Firaxis are bringing one of the "most requested" features to Civilization 7 - the chance to bypass the Age system and play as one Civ all the way through.
A great example of what bullshit much of the gaming press spouts. People will have spent their hard earned money on this trash based on nonsense reviews.
Individual reviews for sequels are useless, across the board now.
What we need is dual reviews. One player that had never played the franchise before, and another that has. And the more beloved or large a franchise is, the more involved that second review needs to be.
Because sometimes new players coming in to beloved franchise have a better time because they don’t have preconceived not goons of what the game “should be”.
Just because something is changed, that doesn’t make it inherently worse. Fans are the worst critics, across the board in every type of media. While they sometimes have valid criticism, they also often don’t.
Other times, changes are objectively bad, for both new and existing players. The only way to really know is to get both perspectives. And that’s hard to figure out looking at random reviews on various sites. The reviewers don’t always provide their previous experiences for context very well.
Individual reviews for sequels are useless, across the board now.
What we need is dual reviews. One player that had never played the franchise before, and another that has. And the more beloved or large a franchise is, the more involved that second review needs to be.
Because sometimes new players coming in to beloved franchise have a better time because they don’t have preconceived not goons of what the game “should be”.
Just because something is changed, that doesn’t make it inherently worse. Fans are the worst critics, across the board in every type of media. While they sometimes have valid criticism, they also often don’t.
Other times, changes are objectively bad, for both new and existing players. The only way to really know is to get both perspectives. And that’s hard to figure out looking at random reviews on various sites. The reviewers don’t always provide their previous experiences for context very well.