Sid Meier has made many great games over the years, but his masterpiece is still "Sid Meier's Civilization". (A bit of interesting trivia, it is not the first game to include his name in the title: that honor goes to "Sid Meier's Pirates"!) Released in 1991, "Civilization" was a hugely influential game that made epoch-spanning strategy accessible to the masses and launched a highly successful series.

Despite its influence, Meyer said in an interview with the Independent that he doubts he would even have the opportunity to make a game like that today, and even if he did, he doubts it would be equally successful.

"I don't think I could make Civilization today. I don't know if even I would play it. It doesn't fit the times. It demands too much from the player and takes too long to work it out. You have to play it once to understand what is going on. You have to be willing to spend time in this game, which most gamers these days are not.

This is not just a grumpy old man complaining about "gamers these days," and Meyer admits that Civilization was the perfect game for its time. The PCs were up to par, but they didn't have as much potential," he says. If it had been made two years earlier, it would have used only four colors and would have been much shallower."

The success of "Crusader Kings 3" and Paradox in general proves that there is still a place for a single-minded strategy in the modern gaming market, but there is no doubt that the world is very different now than it was then. Games are flashier than ever, updates are happening faster than Civ turns, and gamers are inundated with options that would have been unthinkable in 1991, more than a decade before Steam came along. Modern-day "Civilization" may still be a great game, but it will never have the same opportunity to make the impact that "CK3" did 20 years ago.

Also, today is the release date of Sid Meier's memoir!

Thanks, PCGamesN.