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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Civ4 is still way better than 5 even with the latter's expansion packs factored in.

I have to admit I don't know a lot about Civ IV, except that it has roughly the same combat mechanics as the previous games. What do you think are its major advantages in comparison to V?

Lightning Strikes posted...

God of War was a revelation when it came out but nowadays is effectively a tech demo for old tech. 2 is much better, and 3 is better to play these days (and the PS4 game blows them all out of the water). At the time it was not only impressive for its scope and visuals (it was punching well above its weight for the weakest system that gen) but also the combat system and quick time events. Nowadays that doesn't really play as well.

If it makes you feel better, not only did ToS beat it in a 2009 shocker it would have won the rematch if it was a full 24 hours.

I've heard that the PS4 game is a lot better from others, but it does seem to be a significant change of direction both in terms of the general game design and the story. I do think the game has aged to a certain extent and that's kind of evident in the reception. I think a lot of outlets like IGN gave it the game of the year nod in 2005, but I also know IGN eventually dubbed Shadow of the Colossus, which also came out that year, the best game for PS2 with GoW dragging a little further behind in comparison.

Oh yeah, I remember reading about ToS' performance in the 4-ways but I had forgotten that God of War was involved in that. I remember Oblivion being one of the games in that match, but not GoW or the fourth contestant.

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Alright, I finished up my Carthage game with a scientific victory, in just under 400 turns. I picked the Freedom ideology to rush for its Treaty Organization policy, which generates influence with city states as long as you have a trade route to them. After orienting my economy toward gold and setting up those trade routes, I was able to take away almost half of Greece's control over the world congress, easily delaying their diplomatic victory until I could win through science. I got ahead in research by setting my cities to have science specialists and pumping out as many great scientists and I could, and also by rushing the all-important Hubble Space Telescope wonder, which is essential for a science victory. If I hadn't been defeatist about my chances of getting it all game long, I think a cultural victory might possibly have been open to me too.

Greece became an ultra-militarist civilization, including picking Autocracy as its ideology. It destroyed the Zulus utterly and reduced Morocco to one far away city on a small island. There were times when I could have gone to war with them and slowed this snowball, but I was too lazy to go about it. Although Greece united their entire continent, they never made an effort to come to mine. Brazil, meanwhile, tore apart the remains of Austria, who wound up so weakened that their last city fell to the revived Sweden. The civ that was eliminated before I could ever meet them turned out to be Venice.

I made a lot of mistakes playing this game. I think an obvious one was that I didn't set any troops to explore the world for a long time. The extra information would have been useful to me. Either way, it was mostly a cruise to victory that was never in much doubt - there was a little bit of tension as Greece wiped out its neighbors but I was still confident I'd win. On the whole, I think I had a lucky starting location since I found the rather useful copper and silver resources in my second and third cities.

Difficulty 7 is a major step up, and I still don't feel comfortable enough to attempt it, so next time I play I'll be trying the same difficulty with another low-tier civ: The Iroquois.

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