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Civilization: Beyond Earth

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"There is a lot of inspiration from Alpha Centauri in this game," McDonough says. "We even have a couple of people who worked on that game still on the team and helping us make the game. It's not Alpha Centauri 2. It's not a sequel. It's a whole new imagining of what civilization in the future, civilization in space could be. There are many homages and nods and winks to Alpha Centauri. And there's a huge creative and spiritual debt we owe to the groundwork that game laid, but this is a whole new idea." It also helps to now that the Alpha Centauri property is still owned by EA. "The heart of Alpha Centauri lives at Firaxis, though," Miller says.

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"It's also important to note that you're not going to get all the technologies in a single game," McDonough explains. "The clash between your technological limits will drive a lot of the in-game play. The web design allows you to play the game in a discovery-oriented mode."

In addition to the drastic changes to victory conditions, players will encounter a stronger narrative thread in each of their games. Mankind is leaving Earth following something called "the great mistake." "A messed up Earth wouldn't be reason enough for us to leave," Miller says. He goes on to tell a story of the inevitable photograph that will be taken of a life-sustaining world somewhere out in space. It's that hopefulness and challenge that sets mankind on its new journey.

After the last Civ game, I am worried about this, but still worth watching to see how it is.

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I did not care for it. The gameplay was too far from what I wanted from a Civ game and it did not ever truly engage me in a way that most did. Too many of the changes seemed like changes for change's sake. Which is too bad because some parts where pretty cool. City-states and Natural Wonders where good additions. I think my biggest complaint is the 1 unit per tile thing. It shifted the focus from strategic when it comes to combat to tactical.
 
It wasn't "hardcore" enough. :lol:

No. In fact Civ 4 is my favorite iteration and was in some ways the least hardcore of the bunch.
 
I have this weird feeling that strategy games are dying out as a genre.
 
I played Civ4 and Civ4-warlords (slingshot to the horses with guns at 1500ad, until they took that away). It's nice to see they've gone to hexagons.

I also did Vikings on island maps. (always pvp)
 
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I did not care for it. The gameplay was too far from what I wanted from a Civ game and it did not ever truly engage me in a way that most did. Too many of the changes seemed like changes for change's sake. Which is too bad because some parts where pretty cool. City-states and Natural Wonders where good additions. I think my biggest complaint is the 1 unit per tile thing. It shifted the focus from strategic when it comes to combat to tactical.

For me the 1 unit per tile actually engaged me more, I dunno, everyone likes things a little different but for me, I didn't care for Civ 4 and I loved Civ 5 and as soon as I get a decent desktop computer I'm buying it.

When I played it december 2012 it took over my life for a month when I was unemployed, I thought it was one of the best games I've ever played.
 
I have this weird feeling that strategy games are dying out as a genre.

All genres have their ups and downs.

FPS's are starting their downward trajectory so other Genres will be able to innovate and fill that void.
 
Count me in. Alpha Centauri was ****ing amazing.
 
For me the 1 unit per tile actually engaged me more, I dunno, everyone likes things a little different but for me, I didn't care for Civ 4 and I loved Civ 5 and as soon as I get a decent desktop computer I'm buying it.

When I played it december 2012 it took over my life for a month when I was unemployed, I thought it was one of the best games I've ever played.

You can run Civ 5 on a decent laptop. I played the demo on mine and it ran quite well on medium settings.
 
You can run Civ 5 on a decent laptop. I played the demo on mine and it ran quite well on medium settings.

I find, with a TBS, graphics don't matter. I played Civ on the lowest settings even with a fast comp.
 
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After the last Civ game, I am worried about this, but still worth watching to see how it is.

Does this mean that I'll need to win a space race victory? I think I did that once...in Civ 3. I'm more a domination victory kind of guy and would much prefer to build bombers and tanks instead of space ship parts.
 
For me the 1 unit per tile actually engaged me more, I dunno, everyone likes things a little different but for me, I didn't care for Civ 4 and I loved Civ 5 and as soon as I get a decent desktop computer I'm buying it.

When I played it december 2012 it took over my life for a month when I was unemployed, I thought it was one of the best games I've ever played.


My biggest complaint with Civ 5 is that it seems to do too much thinking for you. When I tell my worker to build a road to X I want him to go straight at it...not wander over the river and through the woods because he can build it one tile faster from the other side. I'm also not particularly happy with cannon that are sometimes good from 3 tiles out and other times need to be adjacent to the target.

To date I still think Civ 3 was the best offering.
 
You can run Civ 5 on a decent laptop. I played the demo on mine and it ran quite well on medium settings.

You don't understand, my laptop no longer fuctions unless it's plugged in, some of the keys don't work and it turned off when I tried to edit a 40 minute movie on movie maker, it ain't gonna run.

The only way I did it was using OnLive which streams games and it came as part of the package, but I cancelled the system because I didn't really use most of it.
 
You don't understand, my laptop no longer fuctions unless it's plugged in, some of the keys don't work and it turned off when I tried to edit a 40 minute movie on movie maker, it ain't gonna run.

The only way I did it was using OnLive which streams games and it came as part of the package, but I cancelled the system because I didn't really use most of it.

Sounds like you need to take the thing out back with a .22 and put it out of it's misery. :lol:
 
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