CIV 5 - No-one else?
Discussion
I bought this the other day, and decided to give it a go yesterday, about 4pm. I didn't come off it until 2am, and only then due to protests from the wife!
I haven't really played the other Civ games (have the complete editions for 4 on my PC, but never played them), so I cannot compare with the earlier iterations, but I love this one. Easy to get into, loads of tech trees and very, very addictive!
I haven't really played the other Civ games (have the complete editions for 4 on my PC, but never played them), so I cannot compare with the earlier iterations, but I love this one. Easy to get into, loads of tech trees and very, very addictive!
Edited by chris watton on Thursday 30th September 11:15
Been a fan of all of them, some aspects of civ4 took a bit of getting used to (I'm still not a big fan of the great people business), and I think the same will apply to 5. The biggest difference to me is not being able to stack units, but I'm loving ranged attacks and the fact cities can defend themselves without need of a garrison. Troop movements take a bit of planning though. Had a couple of crashes which isn't good, not tried updating all my drivers yet though.
andycambo said:
I've banned myself from playing this game as once I've started I can't stop. Like you I've spent hours and hours playing in just one sitting.
i'm in the same boatciv is too too addictive - i have too many things to do at the mo to install it on my pc and get addicted for a 18 hr gaming session that ends 8am.
dreamz said:
andycambo said:
I've banned myself from playing this game as once I've started I can't stop. Like you I've spent hours and hours playing in just one sitting.
i'm in the same boatciv is too too addictive - i have too many things to do at the mo to install it on my pc and get addicted for a 18 hr gaming session that ends 8am.
Still sat on the fence after a few games. Civ5 almost seems a little simplified to me. Not as bad as Civ Revolution on the console though!!
Nice graphics, ranged attacks are good. Don't like the amount of time you have to wait between turns. The wait time (on a brand new i5 / 6GB / 1GB gfx PC) is akin to Civ4 in the late stages of a large map game on a slow PC!
Missing the religions a bit, I always went straight for the early ones in Civ4 then concentrated on the Worker/Resource techs.
BTW, re: Civ4:
Can't see what you guys didn't like about Civ4? I think it was the best iteration of the game to-date. The BTS expansion pack improved the baseline game a lot and I have played it over and over since its release.
Anyway, I have never played Civ online with others, only against the PC on Warlord or Noble. Could we be organised enough to arrange a game between us all on this thread maybe?
Nice graphics, ranged attacks are good. Don't like the amount of time you have to wait between turns. The wait time (on a brand new i5 / 6GB / 1GB gfx PC) is akin to Civ4 in the late stages of a large map game on a slow PC!
Missing the religions a bit, I always went straight for the early ones in Civ4 then concentrated on the Worker/Resource techs.
BTW, re: Civ4:
Can't see what you guys didn't like about Civ4? I think it was the best iteration of the game to-date. The BTS expansion pack improved the baseline game a lot and I have played it over and over since its release.
Anyway, I have never played Civ online with others, only against the PC on Warlord or Noble. Could we be organised enough to arrange a game between us all on this thread maybe?
Edited by texasjohn on Friday 1st October 21:14
I played them all from Civ1 through to 4 (rarely went for expansions though)
And I gotta say, apart from the very first one, which I now view through nostalgia goggles, Civ5 is the best one so far. I absolutely love the fact that you cannot stack units and am erally liking the aircraft carrier laoded with bombers and escorted by a destroyer tactics to soften up any city (wasn't much of a navy person before) before i walk in with any ground unit and take it.
Only had one playthrough so far though. just started another one on a harder difficulty and "the earth" as the world map, massively cocked up my first city growth at the start, so was well behind the other 10 or so Civs, then one had declared war on me and had a massive unit count advantage, but unlucky for him a great geeneral has been born so i made him make a citadel improvement which damages any enemy unit that ends its turn near it, which softened up 4 armies enough for me to take
them out one by one, whilst building reinforcements, then take the fight back to them.
I did like that once my units were knocking on his capital's door he offered me all of his cities apart from the capital to end the conflict, so I got a very easy 6 city expansion without a single unit loss.
I do however dislike the diplomacy AI, they f
k you off so you declare war, but don't come to you with a peace offering until it is clear they are about to lose 3 or so cities, by which point OF COURSE it makes no sense for you to make peace! they are also hard to be friends with, I have sent gifts and untis to one country, we signed cooperation agreements and I even went to war for them, yet couldn't fking convince them to mmake a defensive pact afterwards and when i then declared war on a civ that was messing up my trade routes, my former ally was like "so what do you want from me, bloodthirsty one?". Me bloodthirsty? I wage your battles for you, then when I go it alone because you declined to join me i am the monster??? WTF?
And I gotta say, apart from the very first one, which I now view through nostalgia goggles, Civ5 is the best one so far. I absolutely love the fact that you cannot stack units and am erally liking the aircraft carrier laoded with bombers and escorted by a destroyer tactics to soften up any city (wasn't much of a navy person before) before i walk in with any ground unit and take it.
Only had one playthrough so far though. just started another one on a harder difficulty and "the earth" as the world map, massively cocked up my first city growth at the start, so was well behind the other 10 or so Civs, then one had declared war on me and had a massive unit count advantage, but unlucky for him a great geeneral has been born so i made him make a citadel improvement which damages any enemy unit that ends its turn near it, which softened up 4 armies enough for me to take
them out one by one, whilst building reinforcements, then take the fight back to them.
I did like that once my units were knocking on his capital's door he offered me all of his cities apart from the capital to end the conflict, so I got a very easy 6 city expansion without a single unit loss.
I do however dislike the diplomacy AI, they f
k you off so you declare war, but don't come to you with a peace offering until it is clear they are about to lose 3 or so cities, by which point OF COURSE it makes no sense for you to make peace! they are also hard to be friends with, I have sent gifts and untis to one country, we signed cooperation agreements and I even went to war for them, yet couldn't fking convince them to mmake a defensive pact afterwards and when i then declared war on a civ that was messing up my trade routes, my former ally was like "so what do you want from me, bloodthirsty one?". Me bloodthirsty? I wage your battles for you, then when I go it alone because you declined to join me i am the monster??? WTF?Edited by isee on Monday 11th October 09:02
onlynik said:
Downloaded this last week, and got the first real play on Sunday. Sat down at 11:15 next thing I knew it was 17:30, so much fun.
Really enjoy the big maps and advancing through time, sadly I got stuck without iron for a while which did seem to cost me a few units.
Trading is keyReally enjoy the big maps and advancing through time, sadly I got stuck without iron for a while which did seem to cost me a few units.
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