Three Moves Ahead 374: Civilization VI

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Troy "I hate that jerk-ass Montezuma" Goodfellow is joined by Rowan Kaiser, Fraser Brown, and David V. Heron to talk about one of the biggest strategy games of the year: Civilization VI. A new Civilization game is always a cause for celebration. But what has changed? What has remained? Is it a revolution or an evolution? In this case, it turns out to be more of the latter. It's a fun game, it has some great ideas, but at its core it remains the same Civilization game it has been for decades. But... is that a bad thing?

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:05.5	Here to talk about the biggest strategy game, I think, of 2016, from one of the most
0:11.2	storied, if not the most storied franchises in strategy game history. I'm, of course, talking
0:15.7	about Sid Meyers, Civilization Six, a design by Ed Beach, to help cover the ground of this very important
0:23.6	game, and I think we'll talk more critically about the design, whether it's a good game or not,
0:28.3	though I would like to get people's opinions on that. I have three of our regular irregulars.
0:33.9	Freelance writer Fraser Brown. Hello.
0:39.5	Freedlance writer Rowan and Kaiser. From the first stirrings of life beneath water
0:42.7	I have waited for this podcast
0:45.2	Do not take up time with artistic merit
0:48.7	And our co-hosts partner in crime
0:53.6	From the Game Design Roundtable podcast, Mr. Dave Heron.
0:57.1	Good evening.
0:58.8	So let's begin with, I don't even know where to begin with this.
1:03.8	Fraser, let's start with you.
1:05.2	Let's just get the big things out of the way.
1:08.8	What for you is the most important, significant design choice
1:13.5	in Civilization 6 that sets it apart? Oh man, put me on the spot here straight away, Troy. I'd say
1:19.9	probably the district stuff is, it's also my favorite thing with Civ6, where they have unstacked the cities.
1:31.0	That's what FRAXIS are calling it.
1:33.7	So a lot of the buildings are now in these separate districts.
1:38.7	You have the main city district where you build granaries and things like that.
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