Civilization 4
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Topic: Civilization 4
Posted By: doorman
Subject: Civilization 4
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 18:37
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Anybody looking forward to this game? |
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Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 18:59
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no, civ 3 was worse than its predecessors and it sucked how they took away refrigeration and the workers never changed to engineer uniform, so always had workers walking about with a rag around their waist, this game is a dead horse. ------------- |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:02
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I am. I have been looking forward to Civ IV for about a year now, ever
since I got Civ III Conquests. Looks pretty good, I just hope that the
game can run on 256 MB RAM. With a three-dimensional look, more unique
units, realistic battle system, Civilization IV looks to be a pretty
good strategy game. Civ III wasn't that bad, but it could have had a lot of improvements. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:34
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Civ 3 was made better with the conquests expansion, but frankly that should have shiped with the original. There was a promo clip floating around, a brief glimpse of Cov4 and then some stuff about civ-addicts. I'll try and find it. -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:37
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www.civfanatics.com has a very good article on Civilization IV and has all the videos under its Civ IV section.
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Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:37
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Can someone actually goive a brief description of how the first three civ games were diff from each other? ------------- |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 05-Aug-2005 at 15:17
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I saw it has the empire of Mali in it, so even if its not better than 3 Im getting it anyway now! ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 09-Aug-2005 at 19:23
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Trust me, from the screens, it owns Civ III.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18-Aug-2005 at 13:29
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Yes, I am! I liked II better than III, but I'm willing to give IV a shot. I just
hope it's released for the Mac; has anyone heard if it will be? The screenshots are gorgeous, which you can see http:// www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=6 - here if you haven't already. What culture do you enjoy playing the most and why? |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 18-Aug-2005 at 15:15
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I like playing as the Turks because they get the Siphai, an awesome Industrial Age cavalry unit.
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2005 at 18:35
I think they are basically the same: better graphics, better AI, some other changes... the normal evolution of games. ------------- 
NO GOD, NO MASTER! |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2005 at 12:16
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Yes, but some major changes in graphics from Civ 2 to Civ 3.
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Posted By: Decebal
Date Posted: 02-Sep-2005 at 16:40
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I found that they really varied a lot the difficulty level from Civ2 to Civ3. I used to be able to win on a regular basis on Civ2 deity, but on Civ3, deity was really too difficult. Otherwise, I think that corruption and civ traits were the biggest changes. Civ4 looks pretty good, but after so many years of playing different versions, I'm getting kinda sick of it. ------------- What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi 
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 03-Sep-2005 at 11:17
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I have only played all of the Civ 3 versions, I get sick of it
sometimes and then a month later I play again. It is fun to mod the
game though.
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Posted By: Styrbiorn
Date Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 05:50
Looking at screenshots, Civ3 would seem better than Civ2. It wasn't, so allow me to remain sceptical. |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 07:28
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I never got to play Civ2, but I do not think it could be better than
Conquests. The modding abilities are amazing. Graphics do not always
show if a game is better than another, that is the gameplay. Graphics
are just an add-on.
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Posted By: dirtnap
Date Posted: 06-Sep-2005 at 00:10
Not me. After Stronghold I need a serious break. |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 11-Sep-2005 at 18:33
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okay I have th eproof that Civ 4 will rock, a screenshot if you will....
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2005 at 15:54
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Yeah, I saw that pic to. You can get an easter egg in Civ III that if
you name a "New Constantinople" Not Constantinople, you get the Turkish
50's song. -------------
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Posted By: Temujin
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2005 at 16:38
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i'm not really content with the Religions:
why including Confucianism and Taoism? those are not religions, i would have rather liked to see religions that were important in the past but declined up to now, like especially Zoroastrianism and perhaps Manichaeism or Jainism. Zoroastrianism was one of the first religions and state religion of the Sassanian empire after all. ------------- |
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 12-Sep-2005 at 19:40
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Yeah, Taoism and Confucianism are more like following a philosopher.
Anyways, I would like to see Zoroastrianism and an athiest religion.
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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2005 at 06:35
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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. ------------- Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Temujin
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2005 at 15:40
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Tobo has it already and said its great. afaik it is available in europe since this monday or so. i'm still sceptical wheather or not to get it, i've seen the graphics and hated them, though the Alpha centauri style government system attracts me....i would really appreciate a Demo.... ------------- |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2005 at 19:27
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I wish you could rent computer games. Obviously, if you could, there would be to much piracy.
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 01-Nov-2005 at 20:23
 It will be the first computer game I'll buy in years.  -------------
NO GOD, NO MASTER! |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 02-Nov-2005 at 05:49
I'm sure that disposable DVD technology would come in handy here. ------------- Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Temujin
Date Posted: 02-Nov-2005 at 16:39
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well, maybe thats just germany but here you can...though i think its just games for consoles. ------------- |
Posted By: Alkiviades
Date Posted: 03-Nov-2005 at 03:01
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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
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 06-Jan-2006 at 11:47
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I got Civ 4 over Christmas break. It is a very good game if you download mods that add more civilizations. -------------
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Posted By: YusakuJon3
Date Posted: 13-Jan-2006 at 21:58
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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. ------------- "There you go again!" -- President Ronald W. Reagan (directed towards reporters at a White House press conference, mid-1980s) |
Posted By: Theodore Felix
Date Posted: 23-Feb-2006 at 22:40
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Man, Im playing the Greek world mod but I can never catchup to the CPU's upgrading and speed. I get one good invasion through in the beginning but then I start to stagnate in expansion as the game completely surpases me in advancement. This is my first time with the series. ------------- |
Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 24-Feb-2006 at 06:58
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You'll get used to it after a while.
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Posted By: Gharanai
Date Posted: 27-Feb-2006 at 16:41
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As far as I am concerned, I had installed it for a week only not even that 8th day. The game play was soo poor along with heavy graphics. Overall I would like to recommand Age of Empires 2 rather than Civ 4, really at least the game play of AOE2 is better even though it doesn't has this heavy graphics. ------------- 
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