This game is awful. (I've played since 1st civ)

[Tolgarn]

Ok, I'm an old man, played civ since the beginning. I was excited to sit down and enjoy the latest installment. The Civilization series has always brought me great joy and entertainment. That being said, there is my honest review.

Currently I'm asking for a refund, the game is utterly incomplete and an embarrassment to the franchise.

Graphics: 8/10 - Decent graphics, however the terrain feels like a board game and not alive and vibrant.

Gameplay: 2/10 - Here is the nail in the coffin. The game attempted to adopted Humankind's era strategy with their own flare. It failed miserably, and it was a hindrance to enjoying an era. Civilization's strength had always been the smooth transition from era to era. Feeling like a story, yet making you realize that you had to have a balanced approach to your opponents (AI or player). I happened to notice they ripped off Ara: History untold with their "expert" placement in cities. Civilization was once the benchmark for other grand strategy games, now they just copy their competitors. It's rather disappointing.

Sound/Voice-overs: 9/10 - Music is decent, voice-overs good. This aspect I'm not going to criticize .

Overall recommendation: 4/10 As I stated previously, I'm asking for a refund. In its current its by far and away the worst installment to the franchise. The product feels unfinished and rushed and a collection of other games in the genre. It's heartbreaking, but being a lifelong fan I will follow its progress and hope that the game makes a turn-around. Both for the future of the game and its fans, and the future of grand strategy games as a whole.

[TiberiumGuy]

Originally posted by Tolgarn:

Ok, I'm an old man, played civ since the beginning. I was excited to sit down and enjoy the latest installment. The Civilization series has always brought me great joy and entertainment. That being said, there is my honest review.

Currently I'm asking for a refund, the game is utterly incomplete and an embarrassment to the franchise.

Graphics: 8/10 - Decent graphics, however the terrain feels like a board game and not alive and vibrant.

Gameplay: 2/10 - Here is the nail in the coffin. The game attempted to adopted Humankind's era strategy with their own flare. It failed miserably, and it was a hindrance to enjoying an era. Civilization's strength had always been the smooth transition from era to era. Feeling like a story, yet making you realize that you had to have a balanced approach to your opponents (AI or player). I happened to notice they ripped off Ara: History untold with their "expert" placement in cities. Civilization was once the benchmark for other grand strategy games, now they just copy their competitors. It's rather disappointing.

Sound/Voice-overs: 9/10 - Music is decent, voice-overs good. This aspect I'm not going to criticize .

Overall recommendation: 4/10 As I stated previously, I'm asking for a refund. In its current its by far and away the worst installment to the franchise. The product feels unfinished and rushed and a collection of other games in the genre. It's heartbreaking, but being a lifelong fan I will follow its progress and hope that the game makes a turn-around. Both for the future of the game and its fans, and the future of grand strategy games as a whole.

I totally agree with you save for graphics which is just merely pass for me . I can't believe this game is so boring.
I started Civ from IV and this one is the worst.

[Steve]

Originally posted by Tolgarn:

Ok, I'm an old man, played civ since the beginning. I was excited to sit down and enjoy the latest installment. The Civilization series has always brought me great joy and entertainment. That being said, there is my honest review.

Currently I'm asking for a refund, the game is utterly incomplete and an embarrassment to the franchise.

Graphics: 8/10 - Decent graphics, however the terrain feels like a board game and not alive and vibrant.

Gameplay: 2/10 - Here is the nail in the coffin. The game attempted to adopted Humankind's era strategy with their own flare. It failed miserably, and it was a hindrance to enjoying an era. Civilization's strength had always been the smooth transition from era to era. Feeling like a story, yet making you realize that you had to have a balanced approach to your opponents (AI or player). I happened to notice they ripped off Ara: History untold with their "expert" placement in cities. Civilization was once the benchmark for other grand strategy games, now they just copy their competitors. It's rather disappointing.

Sound/Voice-overs: 9/10 - Music is decent, voice-overs good. This aspect I'm not going to criticize .

Overall recommendation: 4/10 As I stated previously, I'm asking for a refund. In its current its by far and away the worst installment to the franchise. The product feels unfinished and rushed and a collection of other games in the genre. It's heartbreaking, but being a lifelong fan I will follow its progress and hope that the game makes a turn-around. Both for the future of the game and its fans, and the future of grand strategy games as a whole.

This was my experience pretty much. It's pretty as anything, but there's no game to it. It's just work for the sake of work. Even work simulation titles seem to do better.

[xvlee]

From Civ 2 here, and yeah, so far unimpressed.

To make it even better, it won't let me post a negative review for some reason - anyone else having this issue?

[Steve]

Originally posted by xvlee:

From Civ 2 here, and yeah, so far unimpressed.

To make it even better, it won't let me post a negative review for some reason - anyone else having this issue?

Huh! I thought it was just me! I gave up on trying and just went for the refund. XD

[tacticalnuke]

Originally posted by Gumpo:

I too have played the whole franchise from the begining... and this is the first of the games I havn't bought on day one since Civ 2.

I might have risked it, because I liked Humankind... but the combination of the questionable list of leaders and the choice to use Denuvo on top of the Era mechanic feeling off to me for the franchise, added up to make my choice "wait and see". It feels odd, but I'll be watching to see if they drop Denuvo and tidy up the gameplay via Expansions. Hopefully they can fix it up. (Both 5 and 6 felt a bit incomplete on launch, and needed the expansions before the games felt as complete as 4 was, so, I can always hold out hope, right?)

Played since Civ 1. Still the best in the series (they should have just remade that)
Civ 2 (good) I enjoyed even with having to re irrigate the land after steam engine iirc.

Civ 3 got on day one, waited for a patch 2 months later so it would load!
Civ 4 to me seemed they where starting to head in the right direction.
Quick mention to civ Revelation: really liked this just for how quick a game plays.

Last Civ I played properly was Civ 5. Fun till you figure out how to exploit culture.

Had a quick look at civ 6 on gamepass. Seems the game gets a smaller land mass and amounts of city's you can control with each version of the game.

Most posts I have read on here seem to be from veterans from the previous civ games.
Very surprised the devs didn't listen to any of you.

Regarding humankind, had a quick look at it on gamepass and ended up getting it on windows. Holding off going down that rabbit hole.

[Steve]

Originally posted by tacticalnuke:

Most posts I have read on here seem to be from veterans from the previous civ games.
Very surprised the devs didn't listen to any of you.

I'm actually kinda surprised there too. IDK who they were listening to, but it wasn't the average Civ player.

It's more like they were listening to casual players who only have a few hours a month or something.

[Guest In Disguise]

Originally posted by Steve:

Originally posted by tacticalnuke:

Most posts I have read on here seem to be from veterans from the previous civ games.
Very surprised the devs didn't listen to any of you.

I'm actually kinda surprised there too. IDK who they were listening to, but it wasn't the average Civ player.

It's more like they were listening to casual players who only have a few hours a month or something.

Clearly the investors

[just.dont.do.it]

The only thing I strongly dislike so far is overly specific objectives for each era. Instead of some emergent gameplay you now have all those "do X Y times" shoved into your face.

The rest is pretty good, or at least good enough to feel interesting and fresh.
Civ really needed some fresh air and we got it.

[Skulbow]

I'm an old gamer, over 70 and being playing Civ since Civ2 and I'm enjoying the gameplay and a lot of the "new" mechanics but I want the UI improved a lot!!!

There is so little information to be gained when trying to learn a newish game. Most games these days come with a very good ui which really helps getting a grip on the game. That is lacking so much in this version.

Anyway I'm sticking with the game (having so much fun at present in my first game) and know that it will only get better in the days ahead.

[backspace4353]

Originally posted by Larkis:

So you have never informed about the game, has never read a preview, watched a video or at least, read the storepage. But give a 100€ preorder?

I dont think the game is a problem here.

So just an advice for the future, inform yourself,before you soebd so much money. You would be an easy target for a scam.

Look at the big brain on Larkis. With all that wise man speak.

[majorkir]

Agreed, have played since way before most players were born. Not liking this new edition at all.

[Steve]

The whole age/era reset thing would have been a solid idea if it were a toggle or option players could choose for themselves. But Firaxis ignored the very advice they gave with Civ VI:

"Don't reinvent the wheel. Just realign it."

[Roston]

I would type a long winded post but the easy way of putting all this mess is that it's clearly (civ6 had hints) transitioned into a mobile/touch game. The game somehow runs on a switch and runs at 4k with CRAZY requirements on PC shows how they want to make this game. Questy, RPG no keyboard controls like that fits a switch/mobile audience and not the Original of us who have been around since Civ1 (many years played on civ2 on a ps1 with 5 minute turn timers in late game) on a PC.

Maybe as a game that you remove the name from and call it something else can work for people but it is VERY clear to me at this point it's no longer the original PC version. This is a new game and needs to be seen as such, I have no interest in it.

[dcbobo]

Originally posted by majorkir:

Agreed, have played since way before most players were born. Not liking this new edition at all.

then why don't you have any kind of wisdom on buying games? I was going through a divorce when civ 2 came out :p So I've learned some stuff over the years. How can any of you not know how make a smart purchase if yall got as this "old man" experience you keep telling us about.

[dcbobo]

Originally posted by Roston:

I would type a long winded post but the easy way of putting all this mess is that it's clearly (civ6 had hints) transitioned into a mobile/touch game. The game somehow runs on a switch and runs at 4k with CRAZY requirements on PC shows how they want to make this game. Questy, RPG no keyboard controls like that fits a switch/mobile audience and not the Original of us who have been around since Civ1 (many years played on civ2 on a ps1 with 5 minute turn timers in late game) on a PC.

Maybe as a game that you remove the name from and call it something else can work for people but it is VERY clear to me at this point it's no longer the original PC version. This is a new game and needs to be seen as such, I have no interest in it.

I'm curious, how many keyboard controls doesn't it have? one or two?