[cosmicgadget]

I liked the land battles at the time, though they were definitely limited compared to its contemporaries. Dancing and sword fighting were unfun for sure. A modernization would be awesome, the closest experiences for me have been AC Black Flag and Rebel Galaxy.

What's the Civ VII dev team doing these days?

[thejohnconway]

> What's the Civ VII dev team doing these days?

Writing the last 80% of Civ VII I should think. I've never played such an unfinished version of Civ at launch.

[SPACE_LAWYER]

AC Black Flag remains the most fun I ever had playing a video game

[bluefirebrand]

It still blows my mind that Ubisoft didn't really continue that sort of Open World seafaring genre at all

I get that there's probably not a market for that game yearly but I'd play an iteration on Black Flag every few years

[Sabacak]

They did spend years working on a non Assassins Creed age of piracy game, Skull and Bones, but it ended up as a bad live service game.

[mathgeek]

They tried with Skull and Bones, but it didn’t hit well. Closest I have found is Sea of Thieves.

[eyesofgod]

I dont know. When I first heard about their game, I expected a neat pirate ship combat sandbox game, but instead it turned out to be a lame ass arcade shooter.

I dont recall seeing anyone happy about this, outside white knights on reddit.

It seems like there are a lot of niche game concepts and genres that are falling to the wayside as the major devs and publishers are more interested in dumbing things down for a larger, more casual (or in some cases more competitive audience). Hell Civ7 is sitting at mostly negative recent reviews after pulling that shit.

[bluefirebrand]

You're thinking of some different game, no idea what one tbh

Assassin's Creed Black Flag is definitely not an arcade shooter though

[goosedragons]

Trying to finish Civ VII.

[bobthepanda]

There’s Yakuza Pirates if you haven’t tried it out.

[Tomte]

Probably the iPad port.