Civilization V WhooHooo!!!
I love this game, I'm only soso at it but I love this game.
So far I've seen and heard is massive improvements in graphics quality and it uses a hex map instead of a square grid.
Oh man, I think Civilization may be the game series I've spent the most hours playing in my life so I'm excited. I don't really need a new Civ game and I still want the new one yesterday :p
I think I just peed a little on the carpet.
Sorry.
THERE'S A NEW CIV!?!?!
Say goodbye to my life (again). Don't know how many hours I've spent conquering the known world...from Civ on thru the ages.
I think I spent more time moding (creating magical civilizations), but, yeah.
Oh, and one time where all of the units were Marvel Super Heroes.
Good times.
Good times.
Yeah, my gaming has dried up quite a bit since the wee one. But I have been playing Civ since Civ. In fact, I got my first computer mainly so I could play Civ. I had played it on friend's computers before then.
I hope my lousy PC will run it.
Dragon Age is so good! A bit weird b/c you have to buy combat slots to assign tactics to your PCs, but a very engaging story and some of the PC conversations are funny.
I used to take the game specs, avaliable on the game's website and my PC specs into the gamestore or the PC fixing place and ask the techies if it will run.
I think I just peed a little on the carpet.
Sorry.
So did I. These robes offer no protection whatsoever.
I can't wait to pick this up. I don't do much computer gaming besides WoW, but I've been playing Civilization since CivII and it's my perennial favorite.
~gives you a disgusted look~ Newbie! I was playing Civ I when it was DOS only. ~Harumph~ Get off my lawn!!!
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~gives you a disgusted look~ Newbie! I was playing Civ I when it was DOS only. ~Harumph~ Get off my lawn!!!I think I just peed a little on the carpet.
Sorry.
So did I. These robes offer no protection whatsoever.
I can't wait to pick this up. I don't do much computer gaming besides WoW, but I've been playing Civilization since CivII and it's my perennial favorite.
Harumph yourself! Maybe I got to Civ a little late, but I played plenty of other DOS games.
[threadjack]Actually, when I was in grade school, we were one of the only families that had a computer. Not because we had money (we didn't), but because my step-father was a tech junkie. I used to do all my papers on Professional Write and print it out on our dot matrix printer, and I waited until I got to school to tear off the tractor feed so all the other kids would be jealous that my paper came from a computer.[/threadjack]
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games
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Civ V? *sigh*
I've been playing Civ since the original through III, but I never picked up IV or its expansions. Not that I didn't want to play it; far from it. I just could never find the time that I knew Civ would command. I am such a sucker for the game, I figured better just to not buy it than have the temptation sitting there in the house and me sitting there like a crackhead until 3 in the morning.
"Just one more turn... just one more turn... the Pyramids are almost finished... just one more turn. NOOOOO... DAMN YOU, FRANCE!!! Can I switch to Hanging Gardens? All that production lost. Maybe I can do it. One more turn... No! NO! NOOOO!!! Et tu, Rome? Then fall Jason!"
FWIW, my all-time fave is Civ II, and I built many a scenario (including Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk) with Fantastic Worlds. I also really liked Alpha Centauri and the Activision Call to Power versions - a bit of a different flavor of the game, but still a lot of fun.
Civ V, though. Wow. Soooo tempting. *sigh* If I weren't already pushing the boundaries of wifely patience with a weekly D&D game plus another biweekly, maybe, but I can content myself with the knowledge that life offers many other delights... :)
Play on, my Civ brothers, play on. Conquer the world for me just once, willya?
Owner - Johnny Scott Comics and Games
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Must...resist...temptation...to...buy...Civ V....
I love these games, but just don't have the time to play them anymore. I've been playing Civ since Civ I, and played them all through Civ III. I bought Civ IV and all its expansions, but have yet to play it (Having a one year old will do this to you).
Ah, who am I kidding. I'll probably buy Civ V, too.
+1, this is the reason I've not tried Dragon Age yet.
For the record, Dragon Age is really well-optimized. A min-spec computer can run it beautifully. I wouldn't be surprised if a sub min-spec computer could run it beautifully.
I'm kinda of hopeing for a more Total War feel on combat for this edition.
So... how many people are going to be making Golarion nations when this thing comes out?
So... how many people are going to be making Golarion nations when this thing comes out?
Hmmmm.
Got it, love it.
The good stuff:
No more stacks of doom.
Cities can defend themselves. It's stil a good idea to have a melee unit in each city.
The interface is very easy to understand
the game tells and shows you the units that need commands
Barbarians are spawned in encampments instead of some random tile that you can't see.
There arn't any villages that give away free stuff anymore.
Combat units cause a set amount of hp per attack, so combat is no longer a live or die prospect.
The only complaints I have are;
the load time is rediculiously long, over 2 minutes.
the control interface slow to respond, if I push the space bar to end a units turn it can take a couple of seconds to end the unit's turn.
You have to install Steam and create a Steam account before you can even install the game. you won't even be able to play the game if you delete steam from your computer after you install the game. All updates for the game are automatic if your connected to the internet with no choice to turn off the auto-update function.
Civ5 is dramatically different from Civ4. The tech tree is quite different as well; the techs are more-or-less the same, but the layout of the tree is different and techs are much less interdependent than they were in 4, making it entirely possible to go down one "line" of techs for 5 or 6 or 7 techs before being forced to backfill for requirements.
I think I just peed a little on the carpet.
Sorry.
So did I. These robes offer no protection whatsoever.
I can't wait to pick this up. I don't do much computer gaming besides WoW, but I've been playing Civilization since CivII and it's my perennial favorite.
I remember the original DOS version of Civ I. God, if it were not for the Civ games, I might have my Masters degree by now.
Got it, love it.
The good stuff:
No more stacks of doom.Cities can defend themselves. It's stil a good idea to have a melee unit in each city.
The interface is very easy to understand
the game tells and shows you the units that need commands
Barbarians are spawned in encampments instead of some random tile that you can't see.
There arn't any villages that give away free stuff anymore.
Combat units cause a set amount of hp per attack, so combat is no longer a live or die prospect.
The only complaints I have are;
the load time is rediculiously long, over 2 minutes.the control interface slow to respond, if I push the space bar to end a units turn it can take a couple of seconds to end the unit's turn.
You have to install Steam and create a Steam account before you can even install the game. you won't even be able to play the game if you delete steam from your computer after you install the game. All updates for the game are automatic if your connected to the internet with no choice to turn off the auto-update function.
Radically different to Civ 4 I have to change all my tactics now :-(
or :-).Ruins have replaced villages - and roads cost to maintain. Simpler and more complex at the same time....
Ah yes Civ 1. The game where if a Battleship unit attacked a Settler unit the settler unit actually had a chance to sink the battleship. No joke it happened to me. One thing I do miss is the ability to modify terrian with engineers like you could cCIV 2
Even weirder, in the original civ if you activate a settler while it is on a transport it can actually build roads and railroads on water tiles. They wouldn't actually do anything, but you could.
PS If there are any call to power fans out there modders are already working on a call to power type conversion for the game. I've been playing the current version and so far it seems to have a lot of my favorite aspects of both franchises. There's also work on an Alpha Centaury conversion.
Even weirder, in the original civ if you activate a settler while it is on a transport it can actually build roads and railroads on water tiles. They wouldn't actually do anything, but you could.
Actually if you put a railroad on the water bonus square (fish I think) you got the same resource enhancement bonuses as you got from railroading a land square.
Call to Power was awesome. The futuristic stuff was unique. The hot-seat multiplayer mode was a lot of fun. I've never seen (among the first 4) the ability to go so far past "modern" as CtP allowed.
A conversion eh? I will definitely have to check that out, when the time comes.