Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions

Re:Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played,... by zyxley on Thursday February 18, 2016 @10:05PM (#11131271)

I still haven't really been able to make the jump from Civ 5 to Civ:BE. BE's civ and tech choices somehow manage to feel painfully samey and confusingly unorganized all at the same time.

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Re:Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played,... by vkou on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:51AM (#11131863)

Civ 5 polished most of the core Civ mechanics (With only a few regressions).

Civ:BE is an unfocused mess.

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Re:Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played,... by mattzito on Thursday February 18, 2016 @10:25PM (#11131323)

I weirdly haven't even tried BE. It's like I'm worried I'm going to break the spell.

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Re:Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played,... by cableshaft on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:38PM (#11135986)

I was super excited for it, but I couldn't get into the future tech tree.

It was hard to determine what tech to reasearch and if I needed "whatever" what tech to research, since I didn't have any historical reference to draw from.

Also one of the new victory conditions was difficult to keep track of and kept sneaking up on me multiple times.

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Re:Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played,... by morgante on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:09AM (#11133501)

I got a good 40 hours of play out of BE, but I'm back to 5 now. It essentially felt like a big scenario rather than a whole new game.

Ultimately, the dynamics of playing historical civilizations offers a lot more diversity and interest than a single sci-fi game.

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