I like your review and agree with your score for how the game is right now. When compared to Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword there's a lot of "richness" (for lack of a better word) that's lacking. BTS has an incredible amount of variety that is really appreciated in this kind of game. It also has the benefit of years of patches and expansions, so it's largely stable and well balanced. Like most new PC games Civ V suffers from bugs, and "duh, stupid" decisions like putting the quick load and quick save buttons on the keyboard right next to each other. They have introduced many new game mechanics in Civ V some of which need further fine-tuning. They also left out some things I'm confident will be added in future expansions.
Games like Civilization are really like platforms. They grow and mature with time as players work through the issues and the developers respond. So for that reason I'm very happy and excited about Civ V. As the start of a gaming platform it has tremendous potential, and will (I hope) continue to grow and improve. It's already a lot of fun in it's current state, but once the "richness" returns and the modding community gets going, it will get even better. I think the future of Civ V is very bright indeed.
From what I've heard people aren't making much money on the Android side yet. That could change, but it's not a good sign if being paid to code is your goal.
I cringed when I heard that the terrific Myst series was going to be handed over to Ubisoft for development. Sure they have experience with these kinds of games from the Journeyman Project series, however wasn't anyone paying any attentiont to how many techical/quality assurance problems those games had?! So the fact that Myst III has problems, comes as no surprise. It's too bad, they seems to create great games - If you can get them to run without crashing...
I've been screaming from the rooftops for a long time now that little 3" CD-RW disks are a perfect replacement for damnable floppies. Think of it, CD-R of that size could be used in 90% of the cd-rom drives in existence. If computer companies would start standardizing on new DVD/CD-RW drives and drop 1.44MB floppies, superdisks, and zips, then these sized disks would solve the tranportability problem of normal CDs. You eliminate a drive from the computer, maintain compatibility with CD's and DVD's, you still have access to larger CD's for backup purposes, I could go on an on! Best of all 3" CD-R/CD-RW disks can be used in almost all CD-RW drives already out there. Why don't they start selling these things everywhere?! Doesn't anybody have any "vision"?
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I like your review and agree with your score for how the game is right now. When compared to Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword there's a lot of "richness" (for lack of a better word) that's lacking. BTS has an incredible amount of variety that is really appreciated in this kind of game. It also has the benefit of years of patches and expansions, so it's largely stable and well balanced. Like most new PC games Civ V suffers from bugs, and "duh, stupid" decisions like putting the quick load and quick save buttons on the keyboard right next to each other. They have introduced many new game mechanics in Civ V some of which need further fine-tuning. They also left out some things I'm confident will be added in future expansions.
Games like Civilization are really like platforms. They grow and mature with time as players work through the issues and the developers respond. So for that reason I'm very happy and excited about Civ V. As the start of a gaming platform it has tremendous potential, and will (I hope) continue to grow and improve. It's already a lot of fun in it's current state, but once the "richness" returns and the modding community gets going, it will get even better. I think the future of Civ V is very bright indeed.
From what I've heard people aren't making much money on the Android side yet. That could change, but it's not a good sign if being paid to code is your goal.
I cringed when I heard that the terrific Myst series was going to be handed over to Ubisoft for development. Sure they have experience with these kinds of games from the Journeyman Project series, however wasn't anyone paying any attentiont to how many techical/quality assurance problems those games had?! So the fact that Myst III has problems, comes as no surprise. It's too bad, they seems to create great games - If you can get them to run without crashing...
I've been screaming from the rooftops for a long time now that little 3" CD-RW disks are a perfect replacement for damnable floppies. Think of it, CD-R of that size could be used in 90% of the cd-rom drives in existence. If computer companies would start standardizing on new DVD/CD-RW drives and drop 1.44MB floppies, superdisks, and zips, then these sized disks would solve the tranportability problem of normal CDs. You eliminate a drive from the computer, maintain compatibility with CD's and DVD's, you still have access to larger CD's for backup purposes, I could go on an on! Best of all 3" CD-R/CD-RW disks can be used in almost all CD-RW drives already out there. Why don't they start selling these things everywhere?! Doesn't anybody have any "vision"?
-Frustrated Geek