EPTCivilization V + DLC's, G&K, BNW - Page 37
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ain
Germany786 Posts
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chocopaw
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Poll: Will you buy Gods&Kings? Absolutely! (18) No, I'm too disappointed by vanilla Civ5. (11) I might, but only for 10-15$/when it's on sale. (8) Probably. (3) 40 total votes Your vote: Will you buy Gods&Kings? (Vote): Absolutely! | ||
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Glaceau
Wales333 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Austria, Brazil, Ethiopia, Portugal perhaps? Those are all "major" Empires/Civs that are still missing or could be considered. That I can think of. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
My friends were telling me how Civ IV had this and Civ V was too boring and nothing to do., Fuclk yeah | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
That was the single feature I couldn't stand about Civ IV. I love Civ V because it cut out all the tiny micro-management crap like religion. I AM loving the idea that there will be a revamped Combat system. New diplomacy options sound good, but they need to be backed up with greatly improved diplomatic AI. | ||
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Glaceau
Wales333 Posts
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Haemonculus
United States6980 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17853 Posts
I guess I'll just wait for SMAC II | ||
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DyEnasTy
United States3721 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
The expansion looks great. I have most of the other DLC, and I recommend them. This will finally give us something to do with our pools of gold besides rush buy stuff for no reason. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On February 21 2012 01:34 Cel.erity wrote: Funny that this thread got bumped, I've been playing the shit out of this game. Compared to Civ IV, I don't think dumbed down is the right way to put it. The game itself isn't any simpler, but tech trees do feel a little more static and the AI is very, very stupid. AI was pretty bad in Civ IV too though, I feel like a good AI would make Civ the perfect game. The expansion looks great. I have most of the other DLC, and I recommend them. This will finally give us something to do with our pools of gold besides rush buy stuff for no reason. Yeah, the AI is pretty terrible. I usually play on Prince which I believe is the highest difficulty before the AI starts "cheating" and I don't think I've ever lost a game. The diplomacy systems badly need revamping, the AI loves to get a grudge against you and never let it go. My favorite is when they will start "hating" you for conquering a City State, despite the fact that they just conquered like 3 other civs. Civ bonuses still need some major balancing too. Rarely do you ever see the Songhi or Japanese doing well. Probably because their civ bonuses suck, Songhi's is basically a combat bonus to embarked units. Meanwhile Rome gets a +25% construction bonus for any city that is building any building that was already built in the capitol. In a 1v1 situation, unless Songhi kills Rome early, they pretty much have no chance of winning, everything else being equal. Still though, the game is really fun. Could it use a bit more depth? Yeah I think it could. But it's still pretty fun as it is. I tried Civ IV and really disliked it, all the micromanaging and random crap you had to deal with, and then your enemy could just stack like 80 guys on a single square and go kill you. There was no strategy, no strategic positioning, just micromanaging: a contest to see who could micromanage the best and stack the most units. Sorry, that's not my idea of fun. | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On February 21 2012 01:06 DyEnasTy wrote: Im thinking about buying this. But several people mentioned Civ V not as good as Civ IV and is dumbed down. I play the Total War series, is this game similar to that? Except for both being turn based, I wouldn't say the Civ series and TW series have much in common. Cities can only build one improvement or unit at a time. Single units are fought against other single units. Technology and diplomacy are handled in a different matter. They're pretty much completely different beasts. As far as Civ 4 compared to Civ 5 - I feel like Civ 5's mechanics are superior with actual army tactics rather then stacks of doom, but Civ 4 has/had a lot more polish and seemed more complete. That's based on when Civ 5 was released though, not how it stands right now. | ||
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Hizzay
Canada31 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On February 21 2012 01:47 TheToast wrote: Civ bonuses still need some major balancing too. Rarely do you ever see the Songhi or Japanese doing well. Probably because their civ bonuses suck, Songhi's is basically a combat bonus to embarked units. Meanwhile Rome gets a +25% construction bonus for any city that is building any building that was already built in the capitol. In a 1v1 situation, unless Songhi kills Rome early, they pretty much have no chance of winning, everything else being equal. Songhai is arguably the best civ in the game, but the AI can't really utilize any bonuses that relate to war, since they're so bad at commanding their units. The gold bonus Songhai gets is actually HUGE, giving you a nice 200-300 gold early game when you need it, and up to 2k bonus gold during wartime. If you take out one civ as Songhai, you don't have any downtime so you can easily snowball it to an early domination, whereas most civs need to stop and potentially disband units due to maintenance costs. | ||
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chocopaw
2072 Posts
On February 21 2012 01:01 Manit0u wrote: I guess I'll just wait for SMAC II Are there any noteworthy rumours that it is coming? | ||
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KaiserReinhard
United States554 Posts
On February 21 2012 03:28 chocopaw wrote: Are there any noteworthy rumours that it is coming? If such a game is ever made it'll probably be much more streamlined/less complex than the first one, and thus not as good. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On February 18 2012 04:34 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: So it looks like Colossus will now be unlocked and can only be built after discovering Iron Working. Is the colossus really that strong? | ||
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