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Does anyone else play the Civilisation games? I've just started Civ V and I am absolutely loving it. Never thought I'd get into the games despite actually liking the look of them for ages, but after a LAN the other day and someone showed me the ropes.

Beyond Earth looks incredible and I'm considering going all in and getting a day one release of it. Anyone ele going to be dabbling?

Never get a Civ game on day one - traditionally they're full of bugs which only get patched 6 months or so after release.

And nah, don't think i'll be getting it. Civ is such a timesink, can't really afford it at the moment.

I still play Civ4 and Rev a lot, tho after a long hiatus.

Tried Civ5 a few times the last few weeks but couldnt get into it as much as Civ1, 2 and 4 did. 3 didn't do much for me either tho not by lack of trying.

not sure about Beyond Earth, I never really liked Alpha Centauri either (which is basically the same thing).

I played Civ and Civ 2 a lot. Also played Civ 3 a bit and Civ 5 but didn't like 5 very much.

I actually disliked Civ 5 for not allowing stacks of Doom. Managing troops got really tedious that way.

Well I'm not gonna go back and buy the older Civ games so I might hang fire on Beyond Earth and just sink my time into V instead and get used to the game mechanics and the like.

It is an absolute time sink, though. Worse than Diablo 3! I clocked up 14 hours of Civ this weekend

Don Carlos wrote:Well I'm not gonna go back and buy the older Civ games

why, exactly?

Can't have that many time mines laid at my feet. It won't end well for any social life I wish to maintain and I'm sure the lady of my life will also be displeased

oh ok. I thought you meant you wouldnt want to play an older game which would be absurd, especially when it comes to Civ.

re: stacks of doom. I liked the way CivRev handled this with Armies. Too bad that was never added to one of the many Civ4 expansions :/

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everyone pump your fist to this non-game footage!

Boooo de boooo dooooo
Boooo bup de booooo de doooo

That's not the original music for that video. Someone on Reddit put that together, not changing a single frame or any of the music. It fits it perfectly...

They clearly changed the video's music .

(yes, I know what you mean)

FYI dudes there's a 70% off Civ V or Expansions at gamefly.com right now. I picked up Gods + Kings for $8 last night. It's pretty cool.

I love Civ games, I'll most likely get the next iteration.