Civ Remastered

[Kurtbob]

I updated the poll. Added SMAC, Civ5 BE, and a none option. The poll allows you to change your vote and you can vote for more than one item.

Since it came out in April, I have been enjoying Oblivion Remastered. For those unaware, Bethesda remastered (upped the graphics and made only slight tweaks to gameplay) to its fourth itinerary in its Elder Scrolls series, which originally came out in 2006. I have been amazed at how much I am enjoying replaying a game I had played to death 20 years ago. This isn't a new thing (Capcom keeps bringing out remastered/reimagined versions of Resident Evil for instance), but I just only now realized how much I would love to play a remastered version of Civ IV (also a game I played to death 20 years ago), with minor to no updates to gameplay, but made to look like Civ VII (you can't deny that the game is gorgeous) AND that works on a 64 bit Windows system (no more RAM crashes!). Playing a remastered version of Civ 2 (more than seven civs!) would also be cool

So, if you could choose to have one (or more!) previous itinerary of Civ remastered with Civ VII graphics and with minor updates to gameplay, which one(s) would you choose?

 

[SammyKhalifa]

It's impossible but the correct answer is SMAC

 

[Kurtbob]

I very nearly almost added both SMAC and Civ 5 Beyond Earth, but felt their sci fi vibes didn't fit.

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[CaesarCS]

My favorite Civ is III, but I think a remaster of four would be the best to remaster.

 

[kotpeter]

I need the option "None, please work on NEW games instead".

 

[Siddorm]

I have developed a mindset that instinctively distrusts new games. I start thinking: Is this thing going to use psychological tricks to try to get me to spend money on microtransactions or DLC? Does it have an obnoxious EULA? Is it going to harvest and/or sell my data? Is it underdeveloped; will it be developed into something quite different?

 

[Xur]

It's like your favourite football team that won everything back in the 90s and 00s, but they lost everything the last 10 years. They fired some people, but the coach is still the same and there's no hint that anything is changing. We reminisce about happier times, but we still expect the failing team to capture what was good years back. That time is over and isn't coming back. I don't think a strategy game like civ can compare to RPGs when it comes to remasters. It was never about the graphics to begin with.

Fact is that strategy games typically get larger, more complex and better each year. Firaxis' games get smaller and simpler. I dont want 1990/2010 quality in a 2025 packaging - I want bleeding edge quality if the game costs +100€.

Having said that, I would prefer civ5 in a 64-bit engine, so the crashes on giant maps were solved. I dont care about graphics that much - just want 64bit.

 

[Pfeffersack]

SMAC.

For Civ4 (which I see as culmination point of the very old civ style), I personally already find my "(re)master" in Old World regularly Yeah, it doesn't cover the whole time span...but if the AI regularly beats you in the ancient times, it is somehow less of a need to have the option to continue a game

That leaves Civ6 for me as vote. Despite all the flaws it has...they don't seem to be impossible to fix. And content-wise, it is a monster. So there is that part in me that wants to see it polished...with a much better AI, balancing and a ton of bug fixes.

 

[VGT]

Voted for 4 - simply favorite. Although I don't feel the need to get remaster. For me graphics is not that important in strategy games and I feel it's still fully playable for me. Only issue with it is (if I did my research correctly in the past) memory leak happening with every opening of city screen which slows game down over time, but restart solves it, and it's old enough game for restart to be quick.

And I would also be a bit worried, that remaster would bring things I wouldn't want, like some modern monetization.

 

[NickTheGreek!]

If there is going to be a remaster, i would like CIV 4. Stacks of doom in 4K yay

 

[Siptah]

SMAC would be the best one.
If we really need a remaster of a mainline civ game, civ 2 is the best option imho.

 

[Gedemon]

if it's one game, then civ4, no hesitation.

but what I'd like better is a global civilization remaster taking the best of previous iterations.

 

[stealth_nsk]

I don't think I'd play any remaster other than SMAC. Graphics since Civ3 is fine to me and Civ1 and Civ2 have only nostalgic value.

 

[reddishrecue]

Civ 4 definitely.

 

[ColtSeavers]

Civ 4 (with some adjustments of the SoD, like only a allowing a certain maximum number of units per tile), and then Civ 5.

 

[King Flevance]

Civ 4 here again. Plus, Colonization. Both of these games would look really great with a graphics update and it would be nice to do some very minor touch ups, like stack limits. I would absolutely love the leader graphics to be more akin to Civ 7 then Civ 4's.

I considered voting for 2 and 3 but the graphics are now integrated into my enjoyment through nostalgia in those games. Updating the graphics would make the game lose something for me.

 

[Leucarum]

Honestly none, it's not like the older games need to be remastered to still be good.

SMAC though... I'd buy that remaster in a heartbeat.

 

[Kev1916]

It's impossible but the correct answer is SMAC

For me also, and again probably not possible but unless all the various mods ie RfE, Ashes Dune Etc etc etc were also re-mastered for Civ IV then sure
and Civ II: Fantastic Worlds would certainly be considered

 

[itix]

I'd like to try Civ IV, but it looks so unappealing that I probably wont get it without remastering.

 

[GrayingGamer]

After playing Civ 5 with Vox Populi and the community patch and concluding that it's the best Civ experience I've ever had, I definitely think that product should just get more work, whether official or unofficial. Additional optimization to take advantage of modern systems, additional tweaks and improvements to AI, fixes for some of the annoying bugs that persist to this day, and a few small additional features that were added in later Civs that were just solid iterative improvements would all be greatly appreciated.