Meryl's tattoo is based on.
ah, I should have remembered but I never put enough time into that game.
Should I buy civilization 6. Because their seems to be no difference at all besides a few tweaks and the new stuff bunnyhop mentioned doesn't seem to be enough to make me buy this game. This just looks like civilization 5 with a cartooney art style and from what I heard the AI is a downgrade from civilization 5.
Solid review. You didn't really mention difficulty when talking about the AI so I assume it's still the case that AI civs need to cheat on the higher difficulties. I'm pretty tired of this, they need to make some AI improvements. And if they can't improve the AI to make it more competitive at least try to make their actions fucking rational. From your review it seems like the AI is actually worse in terms of declaring war/denouncing etc for no reason. But I'm glad you mentioned how wonky the leaders look, I'm not really into the cartoony aesthetic and animations in general.
Gosh, the AI of this game is so broken right now
On one game France was still defending its cities with spearmen and crossbows by the modern era (on highest difficulty)
I would advise anyone interested in to wait a bit until firaxis patch up this mess if you don't intend to play multiplayer.
Core gameplay is really good as pointed out, although districts could be built faster.
Wait...THAT'S what artifacts come from? Sites of previous battles? I've put almost 200 hours into Civ 5 and never realized that.
I both like and dislike the unstacked cities. Gameplay (and most importantly) I think its a great change, but I don't like how cluttered it makes the maps look. I kinda liked seeing a city surrounded by a bunch of farmland in Civ 5, it looks more natural to me.