sillyness of the game

[mythmonster2]

the description for the hardest difficulty is: haha good luck sucker or something like that

Correction: MUAHAHAHAHA! Good luck sucker!

And I like the silliness! Maybe it has something to do with me being a 7th/8th grader but still! Who couldn't get a laugh when Gahndi pops up and says "I studied on killing you."!

 

[marciv]

I for one don't like Blizzard's graphics, except for Diablo II. Warcraft looks too cartoonish, and Starcraft 2 also seems to have a non-serious look to it. World Of Warcraft is way too cartoonish for me.

And I don't like comic books or comic book art.

So basically I don't want my games to feature that sort of art. Especially Civilization. Civilization to me is the complete opposite of a "cartoonish" game, or should be. It used to be, but lost it's way with Civ IV. Cartoonish works for games like The Sims, Worms, etc. But for games like Civilization you need as realistic (or "serious") graphics and art as you can get.

Personally, totally realistic sound effects are a bit more important than totally realistic graphics, because realistic sound is much easier to achieve (in fact totally realistic graphics are still impossible) and thus the sound can enhance the semi-realistic graphics and still give you that illusion of total realism. Hope that makes sense!


Imagine Rome: Total War or Medieval 2: Total War with cartoonish graphics. You'd completely lose immersion in the game, or at least I would. Those two games aren't totally realistic, but they do a good enough job steering towards the serious and away from the cartoonish, plus the addition of realistic sound effects, that the total effect is successful, realistic, and immersive. Why can't Civ do the same? Or the real question: Why did they choose for Civ to not do the same?



Yep. Sometimes I just feel like two floating eyeballs and a grinning mouth, with a blue feather headdress and neckband. Really. It usually happens when I'm dehydrated.

I like to play chess with a Staunton Pattern set, even better with the original two tier Staunton pattern (can't remember the correct term, been playing Civ too long) However, I have played Chess with a Micky Mouse set and also with a Snow White and the seven dwarfs set. Neither of these are very satisfactory but under all that external flora and forna lays the game of chess. The rules are the same, the objective is to dominate the board and throttle the enemy, this applies to Civ 4. Having said that, I tend to agree, I am still trying to come to terms with the present graphics, they are growing on me a little. The fact is no matter what they do with the presentation, it is still Civ and I'll keep coming back for more!

 

[Holycannoli]

I like to play chess with a Staunton Pattern set, even better with the original two tier Staunton pattern (can't remember the correct term, been playing Civ too long) However, I have played Chess with a Micky Mouse set and also with a Snow White and the seven dwarfs set. Neither of these are very satisfactory but under all that external flora and forna lays the game of chess. The rules are the same, the objective is to dominate the board and throttle the enemy, this applies to Civ 4. Having said that, I tend to agree, I am still trying to come to terms with the present graphics, they are growing on me a little. The fact is no matter what they do with the presentation, it is still Civ and I'll keep coming back for more!

Yeah ultimately it's still Civ, but unlike the chess example, "atmosphere" plays a big part of the game, and graphics, dialogue etc are all responsible for it. In chess you can just use rocks from outside and a plaid cloth for a board and it's still the same game, but with Civ if you start messing with the style of the graphics and dialogue etc. you alter the atmosphere of the game.