GamesBeat's Rob Savillo: The first 100 turns or so of a Civ V game hold that magic of the better prequels in this series — so full of exploration, discovery, mystery, and chance. It doesn’t hurt that the animations are beautiful and the attention to detail gorgeous; at times, I’d start a war just to see rockets fly or swords clash.
But as the game progresses, it quickly devolves into the same cycle of rote resource accumulation of filling culture and gold and science and tourism and faith and happiness buckets. That’d be all right if their buildup wasn’t a surefire thing you could depend upon. Sometimes Civ V feels like it’s on autopilot, which isn’t the hallmark of a strategy game worth your time.
An article that gives some insight why Civilization V still fascinates some gamers after so many years since its release.
I remember back in the early 90's (I swear I do) at university there was somebody in my dorm room pretty much 24 hours a day playing Civ II on my Amiga.
Haha, I started with the second game, but yeah, you're right: Once you start, you won't stop!
Civ is extremely well done, has a huge community, is going on 24 years and stronger than ever and has won multiple game of the year awards. How many IPs can say the same.
You not liking it does not make it crap, sorry.
Has anyone else ever started playing a Civ game after dinner, then just casually look through the window and think " Holy crap...The sun has risen!"
JUST ONE MORE... TURN.
Bill Lavoy (Prima Games): Gaming on a PC can be an intimidating venture for a lot of people. Veterans of the platform will tell you how cheap it is compared to consoles, and that's likely true in a lot of cases. The problem as we see it, however, is that most people are turned off by the idea of building or upgrading, and even having to use a mouse and keyboard. Simply put, some people just want to lean back on the couch with a controller in hand and game like they did with the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s.
The problem with that approach is that there are too many great PC exclusives to ignore, and most of them aren't resource hogs that require a super-computer to run. With that being said, in the spirit of helping you discover some awesome games that your PlayStation 4 and Xbox One don't have, here are five PC games you should play today.
Seriously that is a Bull Crap list aimed at making consolers laugh at PC Gaming.
Goat Simulator? Really? GTFO
I would choose
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl
Gary's Mod
Rise of Nations
Guild Wars 2
Wing Commander
I tried to gather games from across several genres.
Brave New World is the newest expansion pack for the critically acclaimed Civilization V by strategy developer Firaxis and continues on from Gods and Kings as tweaks to features from the original Civ V and adding new features such as Tourism and Ideologies.
I love this game. Except for the centuries long battles.
I'm hoping some young devs can get into the 4X genre and jump start it with some new ideas.
Oucha.
Civilization II will always be the best for me
I didn't like Espionage from the last expansion either, it's annoying having the CPU steal your resarch all the time, would rather they put the effort into real AI rather than handicaps and gimmicks.