Nice summation, Magwill.
I don't get why everyone assumes only kids play consoles. I'm 25 and I'm not a moron, I can't wait for Civ Rev and I play a 360. I'm excited for Civ Rev because I'll be able to play games against people without it taking forever, and after a while, Civ IV just takes way too long to control ALL your units. It gets boring and doesn't make for a good multiplayer game. Civ Rev is supposed to improve that, which makes it more desirable to me. I enjoy the strategy and micromanaging, and I expect there to be plenty of that in it, but the game has to reduce the amount of time it takes to manage all your units if it wants to expand to a larger audience.
While the tone of the OP was over the top, he was not wrong. Everything I have read about this game (despite the denials here) screams that it is a dumbed down Civ for the ADD crowd. It is to Civ what checkers is to chess (and that may be overly generous). I can't imagine why anyone who loves the Civ series on PC would want to play it; I sure don't (and I do have a PS3 and do some gaming on it, although it was primarily bought and used as a Blu-ray player). I can't blame Firaxis for going where the money is, but I don't have to like its implications for PC gaming, which is slowly dying.
I don't get why removing micromanagement is considered by so many to be 'dumbed down' civ...who seriously enjoys micromanagement? and if you do, then why are you playing Civ instead of Master of Orion 3? if that's the criteria, then civ is a 'dumbed down' version of MOO3, thanks to the miles less micromanagement needed.
need for speed is brilliant, well at least hot pursuit 2, i loved that game, dam i wish i could play it right now, maybe carbon will be alright.
Playin' console kinda insinuates that the game doesn't have to be very advanced to be entertaining for you. But hey, you're a Mercan so I respect your choice. Don't let homeland security kick my bum, OK?SO us console gamers are lazy 13 year olds? huh!? . Better hope we never meet on the street or i''ll knock somthin hard into ya.
Playin' console kinda insinuates that the game doesn't have to be very advanced to be entertaining for you. But hey, you're a Mercan so I respect your choice. Don't let homeland security kick my bum, OK?
I noticed on other forums gamers complained about having to install DMC4 on PS3 HDD so most console gamers like everything to be very simple.Yeah I don't see how consoles implies the game is less advanced. Because you don't need a keyboard to play it? What if the controller can do everything that the keyboard can?