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X-Com is currently eating my time together with Pandora: First Contact (which was inspired by alpha centauri). Still can't warm to Civ5, but getting a Civ4 port

X-Com is currently eating my time together with Pandora: First Contact (which was inspired by alpha centauri). Still can't warm to Civ5, but getting a Civ4 port would be great. I'm also quite intrigued by the civ: beyond earth game, though only time will tell how good that is. And probably not on release, Firaxis has a history of needing a lot of time to polish the games. Anyway, good times. I'm throwing money at all the Linux games. Hope the trend continues.

redacted 12y ago
Regarding Civ 5: you should pick up the two expansions (Gods & Kings and Brave New World). Together they add: - Religion - Trade routes - Ideologies (enhanced late game Social policies) - Tourism (enhanced cultural victory) - Spying - World congress (binding resolutions! and makes diplomacy actually useful, buying votes from AI civs etc) - Unique civs, like Austria who can buy city states to expand their empire Vanilla Civ 5 was quite disappointing and dull (get science, make army, total war). With GnK and BNW it is a far more nuanced game, and there are more valid win conditions than just domination. I think both expansions are on sale as part of Steam's summer sale.
- chongli 12y ago
  I have GnK but not BNW. I've been playing some co-op games with my friend. So far the games have been very slow-paced and lacking in the decisions-per-turn department. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri continues to be the gold standard for the genre, in my opinion. It has a much quicker pace of gameplay and the strategies are far more varied and nuanced. A lot of the design decisions in Civ 5 really turn me off, though none more so than the way they balanced the game in favour of small numbers of very large cities. I really hate how counterproductive it feels to build settlers!
  - lukeschlather 12y ago
    I found it got a little better when I turned off battle animations (I actually kind of like having fewer decisions per turn.) That said it still doesn't match Alpha Centauri. I miss the narrative angle especially, which was very unique in a Civ-style strategy game.
Vespasian 12y ago
If your are interested in Grand Strategy and Linux Gaming, you should take a look Europa Universalis 4. Currently runs perfectly on Ubuntu on my second screen ;)
- jeltz 12y ago
  I second this, EU4 and Crusader Kings 2 are amazing games which runs perfectly on Linux. Only thing you may want to do set noatime to fix the problem with slows start up.

redacted 12y ago

Regarding Civ 5: you should pick up the two expansions (Gods & Kings and Brave New World). Together they add: - Religion - Trade routes - Ideologies (enhanced late game Social policies) - Tourism (enhanced cultural victory) - Spying - World congress (binding resolutions! and makes diplomacy actually useful, buying votes from AI civs etc) - Unique civs, like Austria who can buy city states to expand their empire Vanilla Civ 5 was quite disappointing and dull (get science, make army, total war). With GnK and BNW it is a far more nuanced game, and there are more valid win conditions than just domination. I think both expansions are on sale as part of Steam's summer sale.

chongli 12y ago
I have GnK but not BNW. I've been playing some co-op games with my friend. So far the games have been very slow-paced and lacking in the decisions-per-turn department. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri continues to be the gold standard for the genre, in my opinion. It has a much quicker pace of gameplay and the strategies are far more varied and nuanced. A lot of the design decisions in Civ 5 really turn me off, though none more so than the way they balanced the game in favour of small numbers of very large cities. I really hate how counterproductive it feels to build settlers!
- lukeschlather 12y ago
  I found it got a little better when I turned off battle animations (I actually kind of like having fewer decisions per turn.) That said it still doesn't match Alpha Centauri. I miss the narrative angle especially, which was very unique in a Civ-style strategy game.

Vespasian 12y ago

If your are interested in Grand Strategy and Linux Gaming, you should take a look Europa Universalis 4. Currently runs perfectly on Ubuntu on my second screen ;)

jeltz 12y ago
I second this, EU4 and Crusader Kings 2 are amazing games which runs perfectly on Linux. Only thing you may want to do set noatime to fix the problem with slows start up.