Civ V on its way this year

[fastitocalon]

Wow, the new changes sounds awesome. No more stock piling one super army and pushing forward.

One of my buddies Is a super freak civ guy and this is gonna piss him off royally, cannot wait to lol at him.

[md1198p]

One of my buddies Is a super freak civ guy and this is gonna piss him off royally, cannot wait to lol at him.

Why would this piss him off?

[md1198p]

Wow, the new changes sounds awesome. No more stock piling one super army and pushing forward.

Yeah...there was not a whole lot of strategy for warfare in the first, who ever could research and build faster almost always won a war just by massing an army and attacking.

[ant19]

I loved CIV II played it sooo much back then when it came out. in fact i might have to get it installed on my netbook! Alpha Centauri was/is the best in the series i think. that game was just insanely awesome and really felt like the true sequel to civ 2. civ 5 will probably feel like step backwards like the ones since AC.

[Nater]

Dear god I wish they'd do a remake of Alpha Centauri. I know the Civ games are great and all, but I really get tired or researching gunpowder. I'd much rather colonize a new planet and research advanced technologies.

[Kamakazie]

Dear god I wish they'd do a remake of Alpha Centauri. I know the Civ games are great and all, but I really get tired or researching gunpowder. I'd much rather colonize a new planet and research advanced technologies.

Same here! Unfortunately, Alpha Centauri belongs to EA and not 2K Games/Firaxis so we'll likely never see a sequel or remake. A few years back when EA was trying to buy out 2K I was seriously rooting for them because that would have meant the possibility for Alpha Centauri 2 as well as a System Shock 3 developed by Irrational Games.

[innocentbastard]

I keep going back and forth on this as we get closer especially with all the DLC. It looks like each store has store specific civilizations even though they all have to be registered with Steam.

[qmul]

I'll get Civ 5 on Steam as it also gives the possibility of being to play the game on the mac at no extra cost when it becomes avaliable like they did with Civ 4.

[Schmunkel98]

I'll get Civ 5 on Steam as it also gives the possibility of being to play the game on the mac at no extra cost when it becomes avaliable like they did with Civ 4.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't that mean no offline play then if you order it via Steam? I mention this since this is one of the few games I would like to have the ability to play offline. Also, I haven't fired up Civ 4 in a while, but the pitboss feature was another nice addon that did not work correctly with the Steam version. That one allowed you to essentially have your own Civ server where other teammates could hop on and off to do their turns as needed.

[Kamakazie]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't that mean no offline play then if you order it via Steam? I mention this since this is one of the few games I would like to have the ability to play offline. Also, I haven't fired up Civ 4 in a while, but the pitboss feature was another nice addon that did not work correctly with the Steam version. That one allowed you to essentially have your own Civ server where other teammates could hop on and off to do their turns as needed.

I can't speak for the Pitboss functionality in Civ 5, but unless there is DRM similar to Ubisoft's craziness, any Steam game can be played offline.

[Schmunkel98]

I can't speak for the Pitboss functionality in Civ 5, but unless there is DRM similar to Ubisoft's craziness, any Steam game can be played offline.

Doesn't it have to make that initial connection first? I have not tried, but I'm pretty sure I can't fire up Civ 4 via Steam if I don't at least connect to their service once.

[Kamakazie]

Doesn't it have to make that initial connection first? I have not tried, but I'm pretty sure I can't fire up Civ 4 via Steam if I don't at least connect to their service once.

If you try to boot up Steam without an internet connection, you'll see the thing go into Offline Mode - in this mode you can lauch any game that doesn't require a constant connection. Civ 4 should work fine.