Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[Roderick]

this kind of games should probably be made in nice looking 2d

 

[Morgoth]

this kind of games should probably be made in nice looking 2d

No point in doing this since 3D art has already reached, even exceeded, fidelity of 2D art.

 

[Spectacle]

this kind of games should probably be made in nice looking 2d

No point in doing this since 3D art has already reached, even exceeded, fidelity of 2D art.

2D art seems to have a lot more room for artistic expression though, unlike 3D art that either looks more or less the same, or relies on gimmicky filters to look different.

 

[Morgoth]

3D art provides gameplay functionality that 2D art does not. Besides, most artists in these days are being trained and paid to create 3D art. 2D art pipelines are time (money) costly and a pain in the ass, at least with current middleware engines.

 

[Spectacle]

Cheap and functional vs unique and beautiful, hardly a new dilemma.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

3D art provides gameplay functionality that 2D art does not.

It's obviously true, too bad modern games basically never use it.

 

[DeepOcean]

Screenshots from PC gamer review

Spoiler

They hired a civ 5 modder to make this game?

 

[Morgoth]

I think the landscapes and colour use looks beautiful, but the low-poly and toon-like vehicle models stand out really badly.

 

[Kem0sabe]

That looks like shit.

 

[oscar]

I'd shrink the unit sizes down and add more per hex. They disrupt and dominate the terrain too much. As it stands the Pandora units look better.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

Related: How is Pandora: First contact?

 

[oscar]

I did a review of it.

 

[Tytus]

I did a review of it.

Aaah, shameless self-promotion so tasty. But I did read the review it's quite informative, thanks. Though I would disagree with one point that CK2 discourages you from being a warmonger. With the most recent expansions where you can create a standing army, borrow a lot of money from the jews and then expell them. You can basically have a large independent army from your vassals. That prevents them from forming factions (or rather pushing faction claims) and also keeps them happy because you aren't using that much of their levies. On top of that if you have a neighbour with different religion they your own and a standing army it's basically a field day. War after war, after war, after war.

 

[Space Satan]

Floatstone - natural resource that is linked(???) to Purity Affinity.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

wtf is this shit?
so any chance for a vague realism has been thrown out of the window already.

 

[Ashery]

wtf is this shit?
so any chance for a vague realism has been thrown out of the window already.

But...but it's a stone! That floats!

 

[Spectacle]

Floatstone - natural resource that is linked(???) to Purity Affinity.

What the hell? What we've seen until now has been relatively serious if not exactly hard SF, but then they go and add magical floating rocks? I can accept sci-fantasy if it's well done, but the magic bits better be central to the plot/setting and not just random bullshit thrown in for the hell of it!

My interest in this game has dropped by 68%.

 

[tuluse]

It's pretty clear they're inspired by copying James Cameron's Avatar.

Two billion dollars don't lie.

 

[Zeriel]

"Floatstone" is pretty bad. It's not the idea that's unbelievable, but the utterly sophmorific take on it. It floats, it's a stone, floatstone!

Unobtainium indeed.

 

[Tytus]

Floatstone - natural resource that is linked(???) to Purity Affinity.

WHAT THE FUCK. Are we gonna have blue cat-elves riding dragons too? Ehhh. Shame on you.

 

[Shadenuat]

More reason to go Purity and arm your troops with big robots with chainsaws on their arms.

I'm waiting for this game, I wanted at least something resembling SMAC forever. Even if I know that C:BY will probably be full of friendly looking shiny buttons that do nothing or do the same thing.

Upgrades and quests sound interesting as RPG element and so, maybe armies will be smaller and bloated hexes would not matter as in CIV5...

 

[Johannes]

I'm waiting for this game, I wanted at least something resembling SMAC forever. Even if I know that C:BY will probably be full of friendly looking shiny buttons that do nothing or do the same thing.

That Pandora game covers that already, no? It might not be very good (going by hearsay) but then this will probably be worse.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Floatstone is kind of a dumbass name, sure, but there are plenty of dumb naming conventions in science, especially when every other name has been used up. I mean, there's a fish called a "Flabby whalefish", because...uhhh, who the fuck knows? There's a subspecies called "Hairyfish", because it looks like it has hairs. We have names like Anteater, Sloth, Soapstone/Limestone/Mudstone, etc. So humans land on this planet and see a rock that floats, they call it "Floatstone", and we should be surprised because....?

And as something weirdly sci-fi on an alien world, I would think a naturally floating rock of some kind fits the bill.

Really, there are better things to whine about.

 

[oscar]

I'm more confused as thematically it seems to have nothing to do with the in-game concept of the Purity doctrine.

 

[Space Satan]

I'm more confused as thematically it seems to have nothing to do with the in-game concept of the Purity doctrine.

They said Purity favors huge and massive units with lots of firepower and their most favorite weapon is giant floating platforms with giant guns.