Quoting: HoriAnd I don't really understand why people even care so much, really. I'm sure most of them won't keep themselves from playing just because of how it looks,

Looks do matter. If they wouldn't, I would play MUDs. Call me vain, but I have a hard time buying a game if I hate how it looks. That's one of the reason why I never played a Blizzard game and likely never will. WoW is the only major MMO game I never played, despite I am a huge MMO fan otherwise. Go figure. No, Civ VI isn't quite has fugly as a Blizzard game, but it will still take some serious great features to make me buy it, considering how ugly it is.

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For that price it's a sure buy, if only to support the idea of putting older games to Linux. I don't care how they get it to run, as long as it just...runs. Which is normally the reason why I am avoiding Wine like the plague as really nothing just "runs" with Wine, but if the prepackage it in a way for me that it feels like a native game, that's ok in my book.

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Quoting: kimyrielleConcentration of culture is actually fairly normal at least in countries having more cultural than natural wonders.

I don't quite understand what that means.

In North America we have a lot of natural wonders, so ours aren't quite as concentrated in one big city, unlike the European countries I mentioned. It's very hard to move a national park, so they tend to stay scattered across the nation. :D

And yes, it's great that a lot of the former DLC features are now part of the main game, but it's not as big of a deal if you already have Civ V and all its DLCs anyway. Whether I will prefer Civ VI over the full Civ V I already have is still an open question for me. So far I haven't yet seen a "killer feature" that would mark a true leap forward for the franchise. Like Civ V's combat system which was such a huge improvement over the silly "Kill one unit and the entire stack dies" combat of the older games. And the fugly cartoon art is more an argument for me to stay with Civ V, really.

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I don't get this obsession with cartoon art in the gaming industry either. I hate cartoon art and in my opinion, the only place for cartoon art is a cartoon. It's just a complete mismatch for a "serious" game like Civ. Sorry if this sounds mean, but if a game uses cartoon art I automatically assume their artists weren't talented enough to draw realistic art.

The other thing I am fairly concerned about is cities occupying more tiles. It sounds like a great idea at first, but when thinking of scale, even one-tile cities are fairly large on a map that's supposed to represent an entire planet. I assume it will take a really large empire to even accommodate more than a handful of cities in its territory now? I also don't like how they say that no longer able to create cities hosting pretty much all of a nation's wonders would be somehow a good thing. Again, it's not realistic. If you look at e.g. France or England, they have one city hosting pretty much all of the nation's landmarks (Paris and London respectively). Russia has two (Moscow and St Petersburg). Italy and Germany aren't quite as extreme, but their capitals still host more "wonders" then the rest of their cities combined. Concentration of culture is actually fairly normal at least in countries having more cultural than natural wonders.

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Quoting: MGOidDeep Silver may be Linux friendly, but Techland is not so much.

Eh, a company that launched Linux ports is Linux friendly in my book. If you want an example for a Linux unfriendly company, look at Blizzard. They flat out told people to use Windows if they want to play their games.

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I would be absolutely thrilled if it's Doom. Not because I care for the title (I don't), but seeing Bethesda supporting Linux would make me hop in circles like a bunny, as this would open up hopes to see Fallout and Skyrim ported as well. :D

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Quoting: pete910Just need epic to push Vulkan more now

Seeing how critical Epic Games has been of Microsoft lately, throwing their weight behind Vulkan should be a fairly natural thing for them to do.

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I have never played a stealth game before, but this one has me interested for being on Linux and featuring a girl player character for a change.

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Will absolutely buy this. :)

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Quoting: seven... if the linux support is good....

i left amd cpu and gpu behind me years ago and my life only got better, that said is not healthy for the market with one brand monoplizing the shit out of said market. so i aplaud their efforts

Yeah, absolutely this. Monopolies are bad. But Linux users already know that! :D

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