Hey guys, Just wanted to know if anyone else is playing this? I'm a few hours in and totally hooked! It's amazing, didnt think I had the patience for strategy games but i love it! Whom are you playing as and how are you getting on?
Bought it, played a couple of games, and started a few more games, and then stopped playing it when I came to the conclusion that it is much worse than Civ IV. It has some nice ideas, but the execution overall isn't amazing and it doesn't feel anywhere near as good as Civ IV.
I do. Civ V was streamlined, and in a lot of areas, I think they've streamlined it too much and removed features I really liked - power blocs (from religion/otherwise), sliders, city-based happiness and so on. I think the complete Civ IV pack is available on Steam for £3.75 right now, and you should definitely pick it up and try it. EDIT: Yeah, here we go: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4323/
I thought it was fantastic and I'm a big Civ fan to be honest mate. They changed the entire dynamic of the game (damn...I just lost)and still maintained the basics of the game! It's fantastic.
Reviewer got it completely and utterly wrong. Quite how REX\ICS, 4 Horsemen, Slingshots, Maritime Bonuses and the truly terrible combat AI made past play testing I have no idea. And how the BT review managed to miss these issues is equally mysterious. Ill come back to C5 in a few months, when they have finished developing it. Edit: You can read some more comprehensive reviews here
I’ve never played any CIV games, but I do love RTS with a passion (Supcom2, Dawn of War 1 and World in Conflict in particular). How do you think I’d get on with a turn based game? When I look at screenshots it just looks a bit….meh.
Turn based strategy is pretty different. It plays more like a complex board game - if you like things like Risk, then check out Civ, but otherwise it probably won't be your thing.
Civ isnt RTS or even close too it its turn based strategy so it has a much slower pace with emphasis on forward long term planning personally i love the Civ games and i also love RTS so its all good to me. depends if you like slow paced play
i was playing civ v, as mentioned it has some good ideas but it is still too flawed, but will improve soon and when it does, i will then return to it. i have returned to civ iv beyond the sword (bts) and it is much better imho. but if i remember correctly, when civ iv first came out, that had lots of issues as well. its the developers rushing to release a game, that is clearly not finished properly
civ newb here. i'm really enjoying it, though still wandering around in medieval times. bought the complete civ IV pack on steam.
As good as Age of Empires or better? Is it a Total War contender as I am heavily looking into buying Napoleon Total War.
I agree with Arcadiu, how does it stack up against the Total War series? I'm a *huge* fan of the Total War series (Buy Napolean, btw, Arcadiu) and I'd like to know how Civ 5 compares to Total War.
Honestly, Civilisation games are very much in their own catagory. You cannot really compare them to anything else if I'm honest. Try and get hold of Civ3 or Civ4... While Civ5 changes alot, if you like 3/4 you'll like the overall games. I personally think they're fantastic. Building a civilisation to what YOU want, not a linear baseline.
CIV5 > CIV4. 4 had its good sides, but I never really liked it that much compared to 3 or 5. Get it, its worth it. It may have been streamlined and just slightly dumbed down, but it makes for a better experience.
The first thing I did, after playing Civ V for the first time - stick it back on the shelf and go back to Civ IV. There were some interesting features in V - the hex squares, one unit per tile and new combat seemed a step forward. But for me, the rest of the game was a massive step back - it felt dumbed-down, or too 'consolified'. I'd take Civ IV with all the add-ons over Civ V every time!
I recently started playing Civ IV again (well, Fall from Heaven II to be precise) And i remembered just how much I loved some of the stuff they changed in 5.
