Honest Game Trailers | Sid Meier's Civilization 

When someone asks if the game is good, we say, with 2 days of sleep deprivation: "It's amazing! DON'T PLAY IT".

Spiral out!

Is it on your cellphone tho?

666th like 🎉

@@Aceshooting has an amazing Ipad port

Legitimately?? 615 years of experience is crazy

@@dre30mag65 14,671 hrs is not 615 years lol it’s less than two years

@@jameseberle3989 days*

This is why I swore off all CIV games forever. It's too much of a time-sink.

​@@InvaderNatDT I can't think of anything better to do.

it's half the pleasure. other half is being interested in trade agreements with england

Everyone Greco, Everyone felt it 😅

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I just got into Civ6, this line helped me understand why i prefer Against the Storm over this.

i audibly blurted out "real" when he said that lmao it can get so bad 😭

Glorious!!!

What happened in his gameplay during the class?

Civ 2 formed my earliest gaming memories because my father always let me watch hin playing it when I was maybe 3-4 years old. Great Times!

@@jjjsalang we played the original Rise of Rome scenario in Civ 2 as Carthage. So......not a lot to be honest, lol. Did manage to kill some Gallic chariots with our elephants, tho.

Does he still blame you for his addiction? 😂

Nice idea! At least I get to sleep between charges

Yeah, I have Civ 6 and it's really good time waster on a flight or road trip

Deck user here. Get you a 65W battery bank and long usd-c cable rated for fast charging and keep playing. Even if you manage to drain both (I've yet to), just take a 1/2hr break and recharge both and you'll be good to go hours longer.

​@@ryuk65 have they improved the civ 6 ai since launch? I just went back to civ 5 shortly after civ 6s release.

​@@Joshua-fi4ji same. Civ 5 is the penultimate version at this time.

Similar story, back in Civ 1. I sat down at the lab computer just after hours to give it a try. Some time later, my bladder ached too badly and I had to make a trip to the washroom. On the way back (I still had not desire to stop) I noted that it was 4 a.m.

Civ 5 is the best, imo, I felt that, mate, one more turn, just 1 more, boom its 5am :D Civ 5 with mods is probably the best strategy game out there tbh

I think most Civ players have done this at least once.

@@jfridy Or multiple times, I was addicted to Civ II.

I once lost a weekend to Civ V. I logged on a Friday. And signed off on a Sunday. I’ve only lost a weekend like that once more in my life but crossing the international dateline was involved.

And then you could lose those friends again by playing Diplomacy!

For real, you were doing fine with some XCOM and Total War in your youth but after that first Civ game oh man, then a few more Civ games, you find yourself years later with so many hours in EU4 you can consider it an honorary degree in Geography. 😂😂😂

This speaks to me in so many levels I feel observed

You joke but I graduated with a history degree last year. I started playing Civ when I was 12. 😂😂

@@UdyKumra i don't think anyone is joking here. I started with AoE and AoM when I was ten and twelve years later got my degree in History as well. It is just the way it is lol

Same here but I don't have a history degree because I wanted to eat when I grow up. But I'm going to get it as a hobby latter down the line.

lol. makes it a lot easier to get through the meetings.

Tell you get angry when someone betrays you 😂

same it's the only thing that made me stay awake during sociology classes

200 IQ move 😅

@@seanmurphy9913 😂😂😂

Age of Empires series deserves the love. Over 20 years old and still going strong! Stronger than ever in fact. :D

Hoping all the Paradox games get Honest Trailers.

Incest Simula... I mean, Crusader Kings!

@@Enceladeans Yep. And then Dawn of War!

Rise of Nations is another throwback classic.

"because everything i can think of sounds racist..." honesty 100.

Clever way to weasel out of having to think of something for each of the gorzilion leaders they've got now (compared to the first one). The Pokemon "starring" lists are bad enough!

It was kinda sad tbh, especially given he made a comment about getting revenge against the English immediately afterwards.

@@at7915 Found the english royalist!

Then they show a clip of blonde white people in a futuristic utopia. _"Clever girl."_

It's not actually by Sid Meier though. It's by Brian Reynolds, just like Civilization II and Alpha Centauri. They just stuck Sid Meier's name on it for marketing reasons.

Smh, they talked about the board game, of course they know that.

​@@johnharris3311 Has nothing to do with that. Sid Meier hasn't been the main designer since Civ I. There have always been multiple designers attached to Firaxis-Titles and never the same main designer in order to keep it fresh. Sid Meier is more like a seal of quality. They kept using it after Sid Meier's Pirates, because Robin Williams told them to. And who would they be to refuse him?

@@stevesteiner7220 Not quite true. Meier was lead designer on Civilization Revolution, aka Civilization For Consoles.

@@johnharris3311 Uh, Sid Meier is the founder of Firaxis. That's why they kept his name on the series. He might not have _personally_ designed it, but it's still his company. Plus, by this point the naming scheme is tradition. Regarding Colonization: The base game (of Civ 4: Colonization, at least) absolutely sucks, however there are AMAZING mods out there that make it so much better. I don't have my hours counted on Steam for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if I have more hours in that game than any single of the main series games. And I'm currently busy modding my _own_ changes into it to make it even better. It's amazingly easy.

Yes, the music! (And the sound effects could be good, too.)

@@whatisahandle221 it’s stuff like the sound effects being perfect that give this game such a level of polish. Another thing like that is the icons for units and buildings and techs etc. They’re overlooked 99% of the time, but they’re actually amazingly communicative yet simple. I often play Civ in the language I’m learning, and it’s actually a great tool. The icons and UI basically let you play most of the game perfectly alone. I learned the Spanish word for everything from scout to jet fighter by just playing, without using any English, because the icons were so clear even though they’re tiny. Every tech, civic, unit, building resource type is a huge vocab list of nouns that matter.

Sogno di Volare by Christopher Tin is awesome too! Even when you load for a long time and listen to it for 10+ minutes! xD

I thought I was the only one who spent 5mins on the main menu every damn time before actually starting a game😂

FYI, the song is just the most popular prayer in Christianity in Swahili.

painful - but it sure doesn't stop me. in fact, it just makes me want to upgrade my computer!

While Civ 5 remains my fav, I’d take Beyond Earth before Civ 6

Same for me with civ 4

I wonder why they didn't show any Civ II footage. That's the only one I saw missing.

I have a copy. It wouldn't be released nowadays.

@@edwardrusk Why?

@@stevesteiner7220 Topic is too touchy. If you put slavery in the game (because it was historically a major aspect of New World colonialism), you get canceled for having slavery in your game. If you don't put slavery in the game (to avoid the aforementioned), you get canceled for whitewashing historical atrocities.

@Leyrann Yeah, somewhat. It moreso that the narrative around First Nation's people have moved along a lot in the last 30 years, so having a "exploit the locals" simulation wouldn't go over well (understatement).

@@edwardrusk Why not? I have a game called Imperialism.

And the live rendition was fantastic

The first time I launched Civ IV and heard Baba Yetu for the first time, I sat there silently, frozen in awe and listened for a few minutes. Never before (and never after) has a video game music so deeply touched me. I had been playing every Civ before (Civ 1 on the Amiga 500), but I was not prepared for this. It kinda sucked they replaced the main screen and music with the expansions, luckily you could return to the original.

@@itchy-de There's some truly outstanding renditions of Baba Yetu online. It's one of my favorite songs of all time.

Conan was quoting Genghis Khan.

It was so much fun discovering that. "Ho-humm, I have a peaceful trading partner... oh god! Oh god! Fire everywhere!"

Read the wikipedia article about nuclear gandhi. self fulfilling myth from a bug that never existed

Sadly it is just a old urban myth. The game had no such "Variable underflow" issues and if one played the originals they'd find Gandhi just being Gandhi. But the urban myth became so well known that in later games it got implemented on purpose in honor of it and ever since Gandhi really liked nukes...

The Glitch was getting Democracy. Democracy reduces aggro by 1, setting Ghandi on the way to war. And Nuclear Weapons weren't far from Democracy.

This is too perfect of a glitch. 😂

Civ IV arguably has the best soundtrack, easily.

so Chinese

very related series

Nepu Nepu!

Honestly after the failure that was Beyond Earth, I just want a proper remaster of Alpha Centauri. I don't think anyone can capture it again.

I still play Civ 2. I tried more advanced versions, but they became so complex that they were no longer “fun.” They were more like work. I recently bought a reconditioned old computer, so I could still play civilization two on it

Yes, SimCity, and SimCity 2000, and SimCity 3000, and SimCity 4, and THERE WERE NO OTHERS.

@@Yonkage-ik5qb absolutely! I wonder why they've stopped making them?

@@philiplopresti4060 Because they got so focused on making a vehicle for ads. Grrrr.

Building Wonders is ok but nothing was more rewarding then getting a minimovie for building a super project. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded!

Alpha Centauri and Orion 2 - rest at the apex of the first triad of victory....

@@nathank2289 "AY! Git off my land, you peacekeeping son of a ."

Alpha Centauri ties with Civ 4 Caveman2Cosmos mod.

You think so? It certainly has the best quotes. But civ4 feels better.

Maybe they're afraid of triggering the activists who tried so hard to make it fail...and failed lol!

IV, definitely. The modding alone makes it the best.

@@timeisnowboltz770 THIS. Fall from heaven was one of the best games ever created.

I prefer Endless Space to Stellaris, honestly. Europa Universalis is probably my favorite game in the genre, though.

Distant Worlds 2 is OK 👌

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Stellaris: when you become xenophobe not for role play but to get rid of the lag.

Rimworld: a game that make most horror movies look harmless.

Yet ironically they made a Jehovahs Witnesses joke just a couple weeks after they suffered a mass shooting attack.

To be fair, the Zulus are made for stomping. Always one of the best choices for warmongers.

Civ 6 for me never had that “one more turn” feel. But I absolutely had it for Civ 5! It’s also my most played steam game.

@@dereka5017 yeah civ 6 is more stressful. Those damn cards…

Me still trying to get all Wonders in King difficulty while playing Shoshone with pure Liberty policy all these years. While my friends moved on to CiV6.

that's the conditions I give to my 8 year old

Civ4, Emperor level, Tokugawa on fractile map is for men only

Yeah, I still go back to Civ 4 a lot. For me, what makes it so playable is that it moves quickly. 5 and 6 are so heavy on graphics and animation that they just feel slow to play, while you can absolutely burn through turns in 4 on a modern PC. Plus, Baba Yetu and Leonard Nimoy.

@@jasonblalock4429 I mean there are options to make combat and movement faster in Civ V and VI. And while I understand not everyone has the best computers available to them, surely a game from 2011 can’t be that hard to run

I agree. And once you've played the Caveman2Cosmos mod for Civ4, you'll never play another version of Civ.

sounds based

Sounds like real-life politics.

Time to purge some xenos 😤😤

Yeah, the history of the Civ video games and the Civ board games is... complicated. Meier claims the Tresham board game was not a great influence on the video game design (and other than theme and having techs, aren't very similar). But Microprose *did* license the name for the originally game. When MP came out with the sequel, AH claimed the license did not cover sequels, so MP bought Tresham's company (UK-based Hartland Trefoil). Hasbro soon acquired both MP and AH, but Meier had moved on to Firaxis. Several board games have since been put out that reverse the flow (board games adaptations of the video game), identifiable by having "Sid Meier's" in the name. And there was also an Advanced Civilization (which was released around the same time as the first Sid Meier video game Civ) successor put out several years ago in Mega Civilization. They have since rebranded the game as Eastern and Western Empires due to rights issues over the Civ name.