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This seems to suggest an inability to understand that other people have different drives and motivations than you do, or at least an...

Not like maltheism isn't a thing.

My goodness me, what a day! My oldest daughter has finally flown the coop, and I took the day off to help her move. She insisted on...

Came back to this because I remembered one comment I had that did not relate to the publisher/designer: Constructor fatigue in GalCiv2...

I find a lot of hostility toward remakes from that period usually pretty hyperbolic, so take that as you will. Its certainly not any...

I used to like that one quite a bit--you've got to give credit for a game that actually figures out when computer players have pretty...

Which version? The game has gone through seven versions, after all. And honestly, I don't see square grid/hex grid being a big deal.

Yeah. Even within geek spaces there are, unfortunately, ridiculous hierarchies. Raiders look down on regular pve players. Pvp teams look...

Given some of the personalities there, I cannot be surprised.

I've seen ones that are okay, but most of them are similar in kind rather than trying to duplicate it. (the new Master of Orion is okay...

Well, as I expressed, most older 4x games were trying to be Civilization too from my POV, so I don't find that much of a critique.

That really sounds like dammed if you do situation. Folks complain that the adventure is a railroad if they can run it like a script...

Well, maybe not the map, but there's plenty of tile based map things out there.

Yeah, but, honestly, the number of remakes of older 4x games that get a good response is, shall we say, thin on the ground.

Can't say I had any of that. Part of it will be your tolerance for the graphics. I'm not completely hostile to older style...