Hey Everybody! I'm, happy to see this community still vibrant and active!
So... bottom line first... we have a new installment to the series we all know and love, Civilization: Beyond Earth, AKA Civ 6, AKA Civ BE, AKA BE:
So my question is for EVERYONE... both those of you who HAVE played as well as those who HAVE NOT played it...
To those who have already played it... Would you recommend buying it or waiting for the expansions to make it a more complete game?
AND
To those who have NOT played it... Are you buying or waiting? If you have time, please comment on whether you are waiting for patches/fixes, or expansions, or for THE expansion, as in the FINAL expansion... ala Brave New World (Civ 5 BNW) or Beyond The Sword (Civ 4 BTS).
And for those who feel like reading more
... Some background info:
I have been playing Civ since the original Civilization Game (I first played original Civilization way back in 1993
).
Since that time I have played every single Game at least once including Revolutions and Alpha Centauri. I even bought/played the inspired by Civ game, Civilization: Call to Power game (very enjoyable game BTW
). I have also played the console versions of the games (Civ 2, Civ 3, and Revolutions on XBox). Besides Call to Power, I have owned Civ 2, Civ 3 Complete, Civ 4 (incl Warlords and BTS), and I now own Civ 5 (all DLC).
Civ 4 has been my favorite installment so far. In fact it was through Civ 4 that I was first introduced to this community, because I (like many others) experienced the horrible awful, no-good, very bad, graphics card issue with the blacked out terrain
. I got Civ 4 very soon after it came out to find that Civ 4 was unplayable on my laptop AND desktop! I found Civfanatics trying to discover a solution to the problem, and I fortunately I discovered that I was not alone. Ultimately, I ending up buying/installing a new graphics card for my desktop and eventually a new, updated laptop (not just for Civ... but yeah, mostly for Civ 
). Once I got Civ 4 working properly, I had what I can only desrcibe as a 9 year love affair with Civ 4.
So obviously... I love this game... and when Civ 5 came out I was very excited to continue my love fest with the new game. I bought Civ 5 vanilla the day it came out and once again the game was unplayable for me... The game was just too slow and laggy on my compy even on the crappy lowest settings
. In addition, when I read all the reviews, everyone who was actually able to play the game was saying it was not as fun, a buggy mess and an overall disappointment. So I put Civ 5 back on the shelf and returned to Civ 4 for the next 4 years. Even when the Gods & Kings expansion came out, I was too jaded to spend any more money on Civ 5.
But by the time BNW came out, I had a new, more powerful compy, and the reviews here were so good, that I bought BNW and tried Civ 5 again... And I loved it. I loved it so much in fact that I finally put Civ 4 away and now all I play is BNW. (I did have to upgrade to an SSD to make load times more bearable
)
So about BE... At a glance, this game seems alot like an extensive re-skinning to me, almost more like a glorified Mod, or Civ 5 expansion. I remember feeling the same way about Alpha Centauri after Civ 2, which is why I never really got into it.
I am a history fan, and as a rule, I have always enjoyed the historical aspect of Civ. Re-skinnings have not been as attractive to me, with the exceptions of the ones that enhance or extend the timeline, rather than creating a new one from scratch or completely reinventing the "world."
So for example... I loved the Next War and RFC mods but I did not like Fall from Heaven or Afterworld. I have mixed feelings about Final Frontier because it was less like a "re-skinning" and more like a completely new game, but at the same time, it was not in-depth enough to be engaging. Maybe if it had been released as its own game it would have had enough depth to hold my interest... who knows ?
The Wikipedia page for Alpha Centauri has already dubbed this game a "Spiritual sequel" to Alpha Centauri, which I never really got into...for the reasons mentioned above...
So again, for those of you who have already played BE... Does this seem like a situation similar to Civ 5, where I should just wait for the "finished" product? Is this enough of a "new" game to make it more than just a re-skinning?
And for those who haven't played yet, do you share any of my concerns? Are you just going to take the plunge (like I did with Civ 4 and Civ 5), consequences be damned
? Or are you going to play it safe and wait for a more finished product? I am leaving the poll open for 3 years... I figure by then the "finished" version will be out, making this poll moot 
So... bottom line first... we have a new installment to the series we all know and love, Civilization: Beyond Earth, AKA Civ 6, AKA Civ BE, AKA BE:
So my question is for EVERYONE... both those of you who HAVE played as well as those who HAVE NOT played it...
To those who have already played it... Would you recommend buying it or waiting for the expansions to make it a more complete game?
AND
To those who have NOT played it... Are you buying or waiting? If you have time, please comment on whether you are waiting for patches/fixes, or expansions, or for THE expansion, as in the FINAL expansion... ala Brave New World (Civ 5 BNW) or Beyond The Sword (Civ 4 BTS).
And for those who feel like reading more
... Some background info:I have been playing Civ since the original Civilization Game (I first played original Civilization way back in 1993
). Since that time I have played every single Game at least once including Revolutions and Alpha Centauri. I even bought/played the inspired by Civ game, Civilization: Call to Power game (very enjoyable game BTW
). I have also played the console versions of the games (Civ 2, Civ 3, and Revolutions on XBox). Besides Call to Power, I have owned Civ 2, Civ 3 Complete, Civ 4 (incl Warlords and BTS), and I now own Civ 5 (all DLC). Civ 4 has been my favorite installment so far. In fact it was through Civ 4 that I was first introduced to this community, because I (like many others) experienced the horrible awful, no-good, very bad, graphics card issue with the blacked out terrain
. I got Civ 4 very soon after it came out to find that Civ 4 was unplayable on my laptop AND desktop! I found Civfanatics trying to discover a solution to the problem, and I fortunately I discovered that I was not alone. Ultimately, I ending up buying/installing a new graphics card for my desktop and eventually a new, updated laptop (not just for Civ... but yeah, mostly for Civ ). Once I got Civ 4 working properly, I had what I can only desrcibe as a 9 year love affair with Civ 4.So obviously... I love this game... and when Civ 5 came out I was very excited to continue my love fest with the new game. I bought Civ 5 vanilla the day it came out and once again the game was unplayable for me... The game was just too slow and laggy on my compy even on the crappy lowest settings
. In addition, when I read all the reviews, everyone who was actually able to play the game was saying it was not as fun, a buggy mess and an overall disappointment. So I put Civ 5 back on the shelf and returned to Civ 4 for the next 4 years. Even when the Gods & Kings expansion came out, I was too jaded to spend any more money on Civ 5.But by the time BNW came out, I had a new, more powerful compy, and the reviews here were so good, that I bought BNW and tried Civ 5 again... And I loved it. I loved it so much in fact that I finally put Civ 4 away and now all I play is BNW. (I did have to upgrade to an SSD to make load times more bearable
)So about BE... At a glance, this game seems alot like an extensive re-skinning to me, almost more like a glorified Mod, or Civ 5 expansion. I remember feeling the same way about Alpha Centauri after Civ 2, which is why I never really got into it.
I am a history fan, and as a rule, I have always enjoyed the historical aspect of Civ. Re-skinnings have not been as attractive to me, with the exceptions of the ones that enhance or extend the timeline, rather than creating a new one from scratch or completely reinventing the "world."
So for example... I loved the Next War and RFC mods but I did not like Fall from Heaven or Afterworld. I have mixed feelings about Final Frontier because it was less like a "re-skinning" and more like a completely new game, but at the same time, it was not in-depth enough to be engaging. Maybe if it had been released as its own game it would have had enough depth to hold my interest... who knows ?
The Wikipedia page for Alpha Centauri has already dubbed this game a "Spiritual sequel" to Alpha Centauri, which I never really got into...for the reasons mentioned above...
So again, for those of you who have already played BE... Does this seem like a situation similar to Civ 5, where I should just wait for the "finished" product? Is this enough of a "new" game to make it more than just a re-skinning?
And for those who haven't played yet, do you share any of my concerns? Are you just going to take the plunge (like I did with Civ 4 and Civ 5), consequences be damned
? Or are you going to play it safe and wait for a more finished product? I am leaving the poll open for 3 years... I figure by then the "finished" version will be out, making this poll moot 
