When I stumbled across your KZbin channel I stuck around in large part because your play style is much more similar to mine than almost any other Civ KZbin channel I've found. The combination of that and your presentation style is very enjoyable. I also ordered the Founder's Edition and was able to play early. I have played a couple of age transitions into the Exploration age, and I really enjoyed it. Playing on the higher difficulties in Civ VI always made me feel I was in a race and if I fell behind at all it was essentially over. So far in VII going further in to games has been much more enjoyable with the way I play the game. I'm looking forward to seeing you play and to hearing your thoughts on the ages system.

With commanders, you can select individual troops packed inside and unpack them individually. I do this myself, it's a little annoying but it certainly still is better to have them in commanders than moving them individually.

A bit sad nowadays that there are no more boxes or manuals

Fair review! I agree w your point on the commanders, but I think the benefits are probably pretty minimal in antiquity. Late game when you’re moving huge armies hopefully makes a difference

But in any event, I’m having lots of fun so far, and your Ben Franklin+Greece combo is just proof to me that the new civ-leader combos were a fun change!

Well the game loading quickly is definitely a case to case basis, my laptop ran VI great but loads super slowly for VII, and if I don’t have it plugged in it just crashes!

Thanks for the review!

Is this your first unboxing video Dowski? 😊

Please consider doing Call to Power II.

I love the name of this channel

very cool. i've seen gameplay but never the box. i was born in 93 and we still used floppies during my childhood, but mainly for storing photos

Great idea for this lookback! I started with Civ I, also as a kid. Played a lot but could never win on a proper difficulty level. I didn’t play the other games until I picked up Civ VI late in its run. My goal was to win on deity before Civ VII came out. Which I did yesterday

Thank you for reminding me of the advisors! I had forgotten about them. So many good memories!

Something that would be fun is to compare the leaders of each nation from back in the day to modern ones. Such as America through civ 1 through 6, and then I think cov 7 lets you change your leader? So that will be different, right? Keep it up!

My fav civ game

I watched my dad play Civ III; but Civ IV was the first game I played myself. Baba Yetu always brings back such strong memories. I’m really glad I found your channel, I love the content so far. Looking forward to Civ VII!

My first civ game. I got it because I was so into Sid meier's pirates.

you know what, I think Civ V might've been the first game i bought digitally

Civ V is what got me into the games (to the extent I was comically stubborn about moving onto Civ VI for some time after its release), it's nice to remember those hours logged. I'll likely sit out on Civ VII for some time, but I'm very excited for your videos on the game - they're still the most authentic gameplay I've seen by far.

Love this! Wish I'd gotten the collectors edition of VII but it just worked out to too much money

I love how you run your channel. Proper throwback to early hobbyist YT gaming channels before people started doing this for a living through streaming.

Wow can't wait! I have only played civ 6 before so it will be interesting seeing the older entries in the series.

👋🙌👍💥💫

So excited 🎉

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Can’t wait!

What an awesome way to countdown to civ VII!

Wow! Great idea, so cool to see.

Will you be playing civ 7? It looks (un-modded) much more like the visual style you are going for here. But the ages system does take the feeling of a continuous empire out of the game. Any thoughts overall on the game?

Bruh

Curious why you decided to settle in place instead of on salt? Is it for lore reasons or to be closer to the wheat tiles instead of buying them?? Really like playing civ this way! Keep it up

I think the online game speed is great for this, the balance you talk about of chill methodical game play and seeing progress still will keep some of the middle videos in a series from being boring when there is a lull in activity.

Just came across your channel, great video! Can’t wait to see more of this series! Going to dive into and look into one of your other series while I wait for the rest of this series!

Hey! I love your style of content. I'm glad your video popped up in my feed

You’re telling me this is AI

What are your Thoughts on Civ 7?

I really like how you play - it’s exactly like me! Slowly, taking the time with some strategy and maybe a little bit of role-playing, plus using the better lens! I followed your channel right away, dude 🫶

You’re telling me this is not AI generated

This guy literally reminds me of Bob Ross

Hey man hope your channel blows up with the new release upcoming!

I think communism would be a good pick for a government in the future.

Can’t wait to see you pick up Civ VII cuz the game looks gorgeous.

how do your graphics look like that, is it a mod?

I love domestic trade this should be fun

You are like the Bob Ross of Civ.

Please do more videos 😊

Please make more videos

If you want another good map gen mod, Detailed Worlds is really fantastic in my opinion.

Nice! I love this chill content!

Those barbs are such a menace, haha I really like your playing style. I tend to play the same, as I think that min maxing takes the fun out of it.