Kimuyama
Prince
I found Prince Buster in the game files, made me pleasantly surprised
Playing as the Shoshone, my first Great Work was "I Am A Cat" by Natsume Sōseki. I have read an English translation of "I Am A Cat", and the idea of prosperous, urbanized Shoshones having some of the atttributes of Japanese society during the Meiji Period was fun to contemplate.
The tech tree weirdnesses have been discussed to death already, but let's go one more time...
- gatling guns without gunpowder (rapid fire slingshot?)
- fighter planes without combustion engines (giant rubber band planes?)
- Internet without computers (some supercool telephone network, maybe?)
And my favorite from Civs 1-3
- alphabet before writing (...what are you using them for anyway?)
EDIT: Also, submarines can be constructed before combustion or steam engines... although there have been some attempts, historically, to produce subs with other power sources like plain old muscle power.
The tech tree weirdnesses have been discussed to death already, but let's go one more time...
- gatling guns without gunpowder (rapid fire slingshot?)
- fighter planes without combustion engines (giant rubber band planes?)
- Internet without computers (some supercool telephone network, maybe?)
And my favorite from Civs 1-3
- alphabet before writing (...what are you using them for anyway?)
Why in that case aren't they able to use the majority of popular songs? Most of those rap artists aren't sampling Beethoven. I find the Great Works of Music a particular letdown - given how many of the best-known classical works were by a small number of artists, each of whom has one work each, you get a small number of snatches of genuinely "Great Music" and a whole lot of stuff that they seem to have put in because it's too obscure to copyright, which is pretty much at the other end of the scale. Not to mention how weird it is for a Civ game of all things - which has had him as an advisor, Great Musician and entertainer specialist before now - not to have Elvis Presley.
Copyright isn't valid for more than about 50 years in most territories anyway, is it? It should be no bar to people like Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, even the earliest Ray Charles.
Playing as the Shoshone, my first Great Work was "I Am A Cat" by Natsume Sōseki. I have read an English translation of "I Am A Cat", and the idea of prosperous, urbanized Shoshones having some of the atttributes of Japanese society during the Meiji Period was fun to contemplate.
I had my Polish society's first two Great Writings be Genji Monogatari and I Am a Cat
Apparently my Poles were Japanophiles.
The day I get a Great Musician Justin Beiber appear, I'll know Civ as a game is dead.
Currency without Writing is somewhat odd, though not actually paradoxical, given that writing likely first emerged to keep ledgers of transactions.
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Now that I'm on the topic, I just realized: I've not seen the Mona Lisa in the game. Is it just that I've not seen it yet, or did they go with some other Da Vinci?
'In most territories'
Ay, there's the rub. For you see, Disney's aggressive pursuit of copyright protection means that American copyrights last 'the number of years since Mickey Mouse was created +7' years. It's a serious problem that's locked down the creative domain in America and is very frustrating for new creators.
In my first game as the Shoshone, I built the Parthenon and the great work that came with it was Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends. That is more of a general chronological anachronism, but it is still one that got me as being ridiculously on the nose.
In my first game as the Shoshone, I built the Parthenon and the great work that came with it was Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends. That is more of a general chronological anachronism, but it is still one that got me as being ridiculously on the nose.
In another anachronism, the first great work of music I got was "Electric Counterpoint III Fast" in the Renaissance. As I learned later due to interest in the song, this is anachronistic not just because of the need of Electricity due to the electric guitars (maybe Radio also represents moves forward in music technology that would allow electric guitars), but because the song was from an album was called "Different Trains" and had an interesting story behind it with a necessary technology being Railroad. Also, since the different circumstances were inspired by the rise of fascism in Europe, one could say that Industrialization is also necessary for the ideologies to be present.