New Civ V Expansion Announced: Call Everyone Else Heretics and Fill Their Cities With Spies

[ohWOW]

Just what they did with Civ V. "It's unfair to penalize players for their choices, all choices should be rewarding, just in different ways" -some asshole game designer.

and some stupid friend of mine is still thinking that there's any progress in computer gaming. fuck him and fuck that random game designer, he should go to jail for saying that kind of shit

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/strategy/sid-meiers-civilization-v-gods-kings/
$23 for a preorder (Steam key, since it's Steamworks) at Greenman Gaming with the code CIVGO-DSAND-KINGS if anyone is so inclined.
And if you don't have a Greenman Gaming account you can use this referralmajigger link to get $2 in credit (And give me $2 in credit) after you buy something. Wouldn't count toward this order, but it'd be available for your next. http://www.greenmangaming.com/?gmgr=munahatu

Kinda thinking I'll wait. I like Civ 5 alright, but I barely played it compared to Civ 4, and I don't really have enough faith that the expansion will really turn me around on it. Especially before reviews are out.

Disregard this. Expansion for $15 at CDkeyshere (Trustworthy, bought games from them from the past and just bought this from 'em which activated fine)
http://cdkeyshere.com/civilization-v-god-and-kings-dlc-cd-key.html

Haven't had a chance to play yet, but if anyone's interested there you go.

 

[spectre]

I will be torrenting this sometime next week. Gonna check if it's anywhere near playable now.

So far, the reviews aren't optimistic, the Ai is supposedly the same and the added religion and spying are little more than gimmicks.
We'll see.

 

[Malakal]

Its more of the same. Added options on top of the old game, all the faults, some new gimmicks. If you liked civ V youll like this, if not, well, at least it has some novelty value. Religions are quite entertaining.

 

[CrimsonAngel]

Its more of the same. Added options on top of the old game, all the faults, some new gimmicks. If you liked civ V youll like this, if not, well, at least it has some novelty value. Religions are quite entertaining.

A 100% this more of the same. It is a fun add-on over all, but it is more of the same with no innovations in it.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Religions are quite entertaining.

Indeed. I've only played the demo so far, but my start was very heavily weighted towards commerce, so I ran with it and built my strategy around amassing tons of gold. Then when I founded a religion, I elected to call it Bainerism, the religion of Mitt Romney, in which Free Markets are the infalliable truth and word of the almighty dollar.

Hey, I got a kick out of my larping, even if you guys don't!

 

[spectre]

It's really a shame that the AI is so piss poor, because I'm having quite a bit of fun with the combat, with a bunch of units added, I'd hazard to say Civ 5 has the "best" combat so far, at least it produces reliable results and it's no longer binary - lose unit/kill unit.
Unfortunately, the AI simply cannot handle the new mechanics, and once you get the 3 range artillery (if you did it right, some of them should actually already be 4 range, 2 attacks per turn), you can blow anything apart with relative impunity.

I really dig how they handled religion. Customizing it to give you bonuses fitting your playstyle is pretty sweet. What's better, there is more than one use for it (earn a load of cash, buy a shitton of early units for piety, buy great people, improve happiness... etc.) It really fits and serves the game nicely.
Espionage on the other hand feels a bit lackluster, but I haven't played too much with it, stole a couple technologies, got some intel about planned AI backstabbing, has potential.