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The Civilization series. Or how I played for 6 hours nonstop last night and did not notice. Seriously. One minute I was playing for only an hour until the world cup game started, next minute I look outside and it's really dark, I look at the time 2 A.M holly shit!!!


I first played Civilization 1 on the SNES (via emulator) and strangely enough I loved it (arrow to move units not the best of things). Then I got Civ 3 and then Civ 4 on release day (3rd time I did that. first was pokemon silver, second was GTA San Andreas PC version).

I love Civ 4. I like the graphics, I like the streamlined interface, I like the Civilpedia, I like the way the game handles religion (like really life people of different religions hate each other. Subtle social commentary.) Though I don't like that there are too few religions, and only the current ones. I would love to sacrifice my people to the Mayan gods for example .

I can't wait for Civilization 5 and Civilization Network on Facebook. What I really want back in Civ5 is the city view screen. It just makes you feel more proud for your cities

City view screen in Civ3



City view (no view screen) in Civ4




BTW last night's game, I was in a big war with America (Roosvelt) and just when I had them on the run (and half their empire under my control, including Washington) freaking Chorchil attacks me all the way on the other side of the continent, with a giant armada and army. And since that was the edge of the continent I have barely any defenses there . So I saved it there and went to sleep. Will try to destroy them both now. I'll tell you how it turns out.






Anyone else here loves these games?

I love the first game and purchased it and played it in Amiga AND in PC CD-Rom, learned a lot with Civilopedia and all that.

It is a great shame that I haven't played Civ 2, 3 or 4. I never got round to it yet? Maybe I'm afraid of trying them due to my huge respect to the original, I don't know.

I did play Colonization, Master of Magic and Alpha Centauri. I have a great personal preference for Master of Magic, they are all great (Colonization is just good though).

Ivo.

At my old job in tech support, we'd have long periods of downtime between calls, so multiplayer games we could take our time with and set down at a moment's notice were the way to go. Civ 2 became our bread and butter. We'd throw in some difficult AI, form strategic alliances with each other, and use our individual strengths in the game to dominate. We'd have week-long games running at times.

I really like the games I own Civilization 3 Complete. The only thing I don't like is that it's very difficult to win without killing all others.

I never got into Civ, Settlers or Simcity, despite trying several titles from each franchise. Even gave a friend who's a strategy nut a copy of Civ4 as a present only to have it returned the next day.. Guess I'm not the only one

Pulsar_t wrote:I never got into Civ, Settlers or Simcity, despite trying several titles from each franchise. Even gave a friend who's a strategy nut a copy of Civ4 as a present only to have it returned the next day.. Guess I'm not the only one

Not all games are for everyone. Personally I can't get enough city building games but I never play them the hardcore way. Meaning I have never gotten a military win in Civ. I always win via diplomacy, space age, or my favorite Culture. I just like building stuff more than destroying stuff.

I really enjoyed Civ 2, but never played it above the second easiest difficulty, as any higher and my plans of allying everyone and research blitzing would get me killed. I'd never expand enough and would end up with the smallest empire. Then I'd usually use my superior technology to take out one civilization to gain some cities, and then space race. Civ 3 was the game that I really got to like, since the cultural aspect added a few nice things; the first was that you'd get a visual diagram of your borders, and the second was you could take cities without firing a shot.

ZeroAX wrote:

Pulsar_t wrote:I never got into Civ, Settlers or Simcity, despite trying several titles from each franchise. Even gave a friend who's a strategy nut a copy of Civ4 as a present only to have it returned the next day.. Guess I'm not the only one

Not all games are for everyone. Personally I can't get enough city building games but I never play them the hardcore way. Meaning I have never gotten a military win in Civ. I always win via diplomacy, space age, or my favorite Culture. I just like building stuff more than destroying stuff.

How do you manage to stay alive though? I find it difficult to concentrate on culture or diplomacy when some rulers are just waiting to see a sign of weakness to destroy you. BTW Civ IV complete is $9.99 right now on Steam. I'm thinking about getting it... good enough price?

Gnashvar wrote:

ZeroAX wrote:

Pulsar_t wrote:I never got into Civ, Settlers or Simcity, despite trying several titles from each franchise. Even gave a friend who's a strategy nut a copy of Civ4 as a present only to have it returned the next day.. Guess I'm not the only one

Not all games are for everyone. Personally I can't get enough city building games but I never play them the hardcore way. Meaning I have never gotten a military win in Civ. I always win via diplomacy, space age, or my favorite Culture. I just like building stuff more than destroying stuff.

How do you manage to stay alive though? I find it difficult to concentrate on culture or diplomacy when some rulers are just waiting to see a sign of weakness to destroy you. BTW Civ IV complete is $9.99 right now on Steam. I'm thinking about getting it... good enough price?

yeah it's really worth it.

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A) Don't play on the higher difficulties

B)hurry to find a religion and then spread it like aids in the entire world. This makes other civilizations like you a lot.

C)since I mostly play as Greece I have a big advantage in both culture and research, so I constantly bribe them.

D)I let a few civs in the game be a different religion than the rest of us, and then I bribe everyone to declare war to one of the other civs, so no one pays any attention to me.

One (minor) thing that bugged me in the later series is the Polish Calvary paradox: spear man can do damages to tanks or even helicopters!

I think Civ has be bold in about real history, where there is absolute technical advantage - one civilization could be totally destroyed by an advance civilization.

Of course, it does mean an end game to all civilization, it means how would a civilization deal with a more advance civilization? Submit as a vessel state, make an alliance...

And some were disappointed by the updated Colonization, which choose to ignore slavery, while maintaining the present of Native Americans.

Guess there is never a perfect game!