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Moreover, it is one’s method of ascribing meaning along clear and consistent lines. It is the lens through which pieces of pottery, papyrus, parchment, and paper all become tales of tragedy or triumph, heroism or villainy.

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Historiography includes, among other matters, the methodology for forming an account of historical events, providing a framework as to how to interpret the various documents and sources available to the historian. And indeed, it’s in Civilization VI’s ludic elements that Firaxis has most stretched its legs as storytellers, telling a new tale of human history by means of a new historiography. And since the developers at Firaxis cannot be said to have scripted such scenes as Cleopatra’s foolishly and fatal surprise attack against my crusading Spaniards, any intended meaning in the game must be found elsewhere. Like the story of our species, the narrative in any given game of Civilization VI is emergent, guided perhaps by providence or the player, but bearing no clear evidence of authorship.

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It attempts not to recreate movie moments, but rather to recapitulate human history, from the deep recesses of the past when our ancestors abandoned their hunter-gather nomadism to found the first cities, forward to a future utopia marked by technological advances and global unity. Sid Meier’s Civilization series, now on its 25 th anniversary and sixth instalment, is a rare and refreshing reprieve from such. None of which is to say that Civilization VI does nothing new.Īs a philosopher and theologian, my natural tendency in initially analyzing a work in a given medium is to ask “What does this mean?” For video games, any thesis on the part of the developer tends to be relegated to its story, mostly due to gaming’s indebtedness to cinema. Moreover, the graphics merely go in a different direction than a clear progression the stylized art is in some aspects an amazing improvement – while in other ways way worse.

But unstacking cities via the new Districts mechanic and the introduction of a civics tree parallel to the preexisting technology tree is not nearly as revolutionary as unstacking units and a hexagonal grid. Look at any list from the past five years of the greatest games of all time, and Civilization V will certainly be near the top (and probably still ranked too low) – and already Civilization VI is at least up to par with its predecessor. To be clear, such faint praise is far from damning criticism.

But whereas Civilization V was one giant leap forward, Civilization VI is one small step laterally.

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Between the implementation of one unit per tile, the move from squares to hexes, and the inarguable graphical improvements, even the day on, patch 1.0, out-of-the-box vanilla version of Civilization V was significantly superior to the complete edition of Civilization IV. Mere months after dropping out of Seminary, Civilization V dropped, which would wind up becoming among my most played games at over 750 hours. Realizing where my interests really were convinced me against a career in the cloth to instead cover pop culture media through a theological and philosophical lens. Given the choice between yet another class period spent parsing out the Minor Prophets in their original Hebrew or playing hooky to build an empire to stand the test of time, the later usually won out. To the point that it certainly interfered with my studies and almost definitely influenced the direction my life took professionally. I played a lot of Civilization IV back in Seminary.