First Look: Harriet Tubman | Civilization VII
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Oh boy. Knew the series was going this way with all the Civ VI expansions but it's still sad to see. Game will probably be a broken mess too.
Yeah, there were too many obscure female leaders shoehorned into the Civ VI DLC like Lady Six Sky for the Mayans, Ba Trieu for Vietnam, Kristina for the Swedes, Seondeok for Korea, Wilhemina for the Dutch, Gitarja for Indonesia, Amanitore for Nubia etc.
But for the most part they were for non-Western civs so it wasn't so in your so in-your-face egregious.
The classic female historical figures like Queen Elizabeth and Victoria along with Cleopatra for Egypt were fine.
I've mostly been ignoring the new Civ 7 content reveals since I watched the first one where they announced they are doing a Humankind-style "change your nationality/ethnicity/culture every era" thing.
The Civ devs seem to ignore that everyone fucking hated Sega & Amplitude's woke Humankind & abandoned it immediately after launch despite it getting tons of hype and coverage as the next "Civ killer".
Even all the woke-as-shit Civ streamers all stopped playing Humankind within months of launch.
Humankind can't be the 'Civ-killer' if Civ kills itself.
Checkmate, Atheists
That was also woke trash.
Humankind had lots of hype while in alpha & beta, but flopped pretty much immediately upon launch.
Their dev team was woke as shit, but I don't even think that was the main flaw because the Civ community is also nauseatingly woke.
In the end, their game simply wasn't balanced or fun.
It launched at the end of 2020 IIRC, so it's been dead in the water for a long time. I do believe it's still supported at least.
Sega and Amplitude actually parted ways about a month ago over the fallout.
There have been a few other Civ clones to come out since: Ara and Millenia, that made no ripples whatsoever AFAICT. I believe one was even backed by Microsoft Studios.
I think this is a generational thing. Fans of the older games (Civ IV back) seem to have a more even mix of political ideologies, whereas fans of the newer games definitely seem to be the 'modern audience', as it were.
I played a bit of Ara, it's actually kind of interesting so far. Gamepass. I like its mechanic better than Civ VI's districts, at least.