He is maybe the most important game designer veteran. For 25 years now, Sid Meier has created jewels like Silent Service, Pirates! or Civilization. But in the last couple of years, the grandmaster didn't create original IPs anymore – all the games in the last seven years were remakes of his own oldies. But now, Sid promises to make new IPs, once more.
On April 28th, Meier's company Firaxis plans to publish Civilization Revolution – which is the first Civilization for consoles and which could be the first original Firaxis title in a long time. Jörg Langer spoke with the 53-year-old American, who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of this years' Games Developers Conference.
Sid Meier says in the interview that "I enjoy the idea of doing something I haven't done before, so a MMO would fit perfectly, but I really can't say if that would be the next game we do or if it's still a couple of games down the road before we come to that. Because I have new single player games I want to do, as well."
Dorkly: "History is written by the winners, and that applies to games, too. While we hold up our post-apocalyptic wasteland adventures, period piece assassinations and Liberty City crime sprees on a pedestal, we would do well to remember the little guys. These underseen, criminally underplayed games didn't do well critically or commercially, but they were still wonderful experiences. Here's a small list of recommendations of unsung heroes of the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era."
Alpha Protocol has some fantastic ideas in its conversation and story progression due to choices. I really enjoyed my time with it.
A spy rpg can be done with amazing results if handled correctly.
God Hand
Partly because I just recently discovered it and its insane.
What a gold nugget.
XMNR: 2K Games and Firaxis Games officially unveiled “Civilization: Beyond Earth” at a PAX East, which ended Sunday. The storied franchise heads for the stars for the second time in its twenty-three year history but the history of Sid Meier’s just-one-more-turn creation is as interesting as the games themselves.
March was a good month for bagging yourself a bargain! Hopefully we'll be able to find a few more good deals this month too. Here are a few of the bargains that FantasyMeister managed to bag himself in the month just gone.
It really dissapoints me to find that the newest Civilizaition game is going to be kind of "dumbed down" for consoles. I mean why shouldn't I be able to play a nice 20-30 hour game if i wanted to? That is what makes these kind of games fun, kind of like Europa Universalis, each tiny little decision can have a huge impact on the rest of the game. I really don't like strategy games that are over too quickly. My favorite SC, Warcraft and C&C games are the one where somehow everyone survives to the end and you have to siege eachother's big bases. I mean I have played lord of the rings battlefield earth games which have lasted almost 10 hours, they were glorious.
Sure not everyone has all the time in the world, but when I get a weekend off I should have the option to hop on x-box live and grind out a 20 hour game with some buddies.