Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread

[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.

[vindictivejudge@lemmy.world]

I wouldn't be surprised if the era system is partially to mitigate the late-game AI issues.

[ashtear@lemm.ee]

Had the same thought. Plus, according to some of these reviews, there's no information age units, so that gives them a possible fourth era to work with in upcoming DLC.