Civilization VII

[Gusington]

^Me too 

[CJReich46]

Thank you Steve...Memoriapolis, yes! Terrible name but cool looking game.

Interesting...

[CaptainKoloth]

Been looking at the trailer and some of the coverage... sigh. Civ IV and Civ II are two of my top three favorite games of all time (Alpha Centauri being the third, which is arguably the "true" Civ III). And I can't even raise an iota of enthusiasm for this.

Does anyone remember when Civ was a deep, rich, highly moddable, thought-provoking PC game, rather than a DLC-laden mass market multiplatform game coming soon to a PS4, PS5, Xbox, PC, and Switch near you with pre-order Day 1 bonuses and pay-for-unlockable early access? :/

[al_infierno]

Does anyone remember when Civ was a deep, rich, highly moddable, thought-provoking PC game, rather than a DLC-laden mass market multiplatform game coming soon to a PS4, PS5, Xbox, PC, and Switch near you with pre-order Day 1 bonuses and pay-for-unlockable early access? :/

Add a broken base launch that becomes a complete game over time, and sounds like Paradox to me!   

[FarAway Sooner]

I actually appreciate the changes to Civ VII.  I haven't followed the series closely since IV, as most of the stuff I read made it sound like "the same mathematical concepts with different window dressing", but these changes do seem downright significant to me!

Maybe I'll wait a year after the initial release gets patched and a DLC or two release (so they discount the original game) before I take the plunge!

[CaptainKoloth]

I actually appreciate the changes to Civ VII.  I haven't followed the series closely since IV, as most of the stuff I read made it sound like "the same mathematical concepts with different window dressing", but these changes do seem downright significant to me!

Maybe I'll wait a year after the initial release gets patched and a DLC or two release (so they discount the original game) before I take the plunge!

V was really different in many ways. It did make some positive changes, but in my view of the world (which, granted, is just my own) the mass gaming media "discovered" Civ during the Civ V era and that's when it started to get really dumbed down and closed off (from a modding perspective, which used to be one of the pillars of Civ) and "consolized".

[steve58]

Opening cinematic...

[steve58]

Deluxe and Founders editions will be early access available starting tomorrow...if you want to pay more $$.   All editions available on Feb 11.

[Jarhead0331]

Reviews are out.

IGN rated it good, giving it a score of 7, but there was a lot of complaining about overly streamlined mechanics and gameplay. This concerns me. Civilization has never been that complex to begin with.

[Senex]

I downloaded it from Steam today and played about an hour.  As I expected, some features added, some dropped, some the same.  Loads faster than C5 or C6.  Crashes on exit, though.

[CaptainKoloth]

I downloaded it from Steam today and played about an hour.  As I expected, some features added, some dropped, some the same.  Loads faster than C5 or C6.  Crashes on exit, though.

I will, obnoxiously, quote myself:

At risk of sounding throughly old,  grumpy, and groggy, Civilization has become so "mass-marketized" that, while I-IV remain among my very top games of all time, I can't even whip up the enthusiasm to watch the trailer for VII.

[solops]

I downloaded it from Steam today and played about an hour.  As I expected, some features added, some dropped, some the same.  Loads faster than C5 or C6.  Crashes on exit, though.

I will, obnoxiously, quote myself:

At risk of sounding throughly old,  grumpy, and groggy, Civilization has become so "mass-marketized" that, while I-IV remain among my very top games of all time, I can't even whip up the enthusiasm to watch the trailer for VII.

+1

[bobarossa]

I'll do you one better; I didn't even watch the trailer for VI!

I did thoroughly enjoy V but didn't like the way you had to buy two dlc's to get the full feature set that was standard in IV.  Of course I didn't get V until it was heavily discounted because VI was nearly out. Maybe I should look for discounted VI now.

[Anguille]

I am in no hurry and will wait a couple of years before buying it (like i did with Civ 5 and Civ 6 btw). It seems to me that the start is a lot roughter than with Civ VI.

[steve58]

So apparently there will be a VR version of Civ VII.  Coming Spring 2025.

https://www.ign.com/articles/firaxis-makes-surprise-sid-meiers-civilization-7-vr-announcement