Civilization 6 announcement trailer done pretty dam close to perfect!

By perfect, you mean all hype and no substance? Looks like a bunch of stock footage chained together.

I'm telling you, it's like Star Trek but the opposite.  Just ignore the even-numbered Civ games and odd-numbered Star Trek movies and you will save yourself a whole lot of disappointment.

Quoting Kavik_Kang, reply 2

I'm telling you, it's like Star Trek but the opposite.  Just ignore the even-numbered Civ games and odd-numbered Star Trek movies and you will save yourself a whole lot of disappointment.

Or ignore them all and play Alpha Centauri.

What the hell do you think announcement trailers are for?..

Quoting Kavik_Kang, reply 2

I'm telling you, it's like Star Trek but the opposite.  Just ignore the even-numbered Civ games and odd-numbered Star Trek movies and you will save yourself a whole lot of disappointment.

You can't be serious with this comment... Civ 2 was a major step up from Civ 1. Civ 4 is still considered the best in the series. Civ 5 was ill received just to become another cult classic later on.

To show a tease of the product, perhaps? I saw no tease. I saw a future political ad. I hope that the SCR teaser has more substance.

I thought Civ2 was terrible, but Civ3 was good.  I thought Civ4 was the worst Civ, and Civ5 is the best.

I was actually behind one of the changes in the first patch of Civ1.  I met Sid Meier at the ORIGINS convention where the SFB National Championships were held just a few months after the first Civ was released.  I had been playing it constantly since it had come out.  We talked for about an hour about 3 different games.  When Civ came up he asked what my best score was, and when I said 169% he looked confused at first, then asked inquisitively "How did you do that?".  I realized from his reaction that 169% was the highest score he had heard.  When I explained how I conquered the world in 440BC he obviously considered any military victory in the BC years to be broken.  Then I got to see Sid Meier at work in person... he looked down for a moment, then looked back up at me and said "What if barracks cost 1 maintenance, could you sill conquer the world before 1AD?".  I wouldn't be able to do it with that change, so increasing barracks to 1 maintenance in the first patch was done to prevent anyone else from winning in the BC years like I had done.

I've actually never told this story before:-)

Ok... maybe this is going to be an exception to the normal rule.  After looking at Civ6 and reading about some of the things they are doing... I am liking the look and sound of this a lot.  I don't think it looks cartoony, I wouldn't want to see Civ with a photo-realistic look.  It looks like a computer game, like it should, to my eyes.  Also, often when game makers are touting new ideas in their games the ideas they are talking about are ultimately meaningless and they are wasting their time and I recognize that.  This is not the case with Civ6, everything I just read about what they are doing sounds like real, meaningful new ideas that will actually work and have a good impact.

I'm actually very surprised at how good Civ6 looks and sounds like it is going to be.

^ Cool story! After 2 weeks of my arrival to US in year 2000 I've met Bill Gates face to face and took his autograph. Still have it.

You're right! Civ 5 opinion changed over time with all the expansions and patches as the following article shows. But it wasn't the same when Civ 5 came out.

http://www.pcgamer.com/ranking-the-best-and-worst-of-the-civilization-series/

So far I love what they did to Civ 6. They're bringing "city sprawl" mechanic and I love it. Units stacking into corps and I LOVE IT. They got Sean Bean in their freakin' trailer (granted he dies by the end of it) AND I LOOOOVED IT.

I don't think marketing works like that. Neither do they.

This is a marketing breakdown on your part because your message isn't reaching its target audience. (Read: I don't understand what you are saying.)

There's multiple categories of teaser trailers now. This is what I like to call "Teaser-Lite". Admittedly, Teaser-Lite tends to be black screens with buzzphrases and familiar sound clips and music, but this is significantly better than most Teaser-Lite, imo.

I'm burned out on Civ at the moment. Hoped Beyond Earth would be a breath of fresh air, but the base game was lacking, just like Civ V at release. "There's no end to our imagination, and no limits... to Civilization (VI)" Harr harr, at this rate Civ VII will fully embrace a self-conscious satire of itself.