Always good to be patient with Civ games. By the time they’ve fixed most of the game’s flaws, there will probably also be some solid discounts on the game.
Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ
Submitted 5 days ago by commander@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 days ago
ctry21@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I still don’t want to touch it unless they remove Denuvo and the forced 2K launcher. Feels like with each entry it becomes less about the game and more about extracting as much money as they can through DLC while ramping up the anti-features.
erraticunicorn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Rage culture in gaming is such an obnoxious problem. So many people on the subreddit rag on the game and haven’t even played it.
The firaxis team took a big swing, whether or not they missed is subjective. Vote with your wallet, all the previous iterations of civ are still there to be happily played.
I think the game is not as good as Civ VI but is following the same cycle all civ games have taken since I started playing. It’s not as fleshed out as the previous entry until all the expansions land.
Personally, I will always appreciate game designers attempting to try to do something fresh over playing it safe.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I will always appreciate game designers attempting to try to do something fresh over playing it safe.
They did not attempt anything fresh. They just copied the mechanic of one of its competitors.
It’s not as fleshed out as the previous entry until all the expansions land.
That’s not the issue with the game, at all.
erraticunicorn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Splitting the game into distinct eras that atomically enforce switching is novel to me as someone who plays quite a few 4x games including humankind.
Enjoyment of a game is always going to be relative, this bitter hatred & entitlement at the pit of some gamers souls brings down the whole medium. You don’t like the game? Don’t play it, go on and enjoy the hundreds of thousands of other games out there rather than linger and whine until the devs cater to your whims.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I still don’t see why they copied this feature from Humankind. It was the worst part of an otherwise decent game. They should have learned from Humankind’s flaws and done something like keep your civ but change your leader by era. Same general concept, but feels much more Civ.
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 2 days ago
Civ VII is a failure of market research for exactly that reason. I don’t even think the shifting cultures in Humankind is necessarily a flaw; it’s just different. But it’s very clear Civ players hated it, and a single trip down Humankind’s Steam reviews makes that crystal clear, so when I saw Civ VII was copying that feature my immediate response was “dumb asses, this is gomna fail.”
Apparently it was profitable though. Somehow. And the fact that its profitability was considered news-worthy says a lot.