Category: Gamers

Why Civilization VI is winning the war with Civ 7

Civilization VI is simply a better game. I bought both Civ 6 and 7 when they came out. This means that this is when they were new and did not have dlcs or many patches. The difference between the two cannot be clearer. Civilization VI had its detractors in the beginning, mostly in the area of it being cartoony and too impressionistic in its art style.

However, the game came out in October 2016 complete and many new features and refinements of what came before. The game was modernizing the micro which many old players enjoyed. Unlike in Civilization VII, there is a degree of control with how one runs their civilization. There is no plopping of improvements on the map, you have make to the choices for yourself and see how they affect your civilization in the game.

This is what is sorely lacking in Civilization VII. It is that choice and control which I enjoy.

It is not simply that control however, it’s the feedback one gets one playing in the game world of Civilization VII. It feels like a flat and uninteresting game. It just seems that the team that was working on it have no passion for it.

Civilization VI is clearly the one you should playing now.

Civilization 7 is the worst game in the series.

Civilization 7 is the worst game in the series. There are some who want to say that it has new ideas and not recycled ideas. I am guessing these are casual gamers or people who are easily swayed by marketing because this is basically SimCity Societies from 2007 in a Civ Game.

The issue is that the players who played the older games before Civ V have been seeing the changes and that it is becoming very much like Angry Birds and other forgotten mobile games, just a brand to put on mediocre gameplay and hide it with marketing.

The UI is terrible and when compared to Civ 1, it shows the generational changes and the maliase we are currently in this culture.

The Civ switching was a concern of mine earlier on and I see that Fraxis was lazy and put in a bunch of leaders who are not leaders but Great People.

The game does not have England in the game but hides behind a DLC and puts in a person, Ada Lovelace, who was not a political leader, phlisophical, or spiritual leader in any sense. The leader of England should be a King or Prime Minister. I would recommend King Charles II of the Restoration Era.

The Shawnee were put in the game for politics and yet Confucius can rule them. Do not use the CIV has never been about history. It has a tech tree which contains many of the most important technologies in human history. This is not a very good argument to using here.

The crisis system is lazy and does not provide context for what is happening. Having every Civ move into the same age is silly and makes the game too easy. There needs to be consquences to not being able to catch up in tech or economics. Having a reset does not make the game challenging. The Civ Switching doesn’t even stop the snowballing that they say they wanted to not have.

It is clear that the game has increasingly become attached to politics in America more and not just a game about history.

The map generation is terrible and worse than 20 year old games.

The positive reviews are people who generally enjoy simpler, easier games. While Microsoft is no saint of a company, they have made AOE 4 into a game that appeals to casuals and power users. They even encourage people to improve their tactics while also being a great platform for teaching history about multiple cultures, without being myopic about it.

Civilization 7 is the worst in the series. Civilization V was a strange experiment on launch but they did not railroad the player into 3 mini games.

Starfield and the Modding Community in 2025

Starfield has received much criticism for being a boring game. I understand that many gamers have gotten used to certain kind of gameplay since many games are put on assembly lines and put out to the public. The criticisms are stemming from the inability of Bethesda to match up with what is on the assembly line. While the game is some sense is too big to some, this size is important to help flesh out the game’s story and gameplay mechanics. Setting it on one world would have been criticized for being too conservative and making a compromise between small and huge would have been seen as not having a vision. Starfield maybe boring to some but it isn’t to me.

There is great hope I have in the modding community, one of those bastions of the gaming culture that still has creativity and is not just about consuming batches that are given to players in order to placate them with nostalgia hits. As a young man, I have never really given into nostalgia. I think about it, but I do not allow it to control me, which is why I am looking forward to what the modding community has to offer us. Starfield has a great foundation as a game, and I hope that the modders will continue to improve the game. I think that criticism will continue as the gaming community is well known for being outspoken on the internet. This is double-edged sword in many ways, but this community is much livelier and more energetic than other community except for sports communities. However, in comparison to sports communities, gamers are more creative and interesting to engage with than other group of people in my view. That’s why I confident the modding community will continue to enhance this amazing game.