Humankind - the Civ killer?

[Syt]

PotatoMcWhiskey has uploaded his stream: https://youtu.be/zPNniLsIWHM

I'm not familiar with his work, but scrubbing through he seems not overly annoying.

There's also Zakh who mostly plays builder/strategy games. https://youtu.be/16wLoz9Pgak

Quill18 is uploading his stream series, but he chops it up into less than half hour episodes and has only 2 of them up so far.

I've only seen some stuff from Marbozir. He seemed kind of annoying when he was doing some collaboration with Quill18 and he really annoyed me when he was playing Talisman with a few other YouTubers I was following at the time and when he had some bad dice rolls (in a heavily dice roll reliant game) he just kept whining and moaning and basically wanted to quit with the others talking to him to stay in because Talisman is unpredictable and things can always change. Didn't help that he was super gloating when he was ahead.

[Grey Fox]

You can watch Quill18's stream on Twitch VOD. But I don't find his Humankind play to be compelling. He doesn't know enough about the game yet to explain what he's doing.

[Habbaku]

That's every Quill18 stream, it seems.

[Grey Fox]

[DGuller]

That's every Quill18 stream, it seems.

I was going to say that. 

[jimmy olsen]

You can watch Quill18's stream on Twitch VOD. But I don't find his Humankind play to be compelling. He doesn't know enough about the game yet to explain what he's doing.

It's an accurate depiction of a new player playing the game then?

[Tamas]

You can watch Quill18's stream on Twitch VOD. But I don't find his Humankind play to be compelling. He doesn't know enough about the game yet to explain what he's doing.

It's an accurate depiction of a new player playing the game then?

Fair point, but also with more complex games like this it is entirely possible for a new player to miss some mechanic or interesting detail which give a fuller picture and appreciation of the game - I kinda' like Quill18 but "play like a new player" is of little value to me - after all I can just buy on Steam and refund within two hours. I most like Youtube reviews where I can gain easy insight into things a cursory look would miss.

[Zanza]

That pacing of era / technology / culture still needs work seems the biggest issue from this thread and some early reviews. Let's hope they fix that. Big issue in Civ VI for me until I got a pacing mod.

[Grey Fox]

You can watch Quill18's stream on Twitch VOD. But I don't find his Humankind play to be compelling. He doesn't know enough about the game yet to explain what he's doing.

It's an accurate depiction of a new player playing the game then?

Can be but it's also hard to follow.

[DGuller]

My recollection of Quill18 style is that when he starts the Civ 6 game, he tries to figure out for 18 minutes how to move the settler, and all the while commentating on his current insights of how to move a settler.  Once he figures it out, he spends the next 13 minutes figuring out how to move a warrior, likewise commentating throughout on what he's figuring out.  By the end of the third episode you give up on seeing the second turn.

[Habbaku]

[Grey Fox]

He does that and then he stops & just YOLOs for awhile.

[Syt]

He does that and then he stops & just YOLOs for awhile.

I admit I prefer that to the relentless of min/maxing of other let's players.

[Josephus]

Quill also does a lot of "I really need to produce some builders"

Eight turns later. "I really need to produce some builders."

16 turns later: "I thought I had some builders."

I like many a true nerd. He's got a cool sense of humour.

[Habbaku]

I don't begrudge Quill's success, and it seems pretty clear he's an engaging, friendly guy. He's just the exact opposite type of player I want to watch play new games.