mossy_11 wrote:
I finished playing Ash on my iPod Touch yesterday. It really impressed me, with great dialogue and humour, simple menus, and solid (albeit rather shallow) combat mechanics. I fully recommend it, and will have a review posted on Australian Macworld early next week.
I also finished my first campaign in Civ 5 recently. It took me roughly six weeks, partly because I was writing a Game Diary about the experience over on Bitmob. I'm digging the hex grid and the new combat mechanics, but the AI and revamped diplomacy are really disappointing.
Next up is NyxQuest, which I bought off Steam a short while back, and probably also a bunch of adventure games (assuming a feature article I've been offered (at another site) goes ahead).
From what I hear of the Civ5 AI it's basically a damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of scenario if you try for anything diplomatic. Want to be a good guy and appease your neighbors? Great! They'll accept all the gifts you give them, including cities, only to determine you're too warlike (for having said cities to gift in the first place). Want to ask for something from them? Nope, won't happen. But hey, they'll sure ask YOU for stuff and expect it.
It's as if the game developers took the World of Warcraft playerbase, its demeanor, rudeness, and behaviour, as well as intent, and rolled it into a clusterfuck of a ball and called it the Civ5 AI.
I have not heard one single positive comment regarding Civ5 other than it's easier to learn than Civ4. Its AI apparently stinks...that much.