Civilization V

[d00d]

So I was browsing the net at work the other day when there was a lot of hype about this game. Its a series that spans decades and its the idea of leading a nation from its inception in BC up until the 21st century. You are free to do whatever you like - trade friendly with other nations, be diplomatic and open up trade routes - or you can be a tyrant and build armies on a global scale, form pacts with other cities and eliminate leaders and take their territory.

 

I've never played it before and got it the other day, seems like a great concept. To be honest, any game where you can discover a primitive, hostile nation that have a defence consisting of spearmen and rock throwers while you stroll by in B-52s, tanks and a "Giant Death Robot" is awesome. Makes for a fun-to-watch slaughter.

 

Its basically Metal Gear REX. Look at it!

 

An ingame shot of it:

 

 

Also, multiplayer.

 

So is anyone playing?

[mkey82]

I'll probably play but I'll wait a bit for the price to drop.

[d00d]

Its grippnig. I've never been much of a fan of turn-based strategy games or anything similar. But I downloaded this on Wednesday night, used a VPN to activate it and had it working by 11pm. I sat in that chair without getting up until 7am. And thats only because my alarm clock went off and I had to go to work. I didn't feel tired at all.

 

Never has a game done that to me.

[Red_Queen]

I play it and it's awesome..

[Tchuck]

Civilization is one of the most addicting games.

It's alway "just one more turn".

This one has been no exception, I'm loving it!

[d00d]

As this is my first Civ game I've got to ask - do the other nations generally keep up with you, in terms of military progress? For example if I concentrated solely on military and got riflemen very early on, would others generally keep up too?

[Brown Sugar]

i played civilization II and some of IV but then i started to go off it so i probably won't be playing this one

[freak2121]

As this is my first Civ game I've got to ask - do the other nations generally keep up with you, in terms of military progress? For example if I concentrated solely on military and got riflemen very early on, would others generally keep up too?

Some of them can be more advanced than you, and some of them can be very primitive compared to you. It depends on how you play and what you research.

[mkey82]

As this is my first Civ game I've got to ask - do the other nations generally keep up with you, in terms of military progress? For example if I concentrated solely on military and got riflemen very early on, would others generally keep up too?

Some of them can be more advanced than you, and some of them can be very primitive compared to you. It depends on how you play and what you research.

This depends on a lot of factors

 

* game difficulty

* number of cities - a large number of towns early on will kill you with maintenance costs, but later on will give you giant boosts

* whether you build city improvements in proper order or not

 

etc

[Mr.Mister]

Man I love smoking a joint with some tunes and play IV on the computer

 

I think I will get this game too but since you played it, did they add anything new or is it just more of the same?

Edited September 25, 2010 by Mr.Mister

[JayC]

I love civ4. So gutted this hasn't had a simultaneous mac release Guess I'll have to boot camp it.

[Slingaa]

I'd love to, but I don't know if my PC is good enough.

[mkey82]

 

System Requirements

 

      Minimum:

          o OS: Windows® XP SP3/ Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7

          o Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz

          o Memory: 2GB RAM

          o Graphics:256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics

          o DirectX®: DirectX® version 9.0c

          o Hard Drive: 8 GB Free

          o Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

 

      Recommended:

          o OS: Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7

          o Processor: 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU

          o Memory: 4 GB RAM

          o Graphics: 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better

          o DirectX®: DirectX® version 11

          o Hard Drive: 8 GB Free

          o Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

[Slingaa]

Thanks mate, but I don't have a clue what my specs are and how they compare to those.

[Zook]

 

Thanks mate, but I don't have a clue what my specs are and how they compare to those.

Check here it also shows your system specs

 

http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/

[mkey82]

Hardware details

[freak2121]

I run it fine on medium to high settings on my 8500GT.

[Adam Jensen]

I never cared for turn-based strategies. I don't get it. Isn't real time more fun. What's the deal with turns? And can't they make turn based system optional for people who like real time more? But the game does look interesting. I will get it if someone releases a trainer with infinite turns. That would make sense to me.

[Tchuck]

 

I never cared for turn-based strategies. I don't get it. Isn't real time more fun. What's the deal with turns? And can't they make turn based system optional for people who like real time more? But the game does look interesting. I will get it if someone releases a trainer with infinite turns. That would make sense to me.

If people like real time more, they can play something else

Turn based strategy is just as good as real time strategy.

Turn based is usually more "strategic" than real time, because you have more time to plan things right, and you need to plan things right. Instead of waiting 10 to 15 seconds to have more soldiers to fight for you, making them all pretty much expendable, in turn based every one of them count, because you won't have time to mass a lot of them after going to war.

And there's more diplomacy involved, instead of the common "don't kill me, and I give you this" or "let's kill that guy together" diplomacy in real time games.

Overall, it's more geared towards the tactics nut than the regular strategy fan.

I didn't quite get what you meant by infinite turns, I'm assuming you mean you can move anywhere, build anything, do whatever you want that would usually take 30 turns take one turn. If that's the case, it would make the game terrible because it was not designed to be that way.

 

Today I must have played it for almost 10 hours straight, it's just so hard to stop... JUST ONE MORE TURN! turns into 6 hours quite easily.

Playing a game as Egypt, vs 22 other civilizations. So far managed to annex my 3 neighbour civilizations, and everyone else is bothering me about allying to go to war with one of the other big guys. f*ckers don't tell me what to do, I go to war whenever I want

 

[Cojage]

I never played a Civ game before, so I'm trying to get into it, but the strategy and gameplay looks pretty interesting. I never played a turn based strategy game before

[jomiyo]

Is it true that you can be nuked by Gandhi?

 

Seriously, I've played Civ IV and absolutely loved it, so I'll likely get this. Just not now, though, as it'll be detrimental to my StarCraft 2 MP.

 

 

[Tchuck]

Is it true that you can be nuked by Gandhi?

 

Seriously, I've played Civ IV and absolutely loved it, so I'll likely get this. Just not now, though, as it'll be detrimental to my StarCraft 2 MP.

You can be nuked by anyone providing they have the tech and a hatred towards you

Just won a cultural victory with Japan, after 600 odd turns and many a couple hours

[E.A.B.]

I started Civ in the 8th hrade, with Civ III

 

Addicted to it, f*cking awesome. WWII, Roman Empire, Shogun scenarios. It was all incredibly captivating.

 

Then I got Civ IV years later, and was kinda disappointed by the Tech Tree, where I felt it was somewhat disjointed. Whereas before, you had to research everything in an era to move ahead, you could now skip many things. So I figured it was pretty effin cheap. I realized that you still needed certain techs to move ahead, and that the system as a whole still worked.

 

Anyway, I got used to Civ IV. The constant cottage building though....ehh.....

 

Anyway, I hear that Civ V is more 'casual' in the sense that a lot of things are simplified. I LIKE stacks. But I guess I'll get used to it.....maybe.

 

I'd play it if companies didn't have such a hard on with making PC games require higher and higher specs. I, for one, don't care about better graphics.

[jomiyo]

Not surprising if things have been dumbed-down 'simplified' over the various releases, considering far too many series in other genres..

 

Hmm, now I'm tempted to forget this and pick up Civ III.

Edited September 27, 2010 by Supreme.

[E.A.B.]

Not surprising if things have been dumbed-down 'simplified' over the various releases, considering far too many series in other genres..

 

Hmm, now I'm tempted to forget this and pick up Civ III.

Well, in defense of CIV IV, punishing you for going into a mad rush to build more and more cities is rather appropriate, and worked out well.

 

Also, the lowering science all the way to 0 when a new tech is about to be discovered, while helpful, won't be missed.

 

But STACKS. WHAT HAPPENED TO STACKING UNITS? GOD DAMN IT I WANT TO STACK

 

I LIKE STACKING

 

STACKS

 

SOME

TRIBULATIONS

ALWAYS

CONCUR

WITH f*ckING STACKS

[Tchuck]

I feel that by removing the stacks they added some more strategy to the game. Now you'll have to work to conquer the city, instead of marching in with a huge stack and steamrolling it. Mind you, in early ages you can still steamroll the cities with relatively few units. But now you have to position them accordingly, taking care of where to manouver your army through. Isn't there a Civ5 demo around? It would be worth to give that a try to see if you like it.

[Cojage]

Does anyone know an in-depth guide to Civ games? I don't understand it fully yet.

[mkey82]

Browse through the in-game help file (I assume Civ V has one), it was usually very informative about game concepts.

[d00d]

To be honest, I never read any of the help. I also have no background in this game and dived straight in. Its useful when you have to make a decision when you're heading in no direction and its all very helpful. But if you have that gaming knack, you'll do fine brah.

[mkey82]

Yeah, if CivV is anything like previous Civs, you'll want to read up a bit on game mechanics.