Leader animations - What do ya really want?

[eireksten]

let's say you don't care about who's running in your local elections. do you still go to the voting booths and just leave your ballot blank or do you just not bother with it?

I would actually go there and vote blank, but that's obviously beside the point as few does.

In a public vote, you know how many potential voters there were, and you can somewhat assume that all/most of them are aware of the vote. Here, you can't. You simply don't know how many "blanks" you have.

 

[_random_]

I would like to see the clothes and background change to fit the history of the nation, not a Eurocentric idea, like how in Civ 3 the Chinese and Korean leaders wore European Renaissance clothing in the medieval period. The problem I think is the people at Civ do not spend a lot of time researching the history of cultures outside of the US and Western Europe, so it might not turn out well.

I think a really cool idea would be to have the leaders change through the eras. But I really don't think that will happen.

Around 4:11 in the trailer, you can see what appears to be Elizabeth in Victorian dress. It could be a fluke, but it seems like a good sign.

 

[mjs0]

Around 4:11 in the trailer, you can see what appears to be Elizabeth in Victorian dress. It could be a fluke, but it seems like a good sign.

I'm pretty sure that was Catherine.

 

[_random_]

I'm pretty sure that was Catherine.

Oh. I never could get some of the leaders to load properly, so I kind of assumed. My bad.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Who's to say we can't just mod them in?

I already thought of that myself.

However, for Civ4 it already would have been a huge load of work and a difficult task not many could manage. So it did not happen.

For Civ5 it would be even more challenging.

The only hope I see is that the announced bigger modifiability also applies on those animations so it would be easier to get it done.

 

[Darkshadows]

Since this thread is about leaders ill ask this here:

What language does Montezuma speak?

 

[imperiex1]

I would like to see the clothes and background change to fit the history of the nation, not a Eurocentric idea, like how in Civ 3 the Chinese and Korean leaders wore European Renaissance clothing in the medieval period. The problem I think is the people at Civ do not spend a lot of time researching the history of cultures outside of the US and Western Europe, so it might not turn out well.

I think a really cool idea would be to have the leaders change through the eras. But I really don't think that will happen.

Very true. However, during the Enlightenment and especially the Industrial and Modern eras, people everywhere, around the world, became gradually more westernized. But I agree that this transition should be more gradual and more historically accurate. Firaxis is indeed not researching how and when clothing styles changed in other countries.

 

[Ikael]

I would love a return of updating clothes trought the eras, a la Civ 3. The thing that I love about civilization is the ability to re write history, to see how civs would have involved if such and such thing would have changed (Germany with no Hitler, Roman empire existing nowadays, etc). The clothes changing with the eras was a really cool thing to watch, I loved, loved futuristic Babylon.

 

[Shurdus]

Hmmm. Overall I liked the bit static leaderheads in BtS because they just worked. They were small, they carried over the emotions very well and they barely needed any time to load. I am fine with animated leaders, but I would greatly prefer any system where diplomacy is smooth and does not slow down the game, be it by being a drag gameplay or system-resource wise.

 

[astrognash]

Since this thread is about leaders ill ask this here:

What language does Montezuma speak?

Aztec.

 

[Takeda]

Since this thread is about leaders ill ask this here:

What language does Montezuma speak?

I saw a video of the animated Montezuma and I'm pretty sure they had him speaking Nahuatl. Not sure if that's super accurate or not, but it's close enough if it's not.


PS. There is no language called "Aztec"

 

[astrognash]

There is also no such language as Indian, as far as I know, and yet that's what I've heard Hindi called.