The Greatest City Builders You Forgot Existed: Grand Ages Rome & the Caesar Series
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Ever ask yourself, “What was the first video game?” Turns out it was a Historical City Builder! In this "Blast From The Past" video we begin by looking at the history of Historical City Builder Games, from 1964’s “The Sumerian Game” through the Impressions Era, which included popular titles like the Caesar series and Pharaoh. Ultimately, we dive into the current standard for the genre, the much misunderstood and often unknown Grand Ages Rome. After discussing the gameplay and reception of Grand Ages Rome, we briefly examine the current and upcoming competition, like Anno, nebuchadnezzar, and Builders of Egypt. Notable missing games are the likes of Banished-which has a survival tilt to it, and the games predating recorded history like Dawn of Man and Ancient Cities, which will be covered at another time.
Fans of other such games like Cities Skylines, Stronghold, Surviving Mars, and Tropico 5 (made by the same developer) will love the little-known gem featured in the video, Grand Ages Rome. And fans of the city building genre will also enjoy watching to learn about the history of the period city builder genre and how it evolved into what it is today.
the music in this video comes from Grand Ages Rome
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Chapters
0:00 - What will this video cover?
0:50 - The First Video Game
2:00 - The Impressions Games Era and Caesar
3:14 - The Would-Be Challenger, Civcity Rome
3:44 - The Origins of Grand Ages Rome, Imperium Romanum
4:23 - Grand Ages Rome, Gameplay & Criticisms
5:36 - Campaign vs Free-Build Mode
6:12 - Reviews vs the Competition
6:48 - A Look at the Modern Competitors, Anno, Nebuchadnezzar, and Builders of Egypt
7:56 - Final Thoughts on Grand Ages vs The Competition
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To clear up the confusion: Imperium Romanum 1 and Imperium Romanum 2 are the two that are essentially the same. IIRC 2 only adds a couple big monuments and slightly improved/more varied combat. Grand Ages Rome is the one that plays completely different. The biggest changes are that one house staffs one building, and resources are not tracked one brick/fish/plank/rock at a time. Besides the vastly improved combat. IR2 is a lot more complicated and at times janky. GAR is more streamlined, sleek, and feels more... orderly, controlled. In IR2 each individual citizen is tracked, has their routine and you can personally order them around (go to work, go satisfy a requirement, quit your job). Each house could hold a man, woman, child, and elder, each building requires usually at least 2 workers and most jobs can only be done by one specific gender, so matching work supply and demand is a whole thing that GAR almost completely ripped out. Also because each citizen has a finite amount of time in the day (IR2 tracked the day/night cycle btw), if they don't have time to go do/get something they need, they may get increasingly angry and eventually riot over there not being enough clothes to go around despite living next door to a fully stocked tailor. It made riot management via prefectures essentially mandatory, whereas in GAR the main benefit they provide is the maintenance discount, since crime is so much easier to prevent in other ways.
This looks like such a fun game. Going to have to add it to my wishlist
Great video - really enjoyed it.
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Thank you. More videos of the series are planned, so if you are a fan of older games keep a lookout for them.