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46: Reconsidering Civilization with Soren Johnson (Old World)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Narrative Stakes of Old World

Sorin: One thing that's really different about Old World compared to civilization is this huge stack of narrative events that come up often every turn. And if you kneel, your families are mad at you and you lose legitimacy. But if you don't, Rome is mad at you. So there is, like that's quite different than Civ in terms of it's actually less abstract in like an immediate narrative.

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