Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
This is in the PAX Conference thread, but I feel it deserves its own thread. I'll give a quick sum up.
At the conference, they had a discussion about the attempt to include the Pueblo in Civ5: BNW. Apparently it would have been Popé as the leader and some attempts to include the Anasazi as well inside. They went so far as to have leader, unit, and unique improvement. However, when they tried to track down a voice actor, they ran into some difficulty from the Pueblo Council, who took offense at the idea of their great cultural hero being in the game. They tried to explain how Civ5 has an educative function and how many people who didn't know about Popé could learn about him through the game. But, in the end, they decided to cut them out.
Now there's some ambiguity about whether the whole Civ got cut or just the leader. He specifically said "we had to cut a leader." However, they also talked about the wasted work for art and animation and how one roadblock was the voice actor, so I suspect they cut them entirely.
So what do you think? What would you have thought had they been included? Provided they could have found a speaker, did they make the right call cutting them? I personally would have loved to see them, but I appreciate that they're willing to be sensitive to the wishes of other cultures. I guess we'll have to mourn them as the civ that isn't to be.
At the conference, they had a discussion about the attempt to include the Pueblo in Civ5: BNW. Apparently it would have been Popé as the leader and some attempts to include the Anasazi as well inside. They went so far as to have leader, unit, and unique improvement. However, when they tried to track down a voice actor, they ran into some difficulty from the Pueblo Council, who took offense at the idea of their great cultural hero being in the game. They tried to explain how Civ5 has an educative function and how many people who didn't know about Popé could learn about him through the game. But, in the end, they decided to cut them out.
Now there's some ambiguity about whether the whole Civ got cut or just the leader. He specifically said "we had to cut a leader." However, they also talked about the wasted work for art and animation and how one roadblock was the voice actor, so I suspect they cut them entirely.
So what do you think? What would you have thought had they been included? Provided they could have found a speaker, did they make the right call cutting them? I personally would have loved to see them, but I appreciate that they're willing to be sensitive to the wishes of other cultures. I guess we'll have to mourn them as the civ that isn't to be.