I just want to say that the art segment might be my favourite platchat bit of all time.

I know this is wildly offtopic for what you usually cover, but FIFA. And if you have no opinions, are there any other sports games you actually like/have liked?

The background ost that plays in all of the "looking at the sky" scenes will live in my head rent free for a long while

I'm astounded how consistently close the games I get playing this are. We've ended multiple games with 3 players within 3 points of each other.

I just wish the game wasn't so goddamn gray.

This is very close to how Humankind did it. I would be willing to put money on Firaxis deciding on a less granular approach because of the problems that game had with rapid nation switching.