Some years ago the news that a new “Civilization” game was in development would have excited me to no end 🙂 I used to love “SimCity” and “Civilization” to no end and I think back in the day, I played every “Sim” game that I could get my had on … “SimEarth”, “SimLife”, “SimFarm”, “SimTown”, “SimCopter” … I think I played all of them … or at least got them and tried them …

But, I didn’t play “Civilization VI” and the new game brings me no excitement. I think I just can’t get excited by that kind of gameplay any longer. Sure, compared to the original “Civilization”, the graphics have come a long way and it looks gorgeous, but I just don’t have the time/energy for the game play.

Now if they come up with a new version of “Civilization: Beyond Earth” with a good storyline (not just the building and exploration), I might be up for that 🙂

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@f I think that beginning with Civ V, the desktop game became way too elaborate. It was also demanded far greater computing resources. On the other hand, Civ Revolution for the gaming platforms was fun, but way too easy.

On the Sims front, I played all the SimCities, SimTower, and a few rounds of SimCopter and SimEarth. I think SimTower had huge potential, but Maxis gave up on it really quickly. :-(

@mairhart Yep, “Civ V” was where they lost me too. It looked great but the gameplay just took too much effort, especially on macOS where it would heat up the machine like crazy … I just couldn’t get into it and (possibly) having to shutdown every once in a while when the machine got hot didn’t help. I don’t think I’ve recovered from that …

I had forgotten about “SimTower” … and “SimAnt” 😛 There are a few others I’m forgetting too, but I agree, “SimTower” was a great new approach to the whole franchise and they probably could have done a lot with it but back then, “Maxis” was churning out Sim games like crazy and I don’t think they were interested unless a game was doing really well …

@f I think I was using Windows at the time, and Civ V slowed it to a crawl. From then on, regardless of reality, I perceived the game to be too slow-paced, too sprawling, with too many military unit types and confusing battle rules. I just wanted to build an overpowering culture and win over my enemies with Spaghetti-monster evangelism and fabulous cheesecake.

@mairhart Yes!!! The old-school gameplay, while it might not have had the richness of the graphics, had such a lot of fun elements. I loved playing games over and over. Now, it just feels like work even when I think about it … You have to wait for things to load, monitor resources (computer not game) and it all seems so daunting.

“Beyond Earth” felt so much more fun but then they really didn’t seem to want to concentrate on that. I really think with a great “alien exploration” story it would have done so much better. Ah, well ….