Recent content by Krajzen

Idk where are you from, but here in Eastern Europe we don't find this topic of "a ton of people dying right now" very entertaining, hence nobody sane from the region really wants to make a fun hobby game about "oh god for real hundreds of thousands of people are killed and wounded and millions...

Admittedly I am not a physicist, but I have never liked simulation theory for the same reason I don't like multiverse/alternate universe theory and its traction in popculture: an enormously gigantic claim, which would require a lot to even make it viable hypothesis, and doesn't actually explain...

Feelings are an anchor for storytelling. Make me emotionally attached to something in a video game, and I shall tell myself a story, if there is nothing else to work with; and for many people video games are richer this way. Apparently it works even for 4X strategy games, since the main...

I thought the inability to clear forests until the information age is baffling, but then the reviewer described how Knowledge, Education and Specialists are three entirely different things. So you can have the most educated city in the world but lack engineers, or be scientifically advanced but...

Separate war and peace themes. It's so jarring to have a joyful dancing tune in the middle of ww2. The endgame civs being divided between three ideologies like in civ5 (capitalism, communism and fascism), and said ideological divide naturally generating interesting endgame by breaking old...

Nobody knows anything, though I assume progress must be significant ;) I really hope for the announcement this spring and release this autumn - another year of delay would be miserable

Civ5 had super awesome idea with stark divide between three ideologies of Freedom, Order and Autocracy (which imo should be named Liberty, Egality, Fraternity instead - just look how based that sounds), which were obligatory choice and generated a lot of interesting endgame friction, activating...

I am partial to the "Social Media" technology which, when you look at its effects in the tech tree, it says it offers bonuses to happiness, stability, science and culture, and has an inspiring optimistic tech quote about global village, but actually after researching it introduces exponentially...

Sid Meier's Civilization has really nailed one thing which no other 4X competitor did, namely the Soul. It is damn easy to create a 4X game which feels to play like an Excel spreadsheet, or a board game, or "just" an OK game for a few evenings. It is much harder with this genre to evoke the...

I agree with everything you said. Every "end of history" is utterly arbitraly and for me kinda immersion breaking. I play those games to simulate an interesting alternate history, and build a powerful empire in them, not to race to the finish of some imaginary line. All notions of economic, or...

The only espionage system I have ever truly enjoyed in any strategy game I've ever played was in Civ5 - not in spite of but because the espionage here is abstracted and minimalised. Here spies are managed through a separate screen, they are not physical entities on the map - and that's great...

I kinda want to hear this now, eslecially accordion - based Civ soundtrack

Btw does anyone else think that "Eras & Allies" is amazingly lame title even for (almost certainly low quality) mobile game? It's just such bland, generic sack of wet noodles, not invoking any emotions whatsoever. It sounds lame even next to ten thousand derivative "Age of Something" video...

I honestly thought this is the announcement of yet another historical 4X game, called the 'Age of Abundance' :p

I'd just want to see proper 'statistics' panel with a lot of fun rankings and graphs... Civs ranked by area, income, production, all yields, yields to citizen ratio (so you can see their 'productivity'), citizens to land area ratio ('pop density'), yields to land area ratio... Size of military...