Catherine the Great (in bed)

[mycroftholmes]

The Civilization games have always been wonderfully addictive, so when Civilization V came out early this month, I snatched it up and have been playing it daily. In the course of the game, you interact with other leaders. Catherine the Great of Russia is portrayed quite flirtatiously.

You can see all her dialogue in this video, beginning at 4:02

Comments

[cordilleran2]

On a non-history related note, how IS the gameplay of Civilization V, and, even more importantly, are the Byzantines in it? :-X

(I still have a soft spot for Catherine though. She was pretty awesome.)

[thewronghands]

I'm highly amused that the spoken dialogue is only a very loose match for what's in the transcripts. (I only get the Latin easily of the ones I watched, but still, someone must have had a lot of fun with that.)

[evilstorm]

Quite a lot of things have been tweaked. I find one-unit-per-tile makes combat AWESOME, but the fans of stacks of doom have done nothing but complain about it. Some game mechanics are still unknown, as it always is with new Civ games. Gold and research and culture are all separate now, so no, cottage strategy doesn't work any more. The pace of the game...feels a lot slower in the beginning, because everything just takes more turns to build. Civics and religions are gone, replaced by social policies, which are...kinda like a second tech tree but earned with culture (which is calculated across the whole empire now, not city by city).

I find CiV easier than cIV, but I am playing quite a lot of both.

[cordilleran2]

That sounds fantastic. I look forward to acquiring a copy should I ever get money again....

BTW, you seem amazing and hilarious, might I friend you?

[cordilleran2]

(admittedly, it was mostly the discworld reference that did it)

[evilstorm]

Friend away, though I might not friend back for a while. No offence meant, I just have some privateish posts (and a flist that needs culling anyway).

Yay Discworld!

[evilstorm]

Oh, and Catherine is still a backstabbing jerkface. WOW DECLARING WHILST IN FRIENDLY RELATIONS, SUCH A GREAT FRIEND YOU ARE.

[cordilleran2]

KILL HER! Wipe the backstabbing whore off the face of the planet! (At least, that's what I'd do)

[cholma]

One thing I've noticed in Civ V is that I am ALWAYS broke. Everything single unit and building costs you money. Plus, if you drop into Negative earnings, the game starts deleting units, but doesn't let you choose which unit dies, which can lead to an attack failing because you suddenly lost your artillery or archer units (which have an attack range of 2. Very nice.)

I haven't had a game advance to Modern Age yet, so I don't know if the money drain changes later. So far, I can only build two things that generate money: market and bank. Well, you can also improve a tile to generate extra gold, at the expense of food. (much like Civ IV's farm Vs cottage)

[mycroftholmes]

You and I must have very different play styles. Money is typically one thing I don't have to worry about in Civ V. I'm not loaded, at least not until late mid-game, but I usually have enough money to buy an emergency unit when I need to.

[mycroftholmes]

There are more changes from Civ IV to Civ V than in any other previously new version. And I love them