Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless my friends, who have put a lot of hours into both Civ 5 and 6, unanimously recommend 7 to me, I have no intention of getting it.

  I’m both satisfied enough with what I already own, and not sold on the new one yet. Not to mention that it’ll inevitably be a vehicle for more dlc and expansion packs

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait until there’s a steep sale on the Complete Edition later on. I only paid $5 for Civ5 Complete, and I think $15 for Civ6 Complete.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They won’t. For some reason you are only allowed to like a single civ game and you must hate every sequent game.

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    • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No one’s said anything about hating it. For me, it’s primarily a co-op game, and if they’re not going to switch to it, it’s better for me to save the cash, and put it towards something else

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      • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was just making a joke about civ fans always dislike every civ game except their favorite.

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Especially in a game like Civ. it’s hard to know how people feel about it until a week or so later. I remember when Civ 6 was said to be the best game in the series on release, but after spending some time with it, it was lacking. Reviews like these are more of a first impressions.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reviews like these are paid advertising.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why’d they pay for bad ones?

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When Civ VIII rolls around they won’t send review copies to anyone who gave bad reviews last time.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really? Because there are plenty of reviews that captured the state of that game at release, and they’re generally better at articulating it than the guy who has 1000 hours in a game and calls it “literally unplayable” in a Steam review.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Individual Steam reviews may be trash but the average rating is valuable and usually pretty reliable. The biggest downside of the system is that it isn’t quick to “respond” to updates but the separate “Recent” rating helps a lot.

    The point you’re responding to is that C:S 2 was praised by reviewers at launch despite it having TONS of issues and missing features. The Steam ratings were a way more accurate picture of the game.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can read into individual reviews rather than just looking at the aggregate. Plenty pointed out its problems.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can use both :)

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  • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s more about how does the game function at release is there a performance issue that would prompt a hardware upgrade.

    It’s not a dig at the game I’m sure it’s great but these websites are frequently paid for a good review.

    Civ is known for having issues at release just because its such a giant game to program

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know which sites you think are getting paid for good reviews (this is a persistent myth), but find one or two that you trust.

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• Bademantel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Agreed. The reviews are way too good for a Civ game on release. Would be the first in a while that doesn’t need DLCs to be really good.

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