Hi,
Always read but never post user here. Kinda crazy how things went on with this LP and Civ6, not sure about the aftertaste though. Part of me wants a LP2 (smaller, half the content size) but geez seems like 2K 'setup' Firaxis to failure here (and Aspyr also imploded part of it), even using a secondary team of devs, and we are talking about a freaking 30y old franchise. I don't think it's unreasonable to us to think that Ed and whomever was behind the LP needed to work with this while working on Midnight Suns and its dlcs.
What I like about the LP are some models, animations (Nzinga, Lincoln, Nader, Wu Zetian, Yongle and Sejong) and also spoken lines. I really, really appreciate how spoken lines make all difference imho on leader immersion. I also liked the abilities and, strangely, how being 'handcapped' on coding made some of them seem like will be used effectively by AI bc they are direct (with a few exceptions maybe). Wouldn't be surprise if the new leaders ranks among best AI benchmarks. I never thought I would really want personas, but after this LP I think there's still room to play a bit with it (hence my wishes of a smaller LP2). Personally, I really like Civ6 Agenda system (even though it's very formulaic) and how the new Agendas kinda went full circle with some of them (JC and Qin, Ramses countering Kupe, etc.).
What I don't like is how they (2K) went on ad the franchise's Anniversary just to constrain (at least, it looks like) the team and let them fall short of some things. Some very visible things. On a freaking 30y old well established franchise! What about that neck piece (not sure the name) from Ramses which someone here rightly said it appeared like an asset placeholder? There's a couple of leaders that uses very similar pieces and it's shocking the asset quality difference (and not bc artistically wasn't good, just not enough polish). Literally on the guy that's on the cover of the LP while Nzinga, Abe and Bess (not as much as Nzinga and Abe) received more polish attention. What about size, animation, appearence of some leaders on the meeting screen, their icons and some other garment assets (looking at your armors Harald and Qin) looking clearly rushy? Someone posted on YT all leaders screenings and sometimes it hits hard even when the transition is from NFP leaders to LP ones (fun good side one: love how Yongle, Sejong and Kublai outfits are different enough but with a belt that ties them all).
It also makes me sad to think that I am locked with an outdated and buggy version of the game on consoles (not only without new content, but without the fixes too) bc... I don't know, apparently Aspyr sold more Civ copies on iOS and Mac than on PS/Xbox/Switch but I guess will never know why the apparently arbitrary choice. Very disregardful (even in a business meaning/context) whomever that leads Aspyr.
But that's it,
Thank you Ed, Carl, Andrew and the whole team, behind the game and all dlcs. Thank you for the extra ideas from LP. Dope ride, great time!
See you next turn