Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer?

very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Civ games seem to have acquired a reputation for being underbaked at launch, at least I hear that from others. I only got into the game with Civ V and that a fair bit after it came out. Seems like people are holding up the vanilla new release to its predecessor with all expansions.

  But yes it’s a bummer there’s no local multiplayer yet.

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• THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is that another term for “couch co-op” or is that a term used in Civ? I’ve never heard it used this way before, but it makes sense.

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  • caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think it‘s just an old PC term for turn-based games where you play multiplayer on the same machine with the same peripherals. Basically, you play your turn, get up, let the next player take the seat in front of the monitor, they do their turn, etc… Since not everyone is playing at the same time, you can play together by playing in succession. „Hotseat“ as in passing the seat in front of the PC around like in hot potato, I guess lol

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I miss when games were truly social like this ):

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Some of them still are! I played some Golf With Your Friends recently, that has the classic hot seat experience. The Jackbox games are different but also good for a party.

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is exactly that. I never truly did that for Civ, but had fun with hotseat sessions of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. IIRC the game literally calls it that, must have been the first I encountered the term.

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