[PC]Civilization V coming!

[FunkMonk]

Panzer Civilization sounds cool.

The Norway map is gonna be super hard.

[Viking]

Panzer Civilization sounds cool.

The Norway map is gonna be super hard.

meh... you probably buy just tanks for most of your money. You need pioneers supported by scouting and bombardment units. Lots of rugged defences on the lillehammer map in towns defending over a bridge supported by artillery. You need to take out the artillery while the pioneers are moving forward.

[Kleves]

The map is awesome.

[Tonitrus]

I like that they're returning more to a Civ3/SMAC look rather than the cartoonish style of Civ4.

Though looking the original screenshots on the IGN site(which are much more zoomed-in), the unit "avatars" seem to be very much the same unit graphic style from Civ4, just shrunk down and replicated into several individuals. 

Still, an improvement. 

[Tonitrus]

And actually, while I like the idea of hexes in terms of gameplay, the biggest annoying thing about them, is that it will make moving units with the arrow keys/number pad on the keyboard nearly impossible. 

[HisMajestyBOB]

A Dane on P'dox has summed up from a Danish games rag:

- Less "cheating" AI.

Bullshit. Cheating AI is a cornerstone of the Civ series.

Anyway, I've been playing Civ2 recently. I forgot just how much fun it is, and how much Civ3 sucks.

[Razgovory]

That is at the core of what Civ as a game is.  It's like complaining about American football because players can use their hands to touch the ball and there are too many breaks in play.

Terrible analogy.  The development of a civilization shouldn't be equated with the progress of a game set with arbitrary rules.





G.

How ever the the development of a game can be equated with the progress of a game set with arbitrary rules.

[Syt]

The map is awesome.

I see you avatar on my way to work every day at the moment. Belvedere (built by him) currently has an exhibition "General-Philosopher and Art Lover"
http://www.belvedere.at/jart/prj3/belvedere/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1173991384446&reserve-mode=active

[Syt]

And actually, while I like the idea of hexes in terms of gameplay, the biggest annoying thing about them, is that it will make moving units with the arrow keys/number pad on the keyboard nearly impossible. 

There's been hex based games which used only the left three and right three buttons of the numpad. Seemed to work fine.

[DGuller]

By coincidence, I recently got back int Civ IV BtS, and got a reminder of how annoying the culture system is.  Because of culture, you can't do any minor conquests, because the captured city will have most of its squares fall to the enemy.  You either have to do wholesale conquests, or a lot of genociding. 

I hope that retarded system is done away with in the next game.  Ideally, I would like to see permanent province boundaries form when you found a city, so that you don't have to wait half a game for the vital squares to come back in a tug of culture war.

[Tamas]

I can understand the exclusion of religion as being out of scope, but then why include stuff like city states?

the terrain map is nice I guess the but the unit and resource graphics suck ass, lets hope its just some alpha stuff.

[Martinus]

LOL culture system is probably the best improvement done to the game system after Civ 2. Most people absolutely love it and it has been in each of the game iterations since then. Fat chance it is done away with.

[Tamas]

LOL culture system is probably the best improvement done to the game system after Civ 2. Most people absolutely love it and it has been in each of the game iterations since then. Fat chance it is done away with.

[Martinus]

A Dane on P'dox has summed up from a Danish games rag:

- Less "cheating" AI.

Bullshit. Cheating AI is a cornerstone of the Civ series.

Anyway, I've been playing Civ2 recently. I forgot just how much fun it is, and how much Civ3 sucks.

Welcome to 1990s!

[Grey Fox]

Even the fake Civ 2 was better then Civ3.