Civilization VI

I don't know if this is too much of a tangent, but I teach this video game music class.

And the other day we were talking about the game Civilization VI.

And it's correspondence with truth, actually.

But the point is, in that game, there is this civilopedia, which is mostly there to explain the mechanics of the game because it's really, really complicated.

So while the UI and all was this dark and you know, like some of the character designs were dark, it still was very colorful.

It kind of had like the Civilization 6 issue in a way where the classic fans or the older fans just wrote it off because they called it a quote unquote mobile game or whatever when it just had a different aesthetic.

So with Diablo 4, they went back to the Diablo 2 style thing.

So It had like some things going for it and some going against it in the community.

...

when you're playing Civ VI, you know, you, you can have your, uh, your little city states.

Sure.

All I'm saying is you never see the city states go into war against each other.

Yeah.

It, I, and, and you know what? I, I, uh, I remember that when I was looking basically, you know, a board game that would be like, uh, the game that I played at the time, it was like, uh, Civilization VI, right?

Yeah.

So I looked for something and, uh, uh, the thing that was available was the New Dawn version of-

She's kind of awesome.

You could play as her in Civilization VI, I think.

Good, okay.

Yeah.

They went back to bed.

I just went back to being a diplomatic genius on Civ 6.

About an hour goes by and I start getting pretty tired.

So I get up to close my bedroom window before heading to bed when the alarm goes off again.

the balance is really well put together but in a really quite frustrating way So the balance is really good in that generally it has that nice sort of...

I always like to think of emotional curves of video games, right? They tend to be the things that keep us going, right? The reason that Civ V or Civ VI or whatever is so Moorish is because it does really good ups and downs of a bit of boring and a bit of exciting and a bit of this and a bit of that and a bit...

And you can kind of plot them on a graph almost.

Well, Dungeon Crawler definitely has that in terms of early on you feel like, how on earth am I going to get through the next X number of stages of this thing? And then partway through you're like, yeah, I feel really powerful now.

I mean, one of the episodes we did recently, we looked at Civilization.

I can't remember who was on the episode with me, but we were talking about the sales figures for Civ V and Civ VI compared to Civ VII.

And Civ VII has, I mean, you know, it was a disappointing launch.

It failed to set the world alight like Civ V and Civ VI.

And the... 4-3-2-1, you know? And again, it's how much can...

How far can Firaxis evolve Civilization as a franchise? Is Civilization 8 just going to be a reskinned Civilization 7? Because we know they'll be working on Civilization 8.

And this is one of the things that we covered.

It's like the difference in performance and visuals and music, the longer time goes on, the distances get smaller between them.