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I've got ~~hundreds~~ thousands (lol) of hours in Civ VI alone. I've paid for copies for PC, Switch, and Android (and I'm cheap as hell so that's really saying something). I played Civ VII for maybe an hour or two and then never came back to it. I shouldn't have to tell you that a Civ game you can willingly put down is not a good Civ game. Aside from the game just not being very fun to begin with, the transition between ages is so clunky, it just completely ruins all of your planning and the pacing of the game.
With this news I saw some DLC had been released since I tried the game and thought 'oh great, maybe they fixed it a bit or added new mechanics.' Nope, just more fluff. Never again, Firaxis. You will never get another dime from me.
I know the feel. But don't let the peabrains get you down, find something else to play which brings you joy and fun again.
Or do like me and mostly just give up on gaming as it'll be a long time until it's going to be fun again - Going from a lifestyle gamer to a filthy casual in just a few years.
There are so many incredible indie games out there. The people who think gaming has gotten boring need to look past the marketing and find interesting games. Yeah, AAA is fucking boring. Stop hoping that's going to change. It's business people making products, not developers making art. Find the indie games that do something new that fit your style.
Alpha Centauri is the peak for me.
It's what happens when you copy someone else's homework; the formula they tried to emulate with VII is Humankind, which actually is a good game, but they didn't really understand the secret sauce that made it good. They just stole mechanics and called it a day.
Hahah this is why I got 100% turned off by Civ VII. I played humankind and it was not good. It was fun for a bit but got stupidly repetitive and they never ever managed to polish it to completion. The core game is amazing, the battles especially, but they never managed to balance it correctly and it just kept being boring by mid game.
Then Firaxis comes by and literally plagiarized the entire game. It's the exact same thing down to the core mechanics. I'm amazed they haven't gotten sued by the Humankind devs, but maybe they worked out a deal. The whole Civ VII thing just reeks of laziness.
I keep forgetting this game came out. I guess it was bad as no one’s really talking about it as much as people talked about civ 6.
I got my start with civ 5.