Do you know if any good numbers exist? While PC gaming stats may be up year over year, how does that compare in raw numbers to the big 3 consoles? My gut, though I admit to not being hardcore about gaming so take that with a grain of salt, is that the big studios are going all in on consoles. Because XBox and PC games are pretty similar they get released for both, but the number of PC-only games is vanishingly small.
How much of the success of Civ VI is based on the cross-platform nature of the game?
Call to Power isn’t a civilization game. It was meant to fool people into thinking it was Civilization game (they actually had to change the name from Civilization: Call to Power), and it’s not well rated.
Now, granted, even if it’s not a real civ game, if people liked it, they’re free to discuss it, but I’ve never heard it mentioned as a good/important/whatever game. I think it’s mostly forgotten.
@SenorBeef explained why, a better question would had been why we have more than 100 posts and no proper explanation of the bug that caused Nuclear Gandhi.
YMMV about if that was a good or a bad “feature” to have, but the curious thing about it is that it was reported many times in the past that peaceful Gandhi became a warmonger thanks to a bug in the earlier games; however, recent word from the god (Sid Meir’s) is that it wasn’t.
So, a retelling of the origin to make it mysterious or wasn’t planned? AFAIK some programmers reported finding the bug that caused it in the earlier games, but that in later games it was done on purpose for tradition’s sake, what do you guys think?
Well, you currently have the Warlock franchise and the Endless franchise. And Humankind will be launching soon. That’s not counting the blatant low-effort Civ clones for mobile, etc. But I guess they all try to add to the formula rather than take away since, even for a new title, “Civilization but with less” is a harder sell than “Civilization, plus [Whatver]”
Humankind looks so close to Civ IV they might get sued.
As a kinda related sidenote I see Humankind already won a “Best Game” award from, well, someone. A game that HASN’T BEEN RELEASED. Don’t trust video game “Reviews,” kids.
One will note the lack of “Sid Meier’s” on the box. The original Civs were done by Microprose. Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Bryan Reynolds left Microprose and founded Firaxis Games in 1996 (and released Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri in 1999). Call to Power was produced by Activision and released in 1999.
So the reason Call to Power wasn’t a Civilization game is because it literally wasn’t. It was Activision’s attempt to create a Civilization game.
If you started exploring the discs, you could find the video files for the advisors and get some clips that represented highly-unlikely scenarios. I remember the Trade advisor wearing modern clothes and frantically advising the leader to discover trade. I don’t know if it’s even possible to get to the modern era without trade, but the writers of the game must considered it.
You can find all the “Civilization II Council” clips on YouTube.
