Based On What We Know: Rate Civ 4

[Nikolai]

Sir Ralph for "Yin"!:dointnow!: All hail the new Yin!

[yin26]

LOL! Well, I hereby pass the negativity torch to Ralph, then.

[Zoid]

[Nikolai]

Good boy!

[Freddz]

There is always a good reason for negativity: it puts some pressure on the gaming company. And it also challanges ideas, and includes a wish for improvement.
Now it's pretty much too late to be negative, but it had a purpose 2-3 weeks ago and back.

I mean, if everyone was just incredibly positive all the time, the company could put out any crap they dared and just print a famous name on it and that would be a best-seller. So....

LONG LIVE THE DAMN NEGATIVITY!!
And let it spread as new games are made.

[Freddz]

Not that I have been other than extremely positive this time around(I'm usually a huge pessimist). But I haven't followed Civ 4 from the list on at all - I discovered it was being made a few weeks ago, which is probably a huge reason for my surprise in how well made and inventive Civ 4 seemed.
If anything of what we have seen holds true, I can only congratulate Soren and his team at Firaxis for actually trying to make something fresh and inspired of an old series.

[Harovan]

If the three negative things in my book out of dozens, if not hundreds of known features (tile sharing, 1 trait combination imbalanced, shallow espionage [not much info here, though]) already make me the epitome of negativity and even yield me a valuable torch, this game must be truly outstanding.

Besides, no, not negativity should live long, but the right mix of appreciation and criticism, both where they are due.

[Zoid]

Too late Ralphie. You´re it. Find someone more negative than you if you don´t like the title.

[DrSpike]

[Solver]

Indeed, if Ralph is the most negative person about Civ4, then the game's absolutely great .

[Zoid]

You´ve reviewed it. You know its great!

[Solver]

I do

[Nikolai]

And soon we'll know if it's just something you said to get loads of money from Firaxis without any thought on your reputation.

[DrSpike]

No danger of it deteriorating anyway.

[Freddz]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Besides, no, not negativity should live long, but the right mix of appreciation and criticism, both where they are due.

Sure, but since everybody pays tribute to positivity and many have a "don't say anything bad about civ"-attitude, I highlighted the other side's importance.