mangadrive
Chieftain
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- Aug 22, 2007
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Civ has worked on consoles in the past. Snes version of Civ1 was pretty horrible if you had ever tried the PC version, and the Civ2 for PSX really wasnt that bad at all, but wasnt as fluid as the PC version. I played it a great deal when I moved for a new job and had to save for a PC. After that Civ3 surfaced and I forgot about console gaming for a while.
This version though seems like its gunna be stripped down. Kinda like the direction that last Railroad's game went. While its really fun, its just not quite the math-centric game the prior Railroad games were and took a week just to wrap your head around. In this day and age a direct port of Civ4 to a console machine would probably be a bigger risk than its worth. All it would take is for players of something like CnC3 for the 360 to load this up and expect to charge into war and realize thier stack just got crushed by one archer. They would'nt give it much more time than that I belive. These concepts just don't appeal to this generation of gaming. I would go out on a limb and not to sound stereotypical, that a large majority of the Civ fan base was those that experienced it in previous versions and is probably old enough to say they owned a 386 PC or at least an older windows machine that ran Civ2. While they have picked fans up along the years, its always the vets that have inspired the game to shift in different directions. BTS is pretty much a huge example of that.
Consoles have just shifted far away from a really deep strategical situation and its left to PCs. Look at the Wii for instance. Its not even something a serious gamer would be intrested in for single player experiences aside from a few franchise titles here and there. Its built for 'party gaming' so asking the customer base of that machine to wiegh the options of mankind with 15,000 varibles isnt gunna fly over that well unless you take it completly out of context and make it as fun and interactive as a Mario game. Most of the xbox 360 base is marketed around Halo3 alone as well as frantic action multiplayer games on thier Live service. Even CnC3 made the leap and turned a reasonably deep wargame into a 15-20 minute tank rush and was ported directly to the 360 and its even being further enhanced for the 360 in an upcoming expansion pack. While its a strat game, its just not Civ. If M$ would have thought complex strategy games would be an overwealming success, then we would have seen more direct ports of stuff like Rise of Nations. Hell they even stripped out Mechwarrior
This version though seems like its gunna be stripped down. Kinda like the direction that last Railroad's game went. While its really fun, its just not quite the math-centric game the prior Railroad games were and took a week just to wrap your head around. In this day and age a direct port of Civ4 to a console machine would probably be a bigger risk than its worth. All it would take is for players of something like CnC3 for the 360 to load this up and expect to charge into war and realize thier stack just got crushed by one archer. They would'nt give it much more time than that I belive. These concepts just don't appeal to this generation of gaming. I would go out on a limb and not to sound stereotypical, that a large majority of the Civ fan base was those that experienced it in previous versions and is probably old enough to say they owned a 386 PC or at least an older windows machine that ran Civ2. While they have picked fans up along the years, its always the vets that have inspired the game to shift in different directions. BTS is pretty much a huge example of that.
Consoles have just shifted far away from a really deep strategical situation and its left to PCs. Look at the Wii for instance. Its not even something a serious gamer would be intrested in for single player experiences aside from a few franchise titles here and there. Its built for 'party gaming' so asking the customer base of that machine to wiegh the options of mankind with 15,000 varibles isnt gunna fly over that well unless you take it completly out of context and make it as fun and interactive as a Mario game. Most of the xbox 360 base is marketed around Halo3 alone as well as frantic action multiplayer games on thier Live service. Even CnC3 made the leap and turned a reasonably deep wargame into a 15-20 minute tank rush and was ported directly to the 360 and its even being further enhanced for the 360 in an upcoming expansion pack. While its a strat game, its just not Civ. If M$ would have thought complex strategy games would be an overwealming success, then we would have seen more direct ports of stuff like Rise of Nations. Hell they even stripped out Mechwarrior
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