Civilization 5 Announced

[Gold Ergo Sum]

And another very brief IGN multiplayer feature:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/111/1119474p1.html

[Kristian95]

I hate to pop your bubble but:



This is called REAL LIFE - sure there are other factors aswell, but religion really could mean the differance between freindly and weary/ dis trustful Relasionships between countries in the past.

And sorry for popping your bubble, but people sharing same religion have gone to wars plenty of times as well historically speaking. Desire for power / wealth / land have all been bigger motivations with religion often just being used as an excuse for said war.

[Adlain]

And sorry for popping your bubble, but people sharing same religion have gone to wars plenty of times as well historically speaking. Desire for power / wealth / land have all been bigger motivations with religion often just being used as an excuse for said war.

True Enough.

[Jowy]

Two hour live gameplay streaming of Civ5 tonight. Though, I should probably warn you that popular live streams always have technical problems.

[darrelljs]

What a nice idea !

Darrell

[Sciz]

should be starting around now

[Sciz]

There's a guy in the chatlog of the stream who has a hippo as an avatar. Reminded me of Speaker

[Sciz]

After seeing this stream i'm a more positive towards the game. The one-unit per tile looks to be working out better than i thought it would, and the game just has a good feel overall imo. We'll see for sure soon i guess.

[Jowy]

After seeing this stream i'm a more positive towards the game. The one-unit per tile looks to be working out better than i thought it would, and the game just has a good feel overall imo. We'll see for sure soon i guess.

This so much. Combat looks like tons of fun!

[mostly_harmless]

Watched the stream and I am now more inclined to buy the game.
A few comments though:

- Although played on a fast machine, it took quite a while for the turns to flip, even the very first ones.

- I am not at all impressed by the new graphics. Apparently the stream game was played on highest graphics settings. The rivers just looked awful. But then I dont care much about fancy graphics anyway.

- Loved the strategic view. Kind of feels like "Settlers of Catan" (not sure that is known outside of Germany?)

- I am a bit worried about those powerful huts. Especially popping a hut (ancient ruin) that gives you another pop point in your city on turn 10 (or so) can be quite game breaking, I guess. Also a free upgrade from a warrior to a spearman on turn 5, even when you are two techs away from Spears, just does not feel right. Hopefully huts can be switched off.

- I saw that your own units can instant-swap position. Which gets quite important in one tile passages and when you want to overtake a slower unit. BUt what about you got stuck with an AI unit in a long 1 tile stretch?

mh