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Civilization revolution
I remember 1990 when I first bought Civilization. The game blew us away. I was living in a row home in Baltimore with 5 other guys. Me and one guy worked a regular 9-5 job. 2 guys worked the graveyard shift and 2 guys were students. For about 3 months after I bought the game was played on my computer 24/7. I'd be walking out the door to go to work and one of the guys just getting home from work would start playing his game. The only time we'd give CIV a break was to go down to a dive bar called Long Johns. The only thing that broke me away from work, drinking and Civ was meeting my wife at Long Johns in 1991. QueenPut and friends were getting through out of the bar for being to drunk. Good Times. Good Times.
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I loved Civ. Now you got me wanting to play it again.
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That said: I really didnt like how there ISNT a hotseat option included. There is NO way to play with more than 1 person on a playstation except taking turns with the same civ. Now as I mostly play Civ with my gf. She loves that game to death. I was expecting to play as teams on the same PS. And I'm not gonna get a second playstation 3 to make it possible either. This is a minor flaw as the game itself is solid with a little more emphasis on warring and conflict as worlds are much smaller so encountering other civ will happen quickly.
Ps. If you're doubting between the PS3 version and the xbox360 if you have both consoles it seems that the xbox 360 version doesnt have the problem where the game freezes for 1 second or so at some point. This doesnt annoy me at all but some ppl really like to complain about it.
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What about ALPHA CENTAURI? That's a damn good game...it's a shame they've never revisted it.
You MOO lovers need to get GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS II...nostalgia be damned, there's things I think are better than MOO. Expansions are a must.
The Civ game I favor these days is EUROPA UNIVERSALIS 3...it's both more epic and more vast than CIV but also more focused and specific. I love the open-ended gameplay, you set your own goals and decide your own course through the game. And there's more versatility than in CIV- you can run a mercantile empire, wage a holy war on heretics, colonize the new world, or go for European hegemony. Good, good stuff.
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It plays quickly and has a reasonable depth but not even close to as much as Civ 4. OTOH it makes a lot of awesome streamlining decisions. The army feature in the game is awesome and I hope all civ games in the future use it. Additionally it gets rid of workers, IMHO an archaic part of civ that has been hanging around for years and years. If I didn't have civ 4, I would buy it, but 60 dollars for me personally is too steep since I own civ 4. I will probably buy it when it drops in price to 30 or 40 bucks.
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What about ALPHA CENTAURI? That's a damn good game...it's a shame they've never revisted it.
You MOO lovers need to get GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS II...nostalgia be damned, there's things I think are better than MOO. Expansions are a must.
Alpha Centauri was way cool; Nukes that could sink entire continents, customizable military units, all sorts of cool stuff!
I have GalCivII, and I played it for a while, but I never got into it like I did MoOII, and I've played both relativley recently. Maybe I should try it again sometime; it does have a lot of cool things going for it that are improvements over MOOII. I usually got a bit bored doing nothing but pumping construction ships and star bases during peacetime, though.
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You MOO lovers need to get GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS II...nostalgia be damned, there's things I think are better than MOO. Expansions are a must.
The Civ game I favor these days is EUROPA UNIVERSALIS 3...it's both more epic and more vast than CIV but also more focused and specific. I love the open-ended gameplay, you set your own goals and decide your own course through the game. And there's more versatility than in CIV- you can run a mercantile empire, wage a holy war on heretics, colonize the new world, or go for European hegemony. Good, good stuff.
I bought these two (used) late last year when I had (I thought) some spare time. But after installing GalCiv I couldn't download any patches etc.. After a few emails with support I found out that because I wasn't the original owner (he had already registered) I couldn't download anything for it without paying them for the game ... so I said FUCK and threw both games in a draw.
But sounds like Europa might be as interesting as I thought it may be - it does seem that you do need to make a big initial effort in reading and time playing to get the hang of it (?) .... something I haven't been good at.
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The new expansion, Twilight of the Arnor, is critical. It adds SO MUCH to the game it's ridiculous. One of the things I didn't like before it was that the techs were really generic. Now there's race-specific techs. The only thing I don't really get into is the ship design...it gets a little too detailed for the game, I think.
EU3 does require a little investment to learn, but I did it without reading the 150 page manual. I referenced it a couple of times to figure out why certain things were happening, but really it's kind of a big ol' RTS game that you can slow down to turn based. The intricacies of how everything works together are amazing and it really has this HUGE feel to it...wheeling and dealing with countries, sending missionaries, espionage,putting down religious rebellions, fabricating claims on another country so you can trick your neighbors into thinking you're justified in invading them...there's so much that goes on. The detail level is pretty high and it does take some patience (the game progresses on a day-to-day level so getting from 1399 up to 1821 is going to take quite a while)but the rewards are great. I played it for a while a few months ago, put it away, and when the new expansion came out (IN NOMINE) I got back into it and realized that I had wasted my time playing a couple of other grand strategy and war games in the interim. EU3 had everything I was looking for in other titles.
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With every release of the Europa Universalis series, I have been thinking this sounds like more or less my perfect game. Trouble is people say it is inaccessible. I got the impression it was a game where you would have to read the huge manual. At the time of the first two games, I had had some horrible experiences with games that had learning curves that were too steep to be enjoyable.
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