I've played a good bit of III, but have wanted to try the newer ones for a while now, and I guess they're on sale or something. What are the changes and improvements and selling points and such, and which of 4 and 5 should I get?
--
~Tommeri Uranius Bombaldi the Fourth, esq. If you can read this, I'm probably posting from my phone or something!
4 adds cool stuff like religion, which actually really works, and greatly expands upon a lot of aspects of 3. It does come with the sacrifice of those zany live-action advisors though, which to this day I honestly kinda miss .>_>; All told it's a better game.
5 greatly enhances combat, and visually it's kinda gorgeous, but it's lacking still in a couple of improvements that 4 made which makes declaring a superior game somewhat tough for me. New expansion for it pretty soon though, which will add back things like religion.
Get 4 now with all the expansions. It has got to be quite cheap now or wait until it goes on sale. Buy 5 in 2 years or so when there comes a bundle of it and every expansion.
Both are great games, and 5 has the potential to be better imo, but it's lacking in content compared to 4 atm.
--
I'm but a simple companion in the pack of gurus whereof SuperNiceDog is the pack leader!
I think Civ IV was on sale a few days ago on Steam for under $5, but I'm not sure of that price. Civ V has a free "trial" this weekend, and the GotY edition that I think has all but next week's expansion is on sale for $12.49 USD.
From: Jeff Zero | #002 4 adds cool stuff like religion, which actually really works,
Dear lord it doesn't. It doesn't very badly.
--
Never underestimate the power of stupidity in numbers. ~War13104 Never stoop to the level of idiots. They will drag you down and beat you with experience.
I've tried to replay Civ 4 several times. I've tried to force myself to play it again.
Then I inevitably go back to 3 and start a game there. I've played 3 at least 10 times and I've played 4 all of twice.
Its one of the few games I truly have regretted buying.
Probably more than 10 actually.
--
Never underestimate the power of stupidity in numbers. ~War13104 Never stoop to the level of idiots. They will drag you down and beat you with experience.
The difference is that 4 and 5 are actually decent, and 3 blows some major chunks.
edit: People are actually championing 3? Ugh, people. Just, no.
1 - Great game 2 - Modification of great game, but more a technical improvement than anything else 3 - Introduction of culture, differences in choice of civilization, and otherwise a bunch of terrible mechanics (particularly in the tech tree) 4 - Improvements on culture, more variation in unit types, unit xp, religion (that's a negative,) and a lot of little things that are an improvement rather than a detriment. 5 - Takes just about everything I ever said I wanted in a Civ game and manages to roll it together into one. Still, in spite of having the things I want all at once, it isn't inherently better.