So,
As of lately I have gotten tired of achievement hunting in BE, and have reverted to playing CIV V. When taking breaks from playing, I started randomly browsing around steam looking at 4X strategy games.
So, I notice that CIV BE has a 52% on STEAM, and PANDORA has a 70%. I would say this is a significantly higher score, wouldn't you? This really shocked me, that a Dev team formed from 2009, managed to beat firaxis at making a futuristic CiV game, and release the game 11 months before Beyond Earth as well. ( I am aware, they may have started the development earlier) One would think that Firaxis would have seen the good and bad this game had and perhaps planned on making a better game.
Anyways, I haven't played this game and I probably won't since I personally think CIV BERT will fix enough of the current game to be better than this PANDORA game.(Unless maybe it goes on 90% sale somewhere, which is doubtful after the summer sale)
That being said, I do believe this game must have done some things right to merit a score that is quite a bit higher than CIV BE.
Additional Support:
Current Metacritic User score BE: 5.5 (Release Date: Oct 24th 2014)
Current Metacritic User score Pandora: 7.4 (Release Date: Nov 13th, 2013)
I don't go by Metacritic: critic scores, although BE's score is 81, whereas Pandora is 68. I think BE got an easy pass since it's a Sid Meier title.
I ask this here, because my guess is, that all of you here at civfanatics, are big fans of this genre, and have most likely played the game and can enlighten us on where this game has done better/worse, and maybe how BERT or future CIVBE expansions/DLC's/Patches can do better.
I also hope that firaxis heeds what you have to say, and maybe this helps them see different options on how to fix this game.
P.S: These forums are fairly dead as of late, hopefully this will spark some discussion. Hey DanQ, if this thread blows up, mention on Polycast please!
Sources:
Proxy Studios: http://www.proxy-studios.com/
Pandora First Contact Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/287580/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1
Pandora Metacritic Page: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/pandora-first-contact
Civ BE Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/65980/
BE Metacritic Page: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth
As of lately I have gotten tired of achievement hunting in BE, and have reverted to playing CIV V. When taking breaks from playing, I started randomly browsing around steam looking at 4X strategy games.
So, I notice that CIV BE has a 52% on STEAM, and PANDORA has a 70%. I would say this is a significantly higher score, wouldn't you? This really shocked me, that a Dev team formed from 2009, managed to beat firaxis at making a futuristic CiV game, and release the game 11 months before Beyond Earth as well. ( I am aware, they may have started the development earlier) One would think that Firaxis would have seen the good and bad this game had and perhaps planned on making a better game.
Anyways, I haven't played this game and I probably won't since I personally think CIV BERT will fix enough of the current game to be better than this PANDORA game.(Unless maybe it goes on 90% sale somewhere, which is doubtful after the summer sale)
That being said, I do believe this game must have done some things right to merit a score that is quite a bit higher than CIV BE.
Additional Support:
Current Metacritic User score BE: 5.5 (Release Date: Oct 24th 2014)
Current Metacritic User score Pandora: 7.4 (Release Date: Nov 13th, 2013)
I don't go by Metacritic: critic scores, although BE's score is 81, whereas Pandora is 68. I think BE got an easy pass since it's a Sid Meier title.
I ask this here, because my guess is, that all of you here at civfanatics, are big fans of this genre, and have most likely played the game and can enlighten us on where this game has done better/worse, and maybe how BERT or future CIVBE expansions/DLC's/Patches can do better.
I also hope that firaxis heeds what you have to say, and maybe this helps them see different options on how to fix this game.
P.S: These forums are fairly dead as of late, hopefully this will spark some discussion. Hey DanQ, if this thread blows up, mention on Polycast please!
Sources:
Proxy Studios: http://www.proxy-studios.com/
Pandora First Contact Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/287580/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1
Pandora Metacritic Page: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/pandora-first-contact
Civ BE Steam Page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/65980/
BE Metacritic Page: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth