Comments on: Civilization Through The Ages: Civilization 4

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:49:42 +0000

Will never understand how people keep praising the hideous and faded colour looking graphics of this game. Everything blends into each other and the terrain. I’ve tried multiple times to play this game and can’t ever recognize anything on the map as instantly as in every other Civ game. It all looks disgusting and a great example of that early awful 3D era of gaming that still persists in most 3D strategy games. Is that a unit? What kind? Is that a terrain decoration or a resource? Better start zooming in on everything and mouse hovering to be able to tell what the hell it is. And just wait until you start adding improvements everywhere to really clutter the whole place up…

By: Vancho1

Vancho1 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:46:27 +0000

Commenting on an old post I know but I wanted to point out an important bit-while Civ 6 does bring back dark ages, there’s also a risk-reward aspect to it where getting a Golden age after a dark age turns it into a Heroic Age with extra powerful bonuses. You also get some Dark Age specific policy cards that can be situationally very powerful. I think it plays with the formula and gives more variety rather than being a punishment for sub-optimal play (in fact one strategy my friends would use is intentionally try for a dark age first so that the next age would be heroic, although it can be hard to pull off since you get a lot of age points in the early game just by exploring and regular milestones)

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By: Soren Johnson (@SorenJohnson)

Soren Johnson (@SorenJohnson) — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:25:25 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. FWIW, I don’t actually remember intentionally balancing the loss of Wonder bonuses with the bonus from obsolete techs, but I suppose it’s possible! Also enjoyed your write-up on Civ3, which was a very necessary step to get to Civ4 (and is also in many ways the beginning of Civ as a franchise).

By: Jiiiiim

Jiiiiim — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:29:57 +0000

Think Civ 4 was the last one that was great out of the box. Civ 5 eventually wrangled itself into a great game too, but it took a few interface mods to be fully playable.

Not to mention Civ 4 was the last one I played decent multiplayer on. Civ 5 multiplayer didn’t even function for years after release.

By: ilitarist

ilitarist — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:12:40 +0000

Beyond the Sword is the “final” version and the only one you have to download.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:29:24 +0000

Definitely my favorite of the series, though the terrible issues with the slowdown in the late game means I rarely actually finish. I generally play until I am pretty much assured of the win. If it’s a close game, I struggle through. Nearly everything about it is quality, and it’s stayed on every computer I’ve had since it was released and still have the original disks and book. Definitely holds the record for playtime in any game for me.

By: Herman

Herman — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:41:12 +0000

Thanks for the writeup! I found Civ 4 in my Steam library, but there are some expansions, too. What’s the nicest Civ 4 to play? Vanilla? Or with any of the expansions?

By: Andrew Ahn

Andrew Ahn — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:16:25 +0000

Civ 4 was my first Civ and it was very addictive.

Ciuv 5 I found lacking and I didn’t even bother looking at Civ 6.

By: Warren G

Warren G — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:42:41 +0000

No argument here, it’s still the best. I’m surprised you haven’t done a write-up on Fall from Heaven; that mod accounts for easily half of my play time in Civ 4.