RoboPond: […] There might be posts about Civ V in the general forum, but you were asking a technical support question and not having a general discussion about the game. So you should of posted it in the 'Community Support' sub forum and not 'General Discussions where you did post it. […]
Um, WTF is the point of a general forum for a specific game?
OldFatGuy: […] While on the topic of Civilization, I was wondering if anyone else had the same experience as me with the series. I started with Civ II (never did play the original Civ or Civ I). I loved it (except I hated how the AI would move a settler right into the middle of "my" territory and start cities that used to drive me nuts) and played it and played it and played it.
Then Civ III came out. And there was no nostalgia factor keeping me at Civ II. I absolutely loved Civ III. Lord only knows many hours I played that. Plus, it "fixed" the problem i mentioned with Civ II by introducing expanding borders.
Then Civ IV came out and again, I keep an open mind, do not swear "nothing can be better than 3" and sure enough fall in love with 4. I absolutely love Civ IV, most especially with the BTS add-on. The number of hours I've played and continue to play that is off the charts.
Then Civ V came out and again I keep an open mind. But for some reason that I still can't explain, it never grabbed me and kept me. According to the Steam clock, I've played it 7 hours, which means probably about 10-12 total since I sometimes play offline (my ISP is fast, but not reliable LOL. I lose it sometimes). I must have tried at least a dozen times to "get into it" the way I did 2, 3, and 4 yet I just couldn't. And today I wanted to try yet again.
The weird thing is as I said I can't really explain why, and that really bothers me. But I was wondering if anyone else had the same or similar experience with Civ V. I'm asking because I often read comments from others talking about how much better Civ V is than Civ IV so it must be something to do with me.
Can't remember the first one (maybe played or not, it was a long time ago) but I definitely lost months of my life the
Civ II. I actually only played
III and
IV after purchasing them here, recently. (My old system was too slow to play them, so I have yet to dive in. Just at the critical point of about twenty turns my laptop would fail to keep the turns timely, so it was not fun.): Having said that, I thought
Three was great (but the stacks-of-doom sucked); and I am still deciding whether to dive into
Four properly (lots of learning to map out the optimum technological path). I'm undecided about the interface: it may keep my interest. In the meantime I've actually started
Galactic Civilizations instead.
Now
Five has a heap of new stuff in it. (I haven't played it since it isn't available here).
But Civ 2 was the best, I thought. I hated the ugly rail tracks, but the game was near perfect.
