I was a fan of the civ series for years. Started with civ2 on the playstation, moved on to civ3, then to civ4. I finally turned civ4 on again for the first time since 2017. In that time, I've figured out what I like and don't. I hate games where you put a huge amount of effort into something only to have it all blow up in your face in the end. I also hate rng. I thought this was a strategy game, but playing it I now realize its mainly an rng game.
Playing several games over the past several days, I start off doing well for the longest time, only for victory to be torn away from me in the end. This game, I was trying for a space race victory. I was doing well, ended up isolated on a continent with two weak civs that posed no threat to me (i was able to isolate them on a tiny peninsula). When I got to building the apollo program though, suddenly out of nowhere a civ from another continent I had barely any interaction with declared war on me and took one of my cities. I had neglected defense for pretty much the entire game, so my cities were still being guarded by archers. I gave up at that point, because at the rate he was moving, there was no way I could get an army up in time to stop him before he overran my entire empire. I was hoping that even if I failed to achieve the space race victory, I would still win from having the highest score.
I admit, that one was my fault, but I wasn't expecting a civ who had NOTHING AGAINST ME suddenly coming to my continent and attacking me. I've had more bs things happen to over the past few days. Isabella's been a major thorn in my side for just about every game. First game, I had the top score, then she out of the blue declared war on me and took my best cities. I got them back, but they were permanently neutered due to the border now preventing them from using half their tiles. I never did recover. Every war with isabella only pushed my score further and further down. Then when I finally manage to turn the tide against her, and was able to deal the final blow and get my revenge, she became a vassal state to some stupid civ. Since I wasn't at war with them, THE THING DECLARED PEACE WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND TELEPORETED MY ARMY TO OVER 20 TILES AWAY DUE TO HER bullfeathers BORDER. The only way to fix my cities was to take out that one city, and now I couldn't do so without provoking an empire over twice my size. That was another game I gave it, and it was my third try btw.
The only good game I've had over the past few days is when I turned the difficulty back down to warlord. The game became a joke, so I set it back to noble. I clearly can't handle noble, and warlord is an utter joke.
This 'game' has been nothing but a source of rage and frustration. I'm not enjoying it, I'm at the mercy of fudging random numbers. Why should I even keep playing this game? I liked it when I suffered the delusion that it was a strategy game, but now I know better and that in reality I have no control over anything. RNG is liking flipping a coin and saying you win on a heads, what's the fun in that? RNG games are just a glorified coin flip, nothing more.
Should I give this game another chance after all I've gone through? I was hoping years ago to work my way up to the highest difficulty, because I got sick of only playing the lowest ones. I clearly can't do it, because my luck is too bullfeathers (I have no idea how I'm even still alive to be honest). Someone like me can't play an rng when your luck is complete garbage. And yes, luck is real, its more obvious than anything in the universe, you're a straight denialist if you think luck isn't real. Tangent aside, clearly this game isn't for unlucky fudgs like me.
Playing several games over the past several days, I start off doing well for the longest time, only for victory to be torn away from me in the end. This game, I was trying for a space race victory. I was doing well, ended up isolated on a continent with two weak civs that posed no threat to me (i was able to isolate them on a tiny peninsula). When I got to building the apollo program though, suddenly out of nowhere a civ from another continent I had barely any interaction with declared war on me and took one of my cities. I had neglected defense for pretty much the entire game, so my cities were still being guarded by archers. I gave up at that point, because at the rate he was moving, there was no way I could get an army up in time to stop him before he overran my entire empire. I was hoping that even if I failed to achieve the space race victory, I would still win from having the highest score.
I admit, that one was my fault, but I wasn't expecting a civ who had NOTHING AGAINST ME suddenly coming to my continent and attacking me. I've had more bs things happen to over the past few days. Isabella's been a major thorn in my side for just about every game. First game, I had the top score, then she out of the blue declared war on me and took my best cities. I got them back, but they were permanently neutered due to the border now preventing them from using half their tiles. I never did recover. Every war with isabella only pushed my score further and further down. Then when I finally manage to turn the tide against her, and was able to deal the final blow and get my revenge, she became a vassal state to some stupid civ. Since I wasn't at war with them, THE THING DECLARED PEACE WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND TELEPORETED MY ARMY TO OVER 20 TILES AWAY DUE TO HER bullfeathers BORDER. The only way to fix my cities was to take out that one city, and now I couldn't do so without provoking an empire over twice my size. That was another game I gave it, and it was my third try btw.
The only good game I've had over the past few days is when I turned the difficulty back down to warlord. The game became a joke, so I set it back to noble. I clearly can't handle noble, and warlord is an utter joke.
This 'game' has been nothing but a source of rage and frustration. I'm not enjoying it, I'm at the mercy of fudging random numbers. Why should I even keep playing this game? I liked it when I suffered the delusion that it was a strategy game, but now I know better and that in reality I have no control over anything. RNG is liking flipping a coin and saying you win on a heads, what's the fun in that? RNG games are just a glorified coin flip, nothing more.
Should I give this game another chance after all I've gone through? I was hoping years ago to work my way up to the highest difficulty, because I got sick of only playing the lowest ones. I clearly can't do it, because my luck is too bullfeathers (I have no idea how I'm even still alive to be honest). Someone like me can't play an rng when your luck is complete garbage. And yes, luck is real, its more obvious than anything in the universe, you're a straight denialist if you think luck isn't real. Tangent aside, clearly this game isn't for unlucky fudgs like me.