Sid Meier's Beyond Earth Free Weekend

[Plewis]

FYI Free weekend on Steam to download and play Beyond Earth. I think it ends sometime tomorrow.

I bet we have some Civ 5 fans here who've wanted to try Beyond Earth. It's free on Steam this weekend. Just downloaded it and it seems pretty good even though I just got destroyed about 35 turns in on my first game.

[iamcline]

I am so lost when trying to play a Civ game.  I have Civilization V but feel like such dunce when I launch it.

[Plewis]

I am so lost when trying to play a Civ game.  I have Civilization V but feel like such dunce when I launch it.

Same thing for me. I love RTS games and it looked like Civ V was an RTS but it isn't. It's turn-based. Opened it up and was totally lost. I didn't understand why it was one of the best-rated games of all time and set it down for about 6 months.

One day I watched a couple playthrough commentaries and started to understand then before I knew it I wracked up 150 hrs of gametime. Good luck.

[Zaximus]

Yeah Civ5 is amazing, especially after the expansions.   You learn things all the time.  I'm not a military guy on there but love building economies and whatnot.   You can waste some time on that game, look up and it's 6 hours later.  

[PhillyB]

yall shut your whore mouths about civ 5. probably the best game i've ever owned.

i need to get the expansions.

[thefuzz]

yall shut your whore mouths about civ 5. probably the best game i've ever owned.

i need to get the expansions.

Can you download it?

Where?  I'm not much of a PC gamer, but the winter is my dead time of the year and will need something to get me from Thanksgiving to mid Jan.

[PhillyB]

Can you download it?

Where?  I'm not much of a PC gamer, but the winter is my dead time of the year and will need something to get me from Thanksgiving to mid Jan.

http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Civilization-Game-Year-Mac/dp/B0067STH9O/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1439923706&sr=1-1&keywords=civilization+v+mac

 

apologies in advance

[PanthersFanNY]

yall shut your whore mouths about civ 5. probably the best game i've ever owned.

i need to get the expansions.

You played civ 5 without its expansions? GET THEM

 

I've put many hours into civ 5, the expansions improve the game greatly.

 

Edit: Beyond Earth sucks balls. Civ 5 is way better. With Beyond Earth, all of the civ choices play almost identically. There is very little difference whereas on civ 5 the civs all play very differently. In my opinion the replay value of civ 5 is way way way better than beyond earth.

[Zaximus]

You played civ 5 without its expansions? GET THEM

 

I've put many hours into civ 5, the expansions improve the game greatly.

 

Edit: Beyond Earth sucks balls. Civ 5 is way better. With Beyond Earth, all of the civ choices play almost identically. There is very little difference whereas on civ 5 the civs all play very differently. In my opinion the replay value of civ 5 is way way way better than beyond earth.

I lasted like 5 hours on BE.  They updated it though apparently, I haven't tried.

 

And yeah ditto, you have to get Civ5 expansions (at this point it may be cheaper to buy "complete" edition, not sure) because the two big expansions are huge.  One fixes early game and one fixes the end game, IMO.