IDtenT
Menace to sobriety!
Behead all war gamers.
I was going to buy this game until i learned about the Slavic Federation. Fuck Firaxis.
This, a million times.I've said it before: there are scant few working in the industry today that have the intellectual capacity to make something equal to something like SMAC. It's obvious the people who made it read books and were passionate about actual technology, geography, geopolitics, etc, and that informed the game. Now we have people -and I'm talking about the industry in general- who are primarily informed by other video games, which is very limiting.
Less retarded? Nigga, please.Of all the things to not buy this game about you pick one of the less retarded factions?
Less retarded? Nigga, please.Of all the things to not buy this game about you pick one of the less retarded factions?
What the fuck, Firaxis. I wonder if Firaxis was ever good aside from SMAC and CivIV.
Since Civ 3 is the last Civ game I enjoyed unironically, that sounds about right.
What the fuck, Firaxis. I wonder if Firaxis was ever good aside from SMAC and CivIV.
Solomon actually talked about this is an interview. He was hired originally right out of college with no experience because Reynolds and a lot of other veterans had just left the company, basically leaving it with no staff. While Solomon is a great guy, he seems to be mostly alone in his opinions at Firaxis. Like most modern game development companies that share a name with something that created the classics, the employees actually working on games are all new people who had nothing to do with the old titles.
Trivia: As I recall in the interview, Solomon worked on Civ 3, and then it was a new generation of guys after that. Since Civ 3 is the last Civ game I enjoyed unironically, that sounds about right.
Since Civ 3 is the last Civ game I enjoyed unironically, that sounds about right.
Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of Civ 3.
IIRC, the manual for Civ 4 was a long winded apology for Civ 3.
It punishes warmongers too hard, you're basically forced to exploit the system and only declare joint wars. I think the AI is aggressive on higher difficulties, the AI seems a big threat on the Diety youtube videos I watch. And large states are ok on larger maps, it's one of the weird things about the game, civs are much better or worse depending on the map size and type.