Post originally by Shannon Appelcline at 2003-08-27 10:28:08
Converted from Phorums BB System

Yeah, I should probably have noted in the review that the opacity would ultimately be in the eyes of the beholder. If I'd wanted to be much more obsessive about it, I could have kept my brain ticking on what precisely each improvement would do but thinking through gamewide formulas, but that's a level of cognition I'm generally unwilling to offer to a game.

I'm generally very curious about your disagreement on the Civ3/GC parallel. I don't think you could argue the fact that the mechanics are almost identical for production. Personally, the games felt very similar to me. Given that you haven't had the latter experience, how did they feel different to you?

Shannon