A Look Back at Civilization IV (2005)
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Originally created by legendary game designer Sid Meier, Civilization is a turn-based strategy game in which you attempt to build an empire to stand the test of time. Explore a new land, research technology, conquer your enemies, and go head-to-head with history’s most renowned leaders as you attempt to build the greatest civilization the world has ever known.
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Baba Yetu has to be the theme for Civilization series as a whole. Loved this game and this song is etched into my mind to this day.
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Absolutely brilliant piece. I listen to it regularly
It slaps harder than pretty much any other game song. Crazy good.
I'd love to visit a Swahili community to hear this banger in church.
It's like the theme of the triumph of humankind.
It did win a Grammy!
Too many 3am gaming sessions with this beauty. Has to be the game I've played the most, of all time ❤
Wasn't expecting to see you here.
2007 - Civ 4 almost ends my marriage when my wife forward settles me on a tiny land bridge. 😂
I convinced my highschool choir teacher to let us sing Baba Yetu. It was awesome. We got a new choir teacher the next year… you will never guess what song he wanted to do 😂
This is the pinnacle of Civ for me! Especially because it enabled some of the best fan-made mods of gaming history. For example pie's ancient Europe, a total conversion to a game set in antiquity or Master of Mana, which has a research tree for culture, spells and religion in addition to normal research. Furthermore there was the Civ4 Colonization version with the great mods Religion and Revolution and the current version We the People. These mods took Civ4 to a whole new level of gaming. (And there are many others)
FFH2 deserves special mention.
Caveman2Cosmos breathed new life into Civ 4 for me.
@@TheFranchiseCAYes, that one showed that you can have a campaign and really cool story in a 4x game. The mentioned Master of Mana is a modmod of FFH2. I always consider civ4 bts one of the best games of all time but I always forget that I cannot play bts anymore because it's so much, much worse than these mods. Some of these are even still developed after all these years and still getting better.
Exactly! Modders managed to turn a wonderful game into something even better. I haven't heard of "pie's ancient Europe", I'll need to check that mod.
Also don't forget about Rhye's and Fall of Civilization and Leoreth's RFC Dawn of Civilization
I teared up when I heard Baba Yetu for the first time in Civ IV. Civ 4 is one of my favorite games in the series, despite the flaws.
CIV IV is the GOAT, the absolute perfection of Civ’s original concept!
This game was my childhood. Had so many good times
It was my childhood. It's still my life.
Civ 4 has some of my favorite scenarios in all of Civ. Particularly 1000 AD
The Ryse and Fall mod for this game is what originally got me addicted to Civ.
The greatest game of the franchise and where Civ peaked. The best AI, the best mods and total conversions (Rhyse and Fall, Dune Wars, and of course Fall from Heaven 2), excellent scenarios like Road to War, Future War and Afterworld, and the last time mechanics felt impactful pre 5 and 6. Many a new player will harp on stacks of doom, yet this saved so much time in the end time compared to what came after. The AI was actually a challenge, could move and plan and actually felt like a true test of intellect in every game. Here’s hoping 7 recaptures some of the magic that made 4 so great and enduring.
Best Civ ever, period.
Between the solid gameplay, music and narration of almost all tech quotes by Leonard Nimoy and the rest by Sid himself, Civ 4 is truly peak Civ for me. That being said I'm very happy that each Civ game is distinct enough to shine with their own mechanics.
Best Civ.
This game even kind of appealed to my grandmother- she liked its great music and seeing the animated leaders (some of them with real-life terms in office that she remembered) when I would choose a civilization.
When the expansion came out, she also laughed the first time I mentioned Korean leader Wang Kon, as she wondered if I was swearing. (It at least sounds a bit rude in Britain anyway.)
I have so many memories of waking up on Saturday and Sunday mornings and seeing my dad play this game on the computer. I’d pull up a chair and watch him play for hours, eventually he had taught me enough that I could play and talk strategy with him.
That’s was me in 93! Civ 1 tho
This is the game where everything came together for Civ. The very pinnacle of the game series.
I love playing the new games, but also return regularly to Civ4. Perfection! (Also - Leonard Nimoy!!!!)
It's been almost 20 years!
I don't miss the Stacks of Doom, but I still like or even miss some other features like cool classical music by Beethoven and Dvorak.
Slavonic Dances fit so well in the game.
Rather have doomstacks than 1 unit per tile any day
There are multiple ways to solve doomstack issue. Call to power had nice 12 unit army limit with combat taking place simultaniously for all units. Realism Invictus mod have logistic stat that introduces penalties for too big armies etc. I've come to the conclusion that less micro focus is always better in the long term
@@damianabregba7476 Thanks. I never got past the tip of the iceberg playing mods. I'd have to find my old DVD ROM from one laptop and one move ago, get the patch we miss so much (if it's still available), and get it ready before I can seek out those mods. No problem. 😆
This is truly the quintessential Civilization game for me. Even though I like the more recent editions, I still return to this masterpiece again and again.
Just one more turn!
Best game in the series 😊 Still play it regularly.
This is my first CIV, back then i was in grade 4 and saw my dad playing this game, So he taught me to play this masterpiece. It took me a lot of "one more turn" until i can master it in a noble level.
And this game (along with Civ V) sparks my passion in a world history, which is my major in a university.
I wish there was an option to make Baba Yetu the main menu music in all the games.
Turn of sogno di volare and create an application or something that plays Baba Yetu whenever the game is opened
As $9,99 DLC? 🤔
It should be possible to fool most games. Track down the current menu music in the game files and take note of the name. Then copy over the Baba Yetu file to that folder and give it the same name as the menu music you replaced. You might need to convert the music first. I know Civ IV uses .mp3 and Civ V (the file is located in one of the DLC folders if you use them) uses .WAV, for example. But I remember doing this back in the day. The game should not be able to tell the difference if the name and file extension are right and play Baba Yetu.
@@Paulianus thats actually genius
@@crappusmaximus1268 To be fair Sogno Di Volare is also incredible. Both are S tier.
This game will always hold a special place in my heart. Truly peak.
Civ4 is best game ever made. Even so i am still playing the next series up till 6.
Civ franchise is my number 1 in my game list.
The best Civ definitely. As for the best game ever... it would be a tough decision between it and Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
I was first introduced to VI last year and have since gone on to buy V. Both great in their own way. 1 year later 700 hours between both games. I hope VII doesn’t suck. Wishing for the best!
V was bad, VI was worse. I have no hopes for VII. I might give it a try in 7-8 years when it's on sale for 10 $ with all DLCs.
@@poiuyt975 VI is way better than V.
I started with V and loved it! I do recommend giving IV a try if you need something to hold you over until VII
@@poiuyt975V was bad at release but it ended up being the most polished civ imho.
Also vox populi is next level
@@UUUU-dn9wz It's Vox Populi that turned the game in to an actual Civilization experience. Civ V, even with all the expansions, might've been polished, but it was still a mediocre game. It had basically one best, game-winning strategy (Tradition->Patronage->Rationalism, tall play).
There were way too many 'fake choices', where theoretically you could choose between various options, but one was always much better than the rest.
Plus the game lacked other aspects of strategic flexibility which was present in Civ IV, like the Science/Wealth/Culture slider.
It's one of those games that I had played quite a bit back in the day, especially after Vox Populi came out, but to which I will never return again. And I still play a game of Civ IV every now and then.
The are two gaming soundtracks that i will carry with me forever: „this is a Triumph“ from portal and „baba yetu“ from civ IV. And civ IV and colonization are the First Games that i got as a Birthday-gift from my mother. She accepted gaming as my hobby with that. Thanks, Sid^^
Loved all the CIV games. Played hours and hours with CIV, CIV2, CIV3 but CIV4 was likely the pinnacle. Only thing that it was hard to get past the intro :)
God I love civ 4, 10k hours and counting
The Greatest Civ ever
Nobody mentioning Leonard Nimoy narrating techs? Cmon :D
Ahhh, my first real entry into the franchise... Baba Yetu will forever be etched into my soul.
I currently have 1,571.1 hours into the Civ series as a whole. But this legit my first time hearing Baba Yetu as of 7-31-24. I’ve been playing the series since I was 11. I’m now 25 and it’s still one more turn for me. The games I’ve been playing are Revolution, V, VI: Beyond Earth, and VI. Baba Yetu is definitive ear candy. Can’t wait for VII🙏🏾 This series made me the history lover I am today.
Back in time when DLC’s were a *DLC’s*
The peak of the series!
I have vivid memories of playing Civ' IV when it released on my dad's computer. Not understanding everything but enjoying its atmosphere and musics. It's still my favourite game of all time and I still play it up to this day.
15 years after I started playing. This game and this song changed my entire life.
I can't say enough say Thank you Sid Meier for my beloved game Civilization.
best civ ever, best strategic game ever. Mechanics and logics were great, it was super immersive, I never had anymore with any games or civs the feeling to discover a new world on Earth2 map, those immense chess games with Peter (conquered a city, lost a city, reconquer), Baba Yetu, the religion mechanic much better with the Apostolic Palace. BTS after some years which rerolled everything...pure magic.
Thanks Sid!
The scenarios of CIV IV are GOAT
The mods are even better.
The best Civ game ever created. After Beyond the Sword it quickly went downhill. :-(
This game played a major part on me being a history teacher now lol
Fall from Heaven 2 is still to this day peak Civ.
Ashes of Erebus, descendant of FFH2, is still in active development. :-)
I need to go back and play this. I played through a couple of times and thought it was ok. Civ3 still my OG favorite
This is the best game ever made, still play it to this day
I played Civ IV more than maybe any game, especially counting mods like Fall From Heaven 2!
It's the non-idle game i have the most playtime in on steam. Almost 2800 hours. More than my next 5 (non-idle) games combined.
Going from Civ 3 to 4 was mind-blowing. Civ 4 is still my favorite. While I didn’t like religions being tied to research, there’s so much else I love about Civ 4 that keeps it as my favorite.
Civ 4 really was the best. From the opening theme to the gameplay.
I endlessly played this game. So nostalgic. I wish there was some way to play it again. As far as I know there isn’t any way to do it.
This game deserves an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe
Civilization IV is one of the first strategy games I ever played, and I spent countless hours on it; I'll always look back fondly on it as one of my favorite games of all time.
To this day I believe this is the best Civilization game.
Also, the Fall from Heaven 2 mod... ah, that was the best thing ever.
The whole choir singing Baba Yetu while keeping a straight face got me.
Besides Baba Yetu, the modern era musical compilation for Beyond the Sword was phenomenal! Excepts from Nixon in China and other pieces by John Adams. I listen to his works now thanks to Civ 4.
you could've had 'The Great People are born', but you blew it!
4 was the highest point in the evolution of civ games. 5 had a few cool innovations, but overall it was a step back. 6 continued that trend.
Civ 4 was literally the reason I signed up for TH-cam to begin with. Watching Rhye's and Fall Let's Plays and seeing content for other mods like Caveman 2 Cosmos.
I'm playing Caveman2Cosmos right now!
Still my favorite Civ
I liked the tech tree and the wonder animations.
Great for multi-player too because of the ressources.
If it HD not been for the stack of doom and missing space part it would have been the best.
Best CIV só far.
Civ IV - Beyond the Sword was the absolute peak of the "old style" Civ games.
It's kinda it's own style. I generally group 1, 2 and 3 together, and 4, 5 and 6. But 4 is in a league of it's own.
If Firaxis really respected and loved their own legacy they would release the tiniest of patches for example for Civ 4 to support modern monitors like 1440p, but in Firaxis' eyes upholding your legacy with more than a 2 min TH-cam video is not paying a single penny to a programmer to do a minimal amount of upkeeping to show gratitude to the community.
I was terrible at civ 4 but I loved it anyways as my first civ/ gateway drug. Baba yetu is just peak civ music.
My 1st Civ game (which I got along with Warlords), and the start of my Civ obsession!
The greatest Civ of all times and unsurpassed to this day. And, judging by the trajectory of 5 and 6, 4 will sit safely on its unreachable throne for an eternity. FXS/2K have lost it. I expect nothing from 7.
I really hope Firaxis makes a remaster of IV. You could call it "Civilization Forever" ;D
My first PC game! I have many good memories of playing LAN games with my dad and, of course, conquering the world as Gandhi.
I think was the best in the series. After this the series started to regress while alternatives appeared.
I spent so many hours in this. Especially when I discovered Fall From Heaven 2...
Baba Yetu is still at the top of my playlists after all these years.
Great game, this is the Civ that I played the most. I think it was, maybe, the most balanced civ game ever after Civ 3 introduced flavours to each civilization. But it have two flaws: a lot of information is "hiding" (non intuitive) and you need to do some intricated game mechanic to play in higher dificulties. So I played a lot in Prince difficulty and had a lot of fun for almost 15 years....great game
Still the best civ game
The best Civ game ever! And plays great on the Steam Deck, I don't think I'll ever stop playing it.
What do you mean look back? I'm still playing it from time to time!!!
I remember singing Baba yetu on my way between classes in my awful middle school years. I was a very cool kid
Firaxis - Now is the time to create an Enhance version of Civ IV (Complete) or just BTS. (IV still looks great today, but some tweaks and improvements for modern systems would be nice. No content needs to be added, but fixed up the engine a bit) It will give our CFC modders some work to do as well :)
For me, it started with Civ3. Wish I had an old Win 95/98 machine so I can replay.
It’s a masterpiece and it‘s bug free ❤
Not only was Baba Yetu good, but the soundtrack lead me to so many great classical songs that I still listen to today
Civ 4 redeemed the series after 3. Never have been happy with 3.
The best Civilization game made so far. It truly felt like a march of history and was just the right mix of complexity and realism with comic caricatures of well known personalities and legends. I really do hope we see a game like this someday again. The majesty of watching the Earth light up with artificial lights and then with the sun to the tune of Baba Yetu really set the tone. It's ironic that Civilization regressed back to 2D static backgrounds and bland music for the menus. They should really revisit Civs 3 and 4 again even if it came as a spin off.
The Magnum Opis of the entire series
Aaah Civ IV played it too much to the point that my parents took away the disk and hid it from me 😢😂
Civilization V had a Great intro and art style and the Realistic Style of the leader added onto it and had wonderful Music which the honor goes to the Main Menu and Intro music.
Best Civ, hands down. I sure hope VII brings back some form of stacks or will not be buying.... what's the point when this game is so good as is ? Civ IV with updated graphics and just a few of the actually good features from 5/6 is the dream... will keep playing IV and not buying new ones until we see something along those lines.
moja ulubiona wersja civilizacji
I can't say it was the best. Even when it came out I tried it and went back to Civ 3 immediately (which for me had better graphics in terms of coloring and brightness). After some time I finally made the transition, but then Civ 5 came out and for the most part it was far better for me (except for AI). Later when I tried to return and play a modpack in Civ IV with a friend, the game desynched all the time, so that was another throwback. Overall it is a good game, with best AI in the franchise, but still had issues that made me not loving it.
The song though... man, I took the audio file from Civ 4 and replaced all of the menu civ songs in other versions of the game. It is a masterpiece.
Civ4 definitely was the best civ these past twenty years. Good music, great moddability, graphics weren't the dominant thing, the social structure mechanism were well understood (as they were copied over from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) and the menu's weren't needlessly overblown. Sure, it had doomstacks and really bad terrain with it's classic quadratic map but it worked for what it did. If we backported 1UPT, Hex terrain and better religions, heck, add a good ai on top of that and it would be the CIV for all times.
If you added all of those things it would not be civ4. Better religion maybe, ai is it's own thing. But Tiles and Stacks are a core part of Civ 4. It would not work any other way.
@@The360MlgNoscoper I don't think so. For me it's the event structure, the social mechanism, the leonard nemoy voice for the techs...all the little things, not stacks or square tiles. But it's an interesting idea, whether we lose the soul of a thing in backporting changes from what we've learned worked better.
@@xerxes299 The combat system would not make sense with 1upt.
Stacks are the best feature of Civ IV because they make the AI dangerous and reduce tedium. 1 UPT is the worst feature of 5/6.
Bring back Baba Yetu!
The most cheeseable (and only) civ I have beaten on deity. 😅
Try 6, it’s super easy lol
@@nathanspreitzer6738 I have already played 6 but haven't adventured that far yet, any advice?
@@kikevsakahigePick a civ that works with your victory type, abuse Magnus trade routes by building a commercial hub or harbor 1st in every city, send trade route back to capital, mine every hill, try not to build too many builders before feudalism as they scale in cost per builder built, early game culture is way more valuable than early science, and finally district projects are the only “building” not balanced by game speed (they are really op on online, ok on quick, bad on standard or below). If you really want an easy deity win go religion and focus religion only, ai sucks at it can usually win by renaissance era
Although religious is my least favourite victory, if I run out of alternatives I'll try it
You can beat Civ 6 on deity in 1 turn.
Best in the series
Great, now I have to go play this wonderful game. I am nearly 40, Firaxis , I am supposed to be taking care of my kids, not the... oh, no, Montezuma...
For me, CIV is on par with CVI for the greatest number of hours of playing a Civ game. Its also the first iteration of Civ that I felt was worth playing in Multiplayer. We had several epic Diplomacy Games running, organized via CivFanatics.
IV is tied with V (with the expansions) as my favourite in the series. Don't think I'm alone in that.
If it takes the expansions for V to be on par with base-IV. How does it comapre with BTS?
I find myself alternating between IV, V & Revolution the most.. So I’m thinking they’re my top 3
next is my first Civ game. Civ V
До сих пор играю в 4 часть, 5 и 6 не зашли. Хотелось бы поддержки игры или ремастера этой части! Пожалуйста, разработчики не забывайте про эту игру 😢
Bring back Christopher Tin! Baba Yetu and Sogno di Volare are magical
Baba Yetu changed my life
The first Civ game to recognize Joan of Arc didn't actually rule France
The look back can stop here to be honest, they haven't made a better game than this.
Great one.
O melhor dos civilization.