Is Civ a Historically Accurate Game?

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[Razzying]

Historical accuracy as a caveman is part of the defence of a city as its being attacked by a ww2 tank.

[siliarba]

I like how he went from "I play Egyptian and now I'm like, Greek?" As a show of supposed ridiculousness, while in historic times, Egyptians and Greeks mingled so much that odds were high you were both.

[princeamongkings]

Civ 4 still had the greatest historical accuracy of a highly promoted longbowman garrisoned in a city being able to destroy multiple Main Battle Tanks in a single turn.

[vaderwalks]

The fact that, in previous titles, you can start in the Stone Age as fuckin' CANADA is, shall we say, slightly anachronistic.

[gorvarhadgarson]

TBH the Greeks kinda took over the Egyptians. Cleopatra's ancestor was Macedonian who married into Egyptian nobility.

[fihndus]

ah, yes. Historical accuracy in the series of games in which Gandhi nukes people.

[fizz]

Honestly the ability to travel via river alone is enough to have me sold.

[RedasurcsGamers]

Well, to be fair, the Americans did build a bunch of pyramids. Just, not those ones, lol

[Thromash]

Ngl, when Jesse started talking about historical accuracy I was expecting it to go "I used to be a History teacher, do not even get me started on historical accuracy".

[Rockalanche]

Historical accuracy. Like Ghandi taking over the world with Nukes instead of peace?

[loglog]

Countries becoming other countries is probably the most accurate part of the game.

[Otoger]

At Gamescom and the german Szene got the info every player eill transition at the same time and you get choises based on your leader, former civ and recourcess, so egypt if they have enough horses can transition into the Mongols was the most used example

[MyOldName]

Historical accuracy in the game where Ghandi can't keep his finger off the nuke button

[Abunai_Gaming]

The entirety of the Wonders system, the fact you can end up fast tracking your Sciences to have tanks in the 1700s, the sheer fact of all of these rulers being around in the game like this, historical accuracy was NEVER a thing taken into account. Being respectful to the cultures and history? Yes, totally. But timing wise it all just throws all the accuracy out the window.

[thelaughingrouge]

Historical accuracy? In the Nuclear Gandhi 7?!

[Metaljacket]

The literal point of Civ is that you're playing out alternate history.

[thelonelybritV]

TBF America _has_ built pyramids. You've got the Bass Pro shop & I'm sure there's a pyramid somewhere in Vegas.

[Randomfactchecker]

I think the problem is your leader basically doesn’t matter as much and that was kind of the whole point of civ, literally no one has been complaining about historical accuracy…

[ploppman]

An example I love (credit to PotatoMcWhiskey) was "You're playing a game where Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi can have a war with chariots."

[LastOptionPils]

As someone who loves Humankind, Civ should not try to be Humankind. I went into Humankind with very different expectations then I would with Civ. Also “historical accuracy” goes out the window when you can start as the Americans in the Ancient Era.