Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[Darth Wagtaros]

Well that expansion sounds like what Alpha Centauri satarted with.

[Syt]

Weirdly, when given the choice I prefer BE over CivV. I like CivV, but I suck at it and get easily frustrated by it even on medium difficulty to the point that I ragequit games before the renaissance.

[dps]

Yeah, but that's the problem.  Everyone wants a new Alpha Centauri.

Everyone having excellent taste in games is not a problem

Lack of product to sate that taste is.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Any mods that will make this more interesting?

[garbon]

Any mods that will make this more interesting?

Looking at top mods on Steam and what little is said on google search, looks like people gave up. Thought maybe they will feel differently if they like the expansion pack? (I got this game as a Christmas gift and I've yet to install it. )

[Darth Wagtaros]

It is just bland.  I try to like it, but it isn't at all engrossing.

[garbon]

Yeah that was my feeling from the demo.

[Syt]

I'm more likely to fire it up rather than Civ5. For some reason I find Civ5 occasionally a bit tedious to play and find that BE somehow just flows better for my tastes.

I'm well aware, though, that I'm in the minority with that opinion.

[DGuller]

I've played this once and have utterly no desire to play it again.  I know there have been big changes made to it, but just way too many things turned me off, starting with the monochrome UI design.

[Grallon]

Alternating between this and GalCiv 3.  And yes it is indeed bland; in fact you spend most of your time pressing the END TURN button.  Debating whether or not I should get Pillars of Eternity until they finally release the map editor for GalCiv3.



G.

[Darth Wagtaros]

How is GalCiv3? I should have gotten that instead of paying full price for this piece of shit. Had they released it as a paid for mod for 15 bucks for Civ V I'd be OK with it.

[Syt]

GalCiv3 is not much of a change from GC2, I'm sorry to say. They throw in a few things (strategic resources that you can use for stronger units/buildings, an allignment system similar to Civ5's ideologies), but overall I don'd find that the new stuff justifies full asking price.

Also, make sure you build a mining station near every resource in your territory, or the AI will come and take it, leaving you only the options of declaring war or buying it for retonculous amounts of money (planets can culture flip, stations can't).

[MadImmortalMan]

It's 50% off on Steam for $20.

[Caliga]

It's also free for the weekend.  I played it for a few hours on Thursday night and thought it was fairly entertaining.  On the fence about actually buying it.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

It's also free for the weekend.  I played it for a few hours on Thursday night and thought it was fairly entertaining.  On the fence about actually buying it.

wait until the expansion is there. Then wait some more untill that too is cheap.