Can I have your babies? Or you have mine? I'm not sure how this thing works. Lets just get this done.

Already pre-ordered! Can't wait. I will say, I'm going to miss building stacks o'doom... hopefully the new system pans out! They haven't lead me astray yet though.

Thankfully (?) its not available for OSX; at least not yet. So no time wasting for me... Hmm.

Yeah i'll be busy jetpack-jumping, frag-grenading, no-scoping, sword-lunging, tea-bagging, newb-pwning and kill-spreeing while you wait patiently for your fun game in which you get to wait patiently for your turn. Have fun exploring the vast world of hexagons and diplomacy!

The woot staff is probably just worried because playing Halo makes us better decision makers and their woot-off sales will suffer as a consequence of our improved judgment.
Haven't you seen the latest study?

So how is this any different than all the other RTS games out there? Your description sounds a lot like Spore, and we all know how that turned out...

Dwarf Fortress FTW. I'm almost ready to pump magma 30 levels up to my main fortress; all I need are a few more windwills to provide power...

The game that I enjoy playing is far superior to the game you like.

lillejord wrote:So how is this any different than all the other RTS games out there? Your description sounds a lot like Spore, and we all know how that turned out...

um...
1 - it isn't RTS.
2 - its Sid Meiers, Man! his games from the 90s still have "replayability" (Civ II FTW)
3 - Comparing any Civ game to Spore is like comparing the X-Box to the Wii.

lillejord wrote:So how is this any different than all the other RTS games out there? Your description sounds a lot like Spore, and we all know how that turned out...

I don't know how you got "Spore" out of any of that, but no. It'll be nothing like Spore. And that's a very good thing.

revoked wrote:Can I have your babies? Or you have mine? I'm not sure how this thing works. Lets just get this done.

Between the two of us and this bottle of wine I'm sure we can figure it out.

I'll admit a little bias here, but check this out. A CIV game beating out Halo for most anticipated!

http://pc.ign.com/articles/110/1106186p5.html

FWIW, I'm downloading Civ V right now from Steam... pre-download is available now, with the game being activated next week on release date.

After loosing about 6 months of my life, I've successfully convinced myself that this "Civilization" game is a hallucination. Otherwise, I would NEVER leave my house, go to work, go get groceries, take care of my child...you know live my life.

Those 6 months were extremely enjoyable, though. Luckily, I was between jobs at the time, so I didn't loose too much lol.

A new Civilization game...yup...I'm going with "it's all in your imagination"

bsmith1 wrote:The woot staff is probably just worried because playing Halo makes us better decision makers and their woot-off sales will suffer as a consequence of our improved judgment.
Haven't you seen the latest study?

The next time I need to decide which way random dots are moving I'll go get a HALO player.

Listen2Reason wrote:Dwarf Fortress FTW. I'm almost ready to pump magma 30 levels up to my main fortress; all I need are a few more windwills to provide power...

You tell 'em. We don't need games that can be won, losing is all we need! Now, if you will excuse me, I need to get back to the mines. We need more iron and steel before those pesky elves and goblins show up again.

Xcom - UFO Defense. Classic Microprose Strategy gaming. That is all... But if you need a Good FPS, Then you need Wolfenstein from Id Software... 1992

All of these are but a pale imitation of Zork. Graphics are a distration.

I would disagree with you... but really I can't. I love Civ. Its amazing on a ton of levels. I feel like I've barely even scratched the surface, playing week-long games of Civ IV. I just don't thikn my wallet can handle Civ 5 right now. Tragic, really.

Good thing strategy games don't usually appeal to women, or we'd have a lot more of these:

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/09/game-obsessed-woman-neglects-children-kills-dogs/

I'm one of those people who is getting both! Reach arrived yesterday; I preordered it for the exclusives. I'm debating whether to preorder Civ 5 or not. I have Civ 4 and love it, so I'll probably get Civ 5 eventually. I actually just realized, a map pack for a Civ game? What happened to randomly generated maps?

zellman wrote:um...
1 - it isn't RTS.
2 - its Sid Meiers, Man! his games from the 90s still have "replayability" (Civ II FTW)
3 - Comparing any Civ game to Spore is like comparing the X-Box to the Wii.

I don't really have any response to this, it just bears repeating

"Our words are backed with nuclear weapons!" You know what I'm talking about.

zellman wrote:
2 - its Sid Meiers, Man! his games from the 90s still have "replayability" (Civ II FTW)

"Meier" doesn't have an 'S' on the end.

any chance for a woot/amazon offer of Civ5 on Tuesday? I'm just sayin'...

Yes. Just YES.

I gotta say...Civ3 is still the best!

heh, I still have Civilization, the Avalon Hill board game. Not as much fun to play alone of course, and maybe not even with only 3 people.

computerwise, I think I'm still on Civ 2, with the expansion pack. I didn't care for Call to Power as much.

I figured that subsequent Civ's were just a matter of better graphics, but is the game play any better?

Come on now, it's not fair to lump console FPS games together with PC FPS games. I have love for strategy games as well as ->PC<- FPS games. I miss the days when I'd be up all night playing multi-hour Age of Empires II multiplayer matches.

I just played this game for two days straight. I then deleted it. No, it wasn't that it was bad. It was freagin' otterific. The problem was that IT SUCKED MY SOUL AWAY. Civilization has been like a drug to me ever since the first installment, and I'm finally learning to "Just say no." This game is great, but it will suck away your time, into the wee hours of the morning, when you finally realize that it's 4:00 AM, and you have to get up in three hours.

Why didn't they include a clock in this version, like the last one? Civ IV had a clock with a damn alarm function, built in to the game! I actually used a real time clock, in a game! Now whether or not I could convince myself to stop playing, or take "just one more turn" was a different matter. The point is that it was there, and it was helpful... some times.