http://www.gamespot.com/news/6251457...dlines;title;1
Coming this fall. I know a lot of you guys are civ 4 fans so I'm sure this is great news.
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http://www.gamespot.com/news/6251457...dlines;title;1
Coming this fall. I know a lot of you guys are civ 4 fans so I'm sure this is great news.
Civ games are scary. You sit down to start playing at noon on a Satuday and when you stop you realize its 8pm on a Sunday.
Oh man I saw this on Kotaku earlier. I think it looks freaking awesome!
I completely overlooked the article on Kotaku. Love me some Civ
Yeah. And I don't know about you, but to me playing any of the shorter modes is just not as enjoyable as playing marathon.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Lol, done that so many times ....Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
I wasnt a fan of civ4 at all. Loved civ 2 and 3 but civ 4 tried to do that whole 3d aspect camera view, the same as in empire earth, which made it unplayable for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
I am interested. My only issue which has been with all of the Civ series is how warfare is handled. I hate the fact I can have modern tech weapons be defeated by older technologies. Now if they are going along the lines where say the archers have found new ways to make arrows as powerful as other ballistics then they need to incorporate it better where you can also study weapons and tech found on other tribes.
I always love when I lose a tank or a helicopter to an archer or something similar.
Civ actually handles combat quite efficiently and realistically. There are literally dozens of different factors and equations the CPU takes into account when calculating combat, it's just usually behind the scenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by innocentbastard
Generally, when a much more advanced unit falls to a weaker one, there are usually a number of factors behind that you might not even realize. I don't know about a tank falling to an archer, but if your unit is at like 1/16th of its strength, against a rested, full strength, fortified unit on, say, a hill, even though your unit is much more advanced, it will likely fall.
There were some pretty wacky ones in Civ 2 where units that shouldn't have won by any stretch won handily, but Civ 3 and 4 are much better about that.
I always stayed away from Civ because I knew it was a time suck. RTS games suck my time, and I was always afraid that Civ would take it too far.
Maybe I need to play 3 and 4 again. I just got to the point I only played to win by culture since as soon as combat started I quit since I could be on future tech and I am losing to people who are begging me to give them basic tech. I would lose Apaches to just about everything so I just gave up on combat entirely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaceman Spiff
So true!Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
After having got sucked into the first Civilization in the 90's, I have recently started playing Civ3. I didn't know that the past two days have flown by!
Spaceman is right... combat is much better now. And I also think that there are other factors, maybe some not even "advertised", that play into it (as the Greeks, Roman cities were falling to me... but taking Rome cost me some pretty elite units).Quote:
Originally Posted by innocentbastard
But compared to the original in the 90's... it's magnitudes better.
You could, and did lose bomber and battleship units to the settlers circling the wagons! :mad:
I'm always up for a time suck on a rainy day. I wonder what took them so long to come out with a new civ.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/si...tion-v-preview
Looks like lots of changes are in the works. I'm pretty excited, I think this is what the series needed to move forward.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
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.
Why would this piss him off?Quote:
Originally Posted by fastitocalon
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nater
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by qmul
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schmunkel98