Sid Meier's Civilization V (PC Digital Download) $6
 

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Activates on Steam. I think this is the lowest price besides the Amazon/EC coupon back in January.

Sid Meier's Civilization V (PC Digital Download) $6
 

GameFly has Sid Meier's Civilization V (PC Digital Download) for $7.49 - 20% off Coupon Code "GFDFEB20" = $5.99 Thanks 6grapes

So I buy this and then get a code for Steam?

yes you do

4 is better! :D

4 is better, but i still wish more of my friends had it so i could at least try MP>

I haven't played 5, but everyone says you need Gods & Kings to make the game "complete". Just FYI.

Anyone know of any good deals for the Gods and Kings expansion? I can't find one anywhere right now. Thanks in advance!

Thanks, OP. Was looking for Civ 5 cheaply for a while, and this is a steal.

Also Mac users: When you activate on Steam, your Steam account gets the Steam Play version, so Mac or Windows machines can use it.

4 is much better , I fall asleep while playing Gods and Kings , very boring to me. But do not take my words . Try it for $ 6 first . If you like it then buy Gods and Kings later . The expansion will improve game-play a little , not the same as Beyond The Sword did to Civ 4.

I don't know how so many people think that IV was better. Just the fact that you couldn't stack a thousand units on top of each other on V makes combat much more strategic and not just a rush to field as many units as possible. I played V with and without G&K, and G&K is a worthy expansion, but it's plenty playable without, IMO.

I'm a huge Civilization fan, but 4 is better... whaaaat? I promptly uninstalled Civ4 w/ BTS when Gods and Kings came out, but like I played Civ4 modded I prefer Civ5 Gods and Kings with Civilization Nights, a full transformation pack:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedf...d=77097295 (over 1000 average perfect 5* review)

Civ5 vanilla is not the same game in any way shape or form to Civ5 Gods and Kings + Civ Nights. Its like comparing a cloth seat base Mustang V6 with a GT500... same base, but you certainly can't judge the latter by driving the former.

V is the better imho. But the Gods and Kings add on really puts it ahead

Great game for a good price. However, I bought Civ V Game of the Year edition from Gamefly for $10 a few months back. This version is just the plain, vanilla edition.

BTW, there is rumor of another expansion pack coming called "One World".

My guess is that the name refers to the one world shared ecology which would be brought back in to the game, so that choices you (and other civilizations through your influence) make have impact on global climate and the health of your cities.

With the way Civ 5 is now, there is no downside to massive industrialization and only an upside of increased production.

Would be neat to bring back mass transit, renewable energy, and so forth that would have short term high costs with low reward but long term growth benefits due to higher productivity tile yields (like forest/farms/camps/etc) and lower mortality rate so your cities can grow faster or maintain a higher population.

Does this game have co-op vs ai? can me and a friend 2v2 against the ai?

It's a good price for anyone testing the 4x waters or really just want to keep it casual while still getting that Civvy flavor. Probably also anybody transitioning from strategy board games like Risk or smartphone/tablet strategy.

But yeah, anybody trending towards diehard would probably want the full set w/ G&K, except I figure any 4x/Civ diehard would probably stick to Civ4, GalCiv2, or more complex games like Crusader Kings 2 and Hearts of Iron 2 (and just keep CivV as a break now and then).

I probably only played 2 aborted default-set games (pre-renaissance) and only finished 1 default-set game (I like to drag it out into Giant Death Robot). 41 hours played, and I enjoyed it, but I really should have waited for $15 at most hehe.

Never played any version other this Civ 5. If the reviews are true, Civ 4 must be the best game in the world because Civ 5 is pretty damn phenomenal.

This. Grognards will appreciate V for the elimination of unrealistic exploits that were seen in the previous games. I understand that IV has a tremendous following, but in reality, V is just a better game mechanically. It's not perfect, and the add-ons do add quite a bit more, but the fact that 50 units can't stack (hidden) in one tile cuts out quite a bit of the frustrating shenanigans that were found in IV.

Loved some GalCiv2. I should go back and check out HOI2. I was disappointed with III and never was able to get into it.

I too am looking for a cheap G&K expansion. Yes I already have 5 and like it, just looking for more content. Hope we'll see it go on sale again soon.

Highly recommend anybody who get this also get the God's and Kings Expansion.

I bought the God's and King expansion for $3 last month....just needed to buy Civilization V to play it. This works perfect!

*different kind of good*. Although, if CivV is your first in the Civ series, you'll probably be put off by Civ 4's stacks of doom, b/c they bog down gameplay and make it harder to figure out the state of everybody's armies. Plus Civ 4 square grid vs. CivV hex grid, and Civ 4 had more instances of older-era units taking down newer-era units that required extra imagination to keep the "narrative" intact (spearmen vs. tanks). Although I always laugh at continents completely built up with railways.

Your best bet is to try a Civ4 demo to get a feel for the controls, and then jump to the hour 20-30 of some Let's Plays and watch out for the highlighted criticisms. Personally, I'd probably just recommend you branch out and look at other 4X franchises or other strategy and complex sim games. CivV gives you the essential Civ experience already.

There is many people who would sell copies of Civ 5 GOTY for $9.

Was just sharing my experience, then got some good, hearty advice. Thanks =)

I've played and beaten Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III+FT, Age of Empires I, II+Conquers, III, and Mythology+expansion, Starcraft+BW, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War + 3 expansions.

I have never played or touched a Civilizations game. So with the games I mentioned having played and beaten along with online/LAN play, what can you tell me about this game? How is the single player campaign? Is it a game that I would do better with getting a bundle of the expansions with it? Would you recommend I start with a different Civ game? The most I know about the game is "Gandhi is a dick" and its an RTS.

It isn't an RTS. It's a turn-based strategy game.

I was addicted to Civ2 in high school, and really havent played a PC game since. Thinking about jumping back in with this. How long does it take to learn how to play Civ5? Does it take a ton of man hours before the gameplay is completely mastered?

Civ V is the best game ever. Period. End of Story. If I didn't already own it, I'd be all over this deal.

yes it does, my roommate coerced me into getting it just a week ago so we could play over lan. Now this deal pops up, lol.

Civ IV complete is a better deal. I think it costs around $10-15 now. Games typically take anywhere from 3-15 hours. Civ V is fun too, but they dumbed things down in an attempt to broaden the appeal of the franchise.

Does this work on Macs?

Yes. I did it. Order it, and gamefly will send you a code in the confirmation email. Go directly to steam powered.com and download the game with the code. Downloaded perfectly to my mac. I did not use the gamefly downloader at all.

Awesome, thank you!

It pops up on Steam during their seasonal sales quite frequently now. I got the game, maps, G&K, soundtrack, etc. for $15 over winter break. You really need G&K though as religion is a very fun mechanic to play with. I just wish there was some type of "Faith Victory" for some of the new nations that get +Faith bonuses.

Thanks! In for one :)

FP? This is like $1.50 less than what it has gone for *multiple* times in last few months. Search the history. And as someone pointed out, you'll want the G&K expansion immediately, it "fixes" some of the problems of this game, so you're actually better off getting one of the steam package deals to get them both, if you've waited this long anyway.

Concurr with assessment that Civ IV >>> Civ V. Civ IV is an all-time classic IMO, just as significant as Civ I. But you can actually get it cheaper, I've seen the "complete" for $7.50 or less many times.

Civ IV is more fun but in a different way - it's also far less realistic. You can just run around with 50 tanks stacked on top of each other and rampage through enemy countries.

In Civ V, armies actually look like armies, and positional strategy actually matters.

can you go into a little detail about why you are recommending this mod? I followed your link but as someone who has never played Civ 5 much, that list of changes doesnt mean much.

Well, you have 50 tanks "stacked" in an area equal to the size of an entire city. I don't see how if you are attacking a city that needing to have your archers coming from a different direction on the map from say your mace men is more "realistic".

Civ V is fun, but it has LESS strategy than IV (which some may prefer). Just go to the CivFanatics forums and read what those who own both have to say.

1. There is a counter to that in IV, collateral from using catapult/treb/cannon/artillery/anti-tank/bombers)

2. Civ IV isn't (and never had tried to be, til V) a war strategy game anyway.

3. I'm actually a big fan of the Panzer general style hex warfare that the Civ V designers admitted they were inspired by. I played dozens (hundreds?) of hours of PG II back in the day. But most people who've played this agree they didn't get it right. In particular, the AI was dreadful at knowing how to play under these rules (Civ IV AI is not the sharpest knife in the drawer either, but leaps and bounds better than V ... at least last time I played it).

If you care most about the tactical warfare strategy, then either Civ game (IV or V) is probably not for you. I just think that Civ is a game meant to abstract everything (lets face it, economy, religion etc are hardly "realistic" either). And if you absoutely have to try to make some aspect of the game more "realistic" (a POV that Civ IV designer Soren Johnson disagrees with, btw -- there are great interviews out there where he talks about weighing every game mechanic through the prism of "fun," over "realism"), the tactical warfare part is a dubious choice to focus this effort in a game like Civ, IMO. Anyway, this is a topic for another thread (and forum). Just wanted to give a different POV on things.

I just got Civ 4 during Steam's X-mas sale. I've barely put a dent in it. I guess I'll wait until there's a SD on Civ 5 and Gods/Kings and then add that to my Steam collection. :nod:

The list of changes is why, I can't go into more detail than that.

Improves the "happiness" system, and tons of new techs, units, civ special abilities improved, and more. Total game transformation, but the way Civ 5 is now installing the mod doesn't change anything whatsoever on the game unless you select "mods" and check it before launching game.

So you can install it (and remove it) easily and risk free to try it out.

Quick question: does this just give me a steam code I can activate whenever? I'm travelling with a work laptop won't have a chance to get back to my desktop until Thursday and wouldn't want an automatic download to start or anything.

Yes, it's just a steam code.

Can you point me in their direction?

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Repped! Thanks, been waiting for a good price on this for a while.

Civ V is a better game than Civ IV with the G&K expansion. Who really wants to deal with those insane computer turns and micromanaging 1 million individual stacked units.

The pinnacle of Civilization entertainment imo is Civilization Revolution, and sadly they will never release than to PC.

Sure its a good game, but not even close to being the best game.

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Happen to have a copy of Civ 5 in my inventory on Steam I never redeemed and don't really plan to. If someone has something in equivalent value they'd like to trade for my Civ 5 (secure steam trade only please) feel free to pm me an offer.

Don't recall the rules on trading, if this isn't allowed on SD, mod can feel free to delete this post. (Sorry!).

Love these kinda games, but don't have lots of time to play them; should I get Civ 4, Civ 5, or Civ Rev for the 360?

Thanks OP. I noticed the Gold Edition has just become available on Steam which is the game and most DLC to date (including Gods and Kings) and is listed for $49.99. On the landing page for Civ 5 in the Steam store there is a link for "Buy Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gold Edition Upgrade" which appears to be all of the DLC (without the main game) bundled together for $20, so I grabbed that as well...essentially gets the "Gold Edition" for $26 when combined with the base game. Altogether not too bad (Civ 5 + GOTY edition has been as low as $20 combined, this gets you a couple more DLC on top of that).

http://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/

Thanks OP, I've been wanting to try Civ V for awhile now. I was always a casual player of I-IV and I felt like IV got a little too complicated for my taste, so I think I will actually prefer the dumbed down V.

If you dont have time to play, civ revolution is the best one. You can play a round in an hour or so, where the other ones are a couple days for a round if you arent careful

I was leaning towards that one, but it helps to get opinions. Thanks. :bounce:

Those who have been looking for a deal on Gods and Kings, Gamersgate.com is having a weekend sale on Civ games. Currently, Gods & Kings is $7.49.
Link:
http://www.gamersgate.com/games?p...aff=ggnews