Well, it's okay that the Fall from Heaven team isn't working on the mod anymore; we have the Wild Mana modmod of Fall from Heaven which is a HUGE improvement from the original FFH.
On the case of guns: For me, the musketeer/rifleman era is a bit boring, but the modern era, where once again units and support units come into play, is awesome. Also, with Civ5's tactical combat, the gun era should be much more fun - like a sexy Panzer General.
Speaking of sexy: oh my god these graphics make me fangasm.
It's not just that the musketeers and riflemen are boring; they're ugly, loud and obnoxious. The gun, the tank, bombers, and so forth, are all personifications of modern war and how ugly and honorless war is. Perhaps men don't feel this way about it, but to me, a gun is an ugly disgusting thing, and bombs are beyond my words for explaining how deplorable they are. I dislike playing games where the main attraction is big explosions and scoping out your enemies to shoot them. I don't even like being in the room when someone is playing one of those horribly graphic games.
I love the game engine for Civilization, and like I said, I enjoy it right up until I get guns. Hence, I love fantasy mods. It's clearly a FANTASY when I'm throwing fireballs at succubus to kill them. When I'm using tanks to invade an enemy civilization, that doesn't feel like fantasy. That's a reenactment of many of the things horribly wrong with the world.
But honestly, the moral thing really is only about 20% of my issue with it. 50% is how annoying, loud and painful the sounds guns and bombs make. The sound effects ruin enjoyable game music, and give me a headache. The other 30% is that guns are just plain ugly. Swords have a sort of beauty to them, and watching someone of skill wield one is enjoyable. The sort of clothing the samurai wore is much more pleasing to the eye then modern-day military clothing. In general I find uniforms quite displeasing. I find extremely high detail graphics pointless when what they depict is something unattractive.
Being a bi-sexual woman,
I love playing games where there are lots of beautiful women dressing in intricate fantasy clothing.
So to me, Civilization is best when you can play a race like the Svartalfar; a tree-hugging race that builds pretty-looking upgrades to the terrain (instead of the usual eye-sores), and where all of the units look like sexy chicks (including scouts and warriors and mages)!
Now THAT is fun.
PS: Also, you have me to mod.
I'm an artist, and writer and my husband is a programmer. We're plotting on making a modmodmod for Wild Mana.
That looks good. I was questioning on whether CIV V would be worth getting.... I may change my mind towards getting.
