PC Civilization V

[volcboy]

Coming soon to destroy the sleep patterns you have developed.

Hexagons replacing squares on the map, no stacking of units, ranged units can shoot more than one tile.

http://www.civilization5.com/

 

[Forrest Gimp]

great news

 

[xyakks]

To be honest I'm still playing Civ2(since '97) and Civ3.

 

[moistie]

I cannot wait.

 

[rick James]

I still play Civ 4 every other day.

This is going to ruin those Law School ambitions I had.

 

[Cynic]

To be honest I'm still playing Civ2(since '97) and Civ3.

Yep. I normally play a game of Civ 2 every few days, just up until about 2000AD then retire. Rinse and repeat .

 

[Falchoon]

To be honest I'm still playing Civ2(since '97) and Civ3.

me too (civ II)

My current target is max population by 500AD

If Civ II had random rather than patterned resources it would be the perfect game

 

[Forrest Gimp]

I hope instead of a colonization expansion, this time they give us Alpha Centauri 2.

 

[placebo]

God damn, I'm gonna lose a lot of hours sleep again.

 

[Copulator]

Delicious!

 

[Cap]

I hav eto be honest, I never really got into Civ 4 or its expansions

but i'm looking forward to this game.

 

[GOEAGLES 08]

i played call to power 2 alot... any of you guys play/like that one?

 

[Dangas]

looks interesting

 

[volcboy]

I've played Call to Power 2 - not a bad game at all.

I've also played Civilization since the original (I still remember building railroads across the ocean with settlers on boats - best bug ever). I'd have to say that Civ2 and Civ4 have been my favorites. I could never get into Civ3 for some reason.

IMHO Civilization 4 was their best effort yet - plenty of balance and replayability, plus excellent real-time online gaming. I'm hoping that they get it right with Civ5 as well.

 

[Fire]

I hope they add more to this game, rather than subtact it to try an appeal to the asual market (ah-la the latest railroad tycoon 'effort')

If they could incude a better balanced 'giant earth map' type scenario complete with colonies declaring independance, babarians becoming civilised etc... then I will never play another game again

 

[rick James]

I hope they add more to this game, rather than subtact it to try an appeal to the asual market (ah-la the latest railroad tycoon 'effort')

If they could incude a better balanced 'giant earth map' type scenario complete with colonies declaring independance, babarians becoming civilised etc... then I will never play another game again

You can have colonies declaring independence in BTS expansion.

Oh and Earth Map should NEVER be balanced, its realistic the way it is - Europe always wins. Just like real life.

 

[Fire]

You can have colonies declaring independence in BTS expansion.

Oh and Earth Map should NEVER be balanced, its realistic the way it is - Europe always wins. Just like real life.

Oh, I didnt mean that kind of balance. I meant that the current colonies declaring independance is unbalanced - it reaches a point were you can do nothing about their rebellion far too quickly... and you have to constantly deliberatley surrender and re-take cities just to start at a point where you can keep it again. Its frustrating and unrealistic and the only reason why I stopped playing.

World shouldn't be balanced - but I always foudn china wins

 

[rick James]

Oh, I didnt mean that kind of balance. I meant that the current colonies declaring independance is unbalanced - it reaches a point were you can do nothing about their rebellion far too quickly... and you have to constantly deliberatley surrender and re-take cities just to start at a point where you can keep it again. Its frustrating and unrealistic and the only reason why I stopped playing.

World shouldn't be balanced - but I always foudn china wins

Are you playing Earth 18 Civs?

Its much more fun when the place is chockablock, and the Americas develop on their own anyway.

Pretty much impossible to lose, on any difficulty if you start as France, Rome, Spain or Germany and start knocking off your euro buddies really early and develop an early religion.

The Chinese usually become your main rival but the Persians, Russians and Mongols tend to keep them from expanding too far into India, who always seems to get boned.

Prefer the French personally

 

[moistie]

Thought it was time to bump this. Release date is on 24 September, so I'm going to have a sleepless time for the Grand Final weekend.

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[rofltown]

always been a fan of RTS games, never really got into turn based

is this worth giving a go now that i'm now 13 anymore?

currently playing starcraft 2 and loving it, or is this a completely different style of game?

 

[Jabso]

Check out the demo when it comes out that's all I can say. Never actually played star craft or many strategy games apart from Age of Empires and a bit of C&C.

 

[placebo]

always been a fan of RTS strategy games, never really got into turn based

is this worth giving a go now that i'm now 13 anymore?

currently playing starcraft 2 and loving it, or is this a completely different style of game?

Dude, I'm a big fan of RTS games, and I'm usually not a fan of Turn based stuff, but I love Civilisation. Really in-depth and just awesome.

But yeah, check out the demo when it comes out and see if you like it.

 

[FGMPR]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=262312

93% from PC Gamer (US), who don't usually give away 90%+ scores at will like most of the bigger reviewers these days. It's going to be awesome...

 

[moistie]

Rofltown: Give it a try. I'm not sure if it will be your thing but as far as I'm concerned the Civ series is the greatest computer game in history. It has amazing depth and replayability. I still regularly play Civ 4 and it's four years old.

Thanks for the review FGMPR. I can't wait for this to be released.

 

[EagleMan87]

Did anyone else check out the previous article?
Dildo Wii Remotes have arrived

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