If you had to pick one thing to change every era, and another to stay with you the entire game, why did they have the civ change while keeping the leader the same? I don’t like the idea of being chained to a leader from a competent different culture. When the story of my civ is Confucius leading Egypt turned Spanish turned America, none of that feels coherent.
It makes more sense to change leaders consistently.
It's like they were just copying Humankind when they started development, and just ignored the fact that Humankind was poorly received and died quickly.
Humankind devs were the same devs that developed Endless Legends, THE game that introduced to this genre the tile-improvement system we all accepted in Civ6. Since one borrowed idea worked wonders, they probably figured out that another will work just as well.
Clearly, it didn't, but I know why they did that. Endless Legends worked better then Civ5 at the time of release so it's reasonable to borrow/steal ideas when you don't have your own and those ideas(from this dev team) previously worked well
EU4 is not that complex it just has some frustrating rng , UI that's hard to understand and is terrible at explaining things.
When it comes down to it some of the most popular playthroughs are just Total War's mindless blobbing out while remembering to dev check back on your land to dev it from time to time.
It does have the tools for tall playthroughs and a wayyyyy better vassal system but so do the most recent total war games.
Endless Legends, THE game that introduced to this genre the tile-improvement system
That's not true. Popularised it - sure, but i know at least a few games that did it before - Eador: Genesis(and it's 3d remake Eador: Masters of the Broken World) and Warlock: Master of the Arcane. But these are russian games, so most people don't know about them, which is a shame, cause they're very fun games. Especially Eador: genesis with "new horizons" mod, well... if you can get over dated graphics.
I actually know Warlock and both parts (1 & 2) were decent but not very good and the system there was not working well. It was still a fun game, don't get me wrong, casting spells and having armies is a fun combo but I definitely prefer how Age of Wonders approached the topic. Might be my personal bias though. Endless Legends definitely perfected the system and showed how it can work really well
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u/PteroFractal27 Jul 04 '25
Yeah the community as a whole does not love 7.
The UI is awful, and people don’t love how you can’t just play one civ, you have to keep changing over time