Civilization V is a Return to Form for PC Gaming

[matt87_50]

oh thank God!

 

[cptnjarhead]

..and CIV is a clone of Orcs and Humans. Don't down other companies if you don't know your game history.
The CIV games, though... Just don't do it for me. I think it's the layout that's the problem. Not enough 'space' to move around in. I hate movement squares, too. Makes me feel like I'm in a constant tutorial.

Game history!... dude.. Original Civ from micropros came out in 1991.. your Puny Orcs and Humans was 1994. "Know your history"
Civilization - "Meier admits to "borrowing" many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization (published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil"
We may be old school but we know our game history buddy.

 

[cptnjarhead]

addition:
Civ and Darklands, both from micropros IMHO are the grandfather of most games today... sure they were not the first pc games but..their GUI and game play are better than a lot of today's games.
some of these new developers should take some time to play the old games from 1990-1995 when gameplay was king and graphics were secondary.
Remember the manuals and maps you would get with those games.. my darklands manual is awesome.... the artwork is beautiful. Yes the good old days.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]welshmousepk[/nom]Hopefully this will get bought and not pirated, and may instigate a revival for PC gaming. Perhaps thats wishful thinking though...[/citation]

It will get both.
I know more civ players who have a civ game (or serveral) as original than I know who haven't.
Personally I have two and four as pressed discs, 3 as steam and civ 4 colo as digital download from some etailer.

If civ 5 launches with a 50€ price tag though, I'll most definetly start off with a not so legal version, as I'm convinced very very few games are worth this much money. In fact apart from Diablo 2 and Heroes of Might and Magic 3, there are no such games that I've come across.


Anyway, if firaxis launches the game at a reasonable price, I'd not hesitate to buy it without trying it first.



I just hope they incorporate the castle building thing they had in civ2 ... I sort of miss that in the newer versions.

 

[ShouldntHave]

[citation][nom]smalltime0[/nom]hopefully they flesh out the tech tree a bit more, for a more gradual technological increase.[/citation]
Yeah it's called "expansion packs" (cf. Civ IV Warlords, BTS.)

Whatever. I think V will suck*. It looks like they handed it over to the flunkies; I'm not seeing a whole lot of "Sid" here... Whatever probs it may have, IV is the high point of the franchise IMO. (*comparatively, though, which means: still better than 99% of games out there!)

[citation][nom]Pei-chen[/nom]I've been waiting for this game for like a year and half after I stopped playing Civ 4 + mods. I wish they would make a 64 bit version to take advantage of the large amount of memory most people have now.Civ 4 isn’t any faster on quad core + 8GB RAM.[/citation]Agree they need to make it faster. One of the angles of having less units (i.e. "no stacks") in V, no doubt. The AI takes forever in IV when there are hundreds of units in the game. (As they move them back and forth between the same two cities every turn! 😛)