Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

What his post DOES capture is how a game can seem rich and infinite until you start playing it for a longer time. Hitchcock used to say that he felt a movie was perfect when the screenplay was finished. Like he didn't want to film it at all. (That's probably apocrypha. Or I just got the story wrong.) I know where he's coming from, though. A game these days is never more loved than right after I pay for it in Steam. But yes, it looks like he had some fun... initially.

He's stopped coming here, otherwise I would link him to the discussion, but I do know that he doesn't care about the writing for a Civ game. People were giving him a hard time a while back because he was looking at Starcraft 2 like it was a multiplayer sport, and people kept bringing up the laughable campaign mode. To me it was like disliking RBI Baseball because of the plot.

You've spent more time with it, I take it, and it doesn't hold up? I haven't played it. I only know that it has a terrible title and looks pretty.