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[โ€“] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're trying to argue that Civilization is a multiplayer game first, you're starting a losing battle. Civ was always and still is a single player game front and center.

You might not like that, but that's how the game has always been.

[โ€“] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You take turns against other players, real or computer. Doesn't matter who's in control of the players, even since CIV 1 this is how the game works. It's turn based, by nature it's multiplayer. The game is literally designed as a multiplayer computerized board game. This is absolutely not a first player game front and center. A game like that would be pure single player experience like a Mario or Zelda game

[โ€“] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turn based automatically makes it multiplayer? Interesting. Thanks for letting us know.

[โ€“] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not necessarily. But the fact that you have all players starting on relatively equal footing competing for a win condition does

[โ€“] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll pass that along to the millions of players that have never touched multiplayer in a Civ game before. Thank you.

Literally what is the difference between a single player game of civ and a multiplayer game besides how you communicate with the other civs?

spoilerIt's the same exact game