YellowKing wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:40 am
Gamespot gave it an 8/10, but their negatives weren't deal-breakers for me as a newbie Civ fan. They complained about lack of certain civs (don't care), the soft reset (I think this one depends on your playstyle), and that there was no Information/Contemporary Era (don't care).
What I'm seeing is the typical complaints about changes that every Civ game gets, and the complaints about the DLC strategy. What I'm not seeing is that the game is fundamentally broken or not fun. So still cautiously optimistic.
Much the same here. Most of the criticisms I see in reviews are things I simply don't care about. I feel bad for people who don't like these things, it's not that I don't care about their feelings, but I myself don't think these things will affect my enjoyment. Particularly comments about leader models, choice of civs, or ending the game in the 1950s.
And I am very, very enthusiastic about the way the choices of leaders and civs interact to make this something like character creation in a good RPG. Especially when you add in all the subtleties with attribute points. (Also mementos)
The thing that may bother me is lack of information provided in the interface. Just to give one narrow example: towns now support cities (generally in the form of food) rather than having their own production queue. But this depends upon their being connected to cities, which is not an action you take, but rather a situation on the map. But as far as I can tell, it takes some looking to find out what city a town is supporting, and it is not at all clear why the town is or is not supporting a particular city. This kind of thing will drive me crazy if it is widespread and not corrected soon.
Really, it is quite a complicated game, and it looks as though they are keeping the complexities out of view of the player. I feel very old ranting against this passion for "clean interfaces." Truth is that this problem may be mostly because their priority is for the game to be playable across multiple platforms at launch.