Civilization Series

[PhillyB]

I got Civ 3 for christmas when I was fifteen and ten years later I still play. I upgraded to Civ 4 last year and the fifth installment this year.

Incredible series. Do not recommend if you are prone to wasting all your time on video games.

[The TrueGrit]

lol loved Civ 3. One of my favorite games ever. And yes i liked nuking other countries.

[The_Cannon]

Yea I've been playing Civ 5 pretty heavily recently. I'm not a huge fan of turn based game but I always have fun with Civ.

[PhillyB]

lol loved Civ 3. One of my favorite games ever. And yes i liked nuking other countries.

Civ three was geared heavily towards military victories.. civ four tried to balance it out by adding religion and ended up causing more wars because of it (oh the irony) and civ five finally added an advanced social policy system that serves as an economic and governmental conglomerate that more effectively balances the game and allows extremely powerful civilizations to arise through the pursuit of a cultural victory.

[Brandon]

Civ V just doesn't seem like an upgrade over Civ IV.

[YourManInAmsterdam]

I have a couple PBEM Civ4 games going on with my brother-in-law and a friend back in the States, and play a complete single player Civ5 game once a month or so. I also used to play Civ3 way back and probably still have a copy of it around somewhere.

Right now, I prefer Civ5 if only because I prefer the hex-grid and that you can't stack units.

[RedMage138]

...just 1 more turn

*4 hours later*

...fug

[The TrueGrit]

My only problem with Civ 3 was when a guy on a horse would kill my tank :/

Loved the subs though.

[PhillyB]

the absence of stackable units and the concept of the city as self-defensive is brilliant. makes domination much harder. in previous versions you could just stack ten trillion units against a border and win on the basis of numbers.

city defenses make capturing cities much more than a game of numbers, inviting actual strategy into the mix. defensive structures are exponentially more important and where you found your city can make the difference between an absolute fortress and an easily-conquerable city.

i love the unit upgrades too... adds a whole different game element.

[Tarheel31]

I just got this Saturday on the summer steam sale.

16 hours later my eyes are bloodshot red and I'm falling asleep at work, but my peeps have ivory cotton and marble and I built the great wall of china and the pyramids!

[Floppin]

I played Civ2 religiously as a kid, and have played every iteration since. I have to play civ5 in waves or I'll waste every day playing it.

[thatlookseasy]

Yeah, I just picked the new one up for $7.50 during the steam sale. Probably a bad choice since I have a bunch of chemistry to study for in the next 2 weeks, but fug it. Only downside to this game is they can take sooooo long, especially if you have a bunch of warmongering neighbors. I agree with playing it in waves, I'll play like 3 or 4 games in a week then wont play again for a couple months

Loving the hexes, and the smaller armies now with the no stacking make combat a lot more interesting. City-states are a nice addition too and give you some other players to interact with. Only downside for me is It runs a bit slow on my computer

[stankowalski]

Only problem I have with Civ 5 (or any other Civ for that matter), is the fact that diplomacy is basically useless. You can be as nice as you can be to the AI and they will still hate you if you're too close to them geographically, more technologically advanced than them...basically if your civ is better than theirs in any way, they will hate you and force you to go to war with them because they won't trade without ridiculous stipulations.

[CarolinaNCSU]

I've been looking into getting a Civ game for awhile now. I've only got a decent laptop off the shelf though...would I have problems playing with that? Excuse my ignorance on computer gaming, but I hardly play my Xbox anymore and would love to pick up Civ 5 or something to keep me busy.