Video: Ars talks Civilization with the man himself: Sid Meier

This "War Stories" video explores how <em>Civilization</em> almost wasn't a turn-based game.

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I lost many, many hours to Civ 1 as a boy. It was a rarity in the battle with my parents over seat time as they saw it as educational. Ha!

I've tried to get even remotely as engaged with the new versions but i just can't seem to bridge the gap. In the quest to make them more detailed an deeper/broader they've lost the fun for me. I'd love to see the original game-play, 100% intact and true to the original but in the modern engine for the visual treat. Dare to dream.

I felt the same way for the longest time.

Civ Revolutions 2 on my tablet isn't exactly the same, but comes close enough to scratch my itch whereas the other Civ mainline games couldn't quite do it for me.

Civ I and II were great because they were in-depth, but still casual enough. Subsequent versions I loved, but had to devote time to. As an adult with multiple kids and other things competing for my time, I just don't want to have to carve out that big of a chunk to get into the main games anymore. But Revolutions is a good mix between in-depth and casual that it works for plane rides, down minutes here and there, and in-depth play when I do have some time. Combat is a bit nerfed, but if you play as the Aztecs, whom auto-heal after victory, you can get the troops rolling just like you used to back in the day