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What does /lit/ think of Civilization V's selection of great works of writing?

Also, many people on /lit/ tell people with pleb opinions to "go back to /v/," but what does /lit/ think of the possibility of video games inspiring children to read as opposed to the opposite?

http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Work_(Civ5)#Great_Writers

>> No.9899392

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was one of my first introductions to philosophy but the Civ series since 4 has been watered-down pleb shit

Looks like a pretty cool list

>> No.9899526

It's a good list, at least what I read from it.
I'm pretty sure that kids don't play anything that would make them interested in reading though. Most of my nephews enjoy only Minecraft, DotA, and FOTM survival games. One of them was reading some new book about Illidan from Warcraft when I visited last. I got my son to play Pathologic (I see it here occasionally) and he seems to be reading my older stuff now from what I can tell. Maybe that influenced him, I don't know.

>> No.9899594

>>9899383
>http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Work_(Civ5)#Great_Writers

These lists are okay. I also imagine it's an easy list to mod.

I like the CIV series. It isn't perfect, but as a kid it got me interesting in knowing more about history. The Civilipedia entries, the in game glossary, was sometimes a bit limited. I remember the Civ 3 article on Fascism being particularly uninformative, but at least honest about the disputes around defining fascism

>> No.9899596

>>9899392
SMAC was top shelf.

>> No.9899869

>>9899383
>tfw playing Civ 3 on your dads lap on his computer
>tfw you go home for christmas and you and all your siblings play Civ V with all the DLC
>tfw you're fucking autistic at it and never lose and always become a fascist
>tfw your own father pre-emptively invades you if spawn next to him

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9899873

>>9899869
>>tfw your own father pre-emptively invades you