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Posted by Underdog on Wed Oct 26th at 8:22pm 2005

Just for grins I am re-installing Civ III Conquests. Perhaps I can loosen myself up for Civ IV's arrival.

I pray that you guys give a great report on this one.

I cannot seem to locate my copy of AC right now so, its Civ III.




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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Wed Oct 26th at 9:28pm 2005

Well, Civ4 is getting pretty good ratings across the board.

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/919352.asp

While I think IGN generally inflates their review scores, it seems the general consensus (for now) is 91%, still waiting for more though (Gamespot specifically).




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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed Oct 26th at 10:16pm 2005

I'm sorry but AC was hilariously broken. Any time you can play on the hardest difficulty and outright buy the last 5 or so wonders there's a serious problem. It was fun, but it wasn't hard

Speaking of AC I might play it as a nice warmup before I give in and get this...




Every time something happens that gives me additional cause to hate humanity I add another room to my Half-Life level.



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Thu Oct 27th at 5:26am 2005

The worst part of Civilization 4: The highly addictive gameplay will make
you lose sleep.

Yowza.

Oh, and personally, I really disliked AC. I can see why people might like it, but it really just isn't for me. Although I loved my Mindworm armies...



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Posted by BlisTer on Thu Oct 27th at 1:01pm 2005

AC succeeded in giving you the feeling of being quite alone in a depressingly strange world. I liked how you had a diary describing your feelings in relation to the alien lifeforms. that was great but could give you a depressed feeling when you played it too long. in the end i produced so many planetbusters that i could start a war with everybody + win the game, all in 1 turn.


These words are my diaries screaming out loud



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Posted by Underdog on Tue Nov 1st at 4:45pm 2005

(Dances and dances and dances)

I BOUGHT CIV IV.

(reality check)

f**k, I'm leaving town in about an hour and won't be able to play for a week.

(Cries)

Look for it guys, its in the stores. $49.84 at wal-mart

Pretty high machine requirements on this one. About 4 times the Civ III requirements. They must have really changed the game.

[edit] Seems to have direct IP connection play as well. Would any Civ players be interested in a game sometime? Assuming of course it will play 56k?




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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed Nov 2nd at 9:35am 2005

I got this a little bit ago and I'm enjoying it up to a point. Every game I've played starts off fun until about the beginnings of the industrial era when it slows to a crawl and computer turns take 20 min to finish. This game is a terrible resource hog and its entirely inexcusable. It'll be a cold day in hell before I upgrade my computer to play a game that would be just as good using 2d sprites from 1998.

Maybe if they ever patch it so it runs it would be great, as the changes from what I can see have been by and large wonderful, and the AI doesn't suck (although there's always been an extreme lack of fighting between the computer civs). Religion is cool, resources are handled much better than they were in Civ3, and the changes in the tech tree are a godsend.

The only really aggrivating change I've seen is how incredibly difficult barbarians make the early game. If you encounter a barbarian town before you can secure any iron you are f**ked and might as well start a new game. I've resorted to turning them off :/




Every time something happens that gives me additional cause to hate humanity I add another room to my Half-Life level.



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Posted by Underdog on Thu Nov 3rd at 9:26pm 2005

May I ask what your machines stats are. I want to know how mine will fair compared.


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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Nov 4th at 1:30am 2005

X-Com will eat you all.




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Posted by Underdog on Wed Nov 9th at 2:47pm 2005

Getting Leonard Nimoy to do the dialog must have cost a pretty penny.




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Nov 9th at 3:09pm 2005

He's not exactly an A-list celeb or something these days Underdog :P Serves him right too for bringing this into the world <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Wed Nov 9th at 3:25pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
He's not exactly an A-list celeb or something these days Underdog Serves him right too for bringing this into the world

And, you might slide off of my A-list if you persist in reminding me of my dial-up. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

Is this movie worth an hour+ download?




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Nov 9th at 3:37pm 2005

Hell no, it's barely worth watching if you have a connection fast enough to stream it from the get go! It's Leonard Nimoy singing a song about the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. If that sounds like it's worth your time, go right ahead <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Wed Nov 9th at 4:25pm 2005

I read your post and 2 things popped into my head. First, was Nimoy ever an A-list actor? And second, Dumbledores words "..and yet, accidental rudeness happens all to frequently"

I know you didn't intend to be mean but, my connection is a sore spot for my at the moment.

No, his voice alone would preclude my will to download his song.




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Posted by SpoolE on Wed Nov 9th at 4:32pm 2005

Ergh, I love Simulators, but Ive never had the likes for civilisation. I find the game unplayable.



I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.



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Posted by Mephs on Wed Nov 9th at 5:37pm 2005

* Mephs np: Leonard Nimoy - Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins [02:21m/192Kbps/44KHz]

#Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins, hes only three feet tall!
Bilbo (Bilbo) Bilbo Baggins, bravest little hobbit of them all!#

Tis classic music. I was actually going to flash my own music video for it not so long ago, as you do...

I've all the images ready, but I just can't be arsed now. Thank God. smiley

Back to Civilisation: I'm not putting the game on too much of a pedestel, but I think it should be played by anyone studying geography or poiltics at least once. It really helped me grasp the strengths and weaknesses of various things, such as the differences between labour and conservative, perversely I play the game like a Tory concerning taxes, it seems to be a good strategy, but of course I wouldn't vote for them (even if I could, which we can't here).





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