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[WishWeCouldPlay] Civilization: Revolution
VThornheart
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So, maybe this is unhealthy... ever since I downloaded the Civ: Revolution demo on the XBox 360, I've played the silly demo like... probably 10 times. I've never played a Civilization game before, but there's something unhealthfully addicting about it.
Has anyone else taken a liking to the demo? ... would it be worth the price tag when it comes out? I may have to snag one of the previous Civilization games to tide me over.
EDIT: Darn it... I'm getting the urge again. I'm going to go play the demo one more time. It's a somewhat frustrating experience, only having so many turns and so much diversity.
Has anyone else taken a liking to the demo? ... would it be worth the price tag when it comes out? I may have to snag one of the previous Civilization games to tide me over.
EDIT: Darn it... I'm getting the urge again. I'm going to go play the demo one more time. It's a somewhat frustrating experience, only having so many turns and so much diversity.
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I'm of the opinion that full price for a version that is significantly more shallow than say, Civ IV is a bit of a rip-off.
I like the demo, but I don't think I'll be picking up the full game until/unless it's maybe 20, 30 bucks.
I agree, I couldn't imagine paying more than 30 for it as well. The 60 dollar price tag was bumming me out... I was figuring that I'd entertain myself with other games until the price dropped.
But maybe I could pick up Civ IV on the cheap. I'll see if I can find it, thanks!
EDIT 2: So I told my wife that I want to pick up Civ IV... she goes into our bedroom, rummages for a few minutes, and comes out with a copy of it, still in the box! Apparently one of her friends wanted the game, bought it, decided he didn't want it and gave it to her... and she threw it in our closet!
Installing it now!
Which one? The "tribal" sounding one? I agree. I fucking love that... I was depressed that it wasn't in the expansions. One of them has the option to load that song though. :P
VThorn, say farewell to your friends, coworkers, family, etc. Civilization sucks you in like no other, it's widely considered the worst "time sucker" series of all time.
P.S. Manual makes great bathroom reading material. In-game Civilopedia answers any question you may have.
I would just stay at the main menu and listen to that song over and over again. Anyways, I really need to pick up the expansions at some point, at the very least Beyond the Sword. That one seems like it has the really interesting content. I just bought the Galactic Civilizations 2 Twilight of the Anor expansion pack, though, so I don't have any money to throw around right now.
This way you can totally kill any hope of social life.
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I plan on installing Civilization IV, Medieval 2, Heroes of Might and Magic V, and GC2 with all the expansions when I'm back on my desktop. I should just end myself while I still have my sanity.
lol!
I've spent the last five minutes just sitting at the main menu, watching the clouds and sun spin around and listening to the login music.
I fear I may never escape from this game.
Shoot... the manual's nowhere to be found though (Zenitram mentioned that the manual's a good read). The box had two discs (VERY dirty... I had to clean them off with a rag to get them to finally install), a GIGANTIC map of the tech tree, and that's it. My wife says she saw the manual somewhere, I'll have to dig for it.
What have I done?
I also went to the website and grabbed the patch, and what appears to be a full SDK? Holy crap! That alone's got my interest piqued.
EDIT: Does the words they're singing in the main menu music MEAN anything? Are they speaking a specific language, or is it just jibberish talk (like when the units talk in Civ: Revolution?)
EDIT 2: You can be FDR? Saladin??? I'm in love! Starting my first game now, as the mystical, philosophical king of the Middle East!
The opening menu music from the highly acclaimed Civilization 4 features Talisman A Cappella, the award-winning singing group that Chris used to music direct. The lyrics are a Swahili adaptation of the Lord's prayer: "Our Father, who art in heaven..."
Classic case of death by strat games.
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Nope, Civ actually has some really good tutorials to get you used to the world of 4X strategy games.
So CIV is actually recommended for those beginning to play strat games.
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I have played Civ II-IV, then I gave GalCiv2 a try and did a big WTF? and never really played it again.
But it HAS that song. In the opening cinematic!
BUT AT THE MAIN MENU WITH A ROTATING EARTH AND SUN HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH? HUH?
I...It....I think it...There's some music ok? And it goes like "dudududu" and you can like,rotate your head a bit I guess? Maybe look at a poster of Al Gore in front of the planet?
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME????
as a civ iv buff i kind of expected it to be much shallower than the real thing, and it is, but it's by no means a bad game. it's very easy, but i kind of like burning through a quick one with a game that's geared for that sort of play. i also really appreciate that 'war' doesn't mean 'instant decimation unless you're prepared for it' here - wars come and go and come again without so much as a battle more often than not.
i don't know if it's just the ps3 version, but it's very choppy. panning between cities brings up a lot of stutter, but that's nothing compared to the frustration of a stuttering civilopedia. right now i'm watching the credits roll and it's like a bloody slideshow. it seemed to relax during the majority of gameplay and it's by no means intolerable, but it's not quite right
also, no world map? what? am i missing something?
anyway i'd recommend it to civ newbies or retard addicts like me who'll play it no matter what package it comes in.
oh! i also noticed in the back of the manual mention of a 'game of the week' - basically a starting save-state uploaded to psn every week to play-through and be ranked alongside everyone else who plays the same game. that's something that would definitely keep me playing. i'd easily pay a few hours a week for a finished round of civ i can be ranked on
Slick!
So, I just finished my first Civ game. I was utterly decimated (due to coming to points at 2050). Apparently I have the leadership skills of Dan Quayle. I'd better work on that.
But... bedtime first. Must sleep.
wait what? it's impossible that you played till 2050 and not ONE city got higher than 1. You can't even build a settler without having more than 1 pop!
Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Or maybe I'm reading the wrong statistic? All I know is, my goal was to climb the tech tree like a madman... and no matter what I did, my opponents could build faster. I ended up only about halfway up the tech tree by 2050, and everyone had pretty much tripled/quadrupled me in points at the end of the game.
EDIT: The number in the silver star is your population, right? If that's your population, it's read 1 on my capital all game. I took a barbarian village for my second town, which had 2 population for about 2 turns, then went down to one. I'm still playing it now, I said "Wait... just one more turn!" after the game ended, so it let me continue. I built two settlers, had them each build a city... those have population 1 as well. =(
EDIT: Wait again! one of the cities I built after it was over is growing a second population! The other three cities all say "stagnant", but this fourth city has "growing (7 turns)" on it. I don't know what the difference is that caused it to grow. My capital has like 50 million farms surrounding it on all sides, it should have the food to grow.
Crap. I didn't build roads. Do they need roads to count? Maybe I built all of that for nothing. lol! Ugh.
You can build a settler immediately in Civ4... it just uses all your extra food+shields (I think civ2 was the last one where it used up a population point, though maybe it was civ3?)
But yeah, I don't really understand how you could possibly have not gotten a city higher than one, unless you either a) were only building workers/settlers, or b) built every single city in the center of a desert
I think I must've just picked a really, really crappy place for my capital. That fourth city I built that I said was producing population? I played through a few more turns just now... it's already up to 5 population. Location must be a really important thing.
It's pretty important, though most places should be able to get to at least 5 or 6 pop without difficulty (save for the aformentioned desert)... the game usually spawns your settler in a good location with a good amount of resource tiles (though some may not be visible), so if you stay in that area your capital should be pretty decent
When you build most things, it uses only production (i.e., shields), and your excess food goes to increasing population; when you build settlers or workers, however, it uses both your shields and excess food to build them, so it halts your population growth during their building (which is why I usually wait until the city expands to 2 population before building my first settler/worker)
Yes, location is hugely important. You should make sure to check out the Civpedia articles about food, production, culture, and look over the various terrain types. In short, the terrain produces food, which the city uses to grow. Some terrains (plains, tundra) produce very little food, which means the city may not grow quickly or at all. Grassland, flood plains, and coast produce more food. Food resources (like sheep and wheat) generate even more, if you improve them using your workers.
Expect to be baffled and lose terribly for a while...Civ4 is very complex, and does not make things easy on beginners. You can try heading over to civfanatics.com, where you'll find more information and opinions than you could ever want.
As to Revolution, I'm tempted only because having Civ on my DS sounds good.
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I don't remember Civilization IV being that complex. Certainly more complex than Revolution, but not mind breaking difficult by any means.
I just played more of the demo for Revolution, and while fun, damn it's simple. It really is a step back from the version we have on the PC, and I don't see why it had to be. Casual games sell well, yes, but this almost feels like it could be on the XBL Arcade instead of a full 60 dollar game. Still, it's fun to play Civilization on my couch and on a big screen television, and dammit I know my friends will be picking this up, too. So in the end there's a good chance I'll pick this up and go to war with all my buddies online.
They wanted a multiplayer Civ. A Civ where you hop in and play 3-4 hours and it's DONE.
Yeah, but I'm sure the casual market had something to do with it, too. I'm not arguing against Revolution, because it's Civillization! It's crazy fun and addictive. When the demo ended I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK?! I WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK ZULU AND GET REVENGE, YOU SONNUVABITCH!"
It did, however, make me want to play Civilization IV, and once I get back to my desktop PC that's the first thing I'm going to install.
It really is.
What?
It means that I've got a crappy computer and the chinese version and it turns out that my chinese reading skills needs some serious brushing up.
Making it nearly unplayable.
I yearn for Civilization though. I'll get it once I get my Imac.
No you can't. One of the reviews specifically mentioned that it's impossible to have such an enormous game as Civ4 offers. Sadly
i just played again and it was good fun. wrapped up in less than two hours, i lost to a civ i didn't even meet, which was strange. it's good though, the game really encourages you to spend money, it's always pushing you forward with two-hands on your arse-cheeks so to speak - no time for micromanaging, and if you forget about one aspect of development you'll probably be supplemented enough with easy rewards
it certainly doesn't have the 'epic' feel which gives civ iv a lot of its charms, but the saisfaction of actually completing a game is one that you can't really feel so often with the pc version. i've already done it twice this evening with revolutions and they were both unique enough matches, and fun to play
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