Galactic civ 2

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Back at home for a long weekend and thanks to the combined inefficency and indeed idiocy of sky and bt openreach i'm left without the net and so can't play ffxiv :(

Reading a thread a while back I saw someone (perhaps Tefal) mention gc2 saying it was really good game. Is it worth getting and is it massively complex to get into? Got all day tommorow, apart from the footie, and Monday to burn now and want something fun and challenging to get into!

Ta in advance
 
It is very time consuming once you get into it, confusing at first but if you are into games like Civ etc. you should pick it up. Personally I find combat to be boring so go for a cultural victory where you sqeeze into other races territory and eventually take over they're planets muahaha
 
phil675 said:
It is very time consuming once you get into it
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I'd describe it as more of a time sink. True, the game itself can be very slow-paced at times - on the larger maps, it's not uncommon to spend half an hour or more on a single turn, and games generally take hundreds of turns, but its most time-consuming aspect is that it's so addictive. I played it for about 6 months solid when I first got it, ignored every other game to do so and I still play a game every few months or so. It's one of the best 4X games out there, probably the best in the space genre and it's taken more of my time than any other game. Ever. Buy it.
 
It'll probably cost you a fortune to buy it through Impulse, I'd recommend trawling eBay and the likes. You'll really want a pack with all the expansions to save shelling out later for exfra stuff to further what will undoubtedly become a favourite. If you don't click with it right away, play it solidly until you can't see straight any more and you start thinking of good places to build starbases while walking/driving to work. Consider it an investment of effort - like marathon training, only so very, very much more fun.
 
chrismscotland said:
Its £25 to download the Utimate Edition but seems to be £8 - £15 online at most of the big names but out of stock just about everywhere!
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£10 from the river, and its in stock :3

If you want to patch the game, you will need to download Impulse, and add the game to it. It works much the same way as Steam, except it doesn't need to be running to play the games, it purely deals with patching. Its a pretty decent forum of DRM, actually. The game itself has none, but the only way to patch is through their servers. Of course, there are ways around that now, but its not as simple.

And when you do get them, there's not tons of point in playing the first two games, the 'campaign' isn't really much of one, the plot doesn't really mean much, the game is all about the skirmish battles. So just play Twilight as that has all the content fromt he previous two games plus extra.

Also, once again the obligatory:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=161570&site=pcg
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195920&site=pcg
 
No1newts said:
Back at home for a long weekend and thanks to the combined inefficency and indeed idiocy of sky and bt openreach i'm left without the net and so can't play ffxiv :(

Reading a thread a while back I saw someone (perhaps Tefal) mention gc2 saying it was really good game. Is it worth getting and is it massively complex to get into? Got all day tommorow, apart from the footie, and Monday to burn now and want something fun and challenging to get into!

Ta in advance
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very good, but if you read those 2 pc gamer diaries i posted they teach you better than most tutorials.
 
Still loving this, I've bought and put so many games on my netbook over the last 2 weeks, mainly older stuff like Medal of Honor, COD 1 & 2, Civ 3 and 4, Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Battlefield 2 but its Galactic Civ 2 that I keep coming back to, its just so damned addictive!!!!!!
 
Get it.

Tefal opened my eyes to this game and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
It can get intense and bloody hilarious at the same time. Quite often I have a chuckle to myself.

Amazon for £8
get the ultimate edition.
 
I've found the drath legion to be a weee bit over powered if you rush research the war profiteering and diplomacy techs.


put it this way, when you have over 10k BC in the bank you get a drop in tax revenue same at 20k BC and normally I've found money to be fairly tight.

Well now on this game I've got 6,000,000BC (remember that's 6,000,000 of the BC, which stands for billion credits...) saved up and I've had my tax rate at 0% since i researched war profiteering.
 
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