Based On What We Know: Rate Civ 4

[Stuie]

Originally posted by yin26
But using one of the 2-3 official patches for a quick fix of something broken out of the box is infuriating.

That's exactly what happened with Rome: Total War. They blew the first patch on some MP issue, and then had only one more to work with. The second patch missed a couple serious issues that then remained broken until the expansion pack came out.

Corporate BS.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by General Ludd


Patches?


I think you mean expansion packs.

What is with the confusion, Ludd? Patches ARE used to correct errors in a game.

[Harovan]

Can I please change my vote from #2 to #4? Thanks in advance.

[Nikolai]

I doubt that's possible.

[Solver]

Why would that be, Sir Ralph?

[alva]

He doesn't units being able to share tiles.
I must say I do, I think, for example, the PTW Demo game would have been even more intense.

[Odin]

I'm hoping to be blown away. They fixed the things I b*tched about with Civ3 and/or Civ2 (supid automated worker AI, infinite railroad movement, too many roads, corruption, pollution, no wonder movies, and general ugliness of the inteface taking away the epic atmosphere. I love the civics system and religion, although am POed that they were too PC to put in slavery and terrorism.

[Odin]

/me gets ready to hang the 3 posters who picked "completely disappoints"

[Solver]

Slavery is a civic option...

Terrorism has, in a way, always been in Civ. In the modern sense, terrorism doesn't deserve to be in Civ4. It is insignificant in a game of this scale. Terrorism, in one form, is a guerilla tactic of killing enemy soldiers few at a time - look at Iraq. In Civ4, you would control armies!

[Tiberius]

Voted: "Has more than enough new content to be a worthy successor. Buy with no remorse."

although I will read a Poly review or two

[snoopy369]

I've preorderd as well, but i'm sticking by option 2. I'm definitely going to buy this, but I don't think it's superOMFGamazing yet... just good. The 3d is probably most of what's turning me off to this for now ... not having seen it in real action yet.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Solver
Slavery is a civic option...

I mean as it is done in CtP (unit capturing settlers or city population) or Rome: Total War (enslaving the population of a captured city).

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Solver
Why would that be, Sir Ralph?

The poll is titled "Based on what we know", and I got to know something today, what changed my opinion about the game. To be fair, my new vote would be #3, but it mentions reviews of Apolyton only, while I'd rather extend my research beyond the often biased reviews of one site only.

[Boris Godunov]

Come on, you're being rather melodramatic.

[PJayTycy]

I don't think Take2 limits the number of patches for devellopers.

At least they didn't for Railroad Tycoon 3 (but maybe that's because the game really needed a lot of patches).

They were working on an expansion pack for RT3 but decided to throw it at the fans for free (probably because it wouldn't sell anyway)