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Article #716624Re: What Strategy Game For An Action & RPG Gamer ?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:21:09 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> wrote: >Thanks ...I'm resigned to a long uphill struggle to get into CIV V . >Clearly worth it. FWIW, I always felt that all of the Civ games beyond the original suffered from too much "flare". Graphics and textual rhetoric that really does very little to enhance actual gameplay. I've always felt the core gameplay of Civ was one of those games like chess, where the board pieces could just as easily be represented with simplistic icons. Unfortunately, when a game vendor is trying to make the most of a franchise, the adage "keep it simple, stupid" is at odds with what needs to be done to attract players to the next version. I like eye candy as much as anyone in games where appropriate, but in Civ it all just gets in my way. I wish they would go back to the basics. It kind of goes without saying that whenever a turn based strategy game decides to add "tesselation" as a feature, particularly one that has no impact on the game mechanics but rather is there just to say it's there, you know the designer has lost his way. If it's available anywhere, try to get your hands on the original Civ from a couple of decades ago. Despite being hard to look at these days, it's still the best version.
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