Is Age of Wonders really a 4X? We asked the game director
My idea of Age of Wonders was fixed by the very first game in the series, which I loved because it reminded me of Heroes of Might and Magic II - then and still one of my favourite-ever games and emphatically not a 4X. Obviously the series has become more complex since then, but when I saw Age of Wonders: Planetfall widely labeled a 4X upon its release, my brow still furrowed a little.
And yes, I know, the average reader is probably thinking 'who gives a V-Buck', but you've clicked on an article about a strategy game, so I'm betting you enjoy strategy games. Therefore you enjoy efficiency. Order. Categorisation. Taxonomy (ooh). Naturally we're all grown-up enough to understand that none of this really matters, but zoom out a little further and neither do videogames, the wider entertainment industry, or indeed humanity's continued existence as the Sun's going to expand and fry us all in a few billion years anyway. It's all a question of perspective and, provided you allow that we're talking on a particular, nitpicky level, this stuff is really important.
All of which is preamble to say that I asked Planetfall's game director, Lennart Sas, whether Age of Wonders is now a 4X series at PDX Con this year.
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