Civilization V!!

[seireikhaan]

Very nice, very nice indeed. Pretty big fan of the series, and good to hear they're making a concerted effort at improving the series still.

[tibilicus]

Lets hope they continue the trend of allowing a wide array of mods for their games. I've clocked a ridiculous amount of time on Civ 4..

[Basileus]

Just when i thought i was out it pulls me back in :D, Civ was what got me into gaming and this one will probably get me back into it again..cant wait.

[Subotan]

My only problem with this is that it will come out just when I enrol at university. Otherwise, all is good.

Especially those rivers. Oh wow, just look at the rivers.

[Kekvit Irae]

Meh. Not interested. It's just yet another update to the Civ series.
If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

[Aemilius Paulus]

If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

You know they will never be able to make a worthy successor to that one.

[al Roumi]

Meh. Not interested. It's just yet another update to the Civ series.
If they came out with Alpha Centauri 2, THEN I would be interested.

You know they will never be able to make a worthy successor to that one.

If only they'd bloody try!

[tibilicus]

My only problem with this is that it will come out just when I enrol at university. Otherwise, all is good.

Especially those rivers. Oh wow, just look at the rivers.

Same situation for me. Thank God most courses don't make the first year count towards any assessment.


I also hope they fix the way military units are done in this game. I would prefer separate building ques for military and city based improvements. I never liked the way you had to choose between a nice city or a big military. I also hated the way the AI could build military units much faster than you. If you played past monarch difficulty it just got ridiculous.

Also an economics system I can understand would be nice.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I agree, I didn't like how much the "AI" relied upon cheating in order to defeat you on the highest levels. There was no actual strategy involved, it simply started with settlers and military units, and you started with a settler and a warrior. Then it had other bonuses and didn't get as penalized for civilization size like you did.

My favorite Civ was Civ II. I loved the advisors that spoke to you, I liked the user-friendly interface, and the playability, even at higher levels. I liked the various workable strategies that you could use to win.


Civ III I hated... didn't like the direction they went with it.

In Civ IV, it seemed that on upper levels, you could only win via military force to expand large enough to win the science race, since the AI would trade techs like mad and have more cities than you, that were more advanced than yours due to their bonuses. The only way to win then was to have more science cities, since they would usually beat you to several key world wonders and thus have at least one city that was better than half your cities combined.

I got into Civ IV a bit, but I still feel like Civ II was a better gameplay experience.

[Subotan]

Same situation for me. Thank God most courses don't make the first year count towards any assessment. .

I doubt Oxford is that merciful :|

I also hope they fix the way military units are done in this game. I would prefer separate building ques for military and city based improvements. I never liked the way you had to choose between a nice city or a big military. I also hated the way the AI could build military units much faster than you. If you played past monarch difficulty it just got ridiculous.

I agree totally. I always had a tiny millitary until Nationalism came along, and I could draft to my heart's content.

Also an economics system I can understand would be nice.

An economics system that actually involved economics would be nice.

[CrossLOPER]

My only problem with this is that it will come out just when I enrol at university. Otherwise, all is good.

Especially those rivers. Oh wow, just look at the rivers.

Dude, stay away from those games for the first semester.

[Subotan]

Oxford? I wish. My firm will most likely be Sheffield and my insurance Liverpool.

Those are both still really good unis though. My insurance is Essex.

I don't think my school actually got a single successful Oxbridge applicant this year, normally we might get one but it's pretty rare. .

That sucks. My college gets better results on average than Eton (We're still state btw) and we get way less people into Oxbridge than Eton does....

Good choice in deciding to do PPE though. Get a 2:1 or higher in that and you'll have secure employment prospects for life basically. Although I couldn't handle the economics side of PPE, my maths ability is shocking. I take it your probably taking quite a few A levels at the moment if you plan on doing PPE?

Thanks. And I only realised that applied to me as well at the start of this year, hence my decision to cram AS Maths into UVI. It's not part of my offer though, so in theory, I could get a U in Maths and go to do Economics at Oxford. I'm also doing History, Politics, Economics, and I've got an AS in German along with an Economics Extended Project, to make up for my weak-ish Maths.

BTW, did any one play the Rhyes and fall mod for civ 4? I really hope the guy behind it makes a similar mod for the new game. It just made civ a whole lot better.

I really enjoyed certain features of it, such as Congresses, emergences, stability etc., but it felt a bit too rigid at times. The Dynamic names were fun though, and occasionally everything melted together beautifully (E.g. The Mongols conquered China in a few years, only for China to revolt, and then slowly be ground down by the Mongols again in a 200 year long war). I also enjoyed Total Realism, Gold Edition, and any mod that replaced Judaism with Zoroastrianism, so check them out as well.

Dude, stay away from those games for the first semester.

I don't know if I'll be able to resist for a whole term...

[Ituralde]

I'm completely psyched that this is coming up! And so soon after the anouncement too.

I'm just looking forward to see whether it'll hold up against BTS from the get go. But who am I kidding I'm gonna get it either way!

[Beefy187]

Now the game is more like Total War as we can't stack our units no more.

I'm not sure what to make of it just yet.. But it looks nice anyway