Bad Quotes

[zatarra09]

When you finally research a technology CiV comes up with a quick quip, which , is supposed to be associated with the technology you just researched.
The problem I see in Civ V is that the quotes often dont seem to match up, or seem just randomly pasted google searches. Civ 4's quotes were much better.

 

[Dralix]

That and too many bible quotes. A bible quote for lasers? Really?

Although I have grown to enjoy Morgan Sheppard's performance.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Yeah, I like the voiceover work a lot.

Maybe one of the problems is that they're trying to find new quotes for each iteration of Civ. Many of the good ones have been used?

 

[TheDice]

Yeah, I like the voiceover work a lot.

Maybe one of the problems is that they're trying to find new quotes for each iteration of Civ. Many of the good ones have been used?

It's gotta be this. Some of them are so cumbersome as well. More like paragraphs than a snappy little quote. The Civ4 tech quotes are seared into my memory forever. These quotes, not so much.

 

[The_J]

That and too many bible quotes. A bible quote for lasers? Really?

I shortly looked through the quotes...i think that example is even a nice one. It's a nice contradiction. Rather this way around than having biblical quotes for religious technologies (okay, there are no examples for that in Civ5, but in Civ4).

 

[Zyxpsilon]

The past is Over! -- GW Bush.
Hilarious!
And expeditively appropriate for Future Tech_S.

 

[lietkynes]

Quotes in Civ5 are good, nothing to complain.
The best voice-over on technology still remain those from Alpha Centauri, epic stuff.

 

[cccv]

There are a few I don't like, the one that comes to mind now is "thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." Maybe it's because I haven't seen it in context so I'm missing out on some metaphor, but that looks like one of the most boring bible quotes ever, which would be a hell of an accomplishment. I do hope it actually is supposed to be some sort of metaphor, because I'm lost as to why God would give a crap when we do or do not muzzle oxen >.>

Oh, and it gets on my nerves a LOT for some reason when I hear "A HORSE!" I'm never quick enough to click it away before having to hear that part of it and it makes me wish anyone else on the planet had narrated the quotes just so I wouldn't have to hear Sheppard's take on that one line.

 

[Zechnophobe]

When you finally research a technology CiV comes up with a quick quip, which , is supposed to be associated with the technology you just researched.
The problem I see in Civ V is that the quotes often dont seem to match up, or seem just randomly pasted google searches. Civ 4's quotes were much better.

I thought this too actually, but I don't think I've brought it up anywhere. It seems like they just didn't pick as well this time. Let's face it, the civ 4 gems were a lot of the most quotable things to be said on a wide variety of topics.

But it also seems like the group who had to go and find these quotes this time just didn't know the topic as well.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Oh, and it gets on my nerves a LOT for some reason when I hear "A HORSE!" I'm never quick enough to click it away before having to hear that part of it and it makes me wish anyone else on the planet had narrated the quotes just so I wouldn't have to hear Sheppard's take on that one line.

On the other side of it the Chichen Itza quote sends chills down my spine.

 

[bryanw1995]

I actually like the "armor of light" quote. Nimoy was a great voice actor, but I like the current guy a lot as well.

 

[Dralix]

On the other side of it the Chichen Itza quote sends chills down my spine.

If Chichen Itza wasn't a desirable wonder, I might build it anyway just to hear it. I absolutely love it.