What does OT think of CIV VI?

[Timsup2nothin]

So in other words, you'll never buy it

Could be. Note that they did eventually come out with a DRM free Civ IV...which is when I bought that.

 

[shadowplay]

I wish they would stick to actual city-states like Singapore and Monaco. Toronto as a city-state is so damn stupid.

 

[Kozmos]

Ran through a single game, not entirely impressed. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't think there are enough good or meaningful changes from Civ V. Even the space victory cinematic felt flat somehow. The only thing I like are nuke silos being actual improvements on the map you can launch from, but that is such a trivial thing in the grand scheme of things. Everything else, the pace, the nonthreatening AI, the way leader agendas make their cross interactions schizophrenic...my recommendation is wait for the two expansions.

The game desperately needs a governor AI or a way to build commonly used build order templates for the late game. The tedium of managing minor cities you capture really puts me off. With the way the franchise is headed, I think Civ 4 will remain their crowning achievement.

 

[Snerk]

I'm currently on the fence. But at some point I'll pick it up for sure. And probably sooner rather than later, because the game looks pretty good.

I'm still annoyed that I missed a one day sale a couple of weeks ago where it was half off at a regional electronic store branch.

 

[Akka]

This is, ostensibly, a site built around the video game series aptly called Civilization, but the OT has been, over the years, a sort of motley crew of people who often formerly call themselves Civilization players. Given that I only stray to the other segments of the site for the purposes of finding mods, I am curious, with CIV VI's release today, if any of the OLD STOGIES here are playing it; and if so what, specifically, the collection of OT posters thinks about the game.

I have extremely low interest in Civ6, considering it's a follow-up of Civ5, which more or less destroyed my interest in the future of the franchise. I'm still playing Civ4 from time to time though.

For starters; going from CIV V -->> CIV VI is way, way more radical a change than IV --> V. I have had to turn my advisor on. There are way more new mechanics and ideas this time around. V you could pretty much hop in and know 95% of the game from playing IV. I didn't even worry about advisor/tips in V.

I'm going to make a blind claim and say that's because Civ5 was dumbed down as hell, not because Civ6 is actually much more different from 5 than the latter was from 4.

I will certainly not buy a game with DRM. I like my games to work even decades after they were released, if I ever want to play them again.

Civ V was only sold attached to Steam, I passed. If VI is also, their loss.

Ditto. I only ever buy from GOG nowaday, and I never let Steam approach my computer.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I am a little overwhelmed by Civ VI. I feel like a dog looking at wristwatch. I can see it is doing something. I know it is trying to tell me something, I just don't exactly know what.

 

[Kyriakos]

(wrong thread )

 

[Cheetah]

After Civ4 I went to EU4. Never looked back.

Civ simply doesn't do it for me anymore.

 

[luiz]

For nostalgia's sake I hope it's a good game and a great success, but I won't buy it. Nowadays I can only play any given video game for 20 minutes or so before getting bored to death, so Civ is a no-go.

It seems almost surreal that I once had the time and patience to not only play but make quite a few scenarios for Civ 2 and 3.

 

[Ajidica]

Definitely going to buy it, but because I'm not shelling out $60 for a game, I'm waiting for the Steam Winter sale. Plus, getting a few patches out won't hurt.
I wasn't that impressed with Civ5, I think in part because I played it the day it was released and Civ5 had some very strange mechanics and interactions - such as the empire happiness, research being its own yield, one unit per tile, and civics being immutable once chosen- and it didn't feel that coherent to me. (Especially when compared to how slick and streamlined Civ4's economy was.) From what I've seen Civ6 fixes a lot of the issues Civ5 had.

 

[Kyriakos]

While i am not going to play civ VI (don't play computer games for some years now...), i might try to make a unit or other graphic for it -- but i doubt that as well

 

[warpus]

I just looked and I see there is no Poland in the game. Which is what I expected, but for whatever reason I never really got into Civ V until they made Poland a civ. I bought Civ V originally maybe a couple months after it came out and played it a couple times and meh. Then they made Poland a civ, I gave her a go, and next thing you know I'm enjoying the franchise again and playing as a random civ every game on a semi-regular basis.

Might have had something to do with all the updates that happened when I wasn't playing, other new content, etc. But either way, like I said in my post earlier, I'm in no rush to try Civ VI, I'll just get it later for cheaper, and this whole no-Poland thing is confirming my suspicions that for now that is the right decision.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, isn't Poland one of the starting version civs in CiVi?

 

[Snerk]

No Poland yet.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Definitely going to buy it, but because I'm not shelling out $60 for a game, I'm waiting for the Steam Winter sale. Plus, getting a few patches out won't hurt.

Winter 2017

 

[Ajidica]

Winter 2017

I don't think so. Fallout 4 got a decent sale during the 2015 winter sale.
Plus, it is less the sale and more my lazy relatives giving me a $20 for Christmas rather than buying an actual gift; so I feel flush with cash. (I'm not complaining about the cash, mind you. Just their laziness.)

 

[Kyriakos]

No Poland yet.

But it is even in the trailer...

Is it DLC?

 

[Lohrenswald]

I don't think so. Fallout 4 got a decent sale during the 2015 winter sale.

I plan on not buying it unless it's 75 % off

steam sales are kinda terrible since they make publishers have to increase base price (although civ probably is an excemption from this because of its popularity)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I think it does not have enough good mods yet to warrant paying any money for it. Vanilla versions of Civ can never compare to something like FfH2 or my modmod thereof. If someone ports FfH for Civ VI, then buying the game would be interesting.

I did buy Civ V when it was fairly new, but I never really got into it and so deleted it within a couple months.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Really confused at how quickly AI turns on you. Had almost 50 positive relationship points with Egypt, no negatives, open borders, and alliance, and tons of trade deals. Same with Arabia. Then the turn after they accept embassies of mine they declare war. Weird. I guess they really hated the building. Either that or their hidden agenda is literally more powerful than centuries of friendship and alliance. This is the 2nd time this match I've had allies who I had max positive relationship instantly turn and declare war on me. Oh well rip them.