Galactic Civilizations III: 64 bit only for some reason

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Darkrenown: Jul 18, 2012; please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

If you want to see really lovely camera action, set battlecam to Free and try and watch anything.

Michaellaneous posted:

Don't buy.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 09:44

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 22:22

Darkrenown: Jul 18, 2012; please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

Michaellaneous posted:

Also is it just me or are GC2 and 3 pretty much the same without anything new?

There's the civ5 social policy/ideology trees + civ5 style strat resources now too!

# ¿ May 26, 2015 10:00

Darkrenown: Jul 18, 2012; please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

Rougey posted:

Resources are used for a couple of different structures and also for specialist ship mods - usually modals that smaller than the non-resource version so you can save them on space.

They're really not all that interesting.

I was being sarcastic, I agree there're not very interesting.

Pasting my GC3 review from the Steam thread:

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It's basically galciv2 again. It looks a bit better, and they've stuck Civ's policy tree and strategic resources onto it, but it still has the same problems as GC 2: You need to constantly spam out constructors to build and upgrade starbases but there is no good automation of the process, there's no practical information about where to setup trade routes, and you need to manually build everything on planets due to tile and adjacency bonuses. On top of that, the AI is a lot worse (get used the MUCH weaker races trying to extort money from you and being mad when you refuse) and the combat camera is super wonky. The game is also fairly unpolished, there's various missing texts and the UI calls the same systems by different names in different places which leads to confusion.

With all the same old problems and worse AI anyone who has played previous galcivs will soon be bored of this one - save you money, wait for a big sale if you really want to try this. If you like 4x games consider checking out Distant Worlds, Star drive 2, or Star ruler 2.

They also sold this to early buyers at 40% off with the promise it was the lowest pre-release price but then sold it multiple times for 50% off during Early Access, which was quite the con.

(I heard they patched the AI misunderstanding faction strength, but I have not tried it out since)

# ¿ May 27, 2015 18:06

Darkrenown: Jul 18, 2012; please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

Was Space Empires V any good? Like was it ever fixed or fanpatched? It and IV are both on weekly Steam sales this week and I already have IV.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2015 20:50

Darkrenown: Jul 18, 2012; please give me anything to talk about besides the fact that democrats are allowing millions of americans to be evicted from their homes

There's a DLC adding a "cute" (I think they look like poo poo) evil race of squirrel-like things. Aside from that, not much.

I'd try playing again if they made building/upgrading starbases less mind-numbingly boring, but so far nothing.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 19:12

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