Sid Meier's Civilization VI announced!

The art from the Steam page looks kinda of mobile gamey, but the support unit embedding sounds interesting.

 

everyone was expecting this
i was expecting this

but seeing the graphics ? not anymore
these look like a port from civ rev

guess i will stick with civ5 until the re-mature the graphics again

 

i cant wait .. i've been a civ junkie since civ 3

 

Yay.... oh.

It sounds like a Civilisation 5.1 from the screenshots and description. Incremental twiddling rather than revisiting the design the way they used to each time.

Not keep on 1upt. Civ V's the only Civ that I've found to be just a bit too dull and dreary to finish games I've started.

Curious that the box art recalls Civ III's style and colour palette (rather reminiscent of their use of the Tower of Babel painting)

 

Yes! Finally! About time!

That trailer is one the best I've ever seen. Really, really well done. I like the positive vibe - there's so much negativity in media and politics, it takes a game trailer to remind us that we're actually doing pretty well overall as a species.

I also love the in-game graphics. I understand that some will compare it to f2p mobile rubbish because of the cartoonish style, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Cartoon graphics tend to be clearer and less cluttered than pseudo-realistic graphics, so that's cool!

 

Well that all sounded great, especially expanding upon the unit system (I've kind of dislike a lot of Civ games because of how gamey they are, especially for combat, and am tired of the unit system as it has been done)... but god damn those screenshots look TERRIBLE. I am quite honestly disgusted by the unit designs, WTF are those? They look directly out of some sort of crappy mobile or facebook game.

Assuming they don't screw the pooch entirely, I'll be waiting for the Complete edition anyway.

 

Everything is better with Sean Bean. So I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

Oh no again "one unit per tile", Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword is the best !

 

Posting in a hot new board.

Man it seems like I only just upgraded from 4 to 5. Interested to see where 6 heads regardless.

 

It looks like they redidsome of the engine, changed stuff that would have been moddable in civ 4 and are packaging it as a new game.
I liked civ IV cottages so probably the new 'tiles around the city' thingy is not that new but is nice too.
What I'm really interested in is whether they changed anything related to government/civics,city states, and how the ai will be handling diplomacy. That and razing cities...

 

So basically a quick cash grabs that's a year late.

 

Cautiously optimistic, though I still don't like the one unit per tile design choice. I didn't like it in Civ V because I felt like I was winning by simply jumping around the AI, rather than winning by building a large production base and seizing the initiative.

The graphics...do look a little cartoony/mobiley. In itself its not a problem, so long as the gameplay doesn't also resemble a mobile game.

 

Meh.
I always was insanely excited by a new Civ announcement, but Civ5 and BtE just killed it and my confidence in Firaxis to hold up the flame.
With the continuation of this terrible 1upt concept, the weird mobile-game-like graphics and the seemingly continuation of Civ5 general design, let's say it does nothing to pump my blood.

Guess I'll stick with Civ4 still.

 

Brilliant novelty! Outside building would change the game process a little bit with other features. One thing is very bad - we can forget for the second expansion to the sci-fi Beyond Earth.

 

The graphics are so enormously ugly that the game-design and also the gameplay would need to be far superior for me to be interested in that game.

The trailer is very emotional and well thought out for the first half, but the all works of mankind imo. shouldn't be ascribed to men, women or mankind, there's someone else standing behind them .

 

I absolutely adore the graphics in Civ 5, along with the gameplay obviously. Realistic oceans, beautiful mountains, etc, made the game so immersive. I was so pleased the developers had moved away from the cartoony Civ 4 graphics. It made the game so much more enjoyable. When I found out Civ 6 was coming I hastily pre-ordered it, expecting the graphics to be even more impressive than Civ 5. My heart sunk when I saw those screenshots tonight. It seems a massive step backwards to me, and I have to agree with the poster who said the final artwork won't differ a lot from these initial screenshots. My own fault for being too impatient and ordering it without waiting for information.

 

Civ was practically the only game I played since Civ 1. But I stopped being happy after Civ 4's BTS. And this early CIv VI looks more like an expansion for Civ V's expansion. How very disappointing

 

Funny, I suggested the "combining two units together" feature to form a more powerful unit when Civ 5 was released.
I guess someone listened.

Regrading the cartoony graphics - I am horrified.
I can't stand cartoony graphics and I certainly won't pay $60 for a cartoony game.

When I saw the announcement today I was excited and was ready to pre-purchase Civ 6, but then I saw the cartoony screen shots and the excitement was completely gone.

It is obvious they plan to release the same game for mobiles and tablets.
Very well then, I may buy it for my tablet for $5 or $10 instead of buying it for my PC for $60.
Or maybe I will just go back to play Civ 4 which in my opinion looks better than Civ 6.
I am still having fun playing Civ 5 by the way.

 

I don't mind cartoony graphics . They're simpler to run, age well, and often, are less buggy than ultra realistic graphics .