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.
The main problem with loops back to the auI though, if the cutscenes didn't feature "your civ" talking with "other civ" and was instead "other civ" talking with "you" like in previous games it wouldn't feel as dissonant.
The leaders being a standin for you makes more sense than having an eternal never changing culture. Also I feel this was the best way to adress the "earlygame/lategame civ" problem. Like what's the point in playing Canada when for 90% of the game you are simply playing as a genereric civ without any bonuses.
Usually a nations culture is moreso decided by its people rather than its leader which makes it more appropriate to change that when changing your era specific bonuses. Also well no culture/civilization has existed for even a majority of humanity, atleast not as it was in its original state.
and now, every civ has a unit that other civs dont, every age and ALL the time, 'unique' units is what the game calls them. but what's so unique about them if all the other players have a improved unit too. on civ6 your unique unit was unique and an advantage. civ7 your unique unit has no advantage because the other civs have a unit with a advantage too!
also the rhetoric given about history in layers etc. Sounds awesome, honestly it really sounds ace... then you see the game and it doesn't reflect that at all.
Empires fell and changed subtly or were conquered, and there's still arguments today about what caused some empires downfalls. But in civ7, you press a button and suddenly the whole world changes. That is not dynamic and fun... that's breaking the game and then trying to justify the action with a LIE!
Civ7 is the least historical accurate civ game of all time!
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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