It seems like you guys are citing your love of 4 and 3 as reasons to not want a graphically advanced Civ 7?
and let us with modern computers have a Civ 7 with great graphics! It won’t make 3 or 4 disappear.
This.It seems like you guys are citing your love of 4 and 3 as reasons to not want a graphically advanced Civ 7?
Otherwise I’m missing the point here.
And if you feel that way, then keep playing them
I'm all for new, fresh 
Not if it's really the only PC game you play, at least on a regular basis.I was going to say Civ is an odd game to upgrade for, but then again the thread on what other games people play revealed I'm one of the few people here who primarily plays non-strategy games.
Civ4 with BUG/BULL and Blue Marble is beautiful.
I think Civ4 is still a beautiful game, maybe not so much when compared to Civ6 on the PC, but I don't play Civ6 so I don't notice it.
I had a similar thing happen when I played Civ6 on the switch, not fun at all.
Like I said, I was surprised when that thread revealed I'm the weird RPG/adventure game player who happens to play Civ.Not if it's really the only PC game you play, at least on a regular basis.
100% this.
To me its feels like the personnel changes had them announce before they were ready to, given the lack of details and so on. You'd think the announcement of the next installment of their signature franchise would have a proper reveal and everything but that's not what we got. I'm still betting we the "proper" announcement at the end of the LP.
Annoucement of an Annoucement is actually pretty big these days...
I'm an RPG player as well. I feel like there's a lot of crossover appeal for 4x and RPG games. You really want to stop and weigh your options carefully. Plan things out. Etc.Like I said, I was surprised when that thread revealed I'm the weird RPG/adventure game player who happens to play Civ.
100% this.
I'm not convinced Civ games, or any strategy game for that matter, drive anything, in regards to hardware. Very few titles do that, usually singleplayer Role Playing Games or single player First Person Shooters, from a handful of triple A companies. Everyone else just tags along, including Firaxis. There's no need to push the envelope in regards to graphics, so they don't. But there's also no reason for them to not take full use of already existing hardware capabilities, especially for a company the size of Firaxis, and not forgetting that it's a project made to last nearly a decade (Civ 6 is going on 8 years and I wouldn't be surprised if Civ 7 is made to last even longer), so they don't need to play overly safe in regards to graphical minimum requirements.Not what I meant:
'Nice graphics' and 'hardware demanding graphics' are two different things.
I like nice graphics really. In my Civ4 mod I included some graphical improvements.
But we don't need to walk in the roads of ancient Greece and watch the flowers on the hillside in the same way we can do in Cities Skylines. That game is meant to walk in your own creation. In a Civ game you won't really beautify the area. Not that it wouldn't be nice but the goal and scale of the games are different.
So I'm not against nice and enjoyable graphics. I'm against better and better graphics that's porpoise is only to get you buy new hardware.
Nice graphics SELLS games but the inner content is what KEEPS them play over and over. New games are often like beautiful but stupid women: that look good but...
So nice graphics are good but better put the focus on inner values. Like, when wasn't AI an issue?
Someone above mentioned that the tweet had 7 exclamation marks.
One thing that the Civilization Franchise has largely lacked is a Robust Event System, so I'd love to see them look to games like Old World and Humankind, which both have fantastic Event Systems. That'd be great for RPG players like us.
Yes. I consider myself primarily a narrative player, regardless of genre, and I enjoy 4X games for the emergent narrative.
So, who's looking forward to the first raytraced 4X game?
(I'm not. No need to set my computer on fire for Civ. )
Seven exclamation points in the tweet.
Ah! Nice.
Civ4 had an event system. I can't say it was robust, but it was there
