Civilization V £17.99

frenchy0312 · 18 Feb 2011 at 10:35

I know someone put below about civ IV being on offer but Civ V is also on offer on steam over the weekend for the price above. I've had a look online on a few sites and cant find it any cheaper.

MaxP779 · 18 Feb 2011 at 10:39

Isnt it terrible though?

frenchy0312 · 18 Feb 2011 at 10:42

I've no idea as I havent played it personally. Just thought I'd put it up in case anyone was interested though.

Diplexbullet19 · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:01

i just got it, going to try it and ill most likely leave an opinion later.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:03

MaxP779 said:
Isnt it terrible though?

Ooh, there's a can of worms waiting to be opened right there.

I think it really depends on what you thought of CIV 4. If you liked the depth and micro managing then CIV 5 might be best avoided. On the other hand, if you thought CIV 4 was just stuffed with too much guff, then CIV 5 might be up your street. I'm of the former, but did like the 1UPT mechanic.

If you've never played CIV before, then this game was actually made with you in mind.

andi · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:11

Ooh, excellent, enjoyed the demo

Thanks

Egon · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:16

I still liked Civ V, even for all its flaws, I was still grpped by the 'just 1 more turn' aspect it brought. It just wasn't as good as Civ IV, it also didn't hold its appeal as long.

Lithon · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:32

Thanks for the heads up, it's tempted me to buy it as I wasn't prepared to pay release prices.

413x · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:51

I am one of the ones who avoided civ 5 cause of the lack of complexity, glad I did hearing about some of the opinions

MouthBoy · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:50

Civ 4 and 5 are very different. I personally love them both although I have spent more time playing Civ 4 than 5. Civ 5 is just too broken and the AI is just poor. However that said, it is strangely enjoyable still and I personally think that they will improve it over time with patches. Well at least I hope they will anyways.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 18 Feb 2011 at 15:06

Yeah. Civ5 is still awaiting more patches before it's up to the (extremely high) standard set by the final civ4 release.

They're quite different games. Civ4 was more about empire-building, where as civ5 feels gauged more towards warfare. The main problem is the AI isn't very good at the warfare yet.

Civ4 had a few user-made AI patches that were eventually intergrated with official patches, so hopefully the same will happen here. People seem to forget civ4 had pretty much all the same problems as civ5 on release (mainly weak AI and serious balancing issues).

pingwing · 18 Feb 2011 at 15:45

jimbob27 said:
mainly weak AI and serious balancing issues.

Yeah I remember the day I worked out in the vanilla release of 4 you could dominate the game as Frederik of the Germans with cultural and philosophical traits (and the panzer tank) as it turned any average civ into a cultural/scientific power house....

5 is good, well worth £17.99 (I felt it was worth the whole £30) even if it is still sort of broken like the last one. The one unit per tile thing is more or less the best change to the game play over the previous 4 as it takes away from stack attacks which always always kill the older ones (well slow them down at any rate)

MaxP779 · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:13

Lunatic Dreyfus said:
Ooh, there's a can of worms waiting to be opened right there.

I think it really depends on what you thought of CIV 4. If you liked the depth and micro managing then CIV 5 might be best avoided. On the other hand, if you thought CIV 4 was just stuffed with too much guff, then CIV 5 might be up your street. I'm of the former, but did like the 1UPT mechanic.

If you've never played CIV before, then this game was actually made with you in mind.

Heh, what if you liked alpha centauri better than any civ?

SkeeterUK · 18 Feb 2011 at 17:27

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sat...-civilization-v-10-90-green-man-gaming/879662

This is cheaper. Just a tenner. On sat.

bhavv · 18 Feb 2011 at 23:45

Its not as good as Civ IV or even Civ II, however it is still a good enjoyable game.

Hardcore Civ fans felt really let down with the game based on how good the previous ones were, but I actually rate it as the 3rd best in the series after Civ II and Civ IV.

Efour · 19 Feb 2011 at 01:17

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4323/

£3.75 - this deal absolutely wees all over civ 5 like a Rifleman Vs a Spear-man.

Civ V is ok for the new CIV player but for anyone else its an insult in series.

Chicken #16 · 19 Feb 2011 at 02:00

Efour2 said:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4323/

£3.75 - this deal absolutely wees all over civ 5 like a Rifleman Vs a Spear-man.

Civ V is ok for the new CIV player but for anyone else its an insult in series.

bah....£3.75. I have just bought Civ V but looking at this I should just keep playing my copies of colonization and civ 4 and wait for the inevitable massive price drop for civ 5. But too late.

MumboJumbo · 19 Feb 2011 at 02:36

Efour2 said:
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4323/

£3.75 - this deal absolutely wees all over civ 5 like a Rifleman Vs a Spear-man.

Civ V is ok for the new CIV player but for anyone else its an insult in series.

Ahhh, I'be drunk to much to make such a dissision. I think I will buyy it and nto play it but I did enjoy civ 5 even though I found the ai to be utter morons and generaly find it to be an easy game. I even won diety 1 on 1, though I felt I absused the ai terribly when tehy basically allowed me to destroy most their army by trying to invade me by sea instead of by land.

To buy or not to buy grrrrrrr. I'm a big stratergy gamer, mtw, rtw were my favourites, m2tw was dumbed down imo and impossible to loose. Supcom fa and empire earth are also soem of my favourites.

I swear the keyts keep moving! haha

413x · 19 Feb 2011 at 09:19

Also I heard u don't get transports for troops? The naval warfare in civ4 was my fav bit

tom91x91 · 19 Feb 2011 at 09:24

when i played it the AI didnt know how to cross water