Civilization 5

[Thor]

Nah its the fact I'm in Europe, Iceland specifically. Our release date is this Friday, so steam holds me back until then.

I was hoping since I used a Canadian billing address/CC that they would consider me North American region, but alas no luck.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by woob

Thor - What are you having troubles with? The game actually loading up, or the download not working properly? What kind of system are you running?

I believe it's because he lives in Europe and he can't play until Friday.

@Thor: Thoughts and Prayers go out to you and your free time.

[Thor]

I will not give up, maybe there is a way with anonymous proxies to get the game working, after all technically I'm still in Calgary

[woob]

Haha, good luck to you, Thor!

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by Thor

I will not give up, maybe there is a way with anonymous proxies to get the game working, after all technically I'm still in Calgary

Haha good luck man!

Work + school means I don't get home till almost 9 tonight to play =(

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by woob

Just because I'm a nice guy, 8 showing at TD Square HMV, as reported by hmv.ca

Walked by and noted they still have 8. Guess the game isn't as hot as I thought lol.

[FanIn80]

Has anyone actually started playing it yet? I want initial reactions, dammit!

[mykalberta]

PC Gamer Review - 93

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/09/20/civilisation-v-review

[bomber317]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Walked by and noted they still have 8. Guess the game isn't as hot as I thought lol.

Or a lot of people used Steam? or other digital downloads.

[Draug]

I feel their pain .... LOL. That might be the best game trailer I have seen.

I've played the game for only a few minutes ... the interface will take some time to get used to coming from hundreds of hours of Civ4.

It will take a few days of playing before I can say whether I like Civ5 better than Civ4 or not. But at first glance, it does seem like they stayed true to what makes Civ a Civ game.

[FlamesAddiction]

I got home before my wife for a change yesterday and when I checked the messages on the machine, EB had a message on there saying that her copy of Civilization would be ready to pick-up today.

[Thor]

lol EXCELSIOR! Decrypting steam files 26%

[Thor]

Well so far so good, its fun, quite early into the game. Music isn't really noticeable yet, maybe as I advance that steps it up a notch, certainly IV had great music.

I'm not quite sure what to think yet about the neutral cities, so far they surround my territory and usually ask for help with barbarians or to join them in war against another neutral city. You can walk on their territory but it reduces your influence with them, you get no warning if before you walk into a square of theirs so keep that in mind.

Time for some dinner and then back to my mad hAxZoRs game.

[Komskies]

Great success! My trainer is sick today so I get to play a good 3 hours earlier.






Thoughts and prayers to my trainer.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by Thor

I'm not quite sure what to think yet about the neutral cities.

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or is he just born with a heart full of neutrality?

[photon]

Liking it so far, though keeping a friendship up with a city-state doesn't seem worth it so far.

[FanIn80]

Yeah, I pretty much just let them go back to neutral after saving their asses. City-States, I mean.

[Ducay]

Soon enough this terrible day will be over and I will quash me some City-States

[photon]

Taking over a city is hard!

[Dan02]

bah why squash when you can have them build units for you??

Anyone else finding that it takes a exceptionally long time to play?? I mean I've been playing 5 hours now and we're only on turn like 170