Recent content by bweeper

I only played civ5 on the mac before going back to civ4, so I can't comment on the windows versions, but honestly, it was the worst game I've tried to play in probably 20 years. It was worse than Master of Orion 3. I hope they give up the ghost and just move to civ6.

Maybe I'm missing something, but the link from the first page seems to not work anymore. I wanted to give this a try, but I can't find it on the site. Is it gone? Thanks, b

I'd just like to rant some more... So I can see why firaxis made some changes to the game. They wanted to be able to port it to a phone and play it on that. This explains the 2D mode and why they simplified so much. I have read that a lot of the performance issues revolve around the AI, where...

Here is a little complaint. So I want to find the city with the highest production to make a wonder. Can't do it. The city list if you sort by production sorts by finishing time. So you can't get an overview of your cities. This game sucks. Is it piracy if I pretend I bought the Mac version...

I wanted to give the game another chance so I played a duel tiny map. I ended up playing in the two-D mode. This has a few weird side effects. First it's amazing that after five versions they went back to civ1 graphics. Second, with no graphics it let's you focus on the gameplay. The gameplay...

Rick, After playing the Civ5 release for awhile, I'd put at the top of your priority fixing the performance issues. Honestly, the game isn't playable. OTOH, if you have any performance suggestions, we would welcome them. Honestly, the scenes don't seem that demanding especially once everything...

I played Civ 5 last night and my review is very simple. Gameplay - what gameplay, the FPS was <1 the whole time. I have a 2009 MPB with the high end video card. It's fast enough for you old man. The port simply sucks. The game is unplayable at low resolutions with everything turned off...