Are you sticking with civ4?

[Countmonte8242]

I'm probably going back to Civ IV myself, might even throw some Civ 2 into the mix cause that was such a great game and I haven't played it in like 10 years.

I wanted to love 5, I gave it a couple weeks of good playing, had some fun at times. But the bottom line to me is that most of the radical new changes made the game less fun than its predecessors. Expansion in Civ 5 is much less fun than in any version, too much of an artificial check on it. Global happiness sucks as is, and is the main reason for the previously mentioned problem. 1 UPT makes troop movement tedious on your end and slows down NPC turns many times over from the extra calculations 1 UPT requires. Great people are more one dimensional, bonus resources are boring, the gold economy is terribly balanced and a poor replacement for the good old tech slider. The graphics are soulless, and considering the requirements are an absolute waste of gpu power and memory. I could go on, but why bother. I'm over it, I've accepted that Civ 5 is easily the least fun game to come along in the series.

 

[Liquidated]

not even looking at civ5 until at least one expansion comes out.

A wise man once said of Civ5 "Full of fail"

So sticking to BTS.


Cheers!
-Liq

 

[kuukkeli]

Just re-installed Civ4 and expansions (didn't install it when I upgraded my OS but after the fiasco of V it was the only way to go). Maybe I'll try little of III too as I haven't never really played it.

 

[Kerosene31]

I spent a good chunk of time this weekend playing Civ V and last night I started a new Civ 4 game.

Civ 4 took a long time to get where it is today and it is truly a fantastic "thing" (I don't think the word game does it justice).

Civ V needs time and patience. In the meantime, one more turn (in Civ 4).

 

[mfie]

Civ 5 bores me
Back to civ IV then, and i'll probably truly appreciate it after V

 

[snoochems]

I can ignore the bugs, the possible exploits, the ******** AI, but I am having a lot of trouble ignoring the game mechanics and design decisions that just don't make sense, aren't fun, and are completely broken.

Civ 5 blows chunks. What else can I say? Shame on me for pre-purchasing this game. But Firaxis has just been added to the, rather large, list of developers that I no longer trust to deliver quality.

I'm back with Civ 4, and I'm trying some popular mods that I've never tried before. Looking forward to ROM2 actually. Maybe I can trick myself into forgetting the mess that ended up being Civ 5, and think that some of these mods are actually the new game for the franchise.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

I'm sticking with CIV untill I can play CiV for Christmas, but after that, I still might play some civ 4here and there.

 

[Benvolio]

<sigh> I came so close to buying CiV in the store today. But I wanted to come back here to read some more about it first. I think for the time being I'll stick with IV for the following reasons:

1. I have a quad core that could handle V, but man! cIV sure runs great on it. Crisp and responsive. I don't want to go back to sluggish.

2. I'm still not very good on IV. I have won on Noble, but not beyond that. There's still too much to accomplish on IV.

3. I would like for patches and maybe the inevitable expansion pack(s) to come out before I get V. What I have read has not been that encouraging overall. I would like to wait for a more finished, complete game.

 

[cthom]

you can't play FFH on civ V. hell, you can't play civ on civ V.....

 

[Lemon Merchant]

you can't play FFH on civ V. hell, you can't play civ on civ V.....

You can play civ on Civ5, but the game doesn't listen to you and does its' own thing.

Sort of like a woman, but we make a heck of a lot more sense and our interface is nicer.

And the first person who posts that the AI is just as stupid gets smacked.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Well they have hidden diplomacy modifiers and they never forget you getting too close to another civ in 4000BC.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Well they have hidden diplomacy modifiers and they never forget you getting too close to another civ in 4000BC.

Only if you had open borders.

 

[Psyringe]

And the first person who posts that the AI is just as stupid gets smacked.

This reliance on violence in one's dealings with others does sound very Civ5-y, I must say ...

*jumps for cover*

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I tried the demo, reminded me of a woman.

Took ages to get ready, looks pretty, and my hardware would need an expensive upgrade before I can get into it.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

This reliance on violence in one's dealings with others does sound very Civ5-y, I must say ...

*jumps for cover*

So, you're saying I should have waited for a culture pop to annex my neighbor's yard?

Where's the fun in that?

 

[Psyringe]

So, you're saying I should have waited for a culture pop to annex my neighbor's yard?

Hey, there must be other ways than violence! How about revealing a great work of art right next to the yard? Do you paint? Compose? Perform? Tap dance?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Do you paint? Compose? Perform? Tap dance?

No. No. No. No...

I could sing, but I would lose culture and my own borders would shrink.

I am absolutely useless at anything that might be considered cultural, with the exception of the written word. At my house, I'm the one who does the home repair work and auto maintenance. It was really fun going into Home Depot this summer and buying all of the tools and things I needed for our new house. I'm a little slip of a thing, and I usually wear designer, so the salesman will usually ask if what I'm buying is for my "Hubby."

"No, it's for me."

"Oh. Well... uh we have classes for learning to use those..."

"I assume it has a manual?"

"Uh, yeah, but..."

"No problem then." As I pick up the big box and balance it onto the shopping cart. "Does my hair still look ok?"

"Uh..."

 

[cthom]

Well they have hidden diplomacy modifiers and they never forget you getting too close to another civ in 4000BC.

 

[bestbrian]

No. No. No. No...

I could sing, but I would lose culture and my own borders would shrink.

I am absolutely useless at anything that might be considered cultural, with the exception of the written word.

I thought you were an actress on television?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I thought you were an actress on television?

So did the lady in the mall this afternoon. (Myopic nutjob, she was.)

I'll concede to dating men before I'll go on the telly.