Humble Sid Meier Bundle. I am really on the fence with this one :/

While I haven't played any Civ games other than 5, I can say that I really enjoy Civ 5 and both of its expansions. From what I've heard, they simplified certain elements of the gameplay from 4 to 5, but added some back in with the expansions. My advice to you would be to go back into your copy of Civ 4 and also go to YouTube and watch some Civ 5 videos. The Yogscast has some excellent ones, in my opinion, the most recent session starts here. If it doesn't look enjoyable, and/or you still can't get into Civ 4, I'd suggest you don't buy the bundle.

It's you.

Also, C&C isn't "strategy".

best civ = civ 1 :/

If you are a Real Time Strategy (RTS) player who enjoys games and series like Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, and Starcraft and you do NOT like Turn-Based Strategy (TBS) Civilization IV I cannot see you liking Civ 5 very much. The dynamic of the game is clearly turn-based and the action can happen very very slowly. I preferred RTS to TBS for a long time and totally shunned games like Alpha Centarai and Civilization. Then my parents bought me Civilization: A Call to Power and I started to like TBS little by little.. eventually I fell in love with it and I love both RTS and TBS equally.

tl;dr You won't like Civ 5

they said, get it on to brave new world for maximum experience

I got Civ V for free from GMG back then, so I just took the non BTA

PS: $15 is kinda pricey for me

Get the $1 tier and give CivIII a try. It's a good game in and of itself. Watch a couple of Let's Plays of CivIV and give it another try.

Focus on the big picture when you play either. Within a week, you'll know for sure if you like Civ-style TBS. If so, you'll have plenty of time to up your payment to get the BTA and $15 tier.

yeah totaly worth it! i didn't like the 4th one either but 5th is much easier to understand and play. But my advice is to buy DLC BNW and bring some friends to the game if you want some really great expirience
(sorry for begging but i would like to try 3d and re-try 4th part of civ so if you dont need them, can i get a key? :D)

Between 3, 4 and 5 (without that bta DLC), which one would you suggest to play? I've heard 5 is best, but only with that $15 DLC, also heard 3 is awesome.

There's a demo of civ 5 on steam, if you get into it, I say go for the bta price.

5 is easier to get into i think, the hex grids help more than they should lol, and the graphics are prettier. but the bta was 9 last I looked and if you want civ v you'd probably want all of civ 5 since brave new world seems to be a big deal for gameplay completeness. (on one hand 15s alot for a bundle, but on another if you're already shelling out $9 15 is pretty close. then agian on the mutant third hand(which is much like the first one) it could eventually be cheaper during one of steam's sales down the line so if you've got a backlog like many people here seem to thats an option/ but switching back to hand #2 thats mostly just because I've already got civ 5 gold, starting from scratch this is a good deal.

You've got 2 weeks and the bta can't get much higher I'd try to get into civ4 and the civ 5 demo.

(side note its not all of civ 5's expansions, its just the two main ones. theres extra bits and pieces not included like civilizations senerios and map packs. and brave new world includes everything important from gods and kings anyway. so gods and kings is basically only a civilization pack like the other dlc now. personally I'd get the base game and bnw and thats it(unless theres another civilization you want in one of the other dlc). which is definately cheaper elsewhere. the game has so many civs to play as anyway)

tldr
You've got 2 weeks and the bta can't get much higher I'd try to get into civ4 and the civ 5 demo. and you could get almost the entire game with only base and brave new world, and civ goes on sale all the time for comperable (or less if you strip it down to necessities) anyway so no real pressure.

if you're still on the fence you could even throw a penny at it to hold your key and you've got a month after it ends to bump that up and buy things if you want it, if not it was only a penny you wasted.

Yes and you should get the $15 one. Brave New World has gone on sale down to like $12 so to pay $15 for Brave New World, Civ 5 and Gods and kings is a great deal. I hear some people saying Civ 4 is better and other saying Civ 5 is better. I played Civ 4 at a friends house and idk why but I enjoyed Civ 5 more. I'm not picking up anything from this bundle since I already own Civ 5 gold edition and I'm waiting for BNW to go down to like $5 since I really only want it to play as the Assyrian Empire.

I don't know I had Civ V free from the GMG deal, didn't have any of the $1 min so just got that. I don't want to spend any more, and the crazy avg just keeps going up.

I now regret getting Civ V gold for $12.

hey guess what... i was in a (similar) boat to u, and then I won civ V... no need to buy the bundle now for me :P

(haven't played civ v, so I cant give a recommendation... but if you want to justify the purchase, you could get the V (civ v), for V day (valentines day), and if you win the storyline you could again celebrate V day (this time Victory day).

Civ 4 is probably the best of the series.

I started playing Civs with 2, out of all of them Civ4 felt like it had the best robust gameplay:functional gameplay ratio. Civ5 has a lot of visual improvements at the cost of a highly glitchy experience, some of which are exploits that the developers refuse to patch. I'm not saying Civ5 is not worth playing, I've put 1000+ hours into it, but with glitches like a multiplayer trade exploit that will force me to accept their deal I can't play with randoms online, exploits like being able to abuse science overflow to go from industrial to modern era in a few turns even when I play with people I know the games lose their purpose and become a who can exploit better match.

They're all fun imo, and civ5 is visually great.

If you couldn't get into Civ 4 this bundle isn't for you. For that matter you'd more than likely be better off avoiding anything with Sid Meier's name on it.

Thanks for all your comments!

Guess Civ is not my kind of game :/

for me i would love to get the bundle but i'm so broke i cant get any bundle xD but i think civ games are worthy in the end is up to you

i dont have civ 4, but civ 5 is a very nice game and the dlcs are very good.

Well, i played civilization 3, it is awesome, then i played 4 and honestly i did not liked it. I have civ 5 and i played a little, its so changed, but i kinda liked it, although i have not played enough to give you a complete review.

I used to play civ 3 with a friend and he is so hooked up with 5, he didnt liked 4 either. I still got the complete bundle, first because i dont own civ 3 (legally, it was before i came straight with games), secondly due to the expansions on 5, and lastly, because its so damm expensive in comparison to other bundles, that i expect something big to come up.

But damm, i payed 15 for that one and the next bundle is tomorrow, i think ill starve to death lol.

Well, you could try Civ IV Colonization. I think it is in a pack. It's remake of one of the first games od Sid Meier and it's great. It has a lot of different gameplay than Civ IV or V.

I prefer Civ 4 over Civ 5 :>

Civ 3 is too old nowadays - you have to edit files for it to even work properly (and I mean Steam version -.-). Civ 5 looks nice, but it's really too easy for series standard :/ They got rid of many complex mechanisms just to adjust a game for wider audience. Civ 4 may look old, but it works fine, is much more complex and so each gameplay varies much more from previous ones.

I wish there was a mod of civ4 with hex grids. I like hex grids

If you didn't like Civ 4, you won´t like Civ 5. Has some different things, but overall it's the same game.

I'm like you, I love the old C&C games and bought Civ 5 with Gods and Kings and Brave new world, but I couldn't get into it.

CV3 is the best!