Civilization 7 Announcement and Teaser Trailer

[Laurana Kanan]

Screenshots #1

Spoiler :

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The music gave a feeling of Christopher Tin, I think. Or at least otherwise very suitable.



I expect the same here

Sounds like we have to wait for August

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

It does say a 2K account is required this time around.

I don't mind this at all, but I know people get veeery tetchy about such things. Its dangerously close to "always online" and other nonsense that ruins single player games.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Screenshots #2

Spoiler :

 

[Civinator]

The teaser has a symbol that looks like a head, partly formed by hextiles with the text CIV:

 

[Krajzen]

Need help with the quotes:

"Study the past if you wou'd define the future" - Confucius

"All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"... let us all for death prepare, Or on the last great journey fare." - Valmiki (The Ramayana)

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter." - Homer (The Iliad)

"Each of us shall endure this world's life, until the end." - ???

"Your names shall not be lost. So it shall be!" - ???

Not sure if the last two are part of the same one.

It is really annoying how the last two also sound like famous quote or a verse from religious tome, but I can't pinpoint them. Especially the term "world's life", I have heard it somewhere...

I tried finding it in Quran, because as you can see we have a lovely non - eurocentric selection of quotes from India, China, Greece and the US, so I attempted to fill the gaps

EDIT
I asked Copilot AI to find me the origin of the phrase "world's life" and it answered

Spoiler :

The phrase “world’s life” doesn’t appear to be a well-known or widely recognized expression. However, if you’re interested in related topics, you might explore life expectancy. Over the past two centuries, global life expectancy has doubled, thanks to advances in medicine, public health, and living standards.

Gee thanks it helped me so much

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

The teaser has a symbol that looks like a head, partly formed by hextiles with the text CIV:

View attachment 693381

This has been in use for a while now, even before the annoucement.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

It is really annoying how the last two also sound like famous quote or a verse from religious tome, but I can't pinpoint them. Especially the term "world's life", I have heard it somewhere...

I tried finding it in Quran, because as you can see we have a lovely non - eurocentric selection of quotes from India, China, Greece and the US, so I attempted to fill the gaps

EDIT
I asked Copilot AI to find me the origin of the phrase "world's life" and it answered

Spoiler :

The phrase “world’s life” doesn’t appear to be a well-known or widely recognized expression. However, if you’re interested in related topics, you might explore life expectancy. Over the past two centuries, global life expectancy has doubled, thanks to advances in medicine, public health, and living standards.

Gee thanks it helped me so much

The "your names shall not be lost" doesn't seem to be a quote from anywhere, just some line the writing room came up with and added at the end.

The "each of us must endure this life" I think should be from somewhere, it doesn't sound like something you would come up with to hype up a game, it comes across more somberly than the rest

 

[Krajzen]

Need help with the quotes:

"Study the past if you wou'd define the future" - Confucius

"All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"... let us all for death prepare, Or on the last great journey fare." - Valmiki (The Ramayana)

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter." - Homer (The Iliad)

"Each of us shall endure this world's life, until the end." - ???

"Your names shall not be lost. So it shall be!" - ???

Not sure if the last two are part of the same one.

In my previous post I have laughed at Copilot AI's stupid answer regarding world's life, but then to my shock when I asked AI about the second quote...

Spoiler :

And here is how they extolled the memory of their fathers, whom they had left there in the place of sacrifice at the ball-court: "You shall be invoked," their sons said to them, when they fortified their heart. "You shall be the first to arise, and you shall be the first to be worshipped by the sons of the noblemen, by the civilized vassals. Your names shall not be lost. So it shall be!" they told their fathers and thus consoled themselves. "We are the avengers of your death, of the pains and sorrows which they caused you."
PART II, Chapter 14, Popol Vuh

For the first time in Civ history, AI has helped us in our tinfoil tasks

EDIT
Added the source https://earth-history.com/America/popvuh-2-14.htm

 

[AntSou]

@Krajzen awesome stuff!

So that's only this bit missing:

"Each of us shall endure this world’s life, until the end."

Which ChatGPT insists is from the bible, but I think it's tripping.

 

[The_J]

In my previous post I have laughed at Copilot AI's stupid answer regarding world's life, but then to my shock when I asked AI about the second quote...

Spoiler :

View attachment 693383

And here is how they extolled the memory of their fathers, whom they had left there in the place of sacrifice at the ball-court: "You shall be invoked," their sons said to them, when they fortified their heart. "You shall be the first to arise, and you shall be the first to be worshipped by the sons of the noblemen, by the civilized vassals. Your names shall not be lost. So it shall be!" they told their fathers and thus consoled themselves. "We are the avengers of your death, of the pains and sorrows which they caused you."
PART II, Chapter 14, Popol Vuh


For the first time in Civ history, AI has helped us in our tinfoil tasks

I cannot find this online...

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Ha, totally missed this - 7 appears in the animated logo.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

I cannot find this online...

Popol Vuh 2 Chapter 14

Earth's ancient history from the earliest times untill 1000 BC, Gods of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia,, Nibiru

earth-history.com

Website last modified in 2011 before AI was a thing. Quote is there. Book translated in 1950.

All I ever find of the other quote is Bible Matthew verse but it is very not like what was used.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I cannot find this online...

Neither can I. Very impressive hallucination from the AI, if hallucination it is

 

[AntSou]

I cannot find this online...

Here:

Popol Vuh 2 Chapter 14

Earth's ancient history from the earliest times untill 1000 BC, Gods of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia,, Nibiru

earth-history.com

edit: I wasn't even ninja'ed, I'm just blind

 

[Nikolai II]

@Krajzen awesome stuff!

So that's only this bit missing:

"Each of us shall endure this world’s life, until the end."

Which ChatGPT insists is from the bible, but I think it's tripping.

That's Matthew.

 

[AntSou]

That's Matthew.

Yeah, that's what it says, but it doesn't read like it nor is the meaning similar, which would make it too different from the other verses.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

THe problem with the Matthew Verse quote is that when I google it, I don't get the exact phrasing "Each of us shall endure this world's life until the end."

I get variants, such as "But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

So it seems to be similiar, but not precise.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

That's Matthew.

Doesn't seem to be so, I thought of an alternative translation, but the meaning is still different

 

[canadamufc]

One the topic of design choices I’ll just say I really hope Civ VI’s Fog of War returns in some form. One of the game’s visual highlights in my opinion.