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Regarding Civ 5: you should pick up the two expansions (Gods & Kings and Brave New World). Together they add: - Religion - Trade routes - Ideologies (enhanced
by 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 agoI 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 agoI 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.