As in, is it better than 5 and 6? I see polls saying 6 is the best, but a Civ forum says 4 is. Is it just because they are a nerdy contrarian corner of the internet similar to /vr/ or is 4 really a much better game? Asking because less time-consuming than testing a complex game for 100 hours
Please unbiased answers if that's even possible on a retro board
Civ 4 is just super classy.
A'ight
I can never get enough of the soundtrack
>caveman tunes for the intro
>classic Civ music for the classical era
>chanting monks for the medieval age
>classical music for the industrial age
>melancholy contemporary classical for the end game where all hell breaks lose'
Its like a 10 hour music video
Plus the tech quotes.
>*DING*
>"If you want to become based, you must accept being cringe."
>- Anontosthenes
Do not strile when the iron is hot; but make it hot - by striking.
They really blew their load early on the tech quotes for Civ4. Civ5's are nowhere near as memorable and Civ6's lineup are flat out cringe inducing
It's a shame because Bean's Yorkshire accent could have been really cosy.
But there's a general un-cosy-ness to civ5 and civ5 I've found.
All I remember from 4 is unit stacking and aircraft spamming being kind of busted. While I think 6 suffers from feature bloat, it's combat definitely has the most depth.
I have not played 5 or 6, but there people who still play 4 simply because it has mods that later Civs don't, namely Fall From Heaven 2.
>Fall From Heaven 2.
I tried this once or twice and it seemed like a mess. Maybe you have to have human opponents for it to feel balanced? Later I tried Realism: Invictus and loved it, aside from just a few technology-introduction voice clips whose neckbeardy humor I found overbearing (but then I renamed their files to silence them and that took care of that).
>I tried this once or twice and it seemed like a mess. Maybe you have to have human opponents for it to feel balanced?
No, I think balance is/was a big issue even in single player. Whether that was intentional or not, I don't know. It had been in development for over a decade when I tried it, long after the original dev stopped working on it.
I still found it more fun and interesting than vanilla Civ 4.
None of the Civilization games are without merit. Civilization 4 is generally the grognard choice because it has the most depth, especially with mods; Civ1 has a beautiful simplicity to it; Civ2 is insanely customizable. Don't remember what 3 had off-hand.
>Don't remember what 3 had off-hand.
road meta
For me 4 is peak soul in the civ series. Anything before is too simplistic to be worth your time, anything after is fun but overly generic and sterile feeling.
If I had to choose 3 Sid Meier games to recommend, they'd be Civ 4, Alpha Centauri, and the Pirates! remake.
>Civilization 4... has the most depth
it felt deep at the time but is honestly not even close to 6 in how many interacting mechanics there are.
>the Pirates! remake
it's a shame there's no proper widescreen fix for this
I've always preferred civ 3 to 4 just for the aesthetics. I know it sounds gay.
In my mind games like Civ need simple graphics to work. Something like The Eternal War only works when the graphics are more towards impression than realism, if that makes sense?
The only must play Civilization is the very first one.
>The only must play Civilization is the very first one.
this. played that one a ton 30 years ago, no need to play any more.
and CivNet
yes you have to play civ 4
you also have to play the console version which is pretty good and different, you can culturally take over cities like absorb them
>this is what Alexander looks like in Civ 6
going back to the cartoony Civ 4 look was a mistake, 5 was a step back in a lot of ways but the leaders looked great
>this is what Isabella looks like in Civ 3
It's the Dreamworks face I can't abide
alpha centauri
is that way
This is /vr/, homosexual
I personally rank them 5>6>1>3>2
CIV 1 is a beast of a game for the era.
Nothing is must play but 4 is the last civ where the ai could be a military threat to a turtling player because of doom stacks. They did 1upt for multiplayer and didn't care that it breaks single player because 99.9 percent play sp on low difficulty for relaxation
The best Civ game is the first one you played
The second best Civ game is the last one with all the expansion packs and DLC
The third best Civ is the current one that's out
I played Civ 1 first and think Alpha Centauri is the best followed by Civ 2.
Civ 3 was the first one I played and I like 4 more
four has the cool colonization game too.
Play the" we the people" mod.
Should i buy civ 5 or civ 6?
no
>buy
no
>civ 5 or civ 6
no
Civ 6 never did it for me, and I can't pinpoint why. I loved all the previous versions.
i straight up only play 3 i've never experienced 4 or 5 or whatever at this point. just two weeks ago i put together an XP computer and have been playing civ 3 on it. just play civ 3, baby!
Not retro, but Civ V is far away from the others. Civ VI is awful, looks more like some mobile tower defense game with Dreamworks artstyle.