I was browsing on Sulla's website last night and I came across his review of Galactic Civilizations 3.
I forget how I first came across his content but I think it was based on Civilization 4 videos on Youtube. Sulla is not a full time content creator. He does stream and make youtube videos but he has a full time day job working for the government in healthcare administration.
Basically, I think part of being a content creator is reading / watching other people's content. I think it is a good idea to point out things I like both as a service to readers but also as a record of content that I have found to be valuable.
Anyways, I thought this review was interesting because it was kind of a combination of the appreciate / enjoy duality I mentioned in my last post. In some ways he is complaining about the game not providing him with the sort of experience that he wants out of a strategy game. But at the same time he is very conscious that this is his taste and that there are other styles of play. A big part of his complaint is about an inconsistency of approach. He argues that the game was very clearly designed to function in one way but then that major changes were made after release that contradicted that.
So I just wanted to draw attention to this as a piece of writing that I thought engaged with the game and also with its development process in a meaningful way. He engages with the mechanics and gameplay in specific ways. I own this game and have played it some but I experienced it at a much more superficial level. I don't really like the game much but my complaints are more about some superficial issues. I don't like the aesthetics of the characters and I feel that the roles the various races have are very stereotyped. I also feel like in a lot of ways it is a pretty straight rip-off of Civilization.
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