Recent content by Tridus

I can't believe they still haven't fixed that thing where the AI interaction is gone in MP. Guess Civ IV is still the better MP game.

Well, that's the problem with it. None of them add anything substantial. For the cost of all of them in the past you'd have gotten something with that stuff AND gameplay features. So when you get down to it, this is a much lower value. Given how little they add I wouldn't spend money on any...

None. It's time for an actual expansion. Bring back stuff like religion and espionage and then we'll talk. :)

I wouldn't. Skip them all. They're incredibly weak compared to a proper expansion pack that adds actual gameplay features.

I went and tried it out. It's pretty weak. It's more like playing FarmVille then playing Civ. Player interaction was basically non-existant, the harvest mechanic is stupid and serves no purpose whatsoever other then to encourage people to buy resources, and the minigames got boring pretty...

Don't think the demo is out yet, and a demo of the pre 1.1 version would have been really bad as the game was at that point anyway. 1.1 is improved, and with Kael now in control it looks like things will continue to improve. You have to admire Stardock's commitment to fixing it, though it...

I expected to be playing Civ 5 more then 2 weeks after getting it. Right now, I'm playing Civ 4 and AI War. So, I was pretty disappointed.

The only award Civ 5 has won that it deserves is "Most Disappointing game of 2010" from Tom Chick. This particular award is a joke, and so is Gamespy.

And this is the single best reason why the entire mechanic fails. Razing everything in sight is neither realistic nor fun. It's just annoying (and effective). Winning a glorious victory and capturing the enemy capital who declared war on me shouldn't cause my capital city to go from happy to...

I nearly got to 50 hours. Haven't touched it in... 3 weeks? No desire to do so either. They won't get a cent out of me for DLC because the base game isn't worth paying. The empire building is shallow and dumbed down. The wargame aspect is improved, but the AI is dumb as a rock so it doesn't...

To answer, I'll simply quote the designers: I liked the complexity, and they deliberately went away from that to make something that appeals to the simplistic and boring Civ Rev players. Thus, it's no surprise that I don't like 5.

Interestingly, the Gamespot reviews are curiously missing too. http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?qs=Fallout+new+vegas&tag=stitialclk%3Bsearch gives you where they were, along with the scores. But the links just give missing pages.

Yeah, I got bored of it a couple of weeks ago. Haven't touched it since. It's the easiest, shallowest, and most dumbed-down Civ since Revolutions. And that is NOT a good thing.

I used it all the time in coop MP games to get past the first few turns of nothing but "next turn". It was great for getting the game going faster.

Because the AI attacked me? I almost never have to declare war myself, I just wait for them to decide to do it, then mop the floor with them. So you're saying I'm making a strategic error by winning a war that the AI started? Really? That's the best defense people can come up with for a bad...