{"id":1495,"date":"2009-05-22T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T00:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2009-05-22T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T00:21:23","slug":"is-it-possible-to-dislike-civilization-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/22\/is-it-possible-to-dislike-civilization-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Possible to Dislike Civilization IV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this week’s Rock, Paper, Shotgun podcast,<\/a> a reader writes in with the question “I don’t like Civilization IV. What’s wrong with me?” (26:12 point.)<\/p>\n

And, as is typical of my British colleagues, they never quite get around to answering that question. John Walker respects the greatness of the design, but never got into the series. Jim Rossignol says his dad likes it. (I may have these names backwards because all British game journalists sound alike.)<\/p>\n

This could be a very uninteresting question. If turn based strategy games are not your cup of tea, then the entire Civilization<\/em> series can be seen as a waste of time. If this is simply reduced to a matter of taste then there is clearly nothing wrong with someone who does not like Civilization IV<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But can a strategy gamer not like Civilization IV<\/em>? When Civ III<\/em> came out, there were people in the Civ community who held to the conviction that Civ II<\/em> was better. But that’s a matter of preferring one iteration of a design over another. Among Civ fans, I can’t think of many examples of people wanting to go back from Soren Johnson’s design in Civ IV<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Of course, I love the series, and Civ IV<\/em> is probably the only game that I still play every week. And, showing the bias endemic to people as old as I am, I find it hard to believe that anybody – even so-called non-strategy people – wouldn’t enjoy it if they just gave it a chance<\/em>. Which is a stupid thing to say.<\/p>\n

I can get strategy people not liking Age of Empires<\/em>. And Dominions 3<\/em>. And even Defcon<\/em>. So how about it? Does anyone out there want to cop to not liking the best turn based strategy game ever made?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this week’s Rock, Paper, Shotgun podcast, a reader writes in with the question “I don’t like Civilization IV. What’s wrong with me?” (26:12 point.) And, as is typical of my British colleagues, they never quite get around to answering that question. John Walker respects the greatness of the design, but never got into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-o7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}