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[Razek]

4 for sure. Never understood the stack of doom hate. Seeing the list of units outside your city become so large that the infocard went off your screen was one of the best parts!

 

[Basileus777]

get the 4th.

3rd one, you fast expand all over the place as winning tactic.

But ICS is an effective strategy in every Civilization game.

Though Civ III did take it to an extreme.

 

[Entropia]

I bought Civ III, IV and V from Steam yesterday. I started with V and loved it. Booted up IV, and in a brief play I enjoy the interface of V more.

 

[Xero]

I agree with 4. Particularly if you are new. I still got my ass kicked learning the game in 3. The easiest difficulty in 4 does a nice job of easing you into the game, then when you feel confident kick it up a notch, as easy isn't a challenge. the settler spam in 3 was especially bad too. I still recommend looking up and using a tutorial online though, to help you with the game.

 

[Alexios]

I can't find any other recent Civ IV threads so I'll ask here...

I just got Civilization 4 Complete for my brother who hasn't played a Civ since II, and I'll try it too since I'm in the same situation (although I had it on Steam already but anyway). From what I can see Colonization is a wholly different game, but the rest of the others look like expansions of the base game, so why don't I just get the choice to start Civ IV with or without any expansion but instead get a different shortcut for each? I just wonder what's the best way to play the game. Do I use the Warlords shortcut, or the Beyond the Sword one, or the standard Civ IV one? I want to just start with what's considered the best and fullest experience but also without missing the chance to start with some introduction or tutorial or whatever the base game may have had, is that possible? Also, are there any patches I should get for this version, I just installed it off the disc.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

I can't find any other recent Civ IV threads so I'll ask here...

I just got Civilization 4 Complete for my brother who hasn't played a Civ since II, and I'll try it too since I'm in the same situation (although I had it on Steam already but anyway). What's the best way to play it? From what I can see Colonization is a wholly different game, but the rest of the others look like expansions of the base game, so why don't I just get the choice to start Civ IV with or without any expansion but instead get a different shortcut for each? I just wonder what's the best way to play the game. Do I use the Warlords shortcut, or the Beyond the Sword one, or the standard Civ IV one? I want to just start with what's considered the best and fullest experience but also without missing the chance to start with some introduction or tutorial or whatever the base game may have had, is that possible?

Also, are there any patches I should get for this version, I just installed it off the disc.

Play Beyond The Sword. It has all the stuff from others and more. I'm not sure what the patches fix but can't hurt to get newest one. Theres only 1 tutorial and I'm not sure if you can acces it from Beyond The Sword, its still pretty lackluster and best way to learn would probably just play custom games with easy difficulty.

 

[Peff]

Start with Civ4 vanilla to play the tutorial, then use Beyond The Sword the rest of the time. Once you get the basics you can practice on easy and progressively up the difficulty.

EDIT: Also this

 

[Alexios]

Okay, thanks, so Beyond the Sword is the last and incorporates everything they released yet if I start it with that shortcut it won't include the vanilla tutorials from the base game so I should first try that, got it (right?)! I had the same issue with GalCiv II, heh...

 

[Peff]

Correct. The tutorial is a mod for vanilla.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Okay, thanks, so Beyond the Sword is the last one and incorporates everything they released for that game yet if I start it with that shortcut it won't include the vanilla tutorials from the base game so I should first try that, got it (right?)! I had the same issue with GalCiv II, heh...

Yup. The tutorial doesn't cover everything tho so you should take your time experimenting with easy computers in BTS after playing it.