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Sid's a very interesting game designer, he's phenomenal at making fun games - in any genre - but his games are fundamentally simple ones. If you take Civ 2-4, o
by ACS_Solver 3y ago
Sid's a very interesting game designer, he's phenomenal at making fun games - in any genre - but his games are fundamentally simple ones. If you take Civ 2-4, or SMAC, the strategic depth largely comes from the likes of Brian Reynolds and Soren Johnson. The mechanics they've designed are more complex than what Sid does, but Sid started it with his genius intuition for what makes a game fun.
For those so inclined, CivRev, the game that was basically "civ on consoles" is an actual Sid Meier and an interesting window into how he would have continued the series (the latest Designer Notes podcast goes into some length on this). CivRev is simpler, faster paced and dispenses with most of the detail of the PC games, but can be fun, even if not deep.