For those who have passed on Civilization V's frequent downloadable content packs, the newly-announced Game of the Year Edition might be of interest. It's launching on September 27 for PC, and includes the game itself plus add-ons in one $49.99 package:
- Civilization and Scenario Pack: The Mongols;
- Civilization Pack: Babylon;
- Cradle of Civilization Map Packs: Mesopotamia, Americas, Asia and Mediterranean;
- Double Civilization and Scenario Pack: Spain and Inca;
- Civilization and Scenario Pack: Polynesia;
- Civilization and Scenario Pack: Denmark – The Vikings;
- Explorer’s Map Pack;
- Sid Meier’s Civilization V digital soundtrack.
Granted, Civ V can be obtained for $29.99 as a standalone purchase. So there's not a huge incentive to go for this definitive bundle unless you're actually into the extras.
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12:30 PM on 09.14.2011 | 
Now this is how games are supposed to be released. Like in the old days...
I couldn't care less about ANY of this DLC.
Seriously, just go buy Civ 4 complete for 10 bucks somewhere on sale. You'll be infinitely happier.
(RIP Esemple Studios)
It really interests me but I've only got a netbook.
I hear ya man, feels bad man.
I only got Civ 5 a few weeks ago, and had a moment of weakness on Saturday, and bought all the dlc on Steam. The cost? 48.94. Oh well, I had the game already, so paying $1.01 more for all the dlc plus the game would've been silly I guess.
It's the only pc game I play (or need to), its slapped my 360 (and deus ex) into the corner of unlove. Which is sad, cause I really enjoyed the intro level, but "needed" to get back to "my Civ". It is crack. I don't even know why I bought the dlc. My love for this game and addiction to it clouds rational thought.
P.S. Age of Empires 3 sucked ass.
I'd love to play a large map game that didn't make my machine crawl or multiplayer that constantly kicks people out with no way to rejoin, or a how about that annoying way it randomly just crashes my display driver making my whole desktop black until I C+A+D it?
Also before any wise-ass tells me to get a modern machine, I have a 965 BE, a 5770, an SSD, and 8GB of DDR3...
I won't go into details, but it took a week before I could get the game to work (and my PC far exceeded the recommended specs). I wouldn't say it's much different from my experiences PC gaming 88-2002, except nowadays there seems to be far more places to find bug/fix/tech problem FAQ's.
My last Civ before this was 3/III (not counting CivRev) - and (as I said earlier) - I absolutely fucking loved it. I Guess, based on recommendations here - I'll check out 4 in a few years when I've completely drained Civ V - or when Steam throw a special on CivIV Complete.
Snaggle - it doesn't seem you're alone, in my week of trawling boards/FAQ's/techsupport to try to get this to run, it seems NOT A SINGLE PERSON WHO PLAYED THIS GAME IN THE WORLD does not have some kind of technical problems.
I guess the title Civ V GOTY 2011 will go down well in 2013, when computers exist that can run this game smoothly, to the end without crashing, without disappearing units/black textures overlaid on leader animations/everything that could possibly go wrong - straight after install.
That said - my problem ended up being the most ridiculous, solved by accident type - who'da thought of changing win7 desktop appearance to basic? Add another unique user bug to the laundry list of user complaints. And my ingame bugs have been negligible.
After all the drama, - I love this game like an abused spouse loves their tormentor. The lack of stacking units adds a new strategic twist (even if feeling a little odd at first) , the UI is superbly unclunky (as killias said), the graphics and sound, while not mindblowing are beautifully designed and, well - beautiful (particularly enjoying the audio ambience/tweeting), and the overall experience is pure joy.
It's the new mantra "$50 a year" - from WOW to COD Elite to $50 a year worth of DLC for Civilization V or countless other titles - publishers want $50 a year in suscription, if that's the game you plan to spend the best part of the year playing.
There's pros to that and there's cons - but with games development costs as they are, it seems to be the current state of things.
In some ways it reminds me of the old freeware days (games like Captain Comic, before the Doom/DN1-"Episode 1 is free buy the game for the rest" model became the norm if not the standard model for most demos today) where if you liked a game you'd just send the creator a donation of as much as you liked and they were happy and would use the money to feed themselves while they (presumably) worked on their next creation.
Now it's more like - "you like Civ? Want to throw money at it cause it's damn near the only game you play anyway, and maybe, just maybe, we'll bring out more stuff and charge you for that as well, but you'll love it because what's $10 for a race and a map or two anyway, because even if you only play that race or map once - you'll spend 5+ hours minimum doing it, so come on , download me what's $1 an hour?"
You completely have the option of not buying the DLC, and as the "DLC included rereleases 12 months after release" has become the new "budget price rerelease game with no DLC".
You love it - see it at the cinema. You liked it - wait to buy the dvd. You don't really know - maybe rent it. Any of the above - maybe buy the rerelease directors cut steekbook lenticular v.1.5 double dvd bluray combo version when it's out a year later, then again before the sequel. It's gonna cost you more the more you want it.
Shame I just bought the game this month and all the DLC last week - but I won't begrudge them that. I just wish, like the old freeware days, I could post Sid Meier a letter saying "great job, take my money!"