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Got faith in civ5?
Whether or not you believe civ5 to be a game worth to play or not, with the release of the upcoming Gods&Kings expansion Civ5 will have religion in it.
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Civ 3 and 4 have taught a couple of things.
A) don't buy anything until the first patch out. b) skip the fist expansion, there will be another one a few months later that will include the first one. |
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I do agree with barbu1977, but still it looks like a great improvement. :)
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They changed that slightly with civ4, in that they left some of the scenarios out. Of course you could probably just redownload them and most of the scenarios they included on the final expansion pack were created at cfc anyways! |
Not sure, looks like a big step towards Civ4 fan requests. Main question is whether they will fix MP, PB, PBEM, hot seat. So far, it does not get better despite all the claims. People have to use some hacked VPN client(s) to be able to play, save, and report MP and there is no trace of PB or PBEM. And hot seat is bugged to the point of ridiculous. Single player is not what makes the game interesting to me, I've had enough of this with Civ1, Civ2, and Civ3.
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It seems other mp Playstyles apart from the steam lobby are low on the priority list. I fear we won't see the return of pbem anytime soon, which is à pity cause it suits a game like civ really well. It won't happen that i'll spend 30 hours straight on an internet mp game, i need that chopper into bitesized pieces :)
I won't be buying this the day it is released, maybe in some holiday sale. |
If they get the combat system right, then (after the first patch is out), I might buy CIiv5 finally. But of course only if I got a new machine until then...but that is planned anyway in the next few months.
In Civ3 and 4, I also skipped the first expansion pack, but whereas with Civ3 you were able to load saves from PTW, Civ4 warlords games couldn't be played with BtS. But that was not a big problem for me... |
I have to see it to believe it, I think 1 UPT is just too complex for the cpu too feel as subtle as giant SoD. It can be better with simple priorities (heck, enough games that got it to work). Although I haven't played multiplayer and don't intend to, I think 1 UPT is suited for human vs human on small maps. At least it takes the game away from a "my stack of doom is bigger than yours" contest.
What I find to be most interesting is that they want to make dealing with CS less to do with money. That's a good thing, but somehow I have the idea the game will be even easier if it's not about money. Usually I found myself without CS in the endgame because the AI bought them all. Also PP, about that bitesized chopper... [spam] |
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So now you're blaming Steve Jobs for remobing day? :D
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Remobing day brightens up everyons day. Unlike the price of apple products.
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No, remobing day was entirely my own creation.
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I might pick it up during a holiday sale, definitely not on day 1.
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Remobing day sales are ferocious!
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It's the queues at the start of the day which cause it.
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I came across this article on Destructoid, which gives a nice overview of what G&K will bring. As usual there's the mention of "better AI" :rolleyes:
One change I like is that it's going to be more difficult to gain favor with city states. Now all you have to do is stockpile cash, buy a mercantile cs and turn the excess food into specialists, gain more gold than you spent in the process and then proceed to win on deity. This makes that the whole game just revolves around gold and not much else. With G&K, you'd have to perform some tasks to gain favor with a CS, so perhaps the game will (finally) get an additional layer of strategic depth. Besides that there will be religion and espionage, which will work similarly to culture. I don't feel this adds strategic depth, just more options. Options are nice, but it doesn't make the game better. It might make the game more entertaining though, and that's what civ5 is: entertainment. That's definately not a bad thing, and I think it's a pity not more of you give this game a chance. |
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But nowhere near any of the previous editions. As it is, it is simply the "least best" of the series. All civ editions had their ways to exploit whatever features. So I don't really care about this money trick. What's really bad is the AI...., yup an open door, but it is really, really, really crap. I've read an article on CFC which explains why and it appears to be the non-stacking idea which is too hard to chew for the AI. |
G&K release trailer:
Espionage and faith seem to refresh the game enough for me to buy G&K. I still find civ5 to be highly amusing, but it's not difficult enough to keep me playing for long. This shakes things up a bit. |
Like always I'll buy it anyway.
Not really excited about it though |
Amazon seems to have it cheapest for UK. £12.99 compared to £17.99 on steam. Don't know what € prices are though.
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