Civilization 5.

[bottleopener]

Any other civ maniacs out there?

I've always loved the civ games, especially 4:BTS. What are your thoughts on the latest offering?

The diplomacy is hilariously random, but i LOVE the new hexes/military unit controls. I'm also a big fan of the new social policies system.

Maritime city states are ludicrously powerful.

Thoughts? Comments? Spontaneous declarations of war?

 

[TomSD]

The move to hex map I love.
The removal of stacks I really like... feels more tactical than building a super stack and smoking everything.
The addition of city/states I like. More dynamic map with more things to do. Specially with the quests and whatnot they give for diplomacy.

It needs work but overall I like the changes they made and the capabilities they gave the new engine. Looking forward to what the modding community does to it.

 

[Hammy71]

Guess I'm old school. Have IV....but I still play III. Never liked the changes. The newer one has been collecting dust. Oh well....each his own.

 

[Duganson]

I don't have it yet because my live-in fiancée has yet to see me really crack out on a game and I don't know how she's gonna take a Civ crack out.... getting up at 5 AM to see me blurry eyed and twitching from coffee might freak her out a little....

Heard good things though... maybe I'll get it and take a stay-cation for a weekend, lock the door with a sixer, bag of junk food and a bedpan.

 

[Scooterkdavis]

ANGRY....

this game is the best one since #2, but my freaking laptop is too slow. going to have to get some ram before i can enjoy this!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lumpher]

i still play 2 about once a year

 

[scrambledegg81]

I still have the very first MS-DOS version on my folks' old computer. Set up a partition which had to be direct-booted on startup, so they never found out about it.

 

[wedge421]

This is the first one I have played and I really dig it. Really easy to jump right into but tough to master

 

[bottleopener]

Damnit, AI, stop getting angry at me when I refuse to gift you 30+ gold per turn.

 

[mc_eric]

Damnit, AI, stop getting angry at me when I refuse to gift you 30+ gold per turn.

Just burn a couple of their cities, they'll come around

I'll have to check out V. I still play IV every once in a while.