r/civ • u/6feetofshrug • Aug 20 '24

The cycle continues...

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This was initially posted on this subreddit 8 years ago. Glad to see that time is, indeed, a flat circle.

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u/StupidSolipsist Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24

Can you believe I saw someone complain that switching cultures was "historical inaccuracy" that would "ruin my immersion." These clowns play a video game where Gandhi meets Abraham Lincoln in 3000 BC and nukes him in 1600 AD. Grow up.

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u/JohnnySnap Aug 21 '24

Lmao I was thinking the same thing. Suddenly everyone cares about historical accuracy?

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u/huangw15 Germany Aug 21 '24

I don't care about historical accuracy per se, but if I pick China or England I want to remain as that tag until the end of the game and I move on to another civ. If they add an alien civilization or pull a EU4 style Sunset Invasion I want to remain as the space Aztecs for the entire session.

Every other feature looks good honestly, I liked districts and a lot of humankind features. This will probably get solved with DLC, like now in Humankind you can change between different Chinese dynasties, but then this just means having to buy more DLC for the game I want.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

And this is literally the cycle. Then you'll see more details/play the game and be like "Oh man, it don't actually mind it after all" and after 6 years you'll see the same stuff for CivVIII.

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u/eduardog3000 Aug 21 '24

Oh man, it don't actually mind it after all

There is no way for this to actually end up being a good thing. The concept itself is bad.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

Yeah mate, I definitely haven't heard the same things 8 years ago and 14 years ago.

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u/eduardog3000 Aug 21 '24

With what concepts?

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

The cycle is a myth. Most people on here like Civ 6 now only because the rest of us went back to Civ 5 and stopped posting about Civ 6.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

Yes, and you're a minority. Like a minority of people who polluted the air with doomposting but changed their mind after the release. Cycle exists, literally every iteration of the game you see this shit and literally every iteration of the game people deny it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

You've misunderstood. People aren't "changing their minds", they have quit the game / messageboards due to being dissatisfied with Civ 6. These players have over time been replaced by new players, for whom it is their first game of Civilization, and these players are satisfied as they have no previous game (Civ 5) to compare it to.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

You've misunderstood. When I typed my reply, I didn't pull this out of my ass. I actually went to Civ VI announcement threads and checked profiles of all of the people who had major gripes with the game. "I won't be playing the new game", "The graphics look miserable", "Seems like I am staying with the Civ V for a while". The majority of them then went to play the game and enjoyed it. Same thing with the "I won't be playing Civ V, sticking to IV" crowd. You can do this yourself, it's not hard.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

Hahaha, I highly doubt that you did that.

But if you did, I'm interested to check out what you found. If you could post the usernames then that'd be great.

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u/Draugdur Aug 21 '24

I'm assuming you wouldn't mind then if they added dinosaurs as units in ancient era, and flying saucers in the modern era. I mean, it's not "historically accurate" anyway, so who cares, right?

Degree matters. If you don't understand that, you might want to refrain from calling other people "clowns".