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Civilization VII | Review Thread

Enjoy it, i know i do. Don't listen to the haters (unless it's constructive feedback) Turn based games in general are recommended to at least try them out.
Yeah. I was on the fence and then watched some gameplay on YouTube. I thought.. Shit looks like Age of Wonders. I liked Age of Wonders. Let's try it.
 
I don't understand this whole age leader change in the age transition critiques. To me much more important is that placing your buildings is more or less arbitrary and not meaningful enough.
That's what matters to me.
 
Just wanted to say that the Steam Community hub for Civ 7 is so fucked up.
I was called a Firaxis bot just because i've said i like the game. People get called Firaxis worker because they advocate the game.
Did you guys also experienced toxicity in your gaming life?
 
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Just wanted to say that the Steam Community hub for Civ 7 is so fucked up.
I was called a Firaxis bot just because i've said i like the game. People get called Firaxis worker because they advocate the game.
Did you guys also experienced toxicity in your gaming life?
That's so sad 😕
 
Just wanted to say that the Steam Community hub for Civ 7 is so fucked up.
I was called a Firaxis bot just because i've said i like the game. People get called Firaxis worker because they advocate the game.
Did you guys also experienced toxicity in your gaming life?

Has Civ 7 been fixed?

I got Civ 5 and Civ 6 at launch. But Civ 7 really seemed like an early access game.
 
Has Civ 7 been fixed?

I got Civ 5 and Civ 6 at launch. But Civ 7 really seemed like an early access game.
No it's still a long way to go but the latest patch has been very fun, you need to build what you choose not when you choose, it`s kinda addicting honestly.
But beware the game still lacks features and ui improvements.
And there are people who simply don't like the game.
 
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No it's still a long way to go but the latest patch has been very fun, you need to build what you choose not when you choose, it`s kinda addicting honestly.
But beware the game still lacks features and ui improvements.
And there are people who simply don't like the game.
It's still content-light. It needs at least one expansion to make it an OK game.
 
iOS version announced.
Oh No Fire GIF

My old iPad Air 4 is where I have more hours in Civ 6 and that saying something. Bed gaming is king, but it also has come with me in long journeys on train or plane. I hope it is as efficient as 6 is, where you can play for hours.
 
Just wanted to say that the Steam Community hub for Civ 7 is so fucked up.
I was called a Firaxis bot just because i've said i like the game. People get called Firaxis worker because they advocate the game.
Did you guys also experienced toxicity in your gaming life?
Well, from what I've seen many people that are heavily emotionally and temporally invested into this franchise are feeling betrayed by the direction of Civ 7. I'm personally going to wait for a year or two before I pick it up so that they iron out the issues. But if you enjoy it then good for you I suppose.
 
Well, from what I've seen many people that are heavily emotionally and temporally invested into this franchise are feeling betrayed by the direction of Civ 7. I'm personally going to wait for a year or two before I pick it up so that they iron out the issues. But if you enjoy it then good for you I suppose.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who enjoys it, just enjoy whatever game you like, it would be stupid to listen to the haters (those without constructive critisim mind you) if i like the game.
For now until the patch comes out i will be continuing to play Civ 6.
 
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Well, from what I've seen many people that are heavily emotionally and temporally invested into this franchise are feeling betrayed by the direction of Civ 7. I'm personally going to wait for a year or two before I pick it up so that they iron out the issues. But if you enjoy it then good for you I suppose.
The problem is that they are ironing out the wrong issues. The game is too easy and the end game is lacking, but they are not working on that because people want Civ 6 with better graphics. Which is stupid.
 
The problem is that they are ironing out the wrong issues. The game is too easy and the end game is lacking, but they are not working on that because people want Civ 6 with better graphics. Which is stupid.
But is the lack of end game and too easy a reason to hate the game so much that you attack players who like it? I'm speaking generally.
Radical_3d Radical_3d Also speaking of end game they are reworking victories. Does that not count as end game?
 
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But is the lack of end game and too easy a reason to hate the game so much that you attack players who like it? I'm speaking generally.
Radical_3d Radical_3d Also speaking of end game they are reworking victories. Does that not count as end game?
Well, the problem with the end game are not the victory conditions that, yes, they needed to be better, but so many other things like the snowballing. They introduced age transitions to stop snowballing and THEN made bonuses like in no other Civ game where, by the beggining of the modern age you could have the equivalent of a worldwide conquest yields (on other Civ games) on a confined little empire of 7-10 cities. And many times the colonial wars of the exploration age left you with a navy that would shame the brittish one, that you can throw to your long time beef with him or her having little to do with its land units against the starting naval class (much less if you upgrade). Something worsened by the existence of navigable rivers. And so on, and so on...

Look, I love this game, I've spend about 500 hours in it, but I despise this community. Their inmovilism didn't let the devs explore the concepts introduced in the unfinished and cheap cash grab that was the initial release. Which was very critizisable, for sure, but their lack of perspective put us in a course correct path where the game barely advances and just pivots to previous entries.

Edit: also no mention of an "undo" button for a whole year is uttery BS.
 
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Well, the problem with the end game are not the victory conditions that, yes, they needed to be better, but so many other things like the snowballing. They introduced age transitions to stop snowballing and THEN made bonuses like in no other Civ game where, by the beggining of the modern age you could have the equivalent of a worldwide conquest yields (on other Civ games) on a confined little empire of 7-10 cities. And many times the colonial wars of the exploration age left you with a navy that would shame the brittish one, that you can throw to your long time beef with him or her having little to do with its land units against the starting naval class (much less if you upgrade). Something worsened by the existence of navigable rivers. And so on, and so on...

Look, I love this game, I've spend about 500 hours in it, but I despise this community. Their inmovilism didn't let the devs explore the concepts introduced in the unfinished and cheap cash grab that was the initial release. Which was very critizisable, for sure, but their lack of perspective put us in a course correct path where the game barely advances and just pivots to previous entries.

Edit: also no mention of an "undo" button for a whole year is uttery BS.
Everything sounds reasonable you've mentioned, but Firaxis has the heart in the right spot, they wanna please the community (that means better sales of course) so maybe they will listen with all the things you have mentioned.
Also 500 hours in the game? Respect, i only have about 65 hours.
 
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Everything sounds reasonable you've mentioned, but Firaxis has the heart in the right spot, they wanna please the community (better sales of course) so maybe they will listen with all the things you have mentioned.
I don't think so. For every one of us that liked the initial ideas and wanted them to fix their clumsy implementation, there are 10.000 fans that straight up reject the ideas, making incompatible pleasing the majority and deepening into those ideas. I can't blame them (too much) for chasing the money but I can totally blame the fans. This is the kind of actitude of the people that wanted to remain in Warhammer 9th edition or that refuses Primaris. In Spain we call that a pollavieja. I guess the international term would be "old man yells at cloud".

Also I think many of the problems the game has is that they set themselves the goal to launch this in a 4GB RAM Switch (and thats the whole system, not just the video). The difference in wonder cinematics and character rendering can be explained by that greedy and awful idea. Which is just cosmetic, but playing the game there are many instances where when you think of something that they could be doing better you end suspecting that the SW version was anchoring them.

Also 500 hours in the game? Respect, i only have about 65 hours.
It may be 400, idk, the app doesn't show it now. But to make an idea of how much experience I have halve that number since I play with controller. That's about half the speed for repetitive tasks, although the waiting while you think and decide to do something is the same. And that's abour 1/5 the experice of someone who plays this really fast.
 
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