46 - Sid Meier's Civilization (feat. Nate Bethea)

you guys weren't kidding when you said this would eat up ALL my time because boy howdy I spent hours on the DEMOS ALONE

I think the best lesson that Civ could learn from the Paradox grand strategy games is that you win by surviving a late game crisis. Thwarting nuclear annihilation, climate change, pandemics... They should treat it like surviving the age of revolutions in EU4, the Mongol invasion in CK2, or the robot uprising in Stellar (or the War in Heaven, or the Galactic Invasion)

Thank you for Yaz Minsky recommendation

Very late, but I have a thing to add about Civ Rev: It was not an iOS game, at first. The mobile version is a port, it was first made for Xbox 360, with the goal of streamlining the mechanics down to be playable on a controller.

The thing that really surprised me about Civilization was when I did Sputnik and Leonard Nimoy said, "I've invented a new type of nonce detector. Beep. Beep. Beep."

Really loved the flow of this, talking about the games mechanically, how a game progresses, and themes. Bang on the money about its positivist viewpoint. Because it was mentioned; there was a cultural victory in Civ 4, and all it entailed was getting 3 cities with Legendary Culture, just the highest tier of culture / border pop. Ultimately all you did as a result was turtle up in 3 of your early cities rushing production and try to crap out wonder after wonder.

NATE!