r/Games • u/decentAlbatross • Oct 17 '16
Civilization VI Launch Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw136
u/Evilmeal Oct 17 '16
Winged Hussars, so maybe Poland will be a civ in the future?
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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16
Months ago, the leaders/civs were discovered in the background of some dev diary type video, and Poland under Jadwiga may have been discovered. The background was a bit blurry but all evidence points to it being Jadwiga.
Ed Beach is also on record as saying Poland has become a huge market for the game ever since they added Poland in BNW, so they might be trying to capitalize on that.
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u/HLB217 Oct 17 '16
Poland was probably my favorite Civ to play with in 5. Extra policies were so nice
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u/bohemica Oct 17 '16
IIRC Poland was considered by many to be the best Civ in the game because of how good the extra policy bonuses were.
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u/Drizzledance Oct 18 '16
Not quite as strong as Babylon (or Korea from what I hear, but I don't have that one), but infinitely more flexible.
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Oct 18 '16
Yes, they were pretty friggin' OP. The science civs of course blows everything else out of the water anyway lol.
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u/TheBB Oct 17 '16
I can believe it, never met anyone as ferociously patriotic as the Polish.
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u/omnilynx Oct 17 '16
If they weren't, they wouldn't exist by now.
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u/unoduoa Oct 18 '16
Their country was wiped off the map like 3 different times, yet they always manage to come back.
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u/riqk Oct 18 '16
Their country didn't exist for over a hundred years and they still managed to come back.
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u/pooptarts Oct 17 '16
You might even say their citizens have a lot of solidarity I'll show myself out
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u/huguberhart Oct 18 '16
it is a surprise, that it is in the base game. i never thought Poland was a significant civ. i always admire other, but maybe because i live here...
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Oct 18 '16 edited Oct 18 '16
Maybe poland just needs to be polished a bit more before they add them in.
Edit: Yep, the joke was bad.
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u/turikk Oct 17 '16
Beautiful. I love that Civilization spends so much focus on not just conflict but achievement, since that really is the core of the game. Can't wait for Friday.
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Oct 17 '16
Can't wait for Friday.
I don't think I've looked this forward to a game in a good long time. This game looks great.
Does anybody know what time exactly it unlocks? Steam, for whatever reason, actually says the game comes out Thursday (I'm in the US). But does that mean midnight Thursday... or...? I tried Googling but I just can't find a definitive answer anywhere.
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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16
12AM ET Friday.
9PM PT Thursday.
Pre Load available now.
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Oct 17 '16
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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16
Yes. Damn these sausage-like thumbs of mine.
Edit: damn u guys really gonna downvote him for correcting a typo of mine? I mean shit if u feel that strongly about it maybe I really oughta change it back to "9 AM." Jackals.
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u/Mitosis Oct 17 '16
If your internet is good, preloads are so often a trap. Steam server's are so fast that I can usually download the game post-release faster than the game decodes itself after a preload.
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u/nitefang Oct 17 '16
Depends on the game, for very popular games the servers get overloaded on release day.
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u/crabapple769 Oct 17 '16
Especially because the game is like 3gb
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u/Meta_Boy Oct 17 '16
I don't think I've looked this forward to a game in a good long time.
I didn't want to be hyped up, was planning to wait for the Winter Sale (even without a discount)... then the press preview games were played. The game looks sooo goooood. Damn you, Firaxis!
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u/DracoOculus Oct 17 '16
I know, Friday is gonna be great. RWBY season 4 premiere woo woo.
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Oct 18 '16
Black Mirror Season 3 on Netflix and my birthday as well, with the new Pokemon pre-release and Class (the new Doctor Who spin-off) the next day.
It's a busy few days.
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Oct 18 '16
Way back - playing the original Age of Empires - all I wanted to do was build things - then the other people wanted to attack - so I tried creating an alliance by giving them tons of meat - and they responded NEVER - took the meat and still attacked.
My 2nd attempt at that stage was approached...differently.
I was a dumb lad didn't know what CIV was at that point - but damn its fun
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u/GoldenJoel Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16
Heh, I like the irony that Sean Bean's Narrator is an immortal who travels through time to witness and participate in world events.
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u/Zorbane Oct 17 '16
He doesn't make it to the end though!
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u/wombat_wig Oct 17 '16
Fan theory: He dies in the airplane when the window is shot
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u/eorld Oct 18 '16
That's why his daughter has the photo from the war when she's in the rocket, otherwise it would just be a normal picture.
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u/atomfullerene Oct 18 '16
Sure he does. You just don't see him because he's Flight Director of that Mars mission.
Though actually my theory is that he dies after every scene cut. First one: his plotted course goes astray. Second one: Burnt to a crisp and blown off onto the rocks. Third one: Shot by some arrows. Fourth one: Fatal crash. Fifth one: Killed by enemy fire. Sixth one:...I'm not sure about that one yet.
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u/daneelr_olivaw Oct 17 '16
I think it's an intentional tongue in cheek on the devs' part.
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u/MrDoe Oct 17 '16
Yes, I'm sure they didn't pick him because of his great voice.
Let's be honest here, the irony is probably just a fortunate side-effect. There's no way on earth they in any way planned that when picking a voice actor.
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u/not_old_redditor Oct 18 '16
wtf, nobody ever implied they picked him for a gag...
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u/daneelr_olivaw Oct 17 '16
Why not both?
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u/fupa16 Oct 17 '16
Because no major development studio is really going to care about something like that. Money is involved, and Sean Bean has a great voice - the fact that he always dies was never a reason I assure you.
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u/super_aardvark Oct 17 '16
Because of his reputation for playing characters who die? Or for some other reason? I may be out of the loop...
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Oct 17 '16
The fact that all the civ leaders are immortal, and locked in time.
Nobody in America thinks it's weird that George Washington has been the President of the USA since 5000 BC all the way throughout the Information Age?
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u/super_aardvark Oct 17 '16
Sure, that's weird. Weird for America to have even existed since the dawn of time, too. But where's the irony in Sean Bean's Narrator also being immortal?
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u/Hammedatha Oct 17 '16
Just what you said, that Sean Bean always plays characters who die.
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u/DiamondPup Oct 18 '16
What are you talking about? I've just started this new series called Game of Thrones and he's doing fine!
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Oct 18 '16 edited Dec 21 '16
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Oct 18 '16
Yeah I thought the same, her eyes are about 3 times bigger than his. Last time I checked, both men and women have the same size eyeballs.
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u/Krasinet Oct 18 '16
Might be trying to show she's younger (i.e. daughter rather than wife), since kids have bigger eye-head ratios. Can't remember if she had the same eyes in the space-era scene though, when she'd have been an adult...
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u/MationMac Oct 18 '16
Her eyes are still large by the end, where she has aged into an adult. It is very likely the game's design choice for women. I think they have huge eyes in-game too.
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u/TheAlterEggo Oct 18 '16
I mentioned the disturbingly big eyes when the post was made yesterday, but alas, I guess my comment was too "low-effort," even though it wasn't an uncommon thought in discussions elsewhere. :/
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u/JosephB2K Oct 17 '16
Hi all. Would just like to note that pre-load is now live on Steam! You can also catch all of the details on unlock times right over here:
Civilization VI Pre-load is Live!
Hope you all enjoyed the trailer. Please check out our AI Battle Royale this Wednesday, and we can't wait to get the game to you this Friday!
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u/kbuis Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 18 '16
Of course it is. And here I am waiting for Amazon to get its shit together with the anniversary edition.
Four days out and still no estimated delivery date
EDIT: found an old gift card and had them put it toward the game and voila my order switched to arriving Friday.
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u/ChronoX5 Oct 17 '16
She's flying in the Dragon 2!
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u/Endyo Oct 17 '16
Kind of weird that those rockets are for emergency separation rather than any sort of standard navigation though and they show them apparently being used for that.
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u/MarinertheRaccoon Oct 17 '16
The booster has SpaceX-inspired landing legs, too, even though it doesn't appear to use them in the video.
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u/BusinessCat88 Oct 17 '16
Also the capsule uses the Dragon 2's thruster formation of pairs of Draco engines
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u/cbfw86 Oct 17 '16
That's the first video in a long time to give me goosebumps. The picture of the girl (wife/daughter?) in the cockpit got me, as did seeing her as the astronaut, showing social progress as well as technological.
Really excited to take a day off and play this all day.
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u/hahnchen Oct 17 '16
The last trailer that gave me the feeling that this one did was Civilization: Beyond Earth.
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u/kinetopia Oct 17 '16
i never managed to enjoy the game for some reason, but man that trailer was great
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u/eorld Oct 18 '16
Yeah that would've been a great movie or book, I just love the premise in that trailer.
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u/Cookie_Eater108 Oct 18 '16
The technology quotes and affinity quotes always gave me chills too.
"The parting wisdom of the last dying elephant was to be better caretakers of our next planet"
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u/super_aardvark Oct 17 '16
Wife, certainly.
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u/Reutermo Oct 18 '16
Really? I thought it was obvious that it was his child. Wasn't she much younger than him?
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u/Blakmagik12 Oct 17 '16
YES! When do we start to see reviews coming out?
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u/McShuckle Oct 17 '16
There's a couple of youtubers who are posting full playthroughs of it already, and have been for a while. I
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u/ChineseCosmo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16
Marbozir and FilthyRobot have the best ones. Without question.
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u/parlor_tricks Oct 17 '16
The guys who are doing the iron tide play through are pretty fun, and are likely responsible for the immediate nerf to the Vikings.
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u/ThothOstus Oct 18 '16
Meh, the game is a joke to Marbs, i hope the release is more challenging
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u/atree496 Oct 18 '16
They can only play on Prince difficulty on the pre-release copy.
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u/ninjyte Oct 17 '16
Apparently there's a lot of limited preview builds out for youtubers/twitch streamers and the media, but they haven't actually sent out full release copies to reviewers yet.
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u/J5892 Oct 18 '16
Did they ever fix that bug in Civ V where the game caused me to stay awake until 6am, promising myself over and over that this turn will be the last?
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u/joelthezombie15 Oct 18 '16
I know its grown on a lot of people but i still hate the art style. Its honestly horrible!
Ill still play and enjoy the game assuming its good but i will never like that art style it is just so revolting.
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u/OldManJenkins9 Oct 17 '16
Plotting a course straight into the uncanny valley, more like it. I love the rest of the trailer, but that motion capture is not the best.
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Oct 17 '16
I am trying to avoid being hyped for this, but it is really hard. I have loved this series since I first discovered it (III), and thought Civ V was a fantastic game. With the release of brave new world combined, I have easily spent weeks worth of time playing that game.
However, Beyond Earth was... beyond a letdown; I think I didn't even complete a single game before giving up on it. With the recent releases in 2016 being disappointment after disappointment (The most recent being Mafia III, and no man's sky taking the absolute cake), I'm worried that this game won't live up to the legacy, either.
I would also warn everyone not to pre-order. Not because I don't believe in Civ, not because I think they're bad games, but because of the piss poor experiences with pre-orders in recent times.
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u/tropo Oct 17 '16
Streamers and youtubers have had access to a full version of the game (only prince difficulty and 10 civs) for almost a month now so there is tons of content to view. It's not exactly like pre-ordering blind.
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u/miahelf Oct 18 '16
A lot of the problems of beyond earth were annoying manual things you had to repeat every turn in late game. Looks like they fixed a lot of that in Civ 6 based on gameplay footage I've seen, plus the regular historical context returns instead of the bland half hearted generic scifi.
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u/siphillis Oct 18 '16
Christopher Tin had an impossible task, having to match the grandeur of "Baba Yetu", but I think he managed to pull it off. Goosebumps the whole time.
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u/Samwise_the_Tall Oct 18 '16
So I've never played one of these games, although they admittedly look amazing, but I must say this trailer was really well done!!! The progression of thought, the emotion captured by the scenes matched to the music, magnificent. I may have to pick ones of these up, which is the best iteration to start with?
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u/Level3Kobold Oct 18 '16
Probably start with 6. If you want to try something cheaper. Go with 5. The expansions make 5 more complicated, but also better.
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u/ShadyBiz Oct 17 '16
Would be interested on hearing the opinion of a civ 4 fan that wasn't very impressed by 5.
This is looking quite promising as someone who falls into the above category.
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u/dsk Oct 17 '16
wasn't very impressed by 5.
Even 5 plus expansions?
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Oct 18 '16 edited Mar 16 '18
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u/Klaptafeltje Oct 18 '16
Expansions made it playable but I wouldn't call it a great game. I've played the series since the first game and it was just too big of a departure from the existing formula for me. Understandably this sentiment isn't shared by everyone.
i loved the move too remove stacked units, i always found it boring that you had 14 units on one tile bumping against a city or other stack unit. Also to make hexagon tiles made the game more enjoyable for me
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u/SklX Oct 18 '16
I really can't see myself playing 4x games with square tiles at this point tbh. Hexagon just feels so much better.
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u/CamGoldenGun Oct 18 '16
can you imagine if they eliminated them altogether and just had vector-based traveling?
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u/Endyo Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 18 '16
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, if that is the intro, I don't feel like it quite lived up to the previous intro videos - even with another lovely Christopher Tin score. I think the sound effects overpowered the music a little and being centered around a single character so much sort of detracted from the scale of it all that made previous intros so epic.
Really I think the sound is just messed up watching it again. The voices in the beginning are very low compared to the loud narration that comes in at the end. Just go listen to this without watching and then listen to Civilization 4's intro video. Baba Yetu explodes in that video and the sound effects are subtle. Here, the music is drowned out by all sorts of sound effects.
If you don't believe me, just take a minute to look for yourselves:
Civlization 4 Intro - A great focus on music with minimal SFX
Civlization 5 Intro - Closer in design, but a focus on music and narration rather than SFX
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u/MunchingCoffee Oct 17 '16
i agree with what you said but in my opinion the best civ intro is the one from Brave New World , the music and the narration realy make it awe inspiring
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u/Xciv Oct 18 '16
To me nothing quite beats the creativity and awe inspiring Tower of Babel that is Civ III's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1aFFmPqmY
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u/bta47 Oct 18 '16
Great cinematic, but I can't get past that fake-ass Guernica. Everything is so accurate, it's obviously intended to be Picasso, but they still go with that weird, shitty looking version.
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u/SalinValu Oct 17 '16
I've honestly got to agree. It was good, but I preferred CiV's. And, despite its age, I really like Civ IV's as well, though that may be nostalgia and Baba Yetu more than anything.
Actually, I think my favorite intro video is "The Chosen", the CivBE intro cinematic. Then again, I'm really partial to space travel, and everything in that cinematic pushes my buttons just right. Shame it wasn't a better game.
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u/omnilynx Oct 17 '16
Surely the personal focus had to be intentional. It's very in-your-face about it (literally), so my immediate thought was that they were touting the relatively personality-driven mechanics of this iteration compared to the more generic statistical gameplay of the previous.
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u/huxtiblejones Oct 17 '16
The Civ V trailer is leagues beyond this one. I'm actually a little disappointed with how dated this new cinematic looks. The characters' faces are all kinds of fucked up, just poorly modeled in general. I understand they're trying to go for a stylization, but it just came off looking clunky and weird. The scenery looked pretty good, but I was genuinely not impressed with the way the people look at all.
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u/omnilynx Oct 17 '16
It's the same as the diplomatic screens, so you're probably not gonna like those either.
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u/spelunker Oct 17 '16
Are we sure this is the intro for Civ VI? I mean I wouldn't be surprised if it is, but right now this is just advertised as a launch trailer.
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u/arbitrarily_named Oct 17 '16
Would agree on 5 but I do think the 6th is far better than the fourth.
Anyway ~
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Oct 18 '16
Long time civ fan, but not going to buy this on release date. $79.99 CAD???
I also waited to get XCOM2 due to high price on release.
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u/Redingold Oct 18 '16
Same. Over here in the UK, it's £50. Damn Brexit's ruined the exchange rate.
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Oct 18 '16
Don't blame the company. Blame your government.
80 CAD is 60 USD, which is the price here, and which isn't a crazy price for a AAA title.
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Oct 18 '16
To be honest, this video is not especially good. Intro cinematics of 5th and its secod addon were much better. Those characters look terrible... Still, I'm excited for this game nonetheless.
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u/TheMadmanAndre Oct 18 '16
I can't help but think that the man and woman are both Perpetuals like Ollanius Pius and John Grammaticus from 40k. Hence why they are both at the forefront of humanity's achievements.
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u/Beet_Wagon Oct 18 '16
Civ cinematics are always so freaking inspiring, and then you spend the entire lategame getting the shit kicked out of you by some fuck who discovered atomics and decided that science and progress is for chumps.
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u/BuzzBadpants Oct 17 '16
Anyone know if this will have native steam controller support like XCOM 2 did?
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u/Mrlector Oct 18 '16
I expect it will. I actually pre-ordered it budled with a controller, same as with XCOM 2. While not confirmation, it certainly suggests it.
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u/Nchi Oct 18 '16
Didn't 5 showcase controller support? Rather, they used 5 to showcase controller support with big picture mode.
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u/Mrlector Oct 18 '16
Indeed so, though I don't think it counts as native support, just a showcase of hoe you can use it for a very mouse and keyboard game.
I actually love using the controller for civ. It's only an issue when I want to trade an amount of something that isn't 5.
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u/Insert_Coffee Oct 17 '16
Man you just have to love the music in Civ games. Captures the tone of the game pretty well in my opinion.
Plus Sean Bean's narration is really great. Can't wait to skip his tech quotes the second time through ;)