So. Civilization VI.

I’ve been studiously ignoring Civilization VI, because I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO ME WHEN I PLAY CIVS.  I lose entire days*.  But I’m hearing things. Dangerous things, like “they’ve refined this game down to pure gold.”  I’m gonna regret asking this, but… is this true?

*When I finally got the first Civilization I played it until it was time for bed, then I got up, covered a short shift at the supermarket job I was at, came back, played Civ, went to bed, got up, covered a short shift, came back, played Civ, went to bed, got up, covered a longer shift, went to lunch, then realized as I was looking at my remarkably trembling hands that this was the first hot meal that I had had in three days.

So. Yeah. It’s a game series that has had its hooks in me from the start.

10 thoughts on “So. Civilization VI.”

  1. Don’t look at me. I’m a Civ teetotaller.
    (I had much the same experience. I don’t want to diet that badly.)

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    I’m not quite as enamored with it as others. There’s not enough to produce in some sections of the game so that you’ll look at the production choices and think “there’s nothing to build.” Your city core has 4 things that can be built. You can build districts, the new feature in the game, but you have a limited number per city and, as the game progresses, the time needed to build them (and other projects) becomes insanely long as they construction time isn’t based on the number of districts in a city or even your civ, but the number built in the world. So build a new city and it’s 40 turns until the first district gets build, late game. (And districts can’t be bought with gold.) And the AI needs work. While it will spam out troops, it will often send out settlers and builders unescorted, even during wars.And it will think that if they have 20 warriors and you have 5 musketeers, then they dramatically overpower you due to number of troops and declare war. Hint- they don’t. And oh dear lord, the religious nations will spawn insane amounts of apostles and missionaries. I saw 20 of them in my territory at one point in one game. And of course, they immediately broke their “Don’t convert my cities” promise they gave me. And they need more Civs. The 16 or so feels limited, especially after Civ 5…
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    That being said, it’s been out a week and I have 60 hours in it, so, yeah, your concerns about time lost might be valid.

  3. I’m really looking for a good answer to that, too. I played the heck out of Civ 1 – Civ 4 (a friend came over the Friday after that one released and we literally spent all night playing a multi-player game) and the Civ 4 Colonization reboot. But Civ 5 felt kind of empty – pretty, but not a meaty as the previous games. I have been holding out on Civ 6, since I haven’t been able to find a good review.

    1. It’s foolish to buy a game fresh off the presses anymore. New releases are pretty much always Beta editions that they “fix-it-in-post.” They figure “nerds will complain anyway, so why pay QA more than we have to?”.
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      Sometimes it patches great after a week or two, if the release is mostly functional. Sometimes you get NoMan’sSky.

        1. Thanks to Twitch, I watched enough of other people playing Civ VI to convince that it wasn’t a complete trainwreck, like say MOO 3 was. And my complaints aren’t of the “don’t buy this” variety, they’re of the “the roast beef at this party with an open bar is a little dry” variety.
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          As for the “wait until it’s done”, if I wait six months, it might be 10-20% better. Or I can have a lesser, but not insignificant, amount of fun for six months. I’d rather do that.

  4. You slept? Civ 2-3 were my weaknesses. 4 was good but I didn’t have the time to dedicate to it. Will keep an eye on this one for the price to go down and expansions

  5. I’m biased, since I got to work on it, but even after months of daily play during development, I started a new game last evening and 6 hours later went to bed at 4 in the morning. It’s a good’n.

    1. So, you’re saying there’s going to be light posting for the next couple of days/week? 🙂

  6. Have played and liked 1-4. Spent a fair amount of time on them, and on other turn based 4x strategy games. But they don’t take over like Diablo 2.

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