Civilization V is only about 12 days from release now. I've never played these kind of games competitively, but I love playing offline and just building a massive empire from scratch over and over. The latest instalment looks fucking awesome and I really like what they've been doing with combat and the UI. Here's an IGN preview for those of you like me who haven't been keeping up with all the details on this game until recently.
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Yeah, especially since one game can last so bloody long. I remember back when I used to mess about on CIV2 on my PS1 (LOL) one game would last me the entire day and I'd just be in the house after school playing one fucking session before bed time. Good times, good times.
I suck at Civ though, because I just play for the power trip and don't really try optimizing my tech tree and using the best factions etc. Fantastic games to play offline for a laugh, I hope in a future game they will let you make a custom civilization based on various pre-sets so I can truly dominate the world with my Zetzian Empire and shit.
I think the changes they made are awesome and it feels like a true sequel as they've really tried to improve the core game and evolve the franchise instead of just adding more of everything. I pre-loaded my copy on Steam and started playing it the moment the clock hit the 24th, so far it's great fun and I'm really digging the new UI.
GrimTalos
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Had a great first game. I just played a small map with 5 enemies. It was 3 on each large island and then a bunch of smaller islands with city states on them. I need to increase the difficulty as I had it on the standard setting and it was to easy.
I forgot how much this game drags you in, I kept saying I will just play 10 more turns. Need to start a proper game on a larger map.
DiabloCableGuy
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I've been reading some reviews, and the changes they've made to religion/goverment types sounds like a real step backwards. I like the sound of the changes to combat they've made, but not how it apparently shows up some really bad AI. Also I have heard that diplomacy has been significantly downgraded.
I'm a lot more on the fence about Civ 5 now.
The way I see it, what they're trying to do is build upon elements that can be more fun and downgrade the ones that aren't that interesting. Do you know what part of diplomacy has been downgraded exactly?
I really like the fact they replaced religion and government types with the social thingy that basically combines the two into one element. The Tradition option for example has things like Monarchy as a path in the tree, though I always go with the Honour one as I love waging war in Civilization games.
Nearly completed a game last night, was playing for about 12 hours straight. Invaded Russia and France (for their Iron deposits). I made them into puppet states and use their Iron to build my samurai and catapults which helped bring down the massive Russian empire at that point. Only the Arabs are left, and they were being bullied by the Russians so compared to my last adversary they are just a bug waiting to be squashed.
Dark Sage ZTO
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Yeah even though im at a house right now with no internet i pre-loaded the game and played it friday morning, gotta say its still terribly addictive although i havn't had any wow-moments that differentiate it from Civ4.
And compared to you guys i think i prefer different game styles. I only ever play games where there are about 16 other civilizations and its an earth-style map. I just prefer that epic-grand style feeling rather than treating it like an RTS style game. Thats why i also prefer economy/culture style victories rather than conquering ones, even though right now im using japan in a game where im trying to be a warmonger. It's annoying that you cant raze city-states or whatever they're called.
Anyway, GG.
Actually I normally play massive games on Earth map and set the game speed to the slowest so people aren't using tanks within an hour of the game starting. It's just that when a new Civilization game comes out, I always play a couple of short games to get a feel for the game before investing days, maybe weeks into one of my longer games.
My PC sometimes gets slow playing this, I definitely need an upgrade soon.
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