Millennia - 4X Civ Like published by Paradox

[chipwich]

Humankind was dominated by finding degenerate combos between civ choices and had extreme snowballing.

[Tonitrus]

I stopped playing Humankind, cause I did't like it.

CC seems to have an investment in this game, he's been touting it from even before it got released 

I'm just concerned about people condemning a game without actually playing it. It is exactly good game, but you actually have to play the game and not just condemn it because you don't like the aesthetics or something that's silly like that after playing an hour or so of a demo.

I may just be a dope, but I find aesthetics (and the details of this will ultimately be a matter of personal taste) in a computer game to be very important.

[Syt]

JumboPixel has made a video comparing Millennia (what he's seen and can say without breaking NDA/embargo) to other 4X games:

That said, I'm always a bit wary of his videos, because he tends to get hard into the hype.

[grumbler]

Still getting that flash of dissonance every time he mentions the tick tree.

[Josephus]

 A new update on YouTube...he shows you stuff about combat, production lines, and of course more about the tick tree. Also game will have a free preview next week

[Solmyr]

So far the general opinion seems to be that the game looks like crap but there are interesting mechanics.

[garbon]

I see the demo is out, I'll give it a try.

[Solmyr]

So far I am: underwhelmed. The age mechanic is mildly interesting, although I suspect once you've seen each age, that's it (there doesn't seem to be any effect from the previous ages once you advance to the next one). The rest of it is pretty run-of-the-mill 4X stuff. And the graphics are really bad.

[Zanza]

I guess I will wait for Ara: History Untold then.

[garbon]

And the graphics are really bad.

I thought I might have been playing Age of Empires III the original release with those graphics...

And yeah feels pretty generic. I've uninstalled.

[garbon]

Maybe P'dox should stop publishing games. When you look at Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, Millenia, Life By You, City Skylines 2, Empire of Sin, Star Trek: Infinite, The Lamplighters League, the fails are really starting to stack up.

[Tamas]

Maybe P'dox should stop publishing games. When you look at Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, Millenia, Life By You, City Skylines 2, Empire of Sin, Star Trek: Infinite, The Lamplighters League, the fails are really starting to stack up.

Yeah I felt bad earlier thinking well Paradox as a publisher isn't a good sign, but you guys have trashed all my hopes for this one. You and the Civ4 level graphics I saw on Youtube.

[garbon]

Actually, maybe Millenia gets more fun if you got to play it for longer and then see more? It just wasn't that fun for me in the 60 turns demo.

[chipwich]

The demo wasn't fun knowing that my decisions weren't going to pay off.

[Syt]

Paradox also seemed to have been on a streak of good luck with some of their publishing - granted, some of those they picked up after kickstarter success. C:S1, Battletech, Shadowrun, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Age of Wonders Planetfall and AoW4. Of course only AoW4 has recently really been a success, and some studios left them as well (Obsidian, Harebrained, ... ).