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BasilZero said:

smroadkill15 said:

Ara not launching on Xbox doesn't help. Many people, including myself, have it lowest on the anticipated list. With that said, Ara might review better than any of these other games if they nail it! 

Oh wow, didnt realize it was PC only.

In a age where Civilization and other Simulation games are coming out on consoles as well, strange choice.

G2ThaUNiT said:

*feels bad for Ara then votes for the most popular game*

Can't blame anyone though. Ara is for a very specific audience and for the time being, it's a PC-only game. It looks phenomenal though! Like a proper next-gen Sid Meier's Civilization if Firaxis wasn't used to not having any actual competition lol

Well to be honest I havent played a single City sim/strategy sim so cant say I would be excited for it lol.

It depends on what kind of simulation games they are. Civilization 6 is actually very divisive amongst the fanbase because the game was developed with console in mind. Instead of broad, realistic, life-size biomes like in previous games, Civ 6 was a flat map, almost like a tabletop game with geography layouts on top of it. That allowed the game to be nowhere near as CPU heavy for even mobile devices. 

Ara is going for not only realistic biomes and geography, but even real-time events happening like watching people walk along the roads despite being a turn-based game. If you look at gameplay between Civ 6 and Ara, it's night and day. Even battles, you actually see armies duking it out in real time in Ara. In Civilization 6, you only see 3 units total that are supposed to represent a huge army lol

It certainly could eventually come to console one day, but the devs are focusing on going all out on a proper PC first version. 

I can't wait to play it just to nuke the living hell out of the entire world which interesting enough, the devs of Ara have not shown what a nuclear explosion looks like in the game. 4X games are LONG though. A single game can last dozens and dozens of hours going through thousands of years from the caveman age to the futuristic age. 

Last edited by G2ThaUNiT - on 11 January 2024