Sid Meier's Civilization VII

I wish I could write a play review for this game, but it will not load on my laptop! Every time I launch the game, it freezes my computer, and I have to do a hard manual restart! What can I do to get the game to launch properly?

作为一个注重游戏沉浸感的玩家，文明七建筑和单位模型的多样性一直是我关注这个游戏的重点。我很享受将一个小城镇逐渐发展起来的过程。这代单位建模和建筑模型较上代更精细，自然环境更贴近写实。这明明极大增强了代入感，可是大量的美术模型复用和独特单位缺乏变化成了这个游戏的难以更优秀的顽疾。例如，东亚文化的城墙套用的是欧式城墙，近代的城墙却套用了古典时代的城墙，你能够想象在一个充满工业化和蒸汽的城市中出现了原始城墙的感受吗，能想象升至满级的清朝八旗兵和现代化坦克对峙的荒谬吗。归根结底，这不是游戏工期和完成度的问题，这是游戏制作组对于自己游戏的态度问题，往往这样的小细节，才能体现一个制作组对他们游戏的关注和爱。我本以为制作组不断的更新会完善这些问题，或者在付费dlc里解决这样的错误。即便在付费内容里，制作组也不愿意多花精力和时间做好游戏内容，那么自然也收获了无数差评和玩家的愤怒。 在未来，制作组会推出更多这样的文明扩展内容，我对此深感失望和无力。 另外，游戏的昼夜循环和具有文化变种的改良设施什么时候会上线呢？一成不变的粮仓和码头这类仓库建筑什么时候会随时代变化呢？我想，这一切都要交给社区的模组创造者了。

They're not competing against other strategy games - they're competing against Civ V. A pretty game but the amount of pop-ups makes it feel like navigating a cluttered inbox. For my taste, there's a reason why less graphic detail is more thought provoking and engaging. If they reboot Civ V - I would say a very *light* refresh of the graphics and a culling of what works and doesn't work about the franchise would be the move. Let's be honest, these games are going to have to be playable on worse and worse computers because of part scarcity / price. Please, for the love of god, do not go full wharrgarbl and make shiny Blizzard level reboot (unless it's cute kawaii Civ V, i'm on board with that)

I was familiar with a lot of the negative criticism surrounding this game, but I wanted to give it a fair shot since it was free to play for a week. As a fan of the Civilization series and strategy games in general, there is a lot of positive things I could say about Civilization VII but I believe this entry has some very poor game design decisions that absolutely kill my enjoyment of it. I could elaborate on some of its many issues (poor UI/UX, civ switching, excessive monetization...) but at its core what fundamentally kills the game for me is the era transition system. Just like most civilization games the game is actually fun once it gets going but even with the recent changes the era transitions still feel like a punch in the gut. It almost feels as if you were having fun building your own sandcastle and then the game goes out of its way to stomp it to the ground. It also kills most long term strategies once you get close to the end of an era, since beyond triumphs and what's already immediately available to you won't have much of an impact in the next one. It pains me to say this, but I think above all else this core mechanic is antithetical to a strategy game. I get that they wanted to curb player snowballing and make the eras feel more special, but all it amounts to is taking agency away from the player in a very unengaging way. If I wanted a "reset" I could already do that by starting a new game, instead now I am forced to do that twice a game while slowing down the pace and limiting my strategical options for no apparent reason.

It's a bad game and it's even worse as a Civilization game. 1. Atrocious UI that bombards the player with information while most if is useless though. There are to many menus. Menu handling is terrible as well. Various functionalities are extremely confusing and frustrating in their use. Clicks are not being recognized. I want to cancel a simple action but instead the entire menu closes. Finding relevant information in this convoluted mess is unnecessarily difficult and time consuming. The supposed help in various cases didn't actually help because it contains self-referential statements. 2. Even the Tutorial is useless. You start a new map and get these giant popups with generic text that is supposed to highlight relevant functionalities which it doesn't really. Then there is supposed to be the "k" button to highlight something but it doesn't actually highlight anything and just makes the screen darker on the entire UI. I've tried to use that with various functionalities and it always just leaves me baffled in what it is actually supposed to do. If you have played Civ games before you can figure quite a bit out on your own but why have a Tutorial if it doesn't really help in learning the basics? 3. I do not like the visuals of Civ 7. In combination with the awful UI it makes a lot of things really hard to see. Where in Civ 6 it was usually quite easy to identify districts, basic tile improvements as well as general environmental aspects and units, it has become a lot harder as they have tried to go for a more realistic look that makes a lot of things just melt together in the background and it results in me always searching for stuff. 4. The nation and leader selection thing at the start in my opinion is also awful. I started two matches with mostly randomized settings and it resulted in an indian leader while playing as Japan and there other was some black woman leader while playing as Russia. It takes me completely out of the fantasy of playing as the respective nation. It just looks and feels disconnected - especially when after some time that age system kicks in an suggests to switch to a different nation. No.....just no.... 5. Also regarding the era system => I hate it. First off all, towards the end of the era the game forces debuffs on your nation (a "crisis") where you get mood penalties in the population or some other nonsense. It's not because of something natural that happens that you somehow defeat and get rid off. It's just that aftr 2/3 of the era, things are going bad and you for the remaining time till the era change you have to play with these debuffs which can be causing riots and other problems. I do not understand how this is supposed to make the game more fun. And then once the era timer reaches 100%, you switch to the next era which changes various things on the map for your cities and settlements, moves units around or even replaces them. You're basically put into a new game with a map looking mostly the same but a different status quo that you're now supposed to deal with. It's just bad design in my opinion. The entire idea behind it is awful and should've been scrapped from the beginning. 6. Military units no longer have experience. That is now entirely part of the leader unit. So if you want to fight wars, you're supposed to have these leaders in there, which then are supposed to be specialized either to something more melee or ranged oriented or be something of a defense supporter. They seem to also be used for certain buffs in the cities. It's definitely questionable whether this is good or bad design. Personally I think taking the entire experience aspect away from the combat units is a bad decision because it forces me to play with these leaders which makes the positioning and handling of combat more convoluted. It allows for movement as a single unit for the leader plus up to 6 military units but at the destination you then have to split them up again which creates another bit of a mess again. 6. The handling of non-combat units is also just confusing. I do not really understand what is going on with things like traders. I define a trade route and the unit moves there and then I select a trade route again but it's not really clear how or where things are actually moved or in what way. And due to Ui being bad it isn't really self explanatory what this stuff is doing. The game also isn't exactly motivating in a way so I'd want to look more deeply into it as it quickly just becomes boring and annoying. I'd like to say something positive about the game but it's really hard to find anything in Civ 7 that I actually like. It hasn't crashed in the couple of hours I've played it... In any way in my opinion Civ 7 is a complete failure within this series and the only thing I'm happy about is that I at least didn't buy it and was able to take a look at this mess for free (well I have spend time though...).

四十小时过神感言：免费周的唯一意义就是浪费我对这款游戏的期待和我的时间。相比于文明六，这款游戏无疑是相当的半成品，具体原因如下： 1.1 胜利方式和进度展示莫名其妙，经济胜利居然不体现在工业对国力的提升上，也不体现真实的金钱的购买力上，而是通过GDP这个类似于文明六的旅游值的计量单位，反而把文化胜利系统做成了只攻不守的对抗。这也是所有胜利方式的通病，全部阻止别人胜利的方式也只能是在同样的胜利路径上叠数字而没有其他行之有效的非叠数字的阻拦，毫无对抗感与惊心动魄的感觉，各种胜利方是底层逻辑完全一致，给人感觉仅仅只是换皮。 1.2军事胜利居然只需要定居点数量够多就行，而完全不用在意实际占有地块数和定居点质量。后期只要见缝插针，在各种破烂的犄角旮旯里随便建立起甚至只有它本身一个的定居点就加二分，只要买好开拓者提前走到位置，一回合加几十点分，呵呵。 1.3除了毫无反制手段之外，他的最终胜利提示也是毫无作用，因为基本上无法阻止，无法像六代里面直接宣战核弹砸平一切马上能够及时补救。尽管可以看出设计者本意是为了鼓励玩家均衡发展而不是像文明六铺称之只建一所学院就刷项目，但是得不偿失，因为防守博弈被大大削弱一直几乎没有。 1.4还有那糟糕的胜利进程展示方式，确切地说作为一名文明六玩家，我完全看不懂这一代的胜利细节 ，狗屁顾问还占用一个界面位，完全没用。。。。。。。。。。 说实话本来我写了一份思维框架还有改善建议，写下来估计得上千。。。再看一眼我的思维框架。心累，无力吐槽了。我真的我曹尼玛，你做的什么狗屁，你做的游戏你自己玩过吗？你他么不会做你抄行不行。创意工坊文明六五，人类罗马纪元。？？？？？？？？？你不努力一次，你都不知道你又多下饭。。。。做出狗屎浪费玩家心情时间。。凭什么我要帮你提意见。你这懒又烂的太过头了。你就这么烂着吧。狗屎游戏。你死了算了。就我这么一个普通玩家否看出来这么多问题。你们做游戏的看不出来？？？？你别作恶了👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎fugkyou！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！毫无诚意，纯圈钱。。。。。。。。。。。。。红红火火恍恍惚惚哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈红红火火恍恍惚惚哈哈哈哈哈。我搁你这浪费时间。红红火火恍恍惚惚哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。♥♥♥♥。回家红红火火恍恍惚惚哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

垃圾游戏，都不说游戏性了，bug一堆的半成品，下载好就跳2k公平准则，简直是坑钱！