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(LTTP)Civilization is goddamn crack
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We did the same a few weeks ago and the same thing happened to us. Civ is amazing and each time you learn more and more. Can't wait for other next play round lol
If you have no to little time invested into the series, it's completely fine to start with the basic version. You can add the mechanics from the expansions once you're comfortable with the base game. Though I suppose one could buy the expansions and then just play on the base game rules, if one were inclined to do so.
Civ isn't that bad. Just play the game with tutorials on or whatever and try stuff out. it's not a paradox game or anything with a thousand menus.
The religion expansion is so much fun. Who needs wars with soldiers and bloodshed when you can just send an armada of missionaries to another continent to spread influence like a weed?
It's the incremental drip-feed of content that gets you: there are no levels, no fixed story beats, just a constant flow of events pulling you in. Like a soap opera, there's always something building in the background to absorb your attention whenever your current focus starts to dwindle.
I got out with Civ 2.
I was going to flunk out of college. I think at one point I literally did not leave my room other than for lunch and dinner for 3 days. I had to delete the program and I have never looked back.
Someone needs to file a lawsuit against Sid Meier. This should have a warning label on it that it is highly addictive and may destroy your life.
Civ IV is the game I have more hours on as an SP maybe even more hours than WOW.
I have almost 1000 hrs in V and haven't been into VI yet.
I have almost 1000 hrs in V and haven't been into VI yet.
Good ports on both PS4, Switch. There's also the option of iOS if you're on Apple devices.
Just a word of caution though, cross save functionality is not available on PS4.
Playing on my Switch and saving to 2K servers and picking up my game on PC is really nice. Granted you do have to also own the game on PC. But I'm a die hard and I was going to always have it on my PC. So YMMV
Has anyone worked out how to kill religion on consoles. I just don't think I can play it without making religious units too expensive to own.
I think there's one thing that truly encapsulates how effective Civilization is at getting into your head.
Civilization 1 had copy protection; it's from the floppy disk era, of course it did. It would show you a picture of a technology, you would look that up in the manual and respond with the technologies you'd need to research to make that available.
But one of the things that rose completely organically out of that, which both made the copy protection less of a hassle than most similar copy protections of the time, and highlights how the game gets into your brain: After just a few games, you would know the answer. At first because you'd recognise the technology and be able to select logical technologies that lead to it from the options available, and after a bit more excuse you're just know it by heart and wouldn't need the manual.
I've no idea if that was an intended effect of Civ's copy protection being based around inherent game elements, but it worked, and it wouldn't have done so if Civilization wasn't so effective at filling your mind.
Civilization 1 had copy protection; it's from the floppy disk era, of course it did. It would show you a picture of a technology, you would look that up in the manual and respond with the technologies you'd need to research to make that available.
But one of the things that rose completely organically out of that, which both made the copy protection less of a hassle than most similar copy protections of the time, and highlights how the game gets into your brain: After just a few games, you would know the answer. At first because you'd recognise the technology and be able to select logical technologies that lead to it from the options available, and after a bit more excuse you're just know it by heart and wouldn't need the manual.
I've no idea if that was an intended effect of Civ's copy protection being based around inherent game elements, but it worked, and it wouldn't have done so if Civilization wasn't so effective at filling your mind.
Welcome to the world of civilization. What makes these games work is the level of progression in learning each system. It is fairly intuitive so the moment you run into an obstacle you feel like you can understand quickly how to overcome it which loops you into playing the game longer than expected.
Any civ game is a perfectly fine first game but IMO Civ 4 is cream of the crop .
Any civ game is a perfectly fine first game but IMO Civ 4 is cream of the crop .
I enjoy civ a lot and it was my second PC game that my parents bought me
While I like civ after a few dozen hours I eventually grow tired of it due to the symmetrical nature of the factions.
Endless legend and endless space with those weird factions mechanics like having just 1 city or you need to defeat enemies to get food, etc. Make for much more replayabity.
I love strategy games and to me 4x is one of the best genres around
While I like civ after a few dozen hours I eventually grow tired of it due to the symmetrical nature of the factions.
Endless legend and endless space with those weird factions mechanics like having just 1 city or you need to defeat enemies to get food, etc. Make for much more replayabity.
I love strategy games and to me 4x is one of the best genres around
Yeah it's available on all big platforms right now. I didn't expect much of the PS4 version, or a least some headache because I assumed there would be no way a game like this could work on consoles with a gamepad. But they knocked it out of the park. It isn't a perfect conversion: there are bugs, loading takes a while with larger map sizes, and once you get to the end of the game there's the occasional slowdown. But once you get used to the controls the game basically plays itself, so well everything works.
It's definitely enjoyable even without multiplayer. I have never even touched it and I have sunk hundreds of hours into this game.
In my first year at Uni, I was in halls. One of the other students was doing his PhD in something - he was on year 7 (of a 5 year PhD) - he had literally spent 3 years playing Civ instead of doing his research.
To be fair he was *really* good at Civ.
It should be labeled as a class 1 narcotic.
Sid Meier is a real son of a bitch...
I enjoy it, but I also wish it wasn't so focused on real world cultures and civilisations. Especially when random map generation is such a key part of it. Why can't I develop my own unique civilisation, dictated by the landscape my civ finds itself in, the outward pressures from other civs and barbarians, the development of science/tech/religion etc? No matter what journey lies before you, your culture is already determined right from the start before you even know where you're settling your first city.
If someone creates that game, it'll be my crack. It's why I love Stellaris so much.
If someone creates that game, it'll be my crack. It's why I love Stellaris so much.
Civ 6 with Gathering Storm actually addresses this, by making global climate, fossil fuels, and pollution an ongoing and dynamic concern, as well as making diplomatic and culture victories be far more active and require ongoing engagement from the player.
lmao, it's true though!
Like I said, 500 glorious hours of my life I might trade for something else if it weren't so fun!
I've been playing this on Switch a lot recently. Feels like I just started playing but my Switch insists that I've already dumped 50 hours into it. Madness...
The only other Civ I've really played is Civ Revolution on the DS...Which was pretty good actually. But it wasn't really all that challenging after you played a few games. I really like Civ VI, partly because the district system is always making you think about how you want to lay out your Civ to get those sweet adjacency bonuses.
I went and bought both of the expansions as soon as I won my second game as Japan. Now I'm midway through a game as Korea and trying to decide if I will build coal power plants and begin the process of destroying the planet (spoiler i will). I just kinda dived headfirst into the the expansions with really looking at the tutorials, so we'll see how I do with rising sea levels. One of my cities is right on the coast and that may be a problem in the future. Oh well!
One aspect I really love is the Civilopedia. Whenever I'm winding down from a long session, I'll start to read the Civilopedia and learn about various leaders and wonders and such. It's just a nice little thing to have all of that knowledge available right in the game. Also, I really love all of the music for the various civs and how they evolve as you progress through the eras. Seems like every Civ has at least a few themes, which is just an incredible amount of music, and a lot of the songs are really beautiful.
Anyway, this game is rapidly becoming my go-to Switch game, and I can see myself dropping hundreds and hundreds of hours into this. Between this game and XCOM 2, Firaxis is becoming one of my favorite developers.
The only other Civ I've really played is Civ Revolution on the DS...Which was pretty good actually. But it wasn't really all that challenging after you played a few games. I really like Civ VI, partly because the district system is always making you think about how you want to lay out your Civ to get those sweet adjacency bonuses.
I went and bought both of the expansions as soon as I won my second game as Japan. Now I'm midway through a game as Korea and trying to decide if I will build coal power plants and begin the process of destroying the planet (spoiler i will). I just kinda dived headfirst into the the expansions with really looking at the tutorials, so we'll see how I do with rising sea levels. One of my cities is right on the coast and that may be a problem in the future. Oh well!
One aspect I really love is the Civilopedia. Whenever I'm winding down from a long session, I'll start to read the Civilopedia and learn about various leaders and wonders and such. It's just a nice little thing to have all of that knowledge available right in the game. Also, I really love all of the music for the various civs and how they evolve as you progress through the eras. Seems like every Civ has at least a few themes, which is just an incredible amount of music, and a lot of the songs are really beautiful.
Anyway, this game is rapidly becoming my go-to Switch game, and I can see myself dropping hundreds and hundreds of hours into this. Between this game and XCOM 2, Firaxis is becoming one of my favorite developers.
It really is.
Stellaris is the same, i actually refuse to play those games as they are so addictive.
I remember when Stellaris released, i'm of course playing it. Couple of hours goes by, i look at a watch, its 23:30 and thinking:
"Oh ok, so i'll just play for another 30 minutes and go to sleep, as i'm waking up at 6:30am for work. No problem!"
30 minutes goes by, i look at the clock and its fucking 2:30 AM!
Stellaris is the same, i actually refuse to play those games as they are so addictive.
I remember when Stellaris released, i'm of course playing it. Couple of hours goes by, i look at a watch, its 23:30 and thinking:
"Oh ok, so i'll just play for another 30 minutes and go to sleep, as i'm waking up at 6:30am for work. No problem!"
30 minutes goes by, i look at the clock and its fucking 2:30 AM!
i dont think the series has gotten much better after Civ 3, personally. There's just something about it being harder to play/understand that makes it more engaging.
the latest civilization games (5 and 6) are like... too easy to grasp? Not talking about difficulty of gameplay.
the latest civilization games (5 and 6) are like... too easy to grasp? Not talking about difficulty of gameplay.
Civ is one of the most dangerous series I have ever played in terms of how much time it can take away from me. I can only play it if I am on vacation or don't have any significant responsibility the following day.
I completely forgot they released this on consoles. Been looking for a follow-up to Civ Rev for ages now.
I know.
I also forgot that when Epic gave away Civ6, I installed it.
So it lives on my machine, which means I'm going to end up playing it, which will probably get me to install Civ3. I'm screwed.
so the online 2-4 that ps site says doesn't actually work? Or is that just local multiplayer ?
No, it definitely has online.
That said, I know there were some issues with it in the beginning. I have never tried online myself (PS4 version) so I don't know how it's now.
Civ and Total War are the absolute definition of 'Just one more turn'
'Just let me finish this fight and ill be done'
'Let me wait for this building to be finished and select the next upgrade'
'They delcared war on me, I should set myself up to attack before shutting off'
Its just endless
'Just let me finish this fight and ill be done'
'Let me wait for this building to be finished and select the next upgrade'
'They delcared war on me, I should set myself up to attack before shutting off'
Its just endless
I recall the day that Gandhi tested the world's 1st nuclear missile on a Zulu fringe city.
That day, the 500 hundred years war began.
Man, Civ2 was incredible.
That day, the 500 hundred years war began.
Man, Civ2 was incredible.
Oh I didn't realize they had fixed it, it was borked at launch n
Pls ignore me.
It didn't work at launch. My brother and I bought it and only rarely could both join a room together.
They seem to have finally fixed it around March (just in time for lockdown!) and my brother and I play two evenings a week now.