Tag: Civilizations 5
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Weekly eXchange #228 – Phoenix Fiasco!!!
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Join Nate and Troy as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Thea 2: the Shattering, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Galactic Civilizations 3, Sins of a Solar Empire and much much more. As well as continued coverage for…
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Weekly eXchange #214 – Epic Steam BATTLE Round 1!
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Join Nate, Troy and Joshua, as they bring you all the important information on all of your favorite 4X and strategy games! This week they talk about Empires in Ruins, Civilization 6, 10 Crowns, At the Gates, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Wh40K Gladius: Relics of War, Endless Space 2, Stellaris, M.O.R.E…
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What the 4X Genre Can Learn from War Games: An eXposition
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I have a confession to make: the “4X Renaissance” has felt more like the dark ages to me.. Whether it’s the feature creep, strange design decisions, or age old problems that continue to plague the genre, I’ve had a hard time getting into most of the big, recent releases. And…
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The XX Show #12 – Top 12 4X Games of All Time.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to discuss the top 12 4X games of all time as of July 1st 2018. So, what qualifies for Greatest of all Time, aka the 4X GoaT, many things, but the game needs to not only stand the test of time, but must truly introduce…
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Sub-Genres & 4X Design: Post-Apocalyptic Settings
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In several previous articles and podcasts (such as Theme, Future Development part 1, and MoO-itis) I have advocated for 4X developers to branch out into genres other than Space and Fantasy. I feel I made my case fairly well in those entries, but what I didn’t do was give much…
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The Core Mechanism Of 4X Part 1: An eXposition
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I recently got into a debate with my good friend and colleague Oliver on our internal eXplorminate forums about what is or isn’t a 4X game. The staff has these debates every now and then, usually sparked by a game that doesn’t exactly fit the pure 4X definition – games…
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Stellaris: Utopia Review
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When Stellaris launched I was one of many to shower it with acclaim. Here was the space 4X game we’d been waiting for that would revolutionize the genre. Of course, there were problems, but Stellaris showed the promise for something great, given time. We’re now almost a year distant from…
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Planets NU review
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Imagine each of the following: Battlestar Galactica in an epic confrontation with a Borg cube. The Millennium Falcon doing a rebel ground assault on a Romulan outpost. Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise doing a suicide run on the Death Star. Do any of the above scenes reach deep down…
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The Battle for Polytopia Review
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Oliver takes a look at the 4X game taking the mobile world by storm, The Battle for Polytopia. Is it as good as some people say?
