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Galactic Civilizations IV Review in Progress
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"Kevin "Xevrin" is an avid gamer having started playing video games on an Apple III with the Wizardry Series and Questron before the age of 10."
Didn't even get to the end of what he wrote...Box Ticked: PASS.
Going to ask about how much easier this game is than the last, always an issue, but after what happened to the last Civ I really focus on that aspect now.
I read things like this with mixed feelings. The Apple III came out in 1980. By that time, I had been a net programmer and chip designer for 5 years already.
Just for fun, in 1980, a 300mb disk cost $15,000 and was the size of a washing machine. 3 of those makes 1 gig. My home PC has 3 terabytes, so 3,000 washing machines at the cost of $45 MILLION dollars.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
well at least it's a turn based game, micro managing become a real problem in an RTS type game
Scorchien got banned? What'd he do?
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I tried on micro managing on huge scale stellaris, it's a pain after a while I just give it to sector AI, the AI is pretty dumb, but when the empire gets very large, even if the AI is dumb, it manage to take off some of the burden. Future 4x games should implement something sector AI. Distant world 2 also comes to mind where all the trade income is fully automated, too bad it crashed the game when the empire gets too large.
You get similar issues when having an unfamiliar person review FPS games. Often it's "too hard", or "not enough exploration". These are things that indicate your expectations are not in line with what defines the genre.
I think this person is a good writer. I just don't think they should be writing reviews for genres they aren't familiar with playing regularly. Imagine if I drink beer regularly, but casually have a glass of wine or 2 once in a while and tried to offer an in-depth review and comparison on a specific wine. It just... won't work.
You obviously haven't heard of TikTok or YouTube. People are making millions on those platforms talking about things they have no familiarity with.
However it is fair to say that a better perspective would be had if any subsequent previews were made by someone who was steeped in the genre. That's a lot of hassle though, at least two staffers now have to play the game, so I am not sure that's viable.
All good points. For me, I take any single review with a grain of salt. The more reviews I read from a single individual, the more I begin to trust what they have to say. Over time you get a feel for their likes and dislikes and how those align with my own personal preference. Then, even when they are reviewing a game that isn't normally in their wheelhouse, I am aware of that and know that what they are writing comes from that perspective. I also know if they hand out 8s and 9s like candy or give everything 6s and 7s because nothing is ever good enough, just like I would gamers that I personally know.