What Civilization game series have you played?

What civilization games have you played?

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Mudrac said:
I have played Civ V first, tried Civ IV and... it didn't appeal to me, nothing special nor "perfect" (as many people tend to say).
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Same here but other way around. Tried civ 4 first. Besides one time I got the (easy) domination victory (or whatever that victory was) by getting 40% of world land and 56% of population (or other way around) as Germany, I barely enjoyed civ 4 or BTS. And what was the point of religion again in civ 4? :confused: Maybe it was just religious buildings. You basically had to have a tech lead in order to found a religion and if you were fast in tech, you could found 2 or more religions.

Then found civ 5. Was a bit confused at first but I found the game more enjoyable over time.

Crucial factors that made me think civ 5 was undoubtedly better:
- 1UPT and warfare system; no more complete kills all the time and definitely no more spearmen beating tanks.
- Simplified happiness
- Simplified finances - new cities don't cost gold but happiness which makes a bit more sense in terms of gameplay.
- Social policies! Culture actually means something now, unlike the civ 4 cultural victory (grab 50,000 culture in 3 cities).
- More elaborate unique elements to civs.
 
sendos said:
Same here but other way around. Tried civ 4 first. Besides one time I got the (easy) domination victory (or whatever that victory was) by getting 40% of world land and 56% of population (or other way around) as Germany, I barely enjoyed civ 4 or BTS. And what was the point of religion again in civ 4? :confused: Maybe it was just religious buildings. You basically had to have a tech lead in order to found a religion and if you were fast in tech, you could found 2 or more religions.

Then found civ 5. Was a bit confused at first but I found the game more enjoyable over time.

Crucial factors that made me think civ 5 was undoubtedly better:
- 1UPT and warfare system; no more complete kills all the time and definitely no more spearmen beating tanks.
- Simplified happiness
- Simplified finances - new cities don't cost gold but happiness which makes a bit more sense in terms of gameplay.
- Social policies! Culture actually means something now, unlike the civ 4 cultural victory (grab 50,000 culture in 3 cities).
- More elaborate unique elements to civs.
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Yeah, when I was trying it out I also really wanted to see what these civic options were, because many people were saying that it's a great system. Once I saw it, really? Although you have to choose carefully which one you want, but some of them only gives negatives like slavery or tribal so it's a no-brainer to just pick up to more advanced ones. Overall social policies (and ideologies) offer far more depth in developing the culture of your civ. Although I was always thinking that I would be nice if civ 5 had some kind of government system, each one having it's own good and bad sides as well prerequisite social policies to have it.
 
Mudrac said:
I have played Civ V first, tried Civ IV and... it didn't appeal to me, nothing special nor "perfect" (as many people tend to say). Currently trying out Civ III and liking it, much more than Civ IV.
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Playing Civ4 since 2005 and game still amazingly fun to me, horever when i tryed Civ4 first i didnt liked it because i wasnt understanding game mechanics including combat system and economy.

Civ4 and Civ5 both have high rating at metacritic

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-v
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-iv

edit: Civ5 and Civ4 is both great games, they both equally good in my opnion, not going to argue with is better they are just different some people like Civ4 more some people Civ5 more, some lilke both Civ4 and Civ5 equally its matter of taste.
 
Mudrac said:
Yeah, when I was trying it out I also really wanted to see what these civic options were, because many people were saying that it's a great system. Once I saw it, really? Although you have to choose carefully which one you want, but some of them only gives negatives like slavery or tribal so it's a no-brainer to just pick up to more advanced ones. Overall social policies (and ideologies) offer far more depth in developing the culture of your civ. Although I was always thinking that I would be nice if civ 5 had some kind of government system, each one having it's own good and bad sides as well prerequisite social policies to have it.
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Its not all like that imo, almost all civics in Civ4 is useful depending on situation , and most advanced civics are not always best

And player doesnt need to pick them carefully because there is "spiritual" leaders in Civ4 that allow you change civics evry 5 turns without anarchy

Only nationhood and slavery is hard to use for new players, because if they used wrong they could give alot disavantages instead of advantages

 
Civ 1
Civ 2
Civ 2 Fantastic Worlds
Civ 2 Test of Time
Civ 3
Civ 3 Play The World
Civ 3 Conquests
Civ 4
Civ 4 Warlords
Civ 4 Beyond The Sword
Civ 4 Colonization
Civ 5
Civ 5 Gods And Kings
Civ 5 Brave New World
Alpha Centauri
Alien Crossfire

I started with 2, and never looked back since.
 
i start with civ II but the game that i play the most was alpha century.i really like that game and i wish that i play it more .then i move to civ 4 and Bts .althougth it get time to learnt the mechanics,i really like it and i still play it .i try rev and colonization but i didn't play then a lot.when civ V was released i didn't like it at all.G&K didn't solve anything .Bnw has solve many issues,but i don't really like the nerf of early war and i still dislike some features like global happiness
 
alex15 said:
Civ4 and Civ5 both have high rating at metacritic

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-v
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-iv

edit: Civ5 and Civ4 is both great games, they both equally good in my opnion, not going to argue with is better they are just different some people like Civ4 more some people Civ5 more, some lilke both Civ4 and Civ5 equally its matter of taste.
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Of course. I didn't want to be rude or anything, sorry if I was :(. Civ IV has some good stuff, but just as I stated in the comment I didn't appeal to me and don't understand why people think it's "perfect". That's just my opinion and iy ain't gonna affect anything. (What is my opinion compared to thousands of others who think the game is great ;)). I simply find systems in Civ V better compared to Civ IV. I was always a type of gamer "easy to learn but hard to master". Games that usually have a lot of complex interface and systems are mostly relatively shallow, don't have much of a depth (Not saying that Civ IV is one of those games). But even then I still play Paradox's games like Victoria II, CK II or EU IV, but I also love "easy" strategies like Warcraft III, Starcraft, Dawn of War etc. Simply I value depth much more than complexity in strategy games.;)
 
Mudrac said:
but some of them only gives negatives like slavery ... so it's a no-brainer to just pick up to more advanced ones.
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:lol:
Well, there is a common understanding between all succesfull Civ IV players that Slavery is by far the most powerfull civic and "whipping" one of the key factors in winning high level games. So it's a no-brainer to actually stay most of the time in Slavery... Just saying...

Mudrac said:
Overall social policies (and ideologies) offer far more depth in developing the culture of your civ.
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Yeah, with your profound knowledge of the civic system that statement really sound convincing... ;)
 
alex15 said:
Its not all like that imo, almost all civics in Civ4 is useful depending on situation , and most advanced civics are not always best
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I disagree. First of all, you ALWAYS switch to a new civic if you don't have one yet. That always struck me as kind of lame. Second of all, you basically ALWAYS end the game with one of two setups, depending on if you're a cottage econ or a specialist econ:

Specialist: Representation/Free Speech/Emancipation/Free Market (sometimes Mercantilism)/Free Religion

Cottage: Univ. Suffrage/Free Speech/Emancipation/Free Market/Free Religion

If you played any other way you were basically gimping yourself unless you didn't have BTS; your options were much more diverse before corporations were added.
 
My list:

Civ3 Complete(played it just a little, actually after I had already played Civ4 and 5)
Civ4
Civ4 Warlords
Civ4 Colonization
CivRev
Civ5
Civ5 G&K
FreeCiv(just barely played it at all)
 
I haven't played anything besides Civ 5. A friend was playing Civ Revolution so that made me aware of the game. A friend from another game pointed out that Civ 5 was on sale one weekend so I bought it. I've been hooked ever since.
 
1-5 with all expansions. And Alpha Centuri (shamefully missing from the list!). Also the civ4 Colonization.
 
Bought Civ 4 Complete a good time after it was done, went through each expansion pack one at a time (doing it again, I would have just skipped to BtS). Kept playing it for about 8 months after V came out due to V's bugginess at the time, though nowadays I enjoy V quite a lot more.

Also played a little Alpha Centuri back in the day, which was great at the time (as was the Planetfall mod made for Civ4).
 
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