@@paddyotterness That's great to know. Is there anyone you've got in mind?

Sid is a massive gaming world legend. I started played Civ on 286.

What about the guy who made "castle of the winds"?

Hmm... I think you should double it. ... or cut it in half.

@@arstechnica I would love to see an interview with the people who made Battletech Crescent Hawks Inception and Battletech Crescent Hawks Revenge in the late 1980s. The developer was Westwood Associates and the publisher was Infocom.

Neither can Sid

He really seemed to enjoy that, huh?

@@SacchieILU right first there was the board game then the computer version. but still a great achievement.

Welcome to my new religion. Sid Meier is God.

@Aaron Z. There's a Civ game coming to PS4?

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Truth! Sunshine LITERALLY causes cancer!

A hero through and through

Just 2 generations?

probably like two and a half. the later half of gen x millennials gen z

dont't worry, you socilize with other nations! you can put it on your CV

haha, dont hate the player, hate the game.

Dont hate CIV, its only good!

Hahaha, I remember losing much sleeping time trying to beat Civ (the original) at Emperor level

@@onisuryaman408 Civ (the original) at Emperor level, was easy. First, you research the wheel and get chariots. Then you can conquer Eurasia/Africa quickly with two chariots by saving before each attack. Next, research triremes and sail to America with your chariots and conquer that. Lastly, Australia, but you don't conquer the last civ. You force it to become a settler and trap it in the mountains while you build across the map. Your score will be unbeatable.

Sounds about right. Probably a cultural victory on later games with that kind of rapid speed.

@@Smokecall I could actually hit 19th century in 9 hours. Just couldn't stop because everything got complicated at that era.

Eh... a bit too quick. A fast game would last for 5 days to a week.

@@BasedAlaric oh yeah, in multiplayer terms, that is a fast game. Especially if the start is 1 city 4000 bc instead of accelerated starts that later civ titles allow

9 hours is not enough - it's only third.

That's something ONLY a nerd WOULD say on youtube comments :P

Video game nerds* as a proud nerd myself I’d rather meet Tony Schaloub aka mr monk….but Meier is pretty damn close!

He could play as Gandhi and nuke everybody.

Or even the newest edition, that might make more profitable news for the game.

Everybody gangsta till you notice you can't see fog of war

Thing is you often find that developers of games like this suck at their own games, they pretty much just give the player the tools to play then leave them to it.

@@24magiccarrot If I was to make a game I have not the slightest doubt that I would be truly terrible at it.

what type of physical disability?

@@iamwhatyouseeinyournightma708 a rare type of muscular dystrophy, genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system that basically weakens the muscles slowly over time. losing the ability to walk at age 13 and my fingers have slowly over the years got weaker and unusable contracted into fists around age 25. as I get older I adapt and figure out how to make things work to get by. often relying on new technology to help

​@@zipzeolocke2like father stu?

@@henrybierman8431 I've never heard of that movie, I had to look it up and watch a trailer

This is adorable

Fix AI in Civ 6! It sucks at war! Easiest in the series!

@@kenbee1957 Thanks, Ken! Appreciate your support. :)

cute!

Fix railroad tycoon

**Blitzkrieg intensifies**

Sounds like what EU got back from athens during the recent crisis

that sums up the 2008 financial crisis pretty nicely...

Lol exactly, still happening! IMF, WORLD BANK, EU

drunkensailor112 Hahahhahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaha!

It's not a meme. Civilization was invented before the internet was. Probably before you were born.

@Shawn Hughes and the word meme was coined in the early 70's by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.

@@shawnhughes4192 Sid Meier's Civilization: 1991 World Wide Web: 1989 Don't even ask about the internet itself. Way before you were born.

@@aexetan2769 You are cherry-picking dates and playing semantics with words. The web, as we know it, didn't exist before 1991, and ubiquitous access to the web didn't happen until a few years after that. And Internet memes didn't exist for at least a decade after that.

@@nicholasneyhart396 Congratulations, you can use Google. The internet meme, which is what is being referred to here, didn't exist before approximately the early 00's and claiming otherwise is disingenuous. If someone claimed they used the first printer in the early 70's, would you claim that Gutenberg actually crated the first printer in the mid 15th century? Context. It's a thing.

It wasn't only Civ. You had Master of Magic, Master of Orion and X-Com: Enemy Unknown all great turn based games that only got better.

Wow.... this comment is so relatable 😂😂😂😂

Me : so I'll just play 1 game for the day 9:00 pm and I'm only at turn 298

That's me playing Total War.

Literally me and my friend playing civ 6 last night to 4am

big fax... lol

I laughed out loud

It's actually heartbreaking when Sheldon explains why he loves trains.

A billion railroads

..and they go ZA WARUDO

@James Walker yeah he's died in 2016 iirc. Last book was the book version of Act of Valor.

I thought he was dead when I got the original version of colonization in 1996 or 1997, imagine my surprise when I see he’s alive like 24 years later.

I was just talking about Civilization with my mom the other day and she told me he's been dead for a while. Unless "a while" is less than a year ago, she's wrong.

I thought it was the name of the studio 😂

You weren't alone. Civ 1 was ported to the SNES. One reviewer said it was so bad that Sid Meiers was "rolling in his grave". That was like 1998 😑 Side note It's actually a pretty good port. I have it on my phone. Prefer it to the Dos version, on a mobile device at least.

incredible story :D thanks for sharing and good luck on the rest of your recovery!

@Mohan Sandal Not related, but true...

It's great to hear Teller from Penn and Teller finally talking!

Sid Meier's Sid Meier

Sid "Sid Meier's Civilization" Meier

It isn't?

I legit had the same reaction.

Me too!

So many fond memories of late nights creating worlds with this series.

Haha. I got into civ 3 when i was younger and I'd always play like..an hour then activate some cheats. Didn't have the patience until I was in college...many college classes were cut because of this man.

Your parents sound like mine back in the day. Games are evil!

Shoulda told your parents it was educational and shown them one of the technology text screens. *points at screen* “see, I’m learning about bronze working!”

@@Palocles it definitely was educational. I got asked "who was the king of ancient Babylon" in 4th year med, and thanks to civ 3 was able to confidently respond "king hammurabi". Which was met with a blank look from the orthopaedic surgeon and the comment that you should never ask a question to which you don't know the answer.

You got back the money

@@Dicaso9 Very true!

@@Dicaso9 No, cos water is very cheap. Electricity spent on escaping into the game world was much more expensive.

this is amazing

Nice 👌

Nice 👌

I'm a little younger, but same story... living the life.

Good storytelling. Do the tvs sit directly beside each other or is one at an angle for when you look over at it

hahahahaaha

He was probably doing the intelligence advisor on the side....😁

Dude, I just had a revelation that he's the civ 3 science advisor. Thanks!

ha ha ha ha , only a civ nerd would know the significance of that comment! Believe me, I do!

Civilization I was my very first PC game after Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. I played the CIV series and peaked at CIV IV. I played CIV V very briefly and was sorely disappointed.. I felt they nerfed it to appease a more general crowd such as the artwork becoming more cartoony, the unrealism that even in the year 2000 there would be about a 1/3 of the land math still not claimed by a nation-state, etc. I didn't even bother with CIV VI and now get my grand strategy fix with Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron :)

@@roseforeuropa Also played every iteration from the first one on, easily thousands of hours combined. I think the recent streamlining has both its pros and cons, but mostly I see it as a positive development. Games (especially later on) tend to flow much smoother now that there's no finicky management of "stacks of doom" and you can (and have to) play combat more strategically as opposed to just pumping out more units and steamrolling with sheer quantity. In terms of logistics and supply chains this seems more realistic as well. The hex system is also arguably better as it makes all directions equal and removes the kind of OP weirdness of diagonal movement. I also really like the district system from Civ VI as it adds another much needed layer of depth and meaningful decision-making in the city-building (and planning!) to allow for and reward actual specialization of each city, whereas before you would eventually build just about everything everywhere anyway, which makes for a very repetitive process with very little thought involved. Separating the technology and civic trees also makes sense, and the eureka/inspiration boosts make for an interesting new mechanic to reward a more balanced approach as opposed to cheesier strategies that play almost solely into your one strength. Having said that, the differentiation between civilizations and leaders has also added some interesting variables into the mix. I think it's currently a pretty good balance overall, with all kinds of interesting dilemmas. The other new additions like natural disasters are more cosmetic, but don't hurt either. I'll give you the unclaimed land thing, although that's highly dependent of map size and type and the amount of civilizations in the game. I think it also keeps the late game more interesting when every inch of land hasn't been claimed yet. The city territories can also be viewed as more of a de facto developed part of your empire, whereas the political borders are intentionally left more ambiguous and debatable. Territorial disputes can and do happen to this day, and it would be kind of superfluous and excessive to include in the game such on-paper ownership of remote areas that doesn't involve actually settling in or utilizing them in any way. Settling near foreign territories is made more challenging without being outright impossible, which makes for some enticing expansion gameplay all the way to the end, allowing for sneaky land grabs and "culture bombing" around strategic resources and locations all that. In the end the main priority should always be keeping the gameplay continually interesting, IMO, and if that means some hand-wavy solutions in terms of strict realism then so be it. In a sense I think it's always been one of the key strengths of the Civilization games that they leave many of the details vague enough to not get bogged down by such technicalities that could never be simulated fully accurately and comprehensively anyway. Either way, it's always nice to have options available for every kind of grand strategy itch.

M The 1st game I played wad Colonization, I love that game! Than it was 2,3,4,5, and I just picked up Civ6 for my PS4. Only other game that remotely comes close to the Civ series and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Even in this day and age and the technology we have those are still my favorites!

@@kitzschy ^THIS you don't get many games like this, 6 games into the series and still well polished and true to the spirit of the original while adding more depth and keeping up with the times. Civ 5 was also very amazing and idk what OP meant by "cartoony" civ5 graphics, as civ5 is more "realistic" and civ 6 is more "cartoony"

I was yelling at Hammurabi .

@@M.Ghilas and i at Boudicca in civ V (my first civ game) she always betrayed me

@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 Civ 5 is my favourite it's really good but I didn't have frustrating moments like Civ 1 the reason I hated Hammurabi that he was always getting Tanks out of nowhere.

Alexander in Civ V and VI, Hardrada In Civ VI

lol, yip

my similar experience was with Diablo, but I did go to sleep :).

The longest time I ever played Civ non-stop only around 12 hours, U mad bro 🤯

@@snuffeldjuret D2 ;D

My record would have been about 12-15 hours for CIV IV. My all time record was 20 hours with Skyrim.

You're absolutely right. And that just tell everyone how old we are. Computer sure were fun back then. Cheers!

That's names like deadmau5 were born.

If I remember, the final release directory was even shorter, just Civ

@@yahyaatiya1136 no, it was definitely civilize. Maybe later versions were civ though.

long filenames came with windows 95, was it up to 256 letters?

I download Civ V last Friday. I didn’t get any sleep at all Friday night and Saturday night. “One more turn… One more turn … oh look it’s daylight outside”

@@notmenotme614 I had Civ 5 but I had to get rid of it because it was too addictive! Such a jump between Prince and King on Civ 5. It's like going from Prince to Emperor in Civ 1

@@notmenotme614 Get the "Vox Poluli" mod for Civ 5. It literally makes it a new game.

Spartan265 agreed. Without Sid Meier, we wouldn’t have the wonderful 4X genre.

Exactly, I learnt history thanks by him

i like history because of Civ game

Civilization should be in every school

That would be Gandhi. He would normally like, share, and subscribe but when the aggression wraps around...

I understand why rich white guys dress ironically conscious or not, I just don't like it or agree remotely.

@@sleepsleeper4466 Not sure what your comment is implying, but many wealthy people dress "average" because they genuinely don't care about wearing expensive clothing.

@@Wheelio Not sure what your comment is implying, but many wealthy people dress "pretentiously bad" because they genuinely, like every human ever do care what others think of them on a conscious or unconscious level, and wish for it to be "he's one of us", not, "he doesn't care"

@@sleepsleeper4466 yeah, I just don´t tink people like Sid Meier or Bill Gates dress pretentiously bad. They are nerds and I really don´t think their priority is how they dress.

@@sleepsleeper4466 Project more about how self conscious and phony you are.

He also appears as a leader in through the ages board game

Ah, I see that you've never played the Tutorial of Civilizations 4. I highly recommend it. It's the worst/best tutorial for a game I've ever played.

Jchrispole thanks! I’ll go check it out

@@yoshi92491 was just about to say that as well hehe :D.

He's the science advisor in civ 3.

Test of Time is amazing. Certainly one of the best.

That is actually an interesting idea...

I could smell my pc burning.

Me too. I still play it sometimes, even though it's 20 years old now and my 20 year old PC barely works. lol

Hell no. Just redo Civ2

I get what your going for. Like haveing a smarter enemy to play against instead of spawning enemy units for the player to destroy, right?

God I wish. Literally a favorite prayer of mine.

That means it is a good game if you are up that late anyone agree

Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.

Lord Potashmallow Not gonna lie, you swapped the halves of that sentence.

I was trying to remember which was the best to start with, thanks!

Carlos Dudas no worries!