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John Hurt narrates too!

Poppies :D

Ivory .. from walruses. Its not limited to elephants ;) Bears and seals though I believe would fall under the Fur resource that's already existed in Tundra, though they'd be nice to see on the map.

Yes I know, it would just be a useful UI element for new game mechanics they could build on top of that :D

Yes, but if they did some type of ethnic population tally like we had in some past Civ games, then I could easily see cities with high populations of the foreign civ revolt and join the other civ. Its been a long time since I played a civ game with culture flipping, but as I recall, didn't...

Yes, I agree with that, too, and it would further define a city's borders as delineating a kind of city state. I think they could build some gameplay around it too. So, in Civ 5 you could make puppet states. But what if you could incorporate city states into your empire that were...

Nah I like a lot of academic painting.. :) But I agree with you that Civ as a game doesn't have to match history even if you're taking a serious approach, since the whole concept is to mix up history. I think though the best approach is to pick well known people who you can imagine as the...

Its hard to make the case either way with paintings by 19th century Europeans that wanted exotic depictions of Ancient Egypt :) From what I've read, displays of nudity among the upper class did become fashionable in the Amarna Period, but that's an outlier from the rest of Egyptian history. And...

They will all perish in the flames of Ra, once his eye has gazed across the land and lit the world afire.

Because of conscious stylistic choices the designers have confirmed like exaggerating proportions of units that were also present in CivRev, and because the style of the Civ4 map was still naturalistic even if crude. Maybe people who think it looks inspired by CivRev aren't engaged in a...

Per the OP, my view on leaders is that they should pick leaders that are iconic and represent the spirit of the Civ. Where there are women, they should include them, and we've had women leaderheads since the first Civ games. If they can find a woman leader for every Civ, that fit that criteria...

You could have used a depiction of Caesar meeting Cleopatra, Anyway, putting aside some doubts I have that Cleopatra would go out in the public like that (nakedness was a sign of poverty in Ancient Egypt), if you wanted to go for a kind of historical naturalism and show some nudity that would...

Just in terms of saturation, and even then, CivRev2 is more saturated. Stylistically, CivRev is a departure.

Right, they wouldn't be able to pull off a photorealistic look well, so its not done. But photorealism is not what anyone is talking about. Realism doesn't mean photorealism. Also, obviously, the units can't be life size; everything in the game is representation, so that's also another way its...

There are a lot of places where you both state something which is arguable, and which people have different opinions on, as fact, and also where you generalize about people who disagree. I'm not trying to turn anything around on you; it's just true. Whether realism suits Civilization has...