That was a good interview. :-) As someone who was fortunate enough to play the alphas, I'm really, really looking forward to release, because the game is pretty darn amazing. To add a fourth thing which distinguishes Ara from the competition, which I feel gets overlooked a bit, is the fact that they have done away with tiles. Many older games in the genre used to have square tiles, current ones usually have hexagons, which look more organic and gives you equidistant movement in all 6 directions, but in Ara, you instead have irregularly shaped regions based on terrain features, subdivided into a variable number of zones and with a variable number of adjacent regions. It is not just interesting in how it looks, there are strategic considerations as well.
@BlackNomad1 I'm not avoiding it. :) Civ is the most obvious competitor, but there are many more, like Humankind, Old World, Millennia, Fallen Enchantress, and so on. And they are all tile based.
I always found tiles to be immersion breaking. Irregularly shaped provinces based on geography mimics the real world. Games like Civ that use hexes are always reminding the player that “this is a board game”.
It hard to belive developers could not name 4 strong features about their games, while 3 was quite, meh... generic. You can say the same for other 4x games. Why do not mention battle royal prestige system that wipe maps from losers? Why don't mention product chains and resource managements? Who really cares about game visual in 4x game? Most Stellaris games runs in Galactic map. Most Victorias runs in MaxZoomOut. TA/SC runs in strategic mods, because people mostly play games to feel the scale. I may be mistaken, but I remember they said that ARA can run game on huge map with 30+ civs. OMG. 30 civs! I hope I not mistaken, because civ-like game on 30 civs is sounds amazing for me. PS. I still buy game on release, but I really think they marketing wrong features here.
Man, Xbox suck at marketing, they barely talk about this game. I think everyone that has to do with marketing needs to be fired at that company. It's like they spend billions on acquiring companies then they spend a hundred bucks marketing 😂
This was one of my most anticipated games until I found out the game is making historical figures "non binary" ... it's so weird to project modern ideas like that on historical figures, more over it's really strange to fixate on their sexual preferences or identity in a strategy game like this.
My god people like you are saying total nonsense.... They are not making historical figures non-binary like you said at all. There is one leader, Osch-Tisch from the Crow Tribe, who is labeled non-binary which is, from different sources, possibly accurate. It's so weird to project bad information like you just did. For the record, I would have agreed with you if they did this with George Washington for example .. but it is not the case at all like I explained.
That was a good interview. :-) As someone who was fortunate enough to play the alphas, I'm really, really looking forward to release, because the game is pretty darn amazing.
To add a fourth thing which distinguishes Ara from the competition, which I feel gets overlooked a bit, is the fact that they have done away with tiles. Many older games in the genre used to have square tiles, current ones usually have hexagons, which look more organic and gives you equidistant movement in all 6 directions, but in Ara, you instead have irregularly shaped regions based on terrain features, subdivided into a variable number of zones and with a variable number of adjacent regions. It is not just interesting in how it looks, there are strategic considerations as well.
Just say Civ. You don’t get points for avoiding saying the name.
@BlackNomad1 I'm not avoiding it. :) Civ is the most obvious competitor, but there are many more, like Humankind, Old World, Millennia, Fallen Enchantress, and so on. And they are all tile based.
@@TheSwiftFalcon exactly!
I always found tiles to be immersion breaking. Irregularly shaped provinces based on geography mimics the real world. Games like Civ that use hexes are always reminding the player that “this is a board game”.
How was the performance in the Alpha? Some of the footage looked a tad low framerate to me, but not sure if it was just captured poorly.
So from what i understand is we smashed cities skylines and civ together sounds neat
Great! thanks for the interview! The game looks super interesting:)
great video! any thoughts on adding chapters to the video so people know which questions were asked?
working on it!
Great interview Parris, really enjoying your videos on the channel!
Great and informative interview. Can't wait to give this game a go!
you had a nice question about war and combat. but I'm sad no gameplay have been shown on this question
thanks and unfortunately I didn't have b-roll footage with combat
Enjoyed this, thanks!
pre ordered ARA yesterday so saturday cannot ait to play.. after playing litterally all civ versions i ditched this to go to ARA
Wait, what! Narwhals? Well I gotta buy it now.
It hard to belive developers could not name 4 strong features about their games, while 3 was quite, meh... generic. You can say the same for other 4x games.
Why do not mention battle royal prestige system that wipe maps from losers?
Why don't mention product chains and resource managements?
Who really cares about game visual in 4x game? Most Stellaris games runs in Galactic map. Most Victorias runs in MaxZoomOut. TA/SC runs in strategic mods, because people mostly play games to feel the scale.
I may be mistaken, but I remember they said that ARA can run game on huge map with 30+ civs. OMG. 30 civs! I hope I not mistaken, because civ-like game on 30 civs is sounds amazing for me.
PS. I still buy game on release, but I really think they marketing wrong features here.
You should narrate a book!
I have 1 question: Is there an Earth map?
I'm in the Discord. Not for release, but the map/mod tools will be released and maintained after launch.
Daddy Parris is back
Awesome interview Parris!
Man, Xbox suck at marketing, they barely talk about this game.
I think everyone that has to do with marketing needs to be fired at that company.
It's like they spend billions on acquiring companies then they spend a hundred bucks marketing 😂
I’ve been seeing ads for this game (looks interesting) but it says PC Gamepass.
It’s coming to Xbox later on I believe
No steam?
No console release has been announced, it is only available through PC GamePass (Xbox App/MS Store) and Steam.
@@pickes yup it’s on steam lol 😂 you can pre order
This was one of my most anticipated games until I found out the game is making historical figures "non binary" ... it's so weird to project modern ideas like that on historical figures, more over it's really strange to fixate on their sexual preferences or identity in a strategy game like this.
They went with inclusiveness but ended up polarizing people.
It is just one indian tribe chief relax. Washington or Elisabeth are not non-binary.
@@kirilld6206 I hope so, it looks good but if they go DEI and Woke the game will bomb and I really dont want that.
who cares that?
My god people like you are saying total nonsense.... They are not making historical figures non-binary like you said at all. There is one leader, Osch-Tisch from the Crow Tribe, who is labeled non-binary which is, from different sources, possibly accurate. It's so weird to project bad information like you just did.
For the record, I would have agreed with you if they did this with George Washington for example .. but it is not the case at all like I explained.