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No.9388
Idk bout AoE but Civilization is far from essentialist. In Civilization all nations have 1 or 2 bonuses but other than that they can do anything that other nations do. It can't really be classified as essentially given that 99% of gameplay is interchangeable. Memes such as Ghandi launching nukes shows that players know it's a silly game.
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No.9390
>>9388Agreed, if anything Civilization will spawn each civilization near terrain that benefits its unique bonuses, in other words, you could interpret the bonuses arising from people adapting to the local environment. Civ infact, has a crude historical materialist outlook. The fact that people might interpret the game as essentializing human civilizations is more caused by the dominance of idealism in popular culture.
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No.9391
>>9359>Civilisation Actually no, Civ is kinda materialistic despite minor bonuses civs get, the success of a Civ is 90% based on external/material factors
An essentialist game is actually EU4
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No.9396
if I remember correctly it used to be clowned on but the existence of "Barbarians" in Civ (although possibly recently removed? I stopped playing after 5) is pretty essentialist. a group of people who fundamentally, cannot be civilized, even though they operate like a civilization, in some games outright equivocated with wolves.
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No.9397
>>9396I don't know what civ you played but in VI they form city-states after awhile
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No.12103
>lose at Rise of Nations so badly I empathize with anti-colonial movements
is there a term for this
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No.12104
>>12103Yeah,
not being a cuck to the more powerful ones.
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No.12161
its really ugly game i don't know why its popular (maybe because microsoft in the title)
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No.12162
>>12103critical support for Rise of Nations
there is no such thing art for the sake of art!
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No.12164
>>9359>Can we talk about how video games like Age of Empires/Civilisation etc are conduits to right wing thought about political economy of globalisation?These games are literally tankie simulators where you the player are the ultimate dictator and economic central planner.
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No.12165
>>12164This is retarded. All war economies are command economies, regardless which economic system preceded it. Also Age of Empires is clearly feudal, not socialist. Why do you use the anti-communist label ?