I look forward to maybe buying this in 5-10 years when it’s on sale with dlc for a reasonable price.
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer
Submitted 8 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_JrrP9m2U
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
JoMomma@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I look forward to buying this day one and playing it for 5-10 years and then buying the DLC when it’s on sale for a reasonable price.
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I look forward to playing it in 10 years when I get a computer with the minimum requirements for a payable price
theilleists@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I look forward to pirating this shortly after release day and getting the game plus all future DLC for free.
blanket@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Wish it didn’t require a 2k account. don’t need another account to play a video game.
alilbee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It doesn’t. They mentioned there would be a unique skin for Napoleon if you signed up but it didn’t sound required.
blanket@lemmy.one 8 months ago
The steam page literally says that it requires a 3rd party account for online play (just not required for offline play). so I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referencing.
HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Ah, so that’s why your leader now appears when you are communicating with a different civ. They had to add this for bullshit skins monetization.
obinice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why would you need an account to play a single player, non cloud hosted game?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Shitty publisher mandated launchers.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
My first impressions:
- I like the art style, I’ll have to see about the leaders.
- Gwendolyn Christie is a really good choice for the narrator.
- I don’t like the sound of there only being three ages, but maybe there’s more to it.
- Also not sure about switching civs mid-game, but being able to do things like a French Cleopatra might be fun.
- Are they going to restrict this to avoid potentially offensive combos, especially in multiplayer? I’m thinking of things like using real-world colonizers for leaders of places they occupied (like an English ruler in charge of India and stuff like that.) At the very least it seems like they’re inviting trouble unnecessarily.
- The prices are completely bonkers, nearly $170 CAD for the Founders Edition! This is gonna be the first Civ game in a long time that I don’t pick up on launch day.
Miaou@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Isn’t civ a game about colonisation? If the stuff you described is offending to some, the whole game already is to them.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
No, you’re thinking about Sid Meier’s Colonization
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
- I don’t like the sound of there only being three ages, but maybe there’s more to it.
I thought the same thing. I’m guessing more will be added via DLC?
Which is a scummy move tbh
Jyrdano@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From what I’ve heard, the ages are going to be much longer and more game-changing that Civ 6 eras. Like age of exploration unlocking new parts of the world and new era appropriate civs to play with.
Nighed@sffa.community 8 months ago
I would bet that there will be a new space age era added on as a DLC
The ages concern me most though - what progress carries across? Are you going to be going full land grab because your infrastructure resets etc?
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 8 months ago
Civ 2 is still peak for me, although I did like Leonard Nimoy’s contribution to Civ IV.
Wogi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The best civ is always your first.
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 8 months ago
In that case it should be the original on the Amiga 500 😄, but I still prefer the improvements in Civ 2.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I think that’s true for everything but civ 2. It seems like everyone agrees 2 is just better
v_krishna@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I still play civ v with a few friends pretty much weekly. A couple times a year one of our wives and kids go out of town and we lan party from 4pm to 6am and actually finish a game!
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 8 months ago
That’s awesome!
ripcord@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IV for me. Plus that theme song…it’s possibly my favorite from any song ever.
Denjin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Give me more soldiers noble leader!
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
This looks like the live stream of gameplay reveal, starting now:
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Highlights as I remember them from the live stream:
- Play progresses through 3 ages
- Continue as a different civ when starting each new age
- Map expands with each new age
- Leader choice is separate from civ choice
- Districts
- Christopher Tin soundtrack
- Gwendoline Christie narration
Yorick@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Also noted :
- Navigable rivers
- terrain has cliffs
- armies seems to be condensed, with generals leading them. Fighting looks to be constant in some way? (or that’s just the render for the trailer)
- cities seem to expand much more
- the leaders looks to have some stats which can be improved
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
- Play progresses through 3 ages: Antiquity, Exploration, Modern
Anyone want to bet there would be more ages after DLCs are released?
I’m guessing Industrial and Information ages added before and after Modern age, respectively.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Sounds similar to Humankind. Which is nice cus I like that game.
Nighed@sffa.community 8 months ago
Interested how the map expansion will work in multiplayer.
Concerned about the era resets.
I like what they appear to have taken from humankind (eras, leader swaps, outposts/yowns, map elevation?) and old world (tile improvements culture bomb)
Also concerned about how the maps seemed to just be cities, no gradual domestication of the world with farms, mines etc.
finickydesert@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
they took features from humankind and added them in for some reason
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I like Humankind.
I like the civ switch since you can change you priorities each age. Also I like having a leader I actually like with a civ I like.
Let’s me do what I want to do the entire campaign instead of having to be stick with some stuff I don’t like just to play with the things I do like.
I’m terrible at these games so I can’t speak to balance and strategy and stuff. I use lots of auto stuff or relying on suggested choices from advisors lol.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I found it a bit awkward that pretty much everyone talking about these world cultures was white.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At 15:05 it isn’t clear what is meant by a “full campaign”, but it does sound like you can set up games to be only one age. I hope so, as I am skeptical about swapping civilizations. It was actually the primary thing that put me off Humankind, rather than a selling point. Resetting not only your Civ’s identity but also the world’s resources, map size, and the tech tree is concerning. If one age isn’t an option, I am sure mods will save us at least.
Mod support and multiplayer are huge interests for dedicated fans, so hopefully we will get more information soon. VI improved a lot from V, so I expect it will be good.
I prefer the new graphics to Civ VI’s overall, but I don’t want to say it actually tops V until I’ve played it myself. A few screens seemed visually unfinshed. Story events, navigable rivers, leader skill trees, and the calamities at the end of ages seem intriguing at least. No mention of a world congress, hopefully they have a better system in mind than VI’s.
Still curious about culture progression. They didn’t show a card system like VI, so that at least makes me hopeful. Ideally I would like a permanent unlock/upgrade tree and a way to temporarily boost something at a cost in another system, like edicts in Stellaris.
Looks like districts and wonders still take a tile to build, but now other buildings do too? Cities sprawl out a lot, and are diverse within. Perhaps we will be able to build duplicate buildings that were previously one per city, especially since they mentioned city specializations. It also seems like workers/builders might be attached to a particular city rather than movable units.
Overall, I’m a bit less excited and more worried. There were a lot of changes from V to VI that I was disappointed with from the onset and honestly they did not grow on me.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did we watch different videos? Because the one I see linked is only two minutes long.
Kinakuta@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They must be referring to the full stream, maybe this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc3_EO6Bj2M
Ashtear@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Didn’t even see the UI. Effectively an in-game cinematic trailer.
Hope there’s more forthcoming soon. Civ’s gotten to a point where I have to know if there’s enough to chew on in the vanilla game if I’m going to buy in early.
camr_on@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a 20 minute gameplay reveal today, this is just the trailer
Ashtear@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Thank you! Looking forward to it.
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Civ 6’s UI was so boring compared to 5’s art deco inspired UI.