New screenshots on Gamespot

[Darwin420]

I hope they flesh out the 3D people a little more.. Heck, Sims 1 looked better than that...

 

[TyranusBonehead]

Oh geez, I just had a vision of an army of Elvis's

all doing karate moves and fantastic, theatrical poses

maybe that could be a mod for Civ IV

 

[TyranusBonehead]

I hope they flesh out the 3D people a little more.. Heck, Sims 1 looked better than that...

I agree with you, they do like a bit blockish.

 

[warpstorm]

Did we btw. actually get what Yumbo! means?

No, and those who do know aren't telling

 

[warpstorm]

then those graphics could be made in the same way they are made for civ3.

These days it is much less effort to make 3D graphics than 2D. Most of the artists I know cringe when I ask them to render their animations to 2D.

3d Graphics do not make the game what it is, and sadly it seems that civ4 has left the civ building, for good.

So, 2D graphics are what makes the game for you?

For me it's the gameplay and you can't tell that from a screenshot.

 

[GeneralZed]

Well, who can ask to the Firaxis team to make houses smaller ? If it was only about me, houses would be 5 times smaller and there would be also, by the way, 5 times more houses.

Yes, make houses smaller and more of them. It would look damn cool to see in the late game a giant city with many little houses

 

[alva848]

i do not like the terrain/building/city graphics at all... and the fact that they are full 3d makes it even worse: there just isnt any point in trying to do all that work imo.
It would have been a lot better imo to just have the camera be still, as in civ3, like in this pic: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationiv/screens.html?page=50
then those graphics could be made in the same way they are made for civ3.
3d Graphics do not make the game what it is, and sadly it seems that civ4 has left the civ building, for good.

Couldn't agree more!! In fact, Civ5 should be text only and work in no other enviroment but DOS.

 

[mitsho]

@GeneralZed Assuming the great moddability of civIV I hope it will be possible do such graphic mods (and that they will be done). However I have no idea of graphical modding etc. so if this is possible or not.

@warpstorm, then I bet this will be an easteregg of civIV...

mitsho

 

[Markus6]

sadly it seems that civ4 has left the civ building, for good

Yes the ability to zoom in and try different camera angles maybe the end of civ.

Unfortunately 2D graphics would attract no new customers and probably lose some not-quite-so-civ-fanatics who'd just think "it looks just like civ 3 what's the point." Personally i think the game is good enough to get through it's awkward 3D stage, however 'rubbish' the graphics are.

personally I really like the latest screenshot. They seem to keep improving. can't wait

 

[Kyriakos]

i guess i am just one of the old civ fans i am 26, and have been playing since the first game, when i still had an amiga500 computer

3d will make modding cities a lot different, i mean a graphic which you see all of the time from one angle, since it is 2d, to me has not only a bigger value due to nostalgia, but would motivate me more to try to make it look better. If i am just making a texture, which would be seen from a large number of different agles, zoom-ins and zoom-outs, then i wouldnt feel as motivated, and those graphics in the pics still seem rather boring to me. But hey, i am talking to the counterstrike generation here it seems

 

[CivMad]

I think the cities should look less cartoony and more like the way cities look from the air when you're landing in an airplane. It won't stop me from playing the game, of course, but everytime I look out the window of a plane (at low altitude) I think of Civ and how cool it would be if the game actually looked like that.

 

[V. Soma]

Isn't it so that they are polishing the graphics in the last phase of development?
They still have three more months to nail it...
At this moment it is the gameplay features and concepts that must be ready and showing unity - as Firaxis have said it, now it is about testing and tuning the balance, weights, numbers, maths. And yes, to polish the look...
I believe graphics will strongly improve in the coming one or two months... the environment, tiles, city view...

As of cities:
I hope the size of the city will be more distinguished this time around, not just having 3 phases (1-6, 7-12 and above...). I would like it to show difference at every time it grows...

I had a look at the new picture:

what are those little houses around near the big city?

They aren't improvements, are they??? Then what? A village of sort? Or just filling up the landscape? The surely have some "meaning"...

 

[Markus6]

I'm pretty sure the 'villages' are showing which tiles are being worked by the city.

 

[Jaybe]

Couldn't agree more!! In fact, Civ5 should be text only and work in no other enviroment but DOS.

Nonsense! It should work on Mac only (or M-Intel-ac after a couple years).

 

[DBear]

Am I nuts or is that railline heading into the water on the upper left of the first pic?

 

[Markus6]

Unfortunately your nuts.
Don't worry i thought the same thing but i think it's probably ice. Good luck with the counselling, hope ure shrinks pretty

 

[Gohano]

hrm, well the "water" looks like its higher than the ocean tiles. So maybe its a lake or something? (bridge building!!) or perhaps just another tile. maybe ice or something???

 

[warpstorm]

i guess i am just one of the old civ fans i am 26, and have been playing since the first game, when i still had an amiga500 computer

No, you are a kid. It took a year before they ported it to the Amiga. For some of us the Amiga was our 5th home computer I remember many a night playing Empire (where Sid and Bruce looted many an idea) on the mainframe a decade before Civ1 came out.

 

[Lucky The Fox]

I hope they flesh out the 3D people a little more.. Heck, Sims 1 looked better than that...

They look blocky only when zoomed in.

 

[Kyriakos]

For the record: amiga500 was my 2nd computer Amstrad cpc6128 was the first Unfortunately it didnt have any strategy games But loads of platform, like rainbow islands, jet set willy, rich dangerous etc
The only strategy title i had for amstrad was Monopoly