Is it that time of the month yet?
Civ VI? lol, It will be a DLC fest like the last one, I guess :p
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Yep. The CEO of Take-Two (who owns 2K) even said that they aim to make all their games have "recurrent consumer spending opportunities". Having a bunch of DLC is a relatively benign way of achieving that, IMO.
EDIT: There already are six smaller DLC packs and an expansion out.
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Game is completely playable without the majority of the DLC. You usually just need the major expansion, but those usually overhaul the game to such an extent it plays like a whole new game.
Furthermore, the game supports modding very well, so if you want variety, there's plenty of that available.
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FFH was the best Civilization mod, and that was a decade ago. I doubt anyone will be able to match what FFH did for Civ IV with Civ V, BE, or VI. I think I'll be pausing this month.
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Never really played Civ 4. It was before I got into strategy (and PC) gaming.
I remember Vox Populi with Events and Decisions for Civ 5 was rather fantastic as well.
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I never played FFH much because I found Civ IV boring to begin with (compared to the best game in the series, the ancient Alpha Centauri) :<
Did people still work on it, or provide offshoot mods, the last years?
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Alpha Centauri is great. Too bad it never got a sequel. Yep. Never. Definitely nothing about going beyond earth in the franchise ever again. Nope. -Signed, sad rider of the hype train.
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I have a friend who always buys the obviously bad AAA games. It's a pattern with him. He buys the most obscenely expensive collector's edition they have, and then for a week he tries to pretend the game was any good.
No Man's Sky - preordered, hype train, played for a week, abandoned.
Beyond Earth - preordered, hype train, played for a week, abandoned.
Civ VI too ;)
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So for users from the future, I've been researching Civ IV mods a bit today, and it seems other great mentions are:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/caveman2cosmos
http://anewdawn.sourceforge.net/
(both based on Rise of Mankind/New Dawn)
http://rhye.civfanatics.net/pages/civ4-RFC-downloads.php
very frequently patched to this day in https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/rhyes-and-fall-dawn-of-civilization.452/
http://www.realism-invictus.com/
and then FFH has sub-mods itself, of course
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I'm buying in hope that some day there will be a Complete upgrade or a steam bundle at least. Not sure if I will play it any sooner though.
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Ditto, I was super close to getting Civ VI and Sleeping Dogs. Glad I didn't.
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Still no reason to subscribe again, it seems. Ah, well.
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Ok they bought me with this early unlock , will buy it for sure.
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Hhmhmhmmmm... Don't know, i'm interested on the early unlock, but last bundles were all bad so far... Don't know, don't know...
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IV was bundled 9 years after the release
V was bundled 4 years -||-
Sure, tier 1 and 2, but based on the trend of the successful Civilization games, don't expect 6 in tier 1-2 for a good while.
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When Civ 4 released, we didn't have bundles, which kinda explains it. When Civ 5 released, AAA titles in bundles were still relatively uncommmon.
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I give it until next expansion ;)
Just not sure if T2 or straight to T1 with it by then.
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Could be, I would guess sooner, but tier 3. It started out way, waaay better than Beyond Earth, my guess that they will value it more.
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Great time to try my first ever refund on Steam :D
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i have annual sub so i taking it but i think ill just gift these games, having base game means it would be more expensive to buy the DLCs instead of the goty in a few years. i can wait for goty:-)
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no point, overall iam happy with games i get, last month was worth way more than 12usd, or 11 with annual, or even less as got that 20 wallet few months ago. And last time i skipped a month i need to buy few unlocks for nearly the price of the monthly because as those games were wanted:-)
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You got me pondering for a while on what an anal sub is. :P
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Steam would deduct the price of the DLCs you already have if you buy a bundle. You'd still get the bundle discount.
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iam always afraid to buy a dlc freak base game even from bundle since xcom1 dlc was more always than the base game + dlc pack.
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Witcher 3 is a good example in that category too, especially for how much people praise/worship CD Projekt.
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You had me almost pausing! That's true... Civ VI might end up on a bundle in later years but I remember the Civ V bundle was separated into Civ V + Civ V DLCs so it might be possible either way. Now I'm on the fence about buying this one :S
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if you want to play the game asap you should buy it, its probably a great game, i loved civ series always but i have soo many games i still need to play and iam behind the gaming industry with like 2-3 years so i have no issues to wait for goty versions:-)
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I still have Stellaris and a ton of other time consuming games as well :( I've tried a bit of Civ VI and seen it on youtube already, so I know it's good enough yeah... so tempted to wait it out as well.
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Stellaris is another "wait for 20 patches and 99999999 DLC" title though, maybe even much more than Civ.
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but paradox games dont get goty versions and while there are still a lot of dlc there are always free content with patches so for the price of the base game you get an everchanging strategy game.
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Paradox always do random GOTY / "Complete" collections.
The trolls even called the EU3 they sell on Steam EU3 Complete, and then you still have to buy two expansions afterwards: http://store.steampowered.com/app/25800/Europa_Universalis_III_Complete/
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I've been strong in resisting the humble monthly but i'm not sure I can any longer. Someone stop me (put fingers into wallet......)
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i hope those dlcs arent part of the 8 games of the bundle
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Base game locked for RU/CIS, probably locked for South America as well. Asia and Sea too, perhaps.
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In steamdb only this regions show: Asia, IN, BR, RU/CIS, Europe. So I imagine most of south america is fine.
But if someone from some other country in south america knows buys it would be nice to know for sure.
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I don't think there's a Brazil only region lock for steam games now.
There used to be back in 2015, but there's a while all restricted games I've seen were labeled as SA instead of BR.
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If you check the link in the main post it's listed as BR in steamdb and steamdb pulls their data from steam.
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Just got mine on steam xmax sale. Still think is best to hold off during this HB, DLC are quite expensive to but 1by1, deluxe edition is better.
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Yeah, sigh. The base game will become next to worthless before I have time to play this. I wish they didn't put so many "base" type of games in the monthlies. With this in mind, I have to say I'm very pleased with this months bundle where only Tomb Raider is a base kind of game.
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Civ games have never been my cup of tea. Does anyone know if it is possible to pause a subscription in the middle of a 3 month plan, or is that only possible with month by month?
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You can pause even few months in a row. I skipped 3 out of last 4 bundles with 1year sub.
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That is probably what I will do then, thank you! January's bundle has a lot to keep me busy with anyway.
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I am glad someone like Jan. bundle as for me there was nothing interesting I must have. But well I am kind of strange person with my tastes. :)
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I love survival games, so they had me at The Long Dark. Anything else was just a bonus for me :D
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Finally my last month from 1-year sub I am fine with early unlock. I am in (if I don't win it ofc) and last humble bundle for me I suppose.
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Yeah that's definitely a no-brainer for me. I'm not really interested in Civ but my girlfriend's been asking for the new one for a while. :P
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