/vr/ - Retro Games

Civ bread

What's your favourite civilization game? Mine is CivIII. II has the best wonder videos, but the gameplay sucks and enemies can go through your entire stack of army if only one of your units is defeated. Otherwise, great games.

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>>3846360
Wing Commander was awesome though.

I feel bad for anyone stuck with only console or only computer games. Both had so many gems.

What's the ultimate strategy for Civ1, /vr/?

>>3291130
"Overdesigned" is very much like "overrated." It's entirely personal and doesn't really mean anything to someone else.

Silhouette Mirage could seem overdesigned to someone fairly new to 2D platform action games. But bear in mind it came out near the end of that genre's huge popularity after many many other games. The people SM was made for were already a little burnt out on more "normal" action platformers. So to them the added complexity wasn't "overdesign", it was just enough. Though with SM specifically there's also the issue of how it was ported and Working Designs breaking the game balance, but that's another issue. Also it's entirely possible that part of Symphony of the Night's popularity was also due to this phenomenon.

Likewise, someone unfamiliar with the strategy games could look at Civilization 2 or 3 and think they looked "overdesigned" while someone who is into the genre and used to playing Europa Universealis would see the same games as bare bones.

You could look at most genres that way really. Street Fighter V or Tekken 6 would look "overdesigned." Same with modern FPS games, sports games, roguelikes etc etc. The big games being made are for people who have been following along with the genre progression for a while. Most of them would seem "overdesigned" to someone unfamiliar.

So yes, like things being overrated, it exists as an aspect of your opinion on certain games. But other than that doesn't really mean much.

I like it more than Civ2 which I feel introduced a lot of weirdness and poor aesthetic choices.

>>3164981
The game about civilizations for the religion about civilizations.