Civ 5

[Rochdale]

Om nom nom nom

Pre-ordered on steam, anyone else getting it?

 

[Cullhaven]

Looks great, like the Art deco thing. I see Vikings in there, wonder if they will be playable in an expansion.

 

[Artanix]

will see how it pans out, couldn't get into Civ 4 no matter how much i tried

Still love Civ2 every now and then

 

[Flight]

I want to pre order on Steam but Civ wouldn't be right without a meaty manual.

 

[Mosop]

ive pre ordered it on steam aswell

Think even the hard copy has a pdf file for the manual

 

[Kelger]

Pre ordered from game, they posted it earlier today, may get lucky and have it tomorrow

 

[Zeus]

winging its way here from play.
but do i play that, or games on my shiney new 360 that arrived today :/

 

[Rochdale]

Civ 5 obv, then your xbox can sit under your TV unused like mine

 

[Dart]

Im getting the collectors edition from Game, it uses Steamworks so you should be able to get the box version and still use it on Steam

 

[Rochdale]

Teh Aggeh sent me this earlier, link to the game manual online.

http://www.2kgames.com/manual/civ5/

 

[Kelger]

Mine has arrived, yeah, it is steamworks though which does have the drawback that I can't play till midnight

 

[Zeus]

argh, i hate steam soooo much. i'm sure its lovely for people with real internet connections that can have it on all the time. but for me, every time i get a game that needs it, i have to spend hours getting it working, because its auto updates fall over each other and break it repeatedly...

and yay, i cant even install it yet, because its 'not available in my country'. so come midnight, i get to faff around installing it, and then i'll bet before it'll let me play it, it'll download a load of patches. rubbish program.

 

[Rochdale]

Mines pre-loaded and good to go

 

[Swither]

review plz, compare to Civ 4 for teh win?

in other words, why should I buy Civ 5 when I have Civ 2 & 4?

 

[Rochdale]

Yes, but you should buy Civ 1 and 3 first

I'll have a play when I get home from work tonight.

 

[Agravaine]

Civ 3 was an abomination.

 

[Artanix]

Civ 3 was an abomination.

this. Civ 3 was horrible Civ 4 was good, but didn't get into it.

My biggest gripe about civ 3 was the lack of supported windowed mode. If a game is going to suck away 80% of my life (20% sleep), then it better let me check my emails while i'm playing!

 

[Agravaine]

I hate Civ 5.

It's far too addictive.

 

[Rochdale]

I'm still not sure that I "get it"

I hate no unit stacking and I hate paying for roads.... and kicking the shit out of people seems far too easy. And how is my city lauching rocks at passing enemies with no soldiers in it? And why for the love of God can't I buy a unit when there is already a unit garrisoned in the goddamn city?!

Still, it's pretty and I play it for 20 mintes, look up and it's 3 hours later.....

 

[Agravaine]

Well.........

Resources no longer need a road linking them to a city for you to gain the benefit, they just need to be developed and within your borders. Units have pretty decent movement so the only real need for roads is trade routes and to get units to the front from within your empire.

I don't really bother garrisoning units in cities any more as they now defend themselves.