Recent content by Aussie_Lurker

The more I see about how Ages work, the more I feel we need a fourth and final age-one that incorporates the late 20th century into the entirety of the 21st century.

Given the Modern Age incorporates the Industrial Era (i.e. 18th to 19th century) that isn't entirely unreasonable. Though I am a little concerned about how these pre-Modern Era civilizations will be represented in the latter parts of the Modern Age (the Atomic and Information Eras).

Its worth noting that it took multiple iterations for Sid Meier's team to get the Civilization formula truly locked down (things like a proper resource system and truly unique civilizations wasn't even a thing until Civilization III). Its disappointing to me how we don't seem willing to give...

I'm pretty sure that Saxy Gamer or Potato McWhisky had access to Pantheons in the Ancient Era portion of the game they played, which does imply that religion is in the base game. Plus, given the massive backlash they got with the removal of religion in Civilization V's base game, I think its...

So as a palette cleanser for the Denuvo debate in another thread. I just wanted to discuss some things that I *hope* makes their way back into Civilization VII that were in previous titles. 1. In Civilization IV, there was a clear distinction between State Religion and Non-State religion, and...

They are the ones that charged full price for the massively inferior GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition-and took the cheaper, superior version out of the online store to force people to purchase the downgrade. They are the publisher that are behind the near full-price port (not update, remaster or...

Oh FFS. Seriously, the sooner Firaxis breaks ties with 2K and either self-publishes or at least move to a more consumer-friendly publisher, the better for everyone.

I already removed the game from my Steam Wishlist. Hopefully if they see a sudden drop in Wish-listing of the game after this announcement, perhaps it will force a change. To be fair to Firaxis, I feel certain this move is coming from 2K....one of the crappier publishers currently out there...

Those are all completely fair critiques of how Humankind implemented the systems poorly, but Civ VII seems to be doing it correctly.

For one I have actually really enjoyed my playthroughs of Humankind.....in spite of its flaws. To me its major issue was that too many people tried to declare it a "Civ-killer", which it clearly wasn't, and this set some people's expectations way too high. I wasn't expecting it to be a...

Sorry, I should have been more clear in what I said there. Whether it is retaining your whole Civilization from Age to Age (as you could choose to do in Humankind-a game I love despite its issues), or merely retaining the outward trappings as you mention, they definitely need to give the players...

...and to be frank, they're pretty minor things at that. 1) Whilst I support their Ages-based approach to gameplay, I do hope that they consider subdividing the Ages into Eras on the Tech and Civic trees, as they were in previous iterations of the franchise. So the Antiquity Age would be...

The one thing that made Religion more fun in Civ4 than in Civ6 was that it was a much bigger factor in your society pre-Renaissance. The "conflict" between State & Non-State religions, both internally and externally, was actually fun to manage. In all other areas, though, Civ4 religion is...

Technically, that is what Independent Cities (Rise and Fall) was meant to portray, but the mechanic is a bit under-developed IMHO. It's yet another area I hope they improve on and deepen in Civ7.

The seven exclamation points seem to suggest Civ 7. Either way, I suspect we'll know for certain after March 15th.