I was hoping this thread wouldn't devolve into steam discussion. Haven't we beaten that horse into the ground enough? It's fair to say no one is going to change their minds about the platform this late. I'll say this though, i've never had ONE problem with steam that caused playing my games a chore, even with big name releases. Impulse on the other hand gave me an invalid CD key for Dragon Age Origins. We've all had different experiences with the different platforms, i'm willing to agree to disagreeing.

Quote Originally Posted by Froggy
That's me and civ4. I played but didn't much like civ 2 test of time, civ 3, call to power 1 and call to power 2. I played and loved Alpha Centauri; that's why I kept on trying the series. Civ 4 changed everything. It threw out many of the things I disliked in the earlier entries, stole most of AC's best ideas, and added a load of refinement which improved the game to the power of ten. I liked Civilisation: Revolution too; it was very good at what it wanted to do.
Yeah Civ4 seemed like a nice game but it just nagged me to death with every little thing that I didn't like about it. I finally just gave up. Watching civ 5 in action though, I tell you, it's very tempting to give it another chance.

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Civ 5's manual is now available on the official site. 233 pages long! Reading it has given me this terrible civ craving :eyes civ 4 icon on desktop:
233 pages, good god. I wonder if they are including a printed version with the boxed game, I might break my habit of ordering through digital distribution and order from Amazon if that was the case.