Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes

Post by B1FF_PSUVM » Wed, May 11, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

Tossrock wrote: post #88

tpeo wrote: post #77

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SMAC also had 10/10 flavor text and setting overall. It's a game that has a lot of character.

One of my favorite stories about Alpha Centauri was from a person on the PA forums called Wallhitter: I learned the word Atrocity from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri My dad and I had a horrible discussion in the car about the word, eventually. "Dad, what's an atrocity?" "It's when someone does a horrible thing to a lot of people" "...but sometimes they're necessary, right?" "..."

Post by hackuser » Wed, May 11, 2016, 10:34 PM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #118

hackuser wrote: post #82

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> it's also hardly black and white No, I think it's clear. The Russians invaded another country, conquered Ukranian land and kidnapped Ukrainian people. EDIT: Fixed the ambiguous pronouns

> Their military invaded "Their" being Russian here... > conquered their land and kidnapped their people By 'their', you mean the people of Crimea, of which over 50% identify as Russians?

Post by StavrosK » Wed, May 11, 2016, 10:45 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #91

tpeo wrote: post #77

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SMAC also had 10/10 flavor text and setting overall. It's a game that has a lot of character.

Yeah it did. You can find the technology quotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ > “He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.” I know that my brother had difficulty with this quote. The men…

Post by douche » Wed, May 11, 2016, 10:50 PM UTC

selimthegrim wrote: post #14

vinceguidry wrote: post #10

I would love to see a game that accurately reflects modern geopolitics. It would generate a world and run a history up to a certain point, at which you'd take control as head of state of a particular nation and conduct national affairs. Ideally, the game would be able to make conducting the affairs of a large global hegemon like the United States as interesting as playing a small kingdom beset on all sides. Sort of l…

You never played Hearts of Iron or Europa Universalis?

Post by pohl » Wed, May 11, 2016, 11:09 PM UTC

btreesOfSpring wrote: post #107

robertcorey wrote: post #54

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Each tile in this game represents a large area of land.

some might say, "huge tracks of land."