Best version of Civ EVER.

Best Civ Ever

  • Civ I (Vanilla)

    Votes: 29 4.2%

  • Civ II (Vanilla)

    Votes: 87 12.5%

  • Civ III (Vanilla)

    Votes: 59 8.5%

  • Civ IV (Vanilla)

    Votes: 320 46.0%

  • Civ Rev

    Votes: 14 2.0%

  • Civ V (Vanilla)

    Votes: 186 26.8%
  • Total voters
    695
Nothing compares to the first one. Civ 1 was like new discovery for me.
 
Jharii said:
Civ4 BtS > Civ5 Vanilla > Civ4 Vanilla > Civ1 > Civ3 > Civ2

I fully expect that Civ5, when fully expanded, will occupy the far left of this when it's all said and done.

*cough* Master of Magic eats them all *cough*
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i hope so. i really really hope so
because i like hex, 1utp, and some other stuff in 0.V
but I cant agree with lots of stuff they removed so i also hope after the second or third expansion we will get a nerd version of V - nice, fun and complex...
 
Well, it looks like the best Civ ever was...................(drumroll)........ Civ IV!
 
Loved CivII and played it solid for a decade. BUT, there were problems with it that I never liked. The best thing about II was that it was relatively easy to use the ingame editors to create. It wasn't simply about "fixing" things I thought were not good, but also using it to attempt to create historical situations. CivII was flexible enough w/the editors so that I could create scenarios that simulated entire eras (Age of the Crusades, Age of Imperialism, Age of War, Age of Charlemagne). I used civII to make mountains impassable, to place oil in specific places, to make resources more valuable, to use "hammers" instead of "shields", to make railroads with extended yet still limited movement, and to make forests "choppable" long before CIV was released. CivII also attracted some unit design talent that, imo, was unparalelled. So when I came to CIV, a lot of the ideas I thought should have been in the design were there. Finally.

CIV got my vote, however. Stacking, the creation of large, combined arms armies was long overdue. The inclusion of many of the ideas I found desirable into CIV made it a dream come true. There are still a few things I'd change, but it moved the civ game in the directions I wanted it to go. It was a relief to finally see religion included in the game design and I liked the expansion of espionage and the new civics systems that replaced the simplistic governments. I always thought that the "we love the king day" in CivII w/republic or democracy and the population explosion was too powerful, although, in one specific scenario, I used this property to simulate an historical population explosion.
 
Skwink Caesar said:
I'll change it. It's means a good amount of people consider V the best. Not that it is the winner.
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JLoZeppeli said:
you need to change it again. According to this poll:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=393893&page=4

So a good amount of people think that it is the best civ ever... The majority think it is the worst...:eek:
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We here in the Civ5 forum of CFC need to get away from this whole notion that our opinions are somehow validated by the number of people who agree with us. Saying "a good number of people love Civ5" or "some other people hate Civ5" is irrelevant to either point, IMO.

I'm not a huge fan of Civ5 in its current state, but a hundred other people who feel the same way don't make me "right." Nor does the existence of other people who feel the same way make Civ5 fans "wrong" to enjoy the game in its current state.

The more I see polls like this, the more I wonder why people bother making them. :p IMO, interesting polls are things that can be quantified - like how many hours have you played Civ5, or when was the last time you played. Or that pose theoretical questions, which are admittedly speculating but can offer some insight into how members of the community feel about various possibilities. But these "look, 134 people say thumbs-down to Civ5, therefore I AM RIGHT, HAHA!" polls are just asinine.
 
SuperJay said:
The more I see polls like this, the more I wonder why people bother making them. :p IMO, interesting polls are things that can be quantified - like how many hours have you played Civ5, or when was the last time you played. Or that pose theoretical questions, which are admittedly speculating but can offer some insight into how members of the community feel about various possibilities. But these "look, 134 people say thumbs-down to Civ5, therefore I AM RIGHT, HAHA!" polls are just asinine.
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Well, thanks Jay. :cry:

Polls aren't usually asinine. It's the analyses from the poll numbers that might be asinine though.
Or sometimes they might tell you something really really interesting. :mischief:

Point is that if people really are liking specific version and hating certain version wouldn't it be kind of logical to maybe think that for Firaxis it would make sense to make game that resembles the most liked version rather than the one that is hated the most?

Maybe then again it isn't about who's right or wrong but maybe finding strong enough common ground that will affect the decisions of the company in the future?
Just hinting it and tiptoeing circles around saying "it's not perfect, but it's nice game" isn't going to clearly cut it.
 
Tough decision between Civ I, Civ II or Civ IV. I found Civ III a bit wanting until C3C came along, however I was still addicted to it.

I'm going with Civ II purely for the fact that I played the absolute hell out of Civ II; moreso than Civ I - and the fact that the advisors were awesome.

If the poll was for any version of Civ after expansions, I'd choose Civilization IV.
 
3 people voted for Civ Rev?!?! Can we just assume that they hit the wrong button? ;)
 
SuperJay said:
The more I see polls like this, the more I wonder why people bother making them.
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Oh, I can tell you why people are doing this.

When the game was released, some people almost immediately identified certain flaws.
The came here and were shouted down. They couldn't be correct with their analyses, and even if so, then this didn't have any meaning since there were hundreds of thousands of happy players outside.
Well, not outside, but at that moment for some strange reason just not playing the game happily, but posting in the forum.

This of course was questioned, and then both sides started polling.
And surprise, surprise, the more polls came up, the longer the game was available, the less the support for the "grandness" of the game seems to have become.

Meanwhile, some people are quite bothered by these polls which always seem to give the same results: significant numbers of players don't like the game.

SuperJay said:
:p IMO, interesting polls are things that can be quantified - like how many hours have you played Civ5, or when was the last time you played.
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Oh, about these things I can tell you something too.
I started the game at around lunchtime, played some turns, then went to here, read some posts, went back to the game, found a new error (already reported in the bug section) and then again stayed here.
Then I went to the kitchen to cook, had dinner, watched a movie, and now I am here again.
In all these hours the game was running and counts towards my "playtime". :lol:
As by now there are 106 hours registered, but I would assume that I've actually spent 20% of these hours *playing*.
This game is just so awfully unbalanced and flawed that I take every chance to do something else, although I am really trying to force myself to explore the mechanics a bit more.

And I wouldn't be too astonished if it were the same case for others, too.
 
Sonereal said:
Can we also assume that some people liked CivRev? :p
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Can we also assume that sale figures might make a better objective assessment of which was the best? Although plenty of people buy and are disappointed, they tell their friends who don't buy. And good games get a good reputation that boosts their sales. I'd like to see comparative sales figures, normalized perhaps for sales of other games of the day. Does anyone have them?
 
h0ncho said:
I voted civ 3.

Why? One reason is that it introduced me to the series. The other is that I weren't good enough to care about balance when it was released. But the most important part is that it had the best graphics.


No, seriously. Good graphics is not the same as advanced graphics. Civ 3 was much better in the art department than civ 4, and miles ahead of civ 5.
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Civ3's graphics were one of the things I hated about it. I was embarrassed, hoping my wife wouldn't come into my study and see me playing that game. Fortunately the vanilla game was unplayable and I packed it away after a week, never to touch it again. I went back to Civ2 when I needed my Civ fix until a friend recommended BTS and I got the whole Civ4 set for very cheap.
 
Never played Civ1, started on Civ2.
Got addicted in Civ3, on record, most time probably spent playing this verison of Civ.
Civ4 is great, but has to have all its add ons.
Civ5 actually I liked due to its graphics, and frankly, its not so bad once you have the CCMAT on.
 
lschnarch said:
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Oh, about these things I can tell you something too.
I started the game at around lunchtime, played some turns, then went to here, read some posts, went back to the game, found a new error (already reported in the bug section) and then again stayed here.
Then I went to the kitchen to cook, had dinner, watched a movie, and now I am here again.
In all these hours the game was running and counts towards my "playtime". :lol:
As by now there are 106 hours registered, but I would assume that I've actually spent 20% of these hours *playing*.
This game is just so awfully unbalanced and flawed that I take every chance to do something else, although I am really trying to force myself to explore the mechanics a bit more.

And I wouldn't be too astonished if it were the same case for others, too.
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Thank you! :goodjob:

I'm in exactly same spot - game in the background, I'm eating/watching movie, play time ticks...At least I was since it's been longer than a fortnight from the last time I've fired up civ5. I wanted to watch "Behind The Scenes" video today but somehow whenever I want to fast forward it (tired to death to listen 2kGreg talking about organic world) the video just stops, only audio remains (tried several times to fix this). Hehe, even the video is bugged :lol:

But don't waste your time lschnarch, apparently only the vocal minority rants in here, while ecstatic majority are staying off the forums since they're too immersed in Civ5 and THAT's why the polls are meaningless.
Gee, if that's the case I wonder why whenever I'll come to Civfanatics there's more than a 1000 people online... ^^
 
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