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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by enraged_camel on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:09PM (#11678274)
I love the Civilization series, but I'll be honest: it really bothers me that certain companies have one or two franchises and they keep churning out new iterations of them every year or every other year. It just feels like a money grab after a while (especially with franchises like Call of Duty or Madden, which, from my perspective, don't improve appreciably in between iterations).

I'd like to see them taking some risks and innovating new franchises, and perhaps even new genres.

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:20PM (#11678384)
> I love the Civilization series, but I'll be honest: it really bothers me that certain companies have one or two franchises and they keep churning out new iterations of them every year or every other year.

The main Civ series has had a new base-game release every 4-6 years, not every year or every other year.

Civ I: 1990 Civ II: 1996 (6 years) Civ III: 2001 (5 years) Civ IV: 2005 (4 years) Civ V: 2010 (5 years) Civ VI: 2016 (6 years)

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by wolfgke on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:59PM (#11678725)
Not to forget:

Civilization: Call to Power (1999)

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (continuing where Civilization II ended) (1999)

Call to Power II (2000)

Civilization: Beyond Earth (2014): Spiritual sequel to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

There are of course other PC games that are related to the Civilization series but those are IMHO further away from the "main Civilization series".

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:08PM (#11678802)
SMAC and the Call to Power series were made by different companies than the main Civ series, even though, through the process of the various sales and mergers since, all the rights related to them are, I think, in the same place now.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by Quinner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:35PM (#11679518)
SMAC was the same people, though you're correct about CtP.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:45PM (#11679595)
> SMAC was the same people,

SMAC was made by the same people (at least, some of the key people) that made Civ I-II, at a different company (Firaxis) from the one then producing and controlling the IP for the main Civ series (MicroProse) who had, IIRC, laid them off.

Several acquisitions and spinoffs of everyone involved, and all the rights are now with Take-Two, of which Firaxis is now a studio under the 2K games umbrella.

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by distances on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:11PM (#11678826)
Apart from Alpha Centauri, most Civ fans (me included) prefer to pretend these games do not exist.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by parylose on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:13PM (#11679340)
I loved Call to Power II and Ages of Man

But I can't play those any more because I'm addicted to hex maps now. And pie menus. I hope Civ 6 has pie menus.

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by FireBeyond on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:47PM (#11678609)
Ouch. This makes me feel old. I remember playing Civ I on my Amiga, on it's four floppy disks.

It's been around for a quarter of a century...

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by enraged_camel on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:44PM (#11679092)
>>The main Civ series has had a new base-game release every 4-6 years, not every year or every other year.

I think my point still stands.

I got downvoted for it though, so it's probably not very popular. :)

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by touristtam on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:58AM (#11681997)
I suggest you read these two articles that gives you some of the reason behind the yearly release of franchises: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/115152/Analysis_Koticks_R...

http://www.wired.com/2007/12/call-of-duty-gu/

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by jandrese on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:11PM (#11678290)
They did make Beyond Earth, which is more different than Civ than you might expect. That said, I didn't find Beyond Earth to be much fun...
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:51PM (#11678649)
Beyond Earth is essentially a sequel to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (both of which are in the same genre as the main Civilization series, though quite distinct from it.)

(They also recently made Sid Meier's Starships, which is a completely different genre, though IIRC it can integrate with Beyond Earth.)

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by Fomite on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:01PM (#11678739)
In contrast, I found it far more compelling than Civ. And yeah, they play surprisingly differently.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by yen223 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:46PM (#11680318)
On the flip side, I'd love to see other companies take on the historical strategy genre. I know there's Paradox, but nobody else seems to want to make a game that spans the entirety of human history.
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