Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

[glimse@lemmy.world]

Individual Steam reviews may be trash but the average rating is valuable and usually pretty reliable. The biggest downside of the system is that it isn't quick to "respond" to updates but the separate "Recent" rating helps a lot.

The point you're responding to is that C:S 2 was praised by reviewers at launch despite it having TONS of issues and missing features. The Steam ratings were a way more accurate picture of the game.

[lud@lemm.ee]

They won't. For some reason you are only allowed to like a single civ game and you must hate every sequent game.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

You can read into individual reviews rather than just looking at the aggregate. Plenty pointed out its problems.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

I don't know which sites you think are getting paid for good reviews (this is a persistent myth), but find one or two that you trust.

[essteeyou@lemmy.world]

Reviews like these are paid advertising.

[glimse@lemmy.world]

You can use both

[mubelotix@jlai.lu]

It's kinda broken because you have to use the same build but 99% of the time they are not synced across platforms

[dinckelman@lemmy.world]

No one's said anything about hating it. For me, it's primarily a co-op game, and if they're not going to switch to it, it's better for me to save the cash, and put it towards something else

[cheesenoodle@lemmy.world]

Is it more understandable can civ 6? I'm a fan of goddamn stellaris and could competently play civ 5 but civ 6 is like being beaten half to death with a textbook on quantumn physics and then told to sit an exam. The tutorial prepares you for the game about as much as a stick of chewing gum prepares you for the beating.

[lud@lemm.ee]

I was just making a joke about civ fans always dislike every civ game except their favorite.

[mox@lemmy.sdf.org]

Civ V had mediocre-to-bad gameplay on release, but was transformed into something good by the Brave New World DLC. I have read that Civ VI was similarly improved (although perhaps with a bit less success) by way of DLC.

Judging by the initial reviews of this one, it looks like a pattern is developing. I guess I'll once again wait a few years until the "fix" DLC has been out for a while, and buy the combo pack on sale.

Unless they use Denuvo or some other anti-customer nonsense that I won't support.

[nyctre@lemmy.world]

Which part was confusing? The only major difference iirc was the districts mechanic, wasn't it? Was that the issue?

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

Why'd they pay for bad ones?

[fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I detested civ 6 on launch. I bought the dlc when it was cheap but idk if I’ll ever like that game. Hopefully 7 is good, but I’m definitely gonna wait until I read all of the reviews.

[konraddo@lemmy.world]

Seriously, don't buy the game at launch. Wait till the GOTY edition because many features that we had in the past will be packaged as expansions.

[outlierblue@lemmy.ca]

I do this for a lot of games, but definitely for the Civ games. I play one generation behind because I can get the entire package for a reasonable price. And let's be honest, I have shitloads of other games to play in the meantime. I'm not missing anything.

[essteeyou@lemmy.world]

When Civ VIII rolls around they won't send review copies to anyone who gave bad reviews last time.

[ampersandrew@lemmy.world]

That's not paid advertising. And review scores only tend to slide by a couple of points in aggregate after everyone else gets their review in.

[ashtear@lemm.ee]

Just like they wouldn't the last time...and the time before that...and the time before that...

It's not a thing at outlets like these. Paid promo from influencers and independent reviews are not the same thing.

[ashtear@lemm.ee]

Civ7 does indeed use Denuvo. Concerning for a game like this with far more CPU usage than your typical game.

For me, Civ6 at launch felt like a couple steps forward and a couple steps back. I really appreciated the increased transparency with diplomacy, but the AI was aggressively bad in mid and late-game, something they never ended up getting right.