PCGamer: Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finish a Civ campaign

[The_J]

PCGamer has today published an article called "Civilization 7 is officially 2025's Most Wanted PC game, and the creative director told us how he’s going to get you to finally finish a Civ campaign".
It seems, as obvious from the title, that Civ7 was voted the most wanted by the PC gaming show, beating a lot of contenders.
Ed Beach also explains again the reason for the different eras, as they are hoping that more people will finish now a whole game, enjoying all the interesting mechanics of Civ7.
For more info check the article here: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/civil...-to-get-you-to-finally-finish-a-civ-campaign/

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

For the announcement trailer, they went to a nice archive. The video here was filmed in a Civil War fort museum.

 

[SeelingCat]

I think the release trailer was shot at Johns Hopkins University, specifically

 

[pokiehl]

I think the release trailer was shot at Johns Hopkins University, specifically

You need a new title! “Civ Geolocator”

 

[Andrew Johnson [FXS]]

For the announcement trailer, they went to a nice archive. The video here was filmed in a Civil War fort museum.

1812! Ft. McHenry!

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

1812! Ft. McHenry!

That was my first thought, but the article said Civil War. Those guns were definitely for defense against ships and the admin building looked Federal style from the early-mid 1800s.

 

[Sephi]

has PCGamer been infiltrated by civ fanatics?

civ is #5 on steam wishlists currently.

https://steamdb.info/stats/mostwished/

 

[AriochIV]

Either Andrew Johnson is tiny, or Ed Beach is huge.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Forced perspective.

 

[Andrew Johnson [FXS]]

Either Andrew Johnson is tiny, or Ed Beach is huge.

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I am 5’8”. Ed is apparently 11’92”

 

[Andrew Johnson [FXS]]

That was my first thought, but the article said Civil War. Those guns were definitely for defense against ships and the admin building looked Federal style from the early-mid 1800s.

Oh! No they got that wrong. Although perhaps not terribly wrong - the fort WOULD have been operating in the Civil War. But it’s Ft. McHenry, of “the star spangled banner” fame.

 

[Quintillus]

You may run into an issue watching the video that accompanies the article - my browser's built-in tracking protection (in Firefox and Vivaldi) was preventing the video from loading until I disabled it, looking like this:

Unfortunately, the video also included a mid-roll add, at 4:00, right in the middle of the conclusion that Ed Beach had been leading up to throughout the video, about how Civ VII really dials in the "one more turn" aspect even in the later game, and that once fans try out the civ switching mechanic, they're really going to love it.

If you're also running intro tracking protection, or don't want a 30-second ad right in the middle of Ed Beach's sentence, you can instead watch the video at https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/tqyRp9xS, which is the the URL the video links to if you click the "Share Video" button and then ask for the "Link". Ed's delivery of the conclusion is much improved without that 30-second interruption!

That link also allows you to play the video in a background tab, should you want to re-listen to the audio while writing a CivFanatics post. But it's worth watching in video mode.

 

[Evolena]

Is that video this extract from the show?

 

[AriochIV]

Is that video this extract from the show?

It's the section at the end about Civilization, but not the whole thing.

 

[Evolena]

It's the section at the end about Civilization, but not the whole thing.

That's what I meant, the extract about Civilization from the timestamp I've selected.

 

[FXS_Ed]

Oh! No they got that wrong. Although perhaps not terribly wrong - the fort WOULD have been operating in the Civil War. But it’s Ft. McHenry, of “the star spangled banner” fame.

During the Civil War the Fort was used to house prisoners -- both Confederate soldiers and Union political dissidents. So it did operate then but I cringed as well when the article said "Civil War fort".

 

[AriochIV]

Those do look like Civil War era guns, so I can imagine being thrown off a bit by that.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Those do look like Civil War era guns, so I can imagine being thrown off a bit by that.

Like most of the coastal forts in existence as well as being built from 1840 to 1860, McHenry was re-armed with 'modern' guns, Rodmans and Dahlgrens and such, the classic Civil War-era American big guns.

The National Park service and other such agencies in the USA have not always been entirely meticulous in displaying military equipment or weapons appropriate to the sites where they are displayed. I remember an ex-National Park employee talking about the 'Civil War' battlefield he worked at which included weapons on display that dated from the 1890s to 1910 - a half-century off from what would have been accurate!