Civ 6 is coming to Switch

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/civilization-6-for-nintendo-switch-announced-with-/1100-6461620/

I hope it's a good port that doesn't run like dog poo.

I'm guessing the Joy Cons and touchscreen allow for PC-like interactions that will make the port feel more natural

Forget Halo Wars - this is the kind of deep strategy experience consoles often miss.

Please be good. Please be good. ?

A Civilization series on a handheld? Well, if it's any good, I'll gladly look into buying it just for on the go play.

The UI needs scaling for hand-held mod.

Reviewers of Breath of the Wild were too busy kissing rear end to note the obviose small, un-scalable UI was abysmally un-readable in hand-held mode.

Nice.

Unreadable you say, I wonder how I put 100+ hours into it in handheld mode. You should ease up on your sodium intake.

@uninspiredcup: huh? I have no problem with that game in handheld mode at all

But certainly Civ6 is an "at risk" title for that kind if thing. I'm really curious to see how Pillars of Eternity 2 on Switch is...

I wear glasses, but even then, my nephew couldn't read shit in hand-held mode. Aside from being ridiculously small with no scaling

1. Text style is not bold

2. The box surrounding the text has an opacity of about 20%. Which means the text, rather than being clear easy to identify white on black, just overlaps the shape of objects underneath

Frankly i'm amazed more people didn't complain about this. My eye-sight is shit, but not too bad, imagine someone borderline disabled trying to play this.

Wow, I did not expect this. Awesome news though, Civ is such an addictive series. :D

Is this for real? It's not April 1st? I've been saying for a while that the Switch could really use a quality in-depth strategy game, something like Civilization; I just never expected it to actually be Civilization!

@xantufrog: At the retail price, dead, although Nintendo fans pay anything, so you never know. But aside from that, those games are PC, through and through.

@uninspiredcup: Wut. Nothing wrong with the UI scale in BotW. Only game I played that had a little too small UI text was DOOM.

Now they just need to get X-com ported over, and release a new Pikmin and Advance Wars, for all us strategy nerds.

Jesus, I'd play the hell out of this.

And to think people said the Switch would have no third party support!

Civ is a great series and deserves to be played by as many people as possible. Not sure I'd ever want to play it on the go but take it on holiday? Long plane journey? Sure.

I do have some issues with 6 though.

Pretty good match. Since Nintendo sure as hell arent releasing a new Advance wars, this could fill in the Turn Based Strategy need Nintendo fans might have. Might even get more people hooked on the genre, and that is a good thing.

Civ Revolution worked pretty well on the console so it will be cool to see a full civ game on the switch. Paradox take note! It's time to port EU4 to handheld!

@byof_america: Ohhh, yes!

I can see that working out pretty well, actually. The game is entirely hex-based iirc, you don't really need a lot of precision and the whole thing can be played with a mouse.

The only issue is end-game; there are an overwhelmingly large amount of choices to make and things to manage, it might get a little tedious. Some UI restructuring could fix that, though.

Well duh it’s already on Ipad too

Cool... wonder if it will ever come to the other consoles.

Another reason why the Switch will be my Christmas present.

Wish the google play store was on it.

I thought dog poo was the default option on the Switch. :P

230 hours here, I have literally no idea what he's talking about.

I haven't seen a PC Civ game get ported to console since Civ II on PSOne.

This has sparked my interest.

It's not unreadable, unless you have really bad eyesight -- in which case you should visit an optometrist. I'm getting to the age where I should probably consider wearing bifocals, and I have no problem with the Breath of the Wild user interface.

I wonder how that would work... consoles have been notoriously bad at cpu heavy games and this is the Switch with a very small form factor and battery limitations.

Maybe they are going to make a whole new type of Civ 6 just for the Switch? I'm interested.

Maybe 2D graphics/fewer players/smaller maps/streamlined gameplay that is more snappy and less CPU intensive?

http://m.ign.com/articles/2017/12/29/sid-meiers-civilization-vi-for-ipad-review

@KungfuKitten: If they stripped it down, they'd call it Civilisation Revolutions 3.

Instead they announced it as Civilisation 6, and are releasing it with a bunch of the available DLC nations included.

I think that's a good sign that it's the full game - hopefully they've figured out a good way to make it stable/not too slow.

@Planeforger: @GioVela2010: Ooh. Yes. You're probably right.

A bad UI, which went into extensive detail why it's bad.

Not too hard to comprehend.

It is. You just blurting it out and (incredibly) blaming disability and not the game is laughable.

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Most early PC games, particularly strategy titles were build with a small monitor in mind. As in those days most players sat close to the screen.

With the addition and readily available HDMI, most PC games have scalers now. It's common sense. In some cases (Oblivion) they straight up designed a bigger UI for television.

Zelda was clearly designed with fullscreen in mind, with little thought for hand-held mod beyond puzzle gimmicks. I expected nothing less, or as disgusting a comment from Nintendo fanboys trying to blame blindness, than say anything bad about the most-most-game-eva because you're not allowed too.

Overall it should have been scored down for both a terrible UI and weapons breaking constantly. But critics are very bias and expected to give it a high score.

Sad.

Needing glasses is not a "disability", you moron. And multiple people have posted in this thread saying they had no problem with the scale of Breath of the Wild's interface, including me despite my less than perfect eyesight.

As for weapons breaking, that was a deliberate design decision and not a flaw. Weapons in BotW are a resource that need to be carefully managed, which I find to be an interesting gameplay mechanic instead of the usual trope of simply finding the best weapon in the game and then combat becoming a dull cakewalk afterwards.

Man, If I had to commute every day, I'd be over the moon at this news. Well, until I started regularly missing my station, that is.

I assume this is the iPAD version.

Good that it has the full games content/features. but I believe it is limited in terms of scale (obviously... as this game chugs on massive campaigns)

@KungfuKitten: it's not really a CPU heavy game in a way that would affect performance - that's more an RTS issue. Here, if the CPU takes a bit longer between user turns... Eh, most won't even notice

Holy shit. I need my time god damnit.

I hope not.... But I also simultaneously hope it is so I don't have to play it and spend hundreds of hours on it.

One of the reasons CPU turns can take so long is because the game apparently plays unit animations even when the player can't see them -- for instance when they're off-screen or hidden by the "fog of war". I know on the PC version at least that turning off CPU animations can noticeably if not significantly speed up turn times. I hope we have this option on the Switch, or that whoever is making the port does a better job with optimization than Firaxis did on the PC version.

The iPAD version is the full featuredgame, but scaled down (Multiplayer) not sure about Single player.

Great news, I'll pick this up for sure

Doom and Wolfenstein II had this problem too. So hard to read in handheld mode.

according to the IGN review, the iPAD port is the full game outside of multiplayer, but with some graphical taming (e.g., no animated leaders). This one may even be able to do those, since got game focused Nvidia hardware, IDK

interesting.. I just can't imagine massive maps and turn times on these devices....

@kali-b1rd: i can't speak from experience with the iPAD version, but a quick google turned up a Polygon review that seems to agree with IGN. To your concern, Polygon said this: "the iPad version does offer a red letter warning that the turns are especially long on optional large maps. This is true on PC too, but there is no warning there, so I'm staying away from the larger maps on iPad."