Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Peaked at Civ 4, been downhill from there.
If the idea of having Civs that change with the era, but leaders who stay the same appeals to you…
Humankind did it better.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Humankind had so much potential. I wish they had spent more time fleshing out the late game and fixing their multiplayer code.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I mean they have been rolling out updates and fixes since launch, couple of content packs, balance tweaks, reworked a number of systems…
They’re currently working on a scenario, WW2 Pacific, sounds at least broadly similar to the kinds of scenarios in earlier Civ games, in concept.
I would hope that after that, they can eventually get to something approaching proper mod tools.
Yeah, it was a bit of a buggy mess of a launch, no arguing that, but they have been and are still just slowly refining and improving the game.
Of the seemingly fairly small number of people still playing it… Recent Reviews = Mostly Positive.
Personally, I don’t know why you’d play any deep strategy game multiplayer.
Every time I’ve tried multiplayer, in any 4X / Grand Strategy game… everyone is annoyed that I am taking too long, to, you know, evaluate this considerably complex strategy game, with tons of potential upside to taking your time to micro manage things.
But I am one of those apparently rare people who plays single player on the biggest maps and slowest time scales my system can manage…
… I just have way more enjoyment that way, and I appreciate that the AI in Humankind at least seems to me to be generally better at playing the game than most AIs in most 4X / Grand Strat games, when the player and AIs are on an equal footing in terms of bonuses/maluses.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My partner and I love to sit next to each other and play these kinds of games co-op — or mostly co-op since they have a bad habit of going Gandhi in 4X games. It’s us versus the world, as it’s always been. ❤️
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ah, well, I’ve never had a partner with any interest in strategy games.
Foreign concept to me.
That is a pretty good reason to care about multiplayer tho, lol.