I'll be waiting the first patch

[eris]

I distinctly remember having lots of fun with Civ IV when it first came out. According to some people on this thread, I was confused and only thought I was having fun. This is all just fine with me. I intend on being equally delighted and confused with Civ V. I hope you folk have as much fun waiting as I do playing.

 

[Zhahz]

I distinctly remember having lots of fun with Civ IV when it first came out. According to some people on this thread, I was confused and only thought I was having fun. This is all just fine with me. I intend on being equally delighted and confused with Civ V. I hope you folk have as much fun waiting as I do playing.

Ditto.

I could wait for Civ IV, played it the moment it came out, had a blast. I expect the same with 5.

Waiting would be silly - the wait is unbearable enough as it is and I'm actually enjoying playing Civ IV right NOW (I don't play constantly though, my bouts with civ go in phases of playing heavily for a few weeks then not playing at all for a while, and I'm in a playing it phase right now).

I have said before that Civ IV's AI wasn't really that great til BTS but early on it didn't matter as much due to having to learn the game and enjoying the new version.

Civ IV used a 3rd party graphics package and Civ V is custom, so I'd expect they have a better handle on performance this time around, both in terms of knowing what should occur and their ability to tweak it.

It's also their 2nd pass at the extreme level of moddability so any refinements they put in over the expansions/patches of IV should've already been considered in the initial design of 5.

Keep in mind that if you have a dated PC, dated OS, crap video, low amount of RAM, pitiful laptop, etc, whatever, that the likelihood of you having a problem with ANY new/premium software is far higher than if you have a reasonably decent/modern PC. No matter what any dev does it's hard to accomodate the massive variety in PCs and laptops and trying to make anything work on brutally out-of-date hardware is a pain.

 

[Crazy George]

I'm sure what I don't know about Civ 4 would fill quite a few forum pages. Thus, it is my intent to pursue C5 more methodically. And while ya'll are playing the game and posting your findings, I plan on studying the results and doing a bit of armchair quarterbacking.

A solid defensive strategy like that should keep me from wasting my entire life playing C5 or ordering the game until, oh, about 6AM on the day of release.

But wait, let's see. Sept 21 is a Tues, so maybe I'll be able to hold out until the weekend. That would give me a solid four days to study strategy, a decent chance that a patch will have been released to fix any catastrophic bugs, and if I don’t sleep, I'll probably be able to fit in a second game before Monday morning.

 

[Thyrwyn]

Give George a cookie. Thanks for the laugh!

 

[toft]

I agree that civ4 patching was crappy, but the game is most likely not going to get any cheaper just because you buy it after a patch Unless you want to wait for the expansions where the vanilla version sometimes gets a bit cheaper, then we are all on equal terms - ergo noone is paying to betatest.

 

[wolfigor]

Don't you remember how bad was the very first version of CIV IV ?
It was nearly unplayable actually. Too many bugs.

I did buy CIVIV as soon as released.
The experience on my machine was simply horrible, even without counting the many bugs... I remember running a script to kill of unnecessary services in windows to free as much CPU and memory as possible for the game.

It started being playable when the first patch made the game less resources hungry without compromising visual quality.

 

[Oerdin]

The release version will be buggy as hell just like all the previous versions.