What about 4?
Never played it myself, but goddamn is that Baba Yetu song awesome. It’s been on my playlist for many years.
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AGreenPurple@lemmynsfw.com 22 hours ago
If you have never played Civ before it would be a good time to start with Civ 5 or maybe even Civ 3. They are cheap and quite polished.
In my opinion (having played Civ since the first game, yes I’m old), Civ 7 is quite ok in it’s foundations, but it’s clearly released too early and like the other parts before it’s mainly a game about optimizing numbers, not so much about strategy.
Biggest turn off for me is the introduction of “rogue like” mechanics that give you to play certain characters and nations in a certain way to access others. Why would I want to have that crap in a strategy game?
Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
Overspark@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
4 is the best “old” civ in that it still has square tiles and doomstacks. Also the modding scene is insane for 4, massive total makeovers that make it a completely different game, far more interesting mods than any other civ game.
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Civ4 is the one I still play. I like my stacks of doom and could never get into the hexagons and no stacking units of later games.
Overspark@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
They stole that and some other mechanics from Humankind, a game by the same studio as Endless Legend. It wasn’t received that well in Humankind either, so I’m kinda surprised that they stole it anyway, but I guess line must go up and they didn’t have a lot of inspiration themselves?
AGreenPurple@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours ago
I played Humankind as well, but I like the execution in Civ better (despite the bugs and unfinished ui). Butt yes, the idea want original at all.
Overspark@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Good to hear how it compares, I was curious about that but reviewers aren’t talking about it.