The whole title doesn’t fit into the name of the thread, but it’s “Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks: ‘I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don’t read'”.
Our Firaxis forum resident @Andrew Johnson [FXS] told us about it, and he’s also the name-giving historian.
For most of our other forum residents it’s at least a well-known idea that Civ games can spark someone’s interest in history. It seems that actual historians (even if employed by Firaxis) hope for the same, as apparently there is currently a trend to read less books which results in less knowledge, and maybe Civ7 can be again another trigger to be more interested in history.
Andrew also talks about how the game could lock you into a specific perspective, which Civ7 tries to avoid better, although he dislikes one of the very concepts necessary for games, the “winning” part, which doesn’t exactly go well with history.
For more insights, please read the article here.
Our member @Isengardtom also pointed out that this month’s PCGamer (the physical edition) has an article about Civ7 which is not yet online, but seems to be pretty positive. We’re afraid that for now, to get all this spicy info, you’d have to buy the magazine, as only some sparse details are online.
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