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CiV?
Anyone wanna talk about Civ V?
Here's my quick quick review:
AWESOME!
Here's a slightly more comprehensive review:
-First of all, I started playing Civ with Civ 3 and then played a LOT of Civ 4. I played Civ revolution but it was waaay too watered down for me. When I started Civ V, for the first hour or so I was kind of disappointed...it seemed really similar to Civ 4 (with a lot of graphical improvements...but essentially the same). I have started and abandoned about 10 games, I have finished one game with a domination victory, and am LOVING it. I feel like everything I didnt like about Civ 4 has been changed or fixed...even things I didnt realize COULD be fixed were fixed.
-Combat - Having no unit stacking makes for REALLY nice strategic combat. It's so much fun to attack cities and plan strategic area-attacks where before combat was fucking lame. I will spend a long time trying to decide on unit promotions now where in earlier Civs I would be like "meh...whatever...+10 % strength"
-Navies - Once you advance tech enough, ALL units can cross shallow and then ocean waters. Seems weird at first, but almost ANY naval unit will destroy even the strongest non-naval unit when it is in the water...(non-naval units cannot attack or anything while in the water...just move) I always hated making carriers and stuff to move a unit across one water tile so this is great. If you have a few naval units you are safe from an army attacking you across the water, but if you DONT you can still move a settler in a little rinkydink boat to an island across the way and set up a city....
-Everything else - Being able to buy city tiles, more useful Special people, combat preview readouts, better unit movement control and HEXES INSTEAD OF SQUARES....its all awesome. Some people have complained about the lack of diplomacy-complexity but I am not those people. I never really cared to micromanage my spying and shit in Civ 4....In fact...I found it to be really annoying to be best friends with a Civilization and then suddenly they are like "Give me 1000 gold and the technology to make Nuclear weapons" and you are like "Uh...no...that doesnt make sense...I only have like 1010 gold and my dads birthday is coming up and I want to buy him this 15 gold dad-present" and the other civ says "WHAT?!??! This means WAR!!!!" So....yeah, diplomacy isn't great in Civ V but it isnt nearly as retarded as in Civ 4 so stop complaining.
Kinda lost interest halfway through my review. I guess I'd rather be playing the game than writing about it. Thats a good review in itself I guess.
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