Game Rant

For as much as people didn't like the art style and major changes going from?Civ 5?to?Civ 6, over time, I came to like?Civilization 6?a lot more. It's aged better than?Civ 5?in a lot of respects, and to be honest, I never disliked its cartoony art style. At least it being colorful and cartoony made it easy to tell what's on each tile!

I have yet to play?Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2?myself but have seen and heard plenty about how amazing it is at being both a medieval sim and a deep, crunchy RPG. I have heard that the combat can sometimes feel wonky, though, and it made me think of how much I liked?the grand-scale combat of?Mount and Blade: Warband?(and later entries in the series). The game doesn't have the in-depth choices and living world of?KCD2, but in my opinion, there's no game that's ever come as close to creating that feeling of leading a medieval army as?Mount and Blade.

In previous?Civ?games, I would usually aim to settle around three to four cities for my Science and Culture victory playthroughs, and build up. But in?Civ 7?the way Towns and cities interact seems to encourage players to go wide, so it feels like the better strategy.

I think it would be really neat to get the Map Replay feature from?Civilization 5?back. At the end of the game, the Map Replay would show everything that happened across the entire game world, and allow players to watch it or parse through to find specific turns. It was a really neat feature that was sorely missing from?Civ 6?and I'd love to see it come back in an update to?Civ 7.

I would still really like to see a Rasputin leader in?Civ 7. He would fit into the rest of the?Civ 7?Leaders as someone who was influential without having been a head of state, and there's a lot of potential for abilities he could have. I'd imagine him to be a Diplomatic and Cultural leader with abilities that enhance his religion in the Exploration age, maybe by making his missionaries unkillable or have more charges, and abilities that add some bonus to Espionage diplomatic actions.

They've already confirmed it's on the way, but I would like to see a Britain civ for the Modern or Exploration Age in?Civ 7. I would imagine it to be a Diplomatic and Currency-oriented civ that enhances naval units somehow, and perhaps comes with a unique Merchant (like the Han civ).?