Whats with the quotes?

[Blueberryies]

90% of the quotes are from random unknown Americans. I like Sean, though he is no Nimoy, but the quotes themselves are terrible, most of the time.

I like the Mark Twain quotes and the other famous American quotes but seriously what is with all the unknown Americans?


This is going to be a problem to mod because while a modder could easily change the written quotes, they would need to get Sean to voice their new quotes. Unless they just use different voices, but this would be annoying.

[Blueberryies]

I guess what I would like is more quotes from famous historical figures and less twenty first century American writers who are unknown outside America

[Usenohooks]

The game is great but the narration and quotes are just terrible. Quotes are much worse than the narration. They are completely unimspired and boring.

[Twelvefield]

I hate Terry Pratchett's writing and there are two Pratchett quotes. If I wanted TP, I'd read one of his craptastic books.

If you modded the quotes, you could just mute Mr. Bean (see what I did there?). I don't think that would hurt the game, although I do appreciate his narration talent. If it was a choice between better quotes and keeping Sean Bean, I'd jettison Bean. He never lives to see the end of any of his movies anyways.

[Akim]

Some quotes are ok, but a lot of them are really weird. They really lack the historic depth of the previous Civ quotes.

[Bouncer]

I don't care who said the quotes as long as the quotes are good. One of the quotes for Mercenaries is from a web comic, and it's a fine quote.

Some of them are just really bad though, wonders especially got the shaft. No more great phrases like 'all the worlds a stage', 'pale death beats equally', 'time crumbles everything', the quetzal shall come', 'we live only to discover beauty', '2 things are needed, a plan and not quite enough time' etc.

No, we get boring details about people watering plants for the Gardens, something about sports for Chichen Itza, saying how the Collosus took a lot of bronze to make, some nonsense about how the forbidden palace is facing north (or whatever it's so boring I don't caaaaare) and others.

There's still good ones, I remember pyramids and Hagia Scopia as standouts, but the bad ones are really, really bad.

[Einzelhaft]

The quotes are so bad I had to turn off my sound. I loved the history in the game and now it's a joke. "The downfall of the Roman Empire was Air Conditioning. . . " I see no reason to spend more money on DLCs with yet more cheesy crap like that. I have been buying this game since the beginning but if this is an example of the quality you guys are going to turn out, I need to spend my money on a better game.

[Shrubber]

Agree, the Mount Kilimanjaro quote is one of my least fav and most annoying.

"As it turns out, Mount Kilimanjaro is not wi-fi enabled, so I had to spend two weeks in Tanzania talking to the people on my trip."

Completely kills immersion and any historical feeling the game should have.

Every play through of Civ V I would listen to the whole voice over, every time. Civ VI I skip.

[xycotta]

Turn sound off, play with your own music, I have always done that

[hefewe1zen]

Same as the childish graphics and insignificant leaders... It's nothing bad or embarrasing about keeping old things which work. They thought they should go the alternative way with every aspect and ended up releasing some pretty ridicoulus stuff.

[katzenkrimis]

This is one of those games where they added too much where it wasn't needed, and not enough where it was needed.

I've never clicked the little x's on popup windows so fast, and so often. In any game.

The furthest I get on quotes, before shutting them down...

"The..."

[Mountain Man]

I happen to like the quotes. Although if someone were to create a mod that adds Nimoy's Civ 4 quotes and narration to the game, I'd download it immediately.

[paugus]

I don't mind when they have unorthodox or strange quotes for things as long as they're at least relevant.

When you start putting in quotes from Courtney Cox on the subject of lasers, I don't care how funny or ironic it's supposed to be. It's not particularly surprising or amusing that something she said about lasers is stupid, and like others, I frantically close most of the quote pop-ups as quickly as possible to avoid the inevitable groan and grimace.

Honestly, I'd rather just mod them out and say sorry Sean Bean, but it's high time you died in this movie. Good narrator narrating complete trash < silence accompanied by powerful words.

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

I happen to like the quotes. Although if someone were to create a mod that adds Nimoy's Civ 4 quotes and narration to the game, I'd download it immediately.

I like them well enough myself too. But when the quotes are bad, they're really, really bad.

V didn't have that problem. VI does though. I think because the quotes are pretty much doubled and very specific. Quantity and limitation don't lead to quality, I'd think.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

They (Firaxis) seem to have lost their touch on the quotes. Civ V were good, SMAC's were completely awesome. Civ VI, pretty varied, from decent to crap.

[Shakkara]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

I hate Terry Pratchett's writing and there are two Pratchett quotes. If I wanted TP, I'd read one of his craptastic books.

If you modded the quotes, you could just mute Mr. Bean (see what I did there?). I don't think that would hurt the game, although I do appreciate his narration talent. If it was a choice between better quotes and keeping Sean Bean, I'd jettison Bean. He never lives to see the end of any of his movies anyways.

So terry pratchett is terrible but u need to remark that awful play on words with mr bean....u know nothing jon snow ...