Civ 5 - Brave New World

[symple19]

Tomorrow (tonight), es

[symple19]

Damn. No love for the new expansion? It's fantastic

[xellos88330]

I haven't been able to get my hands on it yet. I will in the near future though.

[Cry Havoc]

Waiting for it to drop in price. I did get the G&K expansion on the Steam Summer Sale. Pretty happy about that.

[illusioNtEk]

waiting for my graphics card to arrive, then ill get it on steam!

[The Reckoning]

finally bought the complete set for 70 bucks. still pricey but whatever...



that said, Civ 5 complete is probably one of the top games i've ever played.



the way they implement culture in brave new world is nothing short of genius....

you can theoretically win a cultural victory by manipulating other civs' culture. usually it comes down to me and another civ racing for it, but their percentage is so high to my tourism that i have to invade them and wipe them off the map.

by far the most complete civ game you'll play. the original civ 5 is a let down, imo, but with the expansions they finally met up to their standards.

[The Reckoning]

but...

replayability on civ 5 is very iffy. i don't know if it's because there have been so many civs that civers are jaded by the experience, but there's no simple way that i've tried to steamroll through the game like you could previous civs. i think that's okay though because the series reaches for historical accuracy in correspondence with prevalent theory. it is a simulation after all....but for me playing a new game knowing that you have to be VERY patient and know exactly when to expand at the fastest rate...it's just too tiring.

or easily the best thing to do is only have two or three cities with tradition, improve tiles and customize options to what is in the environment and your civ traits are...then spam click through the game and micromanage the out of to pick whatever victory is quickest.

maybe in the future i'd like to see options that allow AI to run your military for you, and you can take over whenever you want. sort of a general/commander and chief role. or for automatic formations because fighting wars takes too long and really muddles the experience. it's grueling moving an entire army over shores then get stuck on pathfinding or caught in some city's range. that's war though and it's not really meant to be enjoyable, but it is a game after all.