Civilization 4

Just saw some screenshots and read some previews for the first time earlier on, and i want it already.
It will probably run slowly on this computer though, and i've hardly played Civ III conquests that much.

I share Temu's issue over Taoism and Confuianism, though i could probaby accept the latter more than the former.

Still, it seems to have taken away the advantage of a massive settler rush, giving more balence in favour of those who take their time somewhat, which i welcome. And the idea of the countryside developing around your cities, villages and towns etc. that looks brilliant. Diplomacy appears to be vastly improved too and the tech tree more flexible. Its also supposidly much easier to mod than Civ III< so we may even see the huge variety of mods that Civ II had.

Has anyone got this yet? Its supposed to have gone gold already.

I wish you could rent computer games. Obviously, if you could, there would be to much piracy.

Originally posted by Emperor Barbarossa I wish you could rent computer games. Obviously, if you could, there would be to much piracy.

I'm sure that disposable DVD technology would come in handy here.

You can rent games in Greece as well... btw the game isn't here yet, tommorow is the D-Day! Gonna get it on Monday, because I have to finish three articles on weekend and if I get Civ4 my editor in chief's gonna have to wait a looooong time for those articles

Well, I had Civ4 on my computer for a month or so and really enjoyed it in spite of a few quirks in the system that made it difficult to run some of the new graphic features.  Unfortunately, however, I discovered a tendency for program files to fragment on my hard drive, so I had to uninstall the game.  It may be system-related, but I won't know until I install the game onto a new computer later this year.

The current system is an older Socket 478 P4 system with an Nvidia MX 440 vidcard, 512 MB of PC2100 SDRAM and 400-MHz front side bus.  Rome:Total War plays smoothly on lower settings, but more recent games have graphics issues.  I hope to upgrade to a good AMD system which supports faster RAM and the newer 256-Megabyte vidcards.

You'll get used to it after a while.