Campaign!! Short

[Hypelios]

Ok i love this game, but dang the campaign is uber short. I beat the whole thing in just a few hours... I was not expecting it to be that short. Thank god for custom games.

[dreadfulpennyarcade]

This sounds very disappointing ...hoping you just flew through it on easy

[Mansen]

A campaign is a luxury (and an oddity) in a 4X game to begin with. I'm glad they didn't pool more of the budget onto it and focused on the real game - Sandbox.

[meglobob1]

GC3 is really about the sandbox games you can create/customise, its not about the campaign. even the devs themselves said they only included the campaign to further the story. There feedback in the past is majority of players don't really care about the campaign.

[dreadfulpennyarcade]

^^ Is it much shorter than the Galactic Civ II campaign? I prefer a campaign to begin with, then once completed a sandbox for whatever interest I still have left

[edit] I certainly don't play sandbox after sandbox, like I do campaign mission after campaign mission - it's more of a here and there affair, with spaces between plays

vv thanks leafs43

[FroBodine]

Too bad. I love campaigns. But, I also enjoy Stardock's sandbox mode, which is basically the main game.

[leafs43]

The campaign skipped a couple of steps.

Gal Civ 2's campaign was overly long and other than a couple story scenarios and objectives, you were doing the same thing over and over again. Build up home planet->explore->colonize->rinse and repeat with a couple more buildings in the next level.


Gal Civ picks up directly where Gal Civ 2 left off and you don't need to go through a convoluted process of opening up buildings and techs based on story.

[Kourgath223]

If I recall correctly one of the devs did say in a stream a couple of days ago, it was the 13th for me, that they would love to bring the campaigns for Gal Civ 1 and 2 to this game so people can play them all in this games engine.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Kourgath223:

If I recall correctly one of the devs did say in a stream a couple of days ago, it was the 13th for me, that they would love to bring the campaigns for Gal Civ 1 and 2 to this game so people can play them all in this games engine.

That'd be their CEO - And it wasn't a particularly serious promise.

[leafs43]

Originally posted by Kourgath223:

If I recall correctly one of the devs did say in a stream a couple of days ago, it was the 13th for me, that they would love to bring the campaigns for Gal Civ 1 and 2 to this game so people can play them all in this games engine.

This is probably the most ideal.

At the beginning of Gal Civ 3, everybody in the galaxy knows what a xeno farm is....why would we need to "re-discover" it?

[Ryat]

I was bummed as well. Love me a good campaign.

[Braincat]

It´s not only about campaign, it´s about story telling. A good story is able to draw people into such a universe, give it sense, character and life.

Ever thought about Star Wars without the stories and characters? Or even Star Crafts great Kerrigan?

[dreadfulpennyarcade]

Originally posted by Kourgath223:

If I recall correctly one of the devs did say in a stream a couple of days ago, it was the 13th for me, that they would love to bring the campaigns for Gal Civ 1 and 2 to this game so people can play them all in this games engine.

Now that would be a DLC I would buy - never played GCiv1

[Jono]

I can't remember much about the GC2 campaigns so I can't say if this is better or not, but the campaign was incredibly underwhelming. There is really nothing interesting about it at all. There is no emotion or connection to any of the characters you see, so even saying they are 1 dimensional would be a bit much. There is nothing that really draws you into the game, which means you have no emotional connection so it is all just going through the motions.

The campaign is very short. What would have been good if they labelled the campaign as an "Episodic Campaign", because that would be more accurate to what it is. The intro says "There's a crusade coming", but the Thalan must have whispered "but not until a future expansion pack". Summary: short and unsatisfying conclusion.

[SirCabbage]

The next day someone else asked if that Galciv1-2 promise was likely- He said that it would be. I believe it.

Frankly the length of the campaign is more based on what difficulty you choose to play. Playing beginner the whole thing will take only a few hours, playing harder? Likely more.

Thing is- as others have said in this thread the campaign isn't exactly something we should have bought the game for. While the races themselves have "lore" the game itself is more about the sandbox

[Tamamo-no-Bae]

The Galciv 2 campaigns were tedious, the Galciv 3 campaign was really fun and it had far more focus on storytelling. Although 3 missions is pretty short, I'm sure they'll add more since it ended on a pretty big cliffhanger of sorts.