In Which I rant about Civ 6

My friend, dear reader of this post! I’d like to wish you a good morning, and the best. Tell me, how have you been? It’s been 9 days since my last post, I have been meaning to write one earlier, but couldn’t bring myself to do it, and only in the past few days have I had a nice idea for what the next post, or group of posts, might be about! I have been playing Civ 6, recently… yes, that game that I say is the worst of the franchise. And it is, but still, it is worth playing from moment to moment. I must admit, the game is on the verge of being actually great, but it fails at it, it knocks the door of greatness and then runs away from it. I have several grips with the game: I don’t like how it looks, for example, too cartoony and uninspiring. Some of the mechanics are bad, as well, with very little saving grace. For example: the global warming one, first of all, it is nothing but anti-industrial, anti-human propaganda. Makes the late-game not only gloomy, but also, what was supposed to create a challenge for the late game, just make things artificially more harsh and boring. It is beyond me why the late game, with their focus on science fiction and planetary exploration, has technology to explore exoplanets, but no technology to recover an area flooded by the “rising sea level”. It fuels the misinformation we have today on environmentalism and so on. Of course, those who only through videogames and through mainstream sources get their info, really cannot expect anything else than mediocrity and misinformation. If only those were my only issues with Civ 6, however… The pace of the game is too fast, and there is too much going on all at once, and the higher difficulties mean you have little place for imagination or roleplay, everything becomes about the mechanics and I don’t like that, not on a civ game. If I wanted to meddle with mechanics, I’d go play Europa Universalis, really. The game has no proper ambience sound, either, it doesn’t even progress much throughout the ages. It does have a progressing soundtrack, which is good, but no ambience, that Civ 5 had. I should return to Civ 5, but it really depends on the experience I’m looking for. If I want to listen to music, I go to Civ 5, if I want a faster paced filled with things happening experience, I prefer Civ 6. I thought I was done with the game, I may as well be, but they released the last set of DLCs for it recently, so I wanted to give it a try. And speaking of EU4, I should return to that game when the new DLC drops, in a couple of days. What else can I complain about related to Civ 6? I suppose it completely ruined what it means to be a Civilization. If Civ 5 did stretch a bit adding Assyria and Brazil to the game (I could accept both, because Brazil is the biggest South American Country, and Assyria was quite an empire, though they already have Babylon and Persia on the game, that are on the same region. They could have gone with the Hittites for example, but anyway), Civ 6 made any criteria non-existent, adding even Canada and Australia as civs. And all the irrelevant female leaders added for the sake of “representativity” or some woke crap like that, it was but a drop of the terrible tsunami that was to come, on videogames and so on. I believe that is enough to make me have this ambiguous relationship with this one entry of the franchise. Also, I will say, it is best to have the old city tied together, instead of having all those districts and wonders around, really. Some of that, is okay, but the rest is really a bother, more of a modernist zoning thing than something actually accurate, I feel.

I believe this is a good point to leave today’s post, I am really happy to be back on the blog! I am writing this entry on my phone, because I was at the computer just now, doing some other things, and I needed to stop to rest a bit. Writing on the phone, though, it really hurts my fingers, so it is a trade-off. And it is far clumsier to edit the blog on the phone, I am never satisfied with the results. Well… anyway, I hope to be back to the blog next week! Or maybe even this weekend, if my mood allows for some more writing! Thank you so much, my friend, for being here! And I appreciate you a lot! Cheers, happy Friday, and I see you again real real real real soon!!!