Sid Meiers Civilization V Collector's Edition

brianon

Anyone know if this (specfically the collectors edition) will be available in retail stores here ?

VenomIreland

If you do find out this, will you tell me the prices for the Collector's Edition in, say, GAME?

SeantheMan

Looks good tbh.

I remember playing a 4 player game with 3 lads from my clan..but jesus it took days.

Will have a look for CE in liffey valley/smyths when im over for ye

brianon

Is this digital only here ? Gamestop not getting it in. Neither is xtravision.

Manach

Play's pricing is a little cheaper that a d/l from steam (38e vs 50e) for standard edition.

Kiith

Its €48 on Direct2Drive for the deluxe edition.
http://www.direct2drive.co.uk/4/9620/product/Buy-Sid-Meier%E2%80%99s-Civilization-V-Digital-Deluxe-Edition-Download

brianon

Thats a good deal.

Edit: hmmmm. I'm seeing €60 for the Deluze edition !

http://www.direct2drive.eu/9620/product/Buy-Sid-Meier%E2%80%99s-Civilization-V-Digital-Deluxe-Edition-Download

brianon

Right. Went with steam. pre-loading now.

Sephiroth_dude

I am very tempted to pick up the special edition if its available in town.

VenomIreland

Hmm, I know the soundtrack is in the special edition, but what else?

cherryghost

I love Civilization. I might not buy it though with the fear that I'd be throwing my life away once again.

Zeouterlimits

So still no sign of where we can get this?

brianon

Zeouterlimits wrote: »

So still no sign of where we can get this?

Well Gamestop and Xtravision told me they would not be stocking Civ V (collectors or otherwise). Seems a bit strange.

Gonzovision

Gamestop will definitely have the standard edition for 39.99.

brianon

gonzovision wrote: »

Gamestop will definitely have the standard edition for 39.99.

Dang. I asked them today and they said no. Ah well.

ShaneU

Manach wrote: »

Play's pricing is a little cheaper that a d/l from steam (38e vs 50e) for standard edition.

£25 on amazon, why people keep buying from play is beyond me.

brianon

demo is out now. downloading on steam.

edit: [URL="steam://install/65900"]steam://install/65900[/URL]

brianon

So GAME are getting this in. They have no price yet and don't know what versions (reg, del, Collectors) they'll be getting.

Loving the demo btw. Wish it was more than 100 turns

Mantel

So far it's

Stocking Civ5
Game

Not stocking
Gamestop
Xtravision


Anyone know if Smyths will be stocking it? I was tempted to get it on steam but as this needs steam anyway, I'd rather spend some euros in a shop (and get it a little cheaper)

Gonzovision

Mantel wrote: »

So far it's

Stocking Civ5
Game

Not stocking
Gamestop
Xtravision


Anyone know if Smyths will be stocking it? I was tempted to get it on steam but as this needs steam anyway, I'd rather spend some euros in a shop (and get it a little cheaper)

Gamestop have them.

brianon

gonzovision wrote: »

Gamestop have them.

I can't understand why they wouldn't BUT my local Gamestop (Parkway, Limerick) told me they weren't.

Mantel

gonzovision wrote: »

Gamestop have them.

There seems to be mixed messages about Gamestop stocking Civ 5. Is it the standard edition or the Deluxe one? Considering it shouldn't be on shelves until Friday.

brianon

Mantel wrote: »

There seems to be mixed messages about Gamestop stocking Civ 5. Is it the standard edition or the Deluxe one? Considering it shouldn't be on shelves until Friday.

All I know is that I asked Gamestop (in store) in Limerick would they be stocking Civilization V for PC. They said... No.

Gonzovision

Mantel wrote: »

There seems to be mixed messages about Gamestop stocking Civ 5. Is it the standard edition or the Deluxe one? Considering it shouldn't be on shelves until Friday.

Standard one is on the shelves in Kilkenny.

VenomIreland

Getting this tomorrow(just the standard edition, I figure I can get someone to lend me the soundtrack CD)!

brianon

VenomIreland wrote: »

Getting this tomorrow(just the standard edition, I figure I can get someone to lend me the soundtrack CD)!

Lend you eh...hmmmm. How can I be sure you'd delete the mp3 files after you're finished ? eh ! Answer me that !

VenomIreland

Dammit, my plan foiled!

brianon

So what do we think of it so far ? Played about 4 hours so far and love it. Plenty of little bugs (graphical) but nothing major. I'm new to civ so this is fresh meat

VenomIreland

Installing now

Sephiroth_dude

anyone manage to get the special edition?

VenomIreland

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

anyone manage to get the special edition?

Couldn't find it, infact I was lucky to get the game at all, Gamestop only had 3 copies left.

Funglegunk

brianon wrote: »

So what do we think of it so far ? Played about 4 hours so far and love it. Plenty of little bugs (graphical) but nothing major. I'm new to civ so this is fresh meat

I envy you being new to civ. Such an amazing game.

So has anybody played the new one? Have played about 2 hours myself, seems slightly harder than Civ IV to me. Love the fact that you can't stack units onto one square now.

VenomIreland

Played about 2 hours, still haven't finished my first game as Japan, so I'm loving it!

Pygmalion

Played the demo and was liking it, a lot of changes though, not sure how it'll standup to Civ 4 tbh.

Funglegunk wrote: »

So has anybody played the new one? Have played about 2 hours myself, seems slightly harder than Civ IV to me. Love the fact that you can't stack units onto one square now.

That was one thing that kinda annoyed me about Civ4, it seemed to be all about stacking up massive amounts of units onto a single square and spamming attacks, and a few good units in the stack meant the weaker ones couldn't be touched.
From what I read in a review though the AI tends to make stupid decisions though, such as sending out cannons before ground troops, hoping that if that's true it's eventually addressed somehow (Patch or expansion pack).

brianon

Yeah. Ai in combat seems to be making some strange decisions. Not all but some. Still kicking my arse though

Outkast_IRE

ok so can someone help straighten this out for me was big on civ 3 didnt like 4 really.
1. The other city states , basically you need to suck up to them constantly to stay on their good side? Theres no way to strike a permanent alliance?
2. If you have extra gold can you up the amount spent on science or happiness ? or do you just build appropriate buildings to boost those?
3. In comparison to civ 3 where you could build most building in most cities providing you werent at war much , you dont really have the time to do that in this game ya?
4. the social polices ? you can just have one active at a time ya?

VenomIreland

1. You can declare war with the city (other people and states might not like this) and annex or puppet the city
2.Buildings only, I think
3. Don't know how to answer this, only played IV and V
4. You can have many as long as they don't collide.

bobaggio

hey, I'm trying to buy and then download from the internet. I tried to download from Direct2drive and it won't let me download cos of my IP. thought this game was available to everywhere since yesterday

VenomIreland

D2D have it? But it's a Steamworks game!

VenomIreland

Anyone else unable to reduce some cities health to 0? Also, same thing happens to AI it seems, Elizabeth was attacking Vienna, it always had a little bit of health left and would take 0 damage till it got at least one more unit of health, at which point it would repeat itself.

brianon

Not noticed that really. I've only once managed to crush a city

Kiith

I just barely managed to take the Aztec capitol, and it seemed to be at 0 for a few turns. I think it was just that i was barely doing any damage to it, after most of my units were wiped out defeating their armies.

Really enjoying it, though i'm a little lost at times.

kearneybobs

VenomIreland wrote: »

D2D have it? But it's a Steamworks game!

It seems odd to me too. Sure loads of the digital download services boycotted Modern Warfare 2 because of the integrated Steamworks in MW2.
Seems very odd that they would have this change of heart. So It does use Steamworks then?