Critiques – Page 3 – My Game Reviews

Why Civilization VII is a terrible game: Civilization VII should have been a PC-Centric Game

Civilization VI is better than Civilization VII because it is for PC Gamers and its shows in the terrain and size of maps. — A warrior unit exploring a diverse terrain in Civilization VII, featuring plains, hills, and water.

Civilization VII is continuing to fall in obscurity on Steam. The company, Firaxis Games is still living in a reality where they believe that the game is successful. However, it seems that they are more interested in pushing with their multiplatform games which are not selling on the charts. This inability to think critically about their game is why the game is doing so poorly with gamers. Civilization V is currently ahead of the game consistently now. Why is this? Simply because it is not a PC centric game.

Being a PC centric game makes sense for Civilization. When they announced this game, I was suspecting that the quality would suffer. I was right and I should have been more careful here. Civilization VII doesn’t even respect its title, its not about civilization but about city states. PC-centric games tend to be big in scale not just tiny mobile games. That is what Civilization VII is missing.

I think that we should understand what it means that the game is on all these platforms here. It means that the team is wasting their time trying to milk the game for all its worth and not trying to build something sustainable.

I honestly believe that Civilization VII is going to be dark age of the Civilization games.

It isn’t selling well, and it does not have big player base on Steam. Civilization VI is already ahead of it.

Civilization VII should be made for PC gamers and then they could move towards console games.

Console games have their own territory and PC games have theirs. The obsession with putting the game on Meta’s VR systems is just a sign of a company that isn’t serious about the game.

They no longer seem to care about their player base and just want to hide behind videos and screenshots.

It would be better if someone else would make Civilization from now on, because they are not doing a good job with it.

Civilization VI will still be the Emperor, while Civilization VII will be sulking in the shadows as a game that will be obscurity and a lesson in that game studio’s reputation depends on the gamers.

The meaning of cyberspace and internet

It is often said that one has to touch grass.

I think that one such touch cyberspace. There is no better place in the world than being on internet. It is the place of dreams and possibilities. What else is there to be said. Culture lives on the internet. It is not in meatspace anymore but on the screen.

Streaming and Netflix’s grip on it

It seems strange to consider that at one time, streaming was seen as a revolutionary idea. It was going to change the realm of entertainment. Instead what we got is basically the continuation of what we saw with Cable TV. Cable became the same as broadcast, lacking any sort of vitality to it.

Streaming is becoming the same thing. Who is to blame? It is Netflix of course.

Netflix was on top like a Monarch on this throne.

Now that it has been on top for so long, it feels little need for any innovation.

Streaming used to be interesting but now it is becoming more like the old television model. Such a state of affairs is a reason why people are starting to migrate to freemium streaming or even platforms with just ads on content which is offered with advertising to pay for the cost of running the servers.

Netflix’s grip on streaming has taken a toll on actors and people writing these stories. Until we have actual power shifting in this area, streaming will continue to be a wasteland of missed opportunities.

It is time for streaming services to start actually competing and innovating in this space.