New Civilization game currently at a 51% rating on Steam
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Steam Forum completely locked down.E: I completely missed that Firaxis gave their Steam forum multiple categories. Thanks u/Zakat for pointing this out.AndIt's getting a lot of negative reviews even from 'the industry' and Firaxis-friendly youtubers, and on the Steam forums.Every new thing I learn about this game makes me like it even less, and I've been a huge Civ fan for two decades (I've bought Civ IV complete three times.)
Basically zero classic franchises have the people that originally made them great working on them. At this point, I see every long running franchise the same as a skinsuit wearing goblin.
They've been trotting out Sid Meier as a mascot for 30 years even though he dipped out before even contributing to Civ II.
And they won't let him make another Alpha Centauri game because they were really educational and got people into reading history.
It's a mess of base game content locked behind serial DLCs, missing features that were in previous titles, changing classic mechanics to create Humankind-lite mini games that no one asked for and DEI BS that shoehorns in female leaders and tribes no one has heard of while leaving out historic civs like Britain.
They left out Britain as a civilization?
That's about as crazy as leaving out Rome.
Apparently there's exactly 1 (one) British leader...
You did see the navigation on the right?
Nope, I haven't seen many games break down their steam forums like that. But now that you've pointed it out, I've corrected my post. Thanks
It's amazing that YouTubers engaged in access journalism are capable of more honest interrogation of these products than journalists engaged in access journalism because the YouTubers are actually fans who want to see good products even with their inherent bias (and slight corruption).
The real question is: "Are you an Alpha Centauri fan?"
I've played the game and it's two "spiritual sequels" (Final Frontier, and Civ:BE), but I find the dated interface/mechanics, along with the relative lack of modding capabilities detracts a bit from my enjoyment of it.
But the writing is fantastic. I'll just leave this here.