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So, is it just me, or is Civ VI – especially with the Rise and Fall DLC – an incoherent, over-complicated mess? In some ways, it feels like a natural progression from what they were doing with IV and V, but they just turned it up to 11 and then started adding in more and more shit. The AI is definitely a step up over past games with the grievances system, but districting, civic stacking, the revamped tourism system (fucking rock bands), and so forth are a fucking lot to juggle.
I rather like the gold age and new city conversion mechanics, wish I was good enough to use them right
Calling Capitalism “Democracy” is also a fuckload of ideology. Communism is more democratic than capitalism.
Something always felt weird about playing Civ. It’s too grand in scope, it’s really weird to play as “America” or some shit when you are in the Neolithic age husbanding animals.
This review of the series (done before 6) does a good job explaining why it’s a bad representation of human history (it’s cause it’s done through the lens of imperialism, making each win state be some form of domination).
With the erosion of personal freedoms and a solely materialistic approach to problems, most communist nations fell behind in the race to progress. Didn’t help that the bureaucracy too often proved corrupt and inefficient (in part, due to the apparatus of state security) and that paranoia led to a massive (and expensive) military complex.
This describes the modern day US almost perfectly.
