Our highly acclaimed Civ6 youtube PotatoMcWhiskey has taken a look at Old World, and decided to make a video about the start with the Hittites. He’s a Civ6 master mind, so it should be interesting to see what he has to say about Old World. If you want to discuss the Hittites or this video, please had over to this thread.
Anton Strenger at GDC: Ahistorical Accuracy: Bringing New Myths and Representation to ‘Civilization’
We talked about it already here, at the end of March Anton Strenger, lead designer of the “New Frontier Pass” has given a talk at the GDC, named “Ahistorical Accuracy: Bringing New Myths and Representation to ‘Civilization'”. At the time back, the talk itself was not yet available, but Anton told us via Twitter that it is now possible to watch it online. You can find it here, it’s 1h about Civ, and we hope everyone can enjoy it. Please comment about this talk in our forum here.
We now have ALL the Civ2 MGE scenarios!
Our user blake00 has finished his heroic effort to collect all the Civ2 MGE scenarios. As you can imagine, this was no easy task. He searched the internet for endless hours, to provide the civfanatics with all the playing material out there. But now he has finished it! He has uploaded the grand amount of 378 scenarios plus another 7 bigger collections to our database. There now seem to be only 7 scenarios missing, which might be forever lost.
If you want to delve into this treasure of Civ2 material, then check out his thread here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ2-mge-tot-scenario-mod-preservation-project-log-378-processed-7-super-collections.671035/
The picture here displays 4 of the last scenarios to be uploaded:
- Final Fantasy 1 scenario by Jomb, which also converted a lot of its graphics to FF1 NES graphics
- Dune The Battle for Arrakis Scenario v1.0 by Isaac Ashdown, which should be rather popular right now….
- Starcraft: Terran War Scenario v1.1 by aland007, which contains all custom graphics for the 3 Starcraft factions
- Dawn of the Dead Scenario v2.0 by Blackclove, which blake00 made return from the dead.
The example here is random, and obviously non-exhaustive, given that we have 378 scenarios and cannot cover all. But if you have the time, you should check out the link above and see if there is something which is to your taste :).
And at last: Thanks blake00 for your work, this is great to have all these gems here.
Play the new Civ4 “Game Of The Month” #235
And it’s another month, which is awaiting world domination!
In the current Civ4 “Game Of The Month” you play as Suryavarman II of the Khmer on a Great Plains map on an Archipelago world on Deity. You may opt for the adventurer bonus and get the same starting bonuses as the Deity AI (2 settlers, 3 archers, 1 worker), plus a great spy.
You have until June 15 to finish this game. For all details, please check the related thread.
Kotaku: Old World Is The Best New 4X Game In Years
The video game website Kotaku has just released a news article, which describes in its headline Old World as “The Best New 4X Game In Years”. An excerpt from the article below:
I said simply calling this “Civilization x Crusader Kings” was unfair not because it’s technically wrong—five minutes with this game will show you that’s the case—but because it sells the final product short. Old World is so much more than just bolting one game’s popular system into another genre and hoping for the best.
Old World actually feels pretty closer to those older, near-perfect Civ spin-offs like Colonization and Alpha Centauri. Games that took the basic 4X formula and repackaged it into a shorter, more focused setting which swapped out the passing of ages for some more interesting mechanics. In Colonization that meant turning tobacco into cigars and sending them back to Europe. In Old World it’s managing an ancient empire through not just roads and farms, but family ties as well.
You can read the full article here and discuss with us in our forum here.
Old World is available on the big distribution platforms, you can find the relevant links below:
Humankind:Mississippians Community Event
Amplitude Studios, the developers of Humankind, have today announced another event: The Mississippians community event.
This event adds another civ, the Mississippians, to Humankind, the basic stats of this civ you can see above. This civ was very well known for their earth work, and with this we also get three new challenges, running from May 1 to June 9:
- 500 000 Builder Stars: A wallpaper pack with the culture art for the Mississippians… and maybe more
- 1 000 000 Builder Stars: The Soundtrack for the Mississippian culture
- 2 000 000 Build Stars: The Mississippian culture unlocked in the game
Discuss this event in our forum here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mississippians-community-event.677033/
TakeTwo and Zynga merge
Yesterday it was announced that TakeTwo, the parent company of 2K which ownes Firaxis Games, will merge with the deveoper Zynga, which is mostly known for browser games. While we hope for not another iteration of CivWorld, this still allows us to speculate about the future development of Civ.
Read more about it in our thread here, and join the discussion: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/take-two-zynga.676999/
Play the new Civ6 “Game Of The Month” #135
And again, as every month, we have a new challenge for you! In this “Game Of The Month” you play as Wilfried Laurier of Canada on a standard-size tilted axis map on Immortal level. You must go for domination victory and prevent all other civs from achieving another victory condition. You have until June 15 to finish this game.
For all the details please see here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/6otm135-announcement.676841/