• CIVILIZATION VI - First Look: Sumeria
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One of the oldest stories ever told and one of my favorites, totally going to be my first race to play as.
Aw yiss, mother fuckin GILGAMESH Between Nebuchadnezzar, Ashurbanipal, Ramses, and Darius, the titans of Mesopotamia gave you a real reason to fear the beards. As someone who loved all of the ancient era civilizations in V, this put a gigantic smile on my face. From Pete Murray's Comments, which can be found here: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/54kpav/civilization_vi_first_look_sumeria/d82n44i[/url] [quote=Pete Murray]Some people are fast out of the gate in Civ. The Aztec, for example, and the Scythians, are two Civs that bring a lot of hurt early. But Sumeria is something else entirely. When humanity wakes at the Dawn of Time in Civ, Gilgamesh has been up for half an hour already, has made you breakfast, built a Ziggurat, hitched up the War Cart, and is ready to go. Gilgamesh is your new best friend. He loves, and I mean [i]loves[i] his allies. He feels your pain. He rejoices when you rejoice. He goes to war with you. He is fired up. He has the car loaded. Montezuma declares war on you. Before Tomyris is finished denouncing him, Gilgamesh is punching Monty in the face with his enormous, beefy fists. He calls his left fist "The Vengence of Ur" and his right fist "The Vengence of Enlil." You've pointed out that maybe he could pick another nickname than "Vengence" for one of those fists, but he always laughs and slaps you so hard on the back you can hear your teeth rattle. Then he holds Monty upside down and shakes him, and points to the pocket change that falls out: "Go halfsies?" he asks, grinning. Everyone knows that Gilgamesh is about the business. Everyone knows you don't touch his friends, because [i]he will come for you.[/i] And when you play as Gilgamesh, you can take care of your friends when they get hurt. You don't get the Warmonger penalty when you declare war on anyone at war with your allies. You are Gilgamesh. You look after your own, man. Because you know, deep down inside, in the marrow of your bones, that it wasn't technology or religion or agriculture that caused civilization to come into being. It was friendship. Gilgamesh extends the Vengence of Enlil to you, and you bump it with your own.[/quote] Clarification on the Leader Ability, also found in the reddit thread: [quote=Pete Murray]I have an update to this. As of today Gilgamesh's LA has 3 parts: -He can declare war on anyone at war with one of his allies without any warmonger penalties. -When at war with a common foe, Sumeria and its allies share pillage rewards and share combat experience gains with the closest allied unit within 5 tiles. -Gilgamesh can levy City-State military forces at 50% of cost.[/quote]
This game is looking so cool I can't wait.
My first thought is that I don't really like the artstyle, it just feels too cartoony. But I suppose it's just a thing I will nag about now because it's different and it'll turn out to be fine because they actually have artists working on the design.
I still want Assyria with Ashurnasirpal II I mean just look at this quote: “I flayed as many nobles as had rebelled against me [and] draped their skins over the pile [of corpses]; some I spread out within the pile, some I erected on stakes upon the pile … I flayed many right through my land [and] draped their skins over the walls.”
Gilgamesh was such a fucking badass. Slew a giant, told a goddess who was trying to get into his pants to fuck off and travelled to the end of the world and to the bottom of the sea to seek the power of immortality.
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