(Toasted is asking who is going to be purchasing (or otherwise acquiring) a computergame, Civilisation V)
I would get it if I did though. I like the new direction.
Two of the new changes relate to the tiles: hex-based; one unit per tile. There are other alterations as well.
But she only played for an hour or so.
, it's 3am!" are long behind me. Maybe after I've fully experienced WoW Cataclysm (aka. WoW2), Fallout: New Vegas, and Fable 3 I might take a look, but by that time Civ6 will be out. ;)
But no, I'm not buying it. I don't play PC games anymore. But I'll always respect the Civ franchise for its ability to suck my time and will to live away! ;)
They actually changed anything this time? What's the new direction?
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The first noticeable thing is replacing the squares with hexes and doing away with stacking units.
Hell no. Don't get me wrong, I love the Civilization series, but I just can't deveote that kind of time anymore. The days of being able to say "It's 10pm, I'll just play for 1 more hour…holy
That was my dad when he played D&D with some buddies in his dorm when he was in the AF.
Maybe after I've fully experienced WoW Cataclysm (aka. WoW2), Fallout: New Vegas, and Fable 3 I might take a look, but by that time Civ6 will be out. ;)
Definitely gettin' Fable III, and AC:B, and my dad 'n' I are gonna see what games are coming out for Kinect by Christmastime. Yup.
Should we expect Civ V: Colonization? I still have the original one on my laptop :D
Prolly not, unless the mod community does it.
The tech tree is more restrictive, the civlopedia and interface is less informative, resorces are less usefull, conquest is punished, excessive infisis is payed towards helping city states (with rewards that don't justify the effort) and all the civilizations and leaders are too similiar.
I guess mabey I just don't get it.
I haven't played it, although the wife seems to be enjoying it. She has really started liking the Germans since apparently killing a barbarian gives you a chance of them joining your army.
But I did think the instruction manual was really disappointing. All games like Civ should have nice thick manuals like Civ IV.
From my impressions, the Civics section looks interesting, although as I said, I didn't play it yet. The wife seems to think that the resources are too plentiful, the city-states are kind of annoying, and you don't expand your borders fast enough (barbarians spawn between your cities).
I concur that resources as a productive tile is rather underwhelming, though when your city can occupy 36 hexagons you don't necessarily need those tiles to produce a large quantity.
And if you could actually work all thoes tiles, you would have a point. But the number of tiles you can work is limited and the limiting factor to the number of tiles you can work is determined by the productivity of the tiles you are already working. So... tiles that do not produce a large quantity reduce the average production of the tiles you work while simultaneously reducing the number of tiles you can work. In other words, crap resources are crap. The game is stuffed full of ****ing crap resources.
resource hog.
Huh. I guess you ahve not played civ IV since it came out then. Or you need to upgrade computer badly I guess. If it's any consolation, civ V looks like crap. Strangely.
Point taken, TA. The non-strategic resources are mainly used to satisfy the demand from your citizenry. I do however enjoy that a strategic resource tile has a limit on how many units/structures you can construct.
Yup, and you really dont need 5 of them together to do that, considering you need 1 for your entire nation. I agree about the strategic resources though, that actually adds something cool to the game. Most everything else seems to be taking away the cool stuff and not telling you how exactly the new crap works. If they had stuck to hexes, new combat system, and the strategic resource change (and left everything else the same as beyond the sword) it would have been a better game.
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resource hog.
Huh. I guess you ahve not played civ IV since it came out then. Or you need to upgrade computer badly I guess. If it's any consolation, civ V looks like crap. Strangely.
Red Escher needs RAM badly.