Wow Civ 7 sucks

[Legend]

They ruined the game!!!

You can't even play full games anymore. Instead it's split into 3 mini games. Plus a whole bunch of other issues.


No wonder it's flopping. 6 was a step down from 5 imo, but it was still a civ game.

[Legend]

52% rating on steam, 80k peak players.

80 on metacritic lol but when you compare that to the 88 and 90 of the past two games, even journalists understand that it's a huge downgrade.




I don't understand who at these studios pushes changes like this. The fun of civilization and similar games is that they replicate the feeling of real life yet are not real life. It's a fantasy version of running your own civilization.

Yet devs keep messing it up by simultaneously removing the fantasy and making it less realistic. They push to make it more structured and rigid as if it's just a from scratch board game that uses civilizations as set dressing.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm a firm believer that a lot of devs must feel they need to make large changes to strongly differentiate sequels. 

And sometimes it really doesn't work. 

[Legend]

I'm a firm believer that a lot of devs must feel they need to make large changes to strongly differentiate sequels.

And sometimes it really doesn't work.

Yeah. Civ 7 sure needed to do something new. It's just really weird imo that this is the direction they went.

My ideal Civ 7 would have overhauled a lot of systems but kept the bigger picture untouched. Like it's so weird that they turned it from a first person game into a third person game.

 
vs civ 7



The leaders of other civs don't look towards the camera/you anymore. Instead they talk to whichever leader you selected for your civ.