@Tetelestia: It must be good to not stop during a turn based game. ^_^

I might have to go buy a copy of Civ 4 and give it a go.

wired_fenix

@wired_fenix: Civ is great. The best 8 hour stretches without a restroom break ever.

Tetelestia

@Zeouterlimits: Oh boy, 8,000,000 Hungarian pengő!

MajorMcMuffin

I have never played Civ before, but I really am getting hyped to play this one.

It is nice to see more multiplayer games with a slower pace hitting the consoles. I thought Catan and Carcassone were both excellent fun despite their slower turn based play styles. Keep 'em coming devs! ^_^

wired_fenix

@Excalibur: Think of 8 gold as more like 8,000,000 in whatever currency you feel like.
They've just applied a ratio so your screen isn't filled with zeros.
Just like the unit system.

Zeouterlimits

"Sire, the whole town only contained 8 gold! Here you go, I kept it in my pocket!"

Is it too much to ask for a game to have a realistic economy or at least one where you can't personally carry your entire civilization's wealth on your person?

Excalibur

@iskew: The last update featured a picture where you NAMED the river - so I assume the random world map still exists.

A8acus

Im still disturbed by how "Tokugawa" is wearing his swords on the wrong side.

Other than that really looking foward to this game!

Witzbold

The big question is, does it contain Leonard Nemoy ?

jynxycat

Throne room back? Hell yah

apartment42

@iskew: Yeah, I've had the same feeling. From these screens the game looks way too cartoonish and seems to offer way less possibilities !

Shteve

Mmm, can't wait for the DS game. Civilization on the go ftw.

Peronthious

Hmm... I was actually more excited before I saw these. I noticed they labeled the "Sinai River" - which seems to indicate playing on a very realistic Earth. I hope the continent generator is still there. Half the fun of Civ is recognizable cultures within a new geographic world (otherwise geography plays the fated role it always does and things have a hard time being much different than they always turned out). It also looks small, as Nayl said.

Looks like some of the negotiation possibilities have been neutered too, which is a shame since they've been building those up for years.

Hopefully it will just get better and my fears are just screenshot-misunderstandings!

iskew

I fear for this game on consoles. Flop imminent.

ErskinPig

Ah! Some Civilization nostalgia!

Pensador

This new CSS profile is really shitty! It's clipping ma' images!!

okenny :)

These screen make the game look very small. One of the greatest things bout Civ 1-4 was the huge maps you could play. These ones look like you can only have 1 or 2 cities per civilisation which would suck so hard.

Nayl

Hi Flynn!

Bernard McGraw

Damn I cant wait to get this game!

mookmookie