I would have appreciated a more informative and historical narration instead of the dumb jokes and puns the game narration relies on.  Overall I feel the historical element is lacking in this game, although I have for the most part enjoyed it so far, this part gets to me for some reason.

FYI, you can turn the narrator off and your enjoyment of the game will increase. :-)

Helpful tip, Gorde. How do you go about turning off the narrator? 

i feel the need to state that i absolutely love the narrator and his jokes. the only thing that bugs me is that the narration relative to neutral tribes gets repetitive really fast. plus i think it is reset every time you load the game. and it triggers a dozen times in a row when you trade maps with an other empire 

I kind of like him, even though he has nothing interesting to say and frequently disapproves of what you're doing (when mass murder and imperialism is basically all you do in any civ type game).

Tennozan wrote:

Helpful tip, Gorde. How do you go about turning off the narrator? 

Settings - Audio - Voice Volume

It says "adjust the volume for the leader/narrator" 

I adore the narrator, but it irks me that he sometimes triggers at wrong times (like first ship, or x amounts of quarters/territories in a city) or does so repeatedly for no reason (like anytime you'd push your ideology scale further down one side when it's already maxed out).

The problem with the narrator is that Amplitude have a certain opinion towards some ideology. So the narrator will always school you if you pick the "wrong" choice, the wrong choice according to Amplitude.

For a game that promotes "make your own history" with 4 axis of ideology, this move is indeed dumb.

Narrator didn't like me having child labor in my empire. Hey somebody gotta make those weapons and red army tanks in maker's quarters, right? It's not like I prevent em going to school. I simply gave them options for education but if you wanna fool and not going to school off to factory you go you little nut! :D

+1 to this. I find the current narrator very tiresome and even immersion-breaking, as I do with a lot of the diplomacy dialogue. I wish they'd gone in a more informative and unbiased direction, and used the native languages of cultures (at least those known/available) represented when avatars converse with each other. But if this isn't possible, more quotes added to the pool and further dialogue options to choose from would suffice.

Narrator is a great addition for me overall, but as mentioned above it has some flaws:

1. It can keep repeating the same dialogue in various cases (e.g you hit the extreme ideology axis). Dialogue for a specific action should only happen once in the single game.
2. Dialogue can just seem to play while you are doing something else and sometimes you lose the context or its not what you are looking at on screen which can be confusing/jarring.

Yes narrator is biased, but i personnally dont think its a problem as he clearly speak as if its his opinion and not absolute thruth, and in an often humoristic way i find funny. 

I can understand not liking it though so I'm glad you can turn it off

Yeah some lines trigger weirdly sometimes i agree

Besides the glitches where the narrator repeats himself, I think he's fine.

The narrator does oftentimes make actual brief historical commentary, but you're playing a 4x game. You're not going to sit through a Wikipedia summary of every culture, wonder, or technology. So he says something about their history, makes a quip, and then the game moves along. The Humankind encyclopedia has a historical overview of every culture in the game, but reading it to you would get tiresome quickly.

I also think the narrator is only biased in some specific areas, but often he actually goes with whatever Civic you choose. He supports you when you choose blatant Propaganda, for example, saying that without control of the press, "anyone can say anything" (paraphrasing). This tracks even today when freedom of the press leads to Qanon and fake news actively harming society, so it's not entirely meritless. He supports your choice for a more totalitarian society, but uhh yeah, he's not gonna support slavery. The point of understanding history is to also understand where we went wrong. The game is saying, "you're free to make this choice as historical leaders did, but be under no illusions that it's a good thing in real life." To do otherwise would be irresponsible.