Do Interesting Decisions Create Interesting Games? Breaking Down Sid Meier (Patreon)

Do Interesting Decisions Create Interesting Games? Breaking Down Sid Meier

Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ArchitectofGames Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/Thefearalcarrot Apologies for any small audio hiccups in the video, I've been unde the weather lately and that made editing a bit of a challenge. There's a very old quote from the creator of Civilization, Sid Meier "A good game is a series of interesting decisions" and despite how popular this quote is, an "interesting decision" is a pretty hard idea to break down. It's time for The Architect to reboot history and go back to the basics of strategic games in figure out what an interesting decision is, how they can be best used, or whether we need them at all. You Saw: Civilization 6- 2016 Xcom- Enemy Unknown- 2012 Kingdom Rush Frontiers- 2013 Destiny 2- 2017 Gwent: Thronebreaker- 2018 Maple Story 2- 2018 Pokemon Ultra Moon- 2017 Far Cry 5- 2018 Armello- 2015 Slay The Spire- 2017 Path of Exil- 2013 Final Fantasy 10- 2001 Shovel Knight- 2014 Into the Breach- 2018 Transistor- 2014 Magic the gathering: Arena- 2018 Prismata- 2018 Return of the Obra Din-2018 Titan Souls- 2015 Rayman Legends- 2013 Interesting decisions/links: Sid Meier's GDC talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WggIdtrqgKg Great Errant Signal video on Far Cry 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPqF_o4mCs The dangerous myth of Civiliazation: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/03/15/all-rise-and-no-fall-how-civilization-reinforces-a-dangerous-myth/