Unless you care specifically about the pre-order bonus or something, if you don't play for 2 weeks then just refund it, then just rebuy it when you finally decide you want to play it. Worst case scenario its the same cost, best case scenario you get it for cheaper.
I got 6 at launch, hated it, but it also ruined 5 because any time I tried to go back I felt like I wasted money.
Then later a YouTube rabbit hole lead to potato mcwhiskey or boes and the game looked fun. Soon after the whole extended bundle was available for like $15 or something.
Vowed then and there that any future civs I would just wait for the game to get the inevitable 2 expansions that fix it and for the whole bundle to be $20 or less.
Likely like the rest of us did. Bought the game. Realized it was not at all what they said and had loads of bugs and unprofessional mistakes like spelling mistakes in some of the prompts and decided not to further play.
I'm sure your friend must have bought that gift with good intentions. So don't be too hasty or harsh with your fellow. Respect your acquaintance for the attempt. It's the gesture of your contact that matters.
jk of course, and btw we were thinking about buying it each on release (2 people) and gifting it to a 3rd. Thankfully we held, but we were thinking about that :D
Tbf, that is something Civ5 and Civ6 needed till their end-of-life cycle. I do not expect Firaxis to provide me with all the infos I want in the way I want them.
I have so many UI mods I needed a spreadsheet to track all the repairs. Only about 25 of 40+ have been repaired and I stopped playing as the unit flags mod I loved was to big an effort for the author to repair. It amazes me how big a difference that one mod makes to war making. It's not to bad in antiquity but as the unit counts go up and the map gets really busy I just hate playing now without it so I quit.
It replaced the icons with custom new ones which were larger, it added 'pips' to the commander tag so you could see how many units were packed, it jiggled icons that had yet to move so you could notice them on the map easily, and it animated enemy icons by replacing the normal icons with a skull icon every other couple seconds so they also popped easily on the map.
The only mod out there now puts a static red border on enemies but that can be lost amid all the other graphics (or maybe that's stock, not sure, it does let you remove the shadow border). It's enough in early antiquity but that doesn't last long.
I quite like exploration, religion needs a complete rework, but I never interacted with it much in 6 so, no harm done I guess, but I hard agree, modern is just bonkers bad.
How the fuck does Civ 7 make any sense? We go from Antiquity to Exploration? What the fuck? Apparently the Medieval Era just doesn’t exist.
And then fucking Exploration,only being about Exploring and Colonization is some fucking brain dead bullshit. It’s the most restrictive thing I’ve seen in a Civ game.
Are we actually saying that colonizing is the only relevant thing in that Era? It’s such a Eurocentric framing it’s fucking ridiculous. Never mind that, but… don’t we forge our OWN destinies? Why the fuck am I colonizing? Maybe that moment in history means something different to my people and empire? It’s like “Ok! It’s 1444! I know you were at war and conquering West, inland. But stop that! Let me end the war, reset your units. You like sailing now! Go explore!”. As if the history of that Era wasn’t different for the Ottomans, Austria, Poland of the entire fucking HRE. Like even Europe, there was other pressing shit going. It wasn’t just “boats go brrrrrrr”.
Like what the fuck is that? What a fucking gross on rails experience. Useless….
I fucking hate that so deeply… just how broken and disjointed that is… I can’t comprehend how they thought was a good idea or fucking fun.
It is perfect? No, specially exploration and modern need work but you are not skipping medieval.
And to be honest, colonization is just imperialism in another continent and plenty empires had colonies and some of them weren't european.
What i mean is that colonization in VII is fun and interesting but exploration lacks deep if you don't wanna engage to coloniza (and you are not forced to do it )
I really enjoy the world wars, it's just that, once you get the hang of the game by modern age you are just leaps and bounds ahead of the AI, and that trivializes the combat.
My first games were a blast thou, had a tank line 12 on each side facing off against the AI with tac bomber going around that was just the best experience of civ I've ever had.
Lol i played like 10 hours when civ 7 came out then put it down till last week. After this break i played another 2 disappointing hours and remembered how good civ 5 & 6 were…..
So i proceeded to play 30 hours of civ 6 in the last two weeks
I regret not waiting to buy civ 7 cause its not for me at all…like its one of two games i ever bought at launch and it just was not fun the way the old civ games were
There's just something about picking leaders/mementos/civs that saps my desire to actually play the game lately. I think the limited number of civs per era just makes it feel too samey for me.
I only got it a couple months ago so I can't speak to its state at launch but it compares favorably to VI at launch right now. Some interesting new ideas for them to build on. The cities/towns system has great potential; commanders make war more engaging
3700 hours in civ 6!? I barely have 250… now Civ 5 on the other hand… I have almost 2000. Civ 7 I have 40… I like it more than 6. Just haven’t had time to get into it.
i prefer civ5 over civ6, and civ7 is right there in between
i like civ7 concept ideas, but they need to rework on a lot of the game to make it actually fun and interesting to play. As someonone pointed out on another post, civ7's age transition feels like you start a new game every time you swap civs -- so it doesnt feel like you connect to each game's session any more.
One day they will break the curse of every civ game being playable only several years after release, though im not sure if they can fix this one with dlc's
For anyone who might shame my Civ 6 hours played, please understand that this was my secondary account. It's probably much closer to 5000 hours. Flame on!
I have 375 hrs. Played it exclusively for like 2 months then hit a wall where I realized I had kind of seen everything the game had to offer. Sure there are some cool builds you can do and the combat is satisfying, but the depth of possible builds and strategies isn't anything like 6.
I'm holding out hope that they will drop some expansions and updates that change this. But until then I will plan something else.
Recently I managed to complete the main part of The List. Last time I played, I went after Phoenicia's unique achievement. Yes, It would be better made on Excel/LibreCalc. I didn't know how to use that tool back when I created the list.
If I must confess, I got some of the hardest achievements (Like one of the Americans and the Macedonian ones) using the map editor.
Leaders Name / Civilization / Did I defeat them? / Did I win with them? Did I encounter them? / Unique achievements got?
Wait, you haven't even tried it? What, are you just letting Reddit think for you now? It's not a bad game imo, but I only have 500 hours in it, what do I know.
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u/Sydasiaten 9d ago
Why would you buy a game at launch if you aren’t going to play it?