Civ 4 - Excited? [UPDATED pt.2 - Game is out & now PATCHED! Share your thoughts.]

[babomb]

FreeCiv is useless.

Horrible graphics? Check.
Worse than the original game graphics? Check.
Horrible interface? Check. Ooooh let's play File Menu: The Game.

Civ3 w/ expansion packs is superior to Civ2 and way superior to FreeCiv.

You clearly place much greater importance on graphics than I do. I will take better gameplay with worse graphics anytime, and in my opinion FreeCiv has superior gameplay. However, I disagree that the graphics are worse than Civ I. (Civ I was 16 colors, after all.) I own both Civ I and II, and I'll go so far as to say the graphics are no worse than Civ II. There are multiple graphics sets to choose from as well. A while back, someone made one where the world looks like Tolkien's maps, for example. There are also some 3d sets in the works.

As for the interface, it's in a window, so yes, it looks like normal windows. I don't see how that's a problem, but perhaps the version using GTK is more to your liking?

In any case, I feel the gameplay and configurability outweigh these concerns.

(Sorry for the hijack.)

 

[KenM]

Does anyone have a link to the specs for Civ 4? I look all over the official site but could not find them.

 

[Simplicity]

Does anyone have a link to the specs for Civ 4? I look all over the official site but could not find them.

You mean system requirements?

MIMIMUM
# Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
# Intel Pentium 4- or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1,2 GHz
# 256 MB RAM
# 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
# DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
# DVD-ROM drive
# 1,7 GB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED
# Windows XP with SP1 or higher
# Intel Pentium 4- or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1,8 GHz
# 512 MB RAM
# 128-MB graphics card with DirectX 8 support (pixel- and vertex shaders)
# DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
# DVD-ROM drive
# 1,7 GB free hard disk space

 

[Simplicity]

You clearly place much greater importance on graphics than I do. I will take better gameplay with worse graphics anytime, and in my opinion FreeCiv has superior gameplay.

I didn't mean that the graphics were worse than Civ1. I meant that they were worse than Civ2. The interface is *much* worse than Civ2. FreeCiv uses system windows calls rather than developing its own windows code as the original game did.

I don't put all importance on graphics. I still play SMAC (which looks like it was designed by Jackson Pollock on LSD), but I don't appreciate amateur coding, which is what FreeCiv is (by definition, really). In terms of configurability, Civ3 is infinitely moddable (try Escape from Zombie Island) and thus is much more configurable than FreeCiv.

Civ4 looks to be even more moddable than Civ3, which is a very good thing.

 

[KenM]

I was told at my local EB yesterday that the game would be in today. I go there today and they say it was pushed back until tomorrow. I hate it when they lie to you like that.

 

[Henry]

I go there today and they say it was pushed back until tomorrow. I hate it when they lie to you like that.

Especially since my local Gamespot store has been telling me it's due 10/25 all along.

I'll be picking it up (GOODBYE, SLEEP! ) but it will be about two weeks or so, when finances permit. I was going to let my wife pick it up for me for Christmas, but I can't wait that long!

 

[Dinkeldog]

I went to pick it up at the EB by me yesterday and apparently it's not a "big release." Should be getting it later today, although I won't be able to touch it until Thursday night.

 

[mrtauntaun]

NOT a big release?!?!?!!? This is because consoles are so big with the short attention span generation. Civ is only one of the biggest and most influential PC games of all time.
Sheesh. Im gonna go pick up during lunch, but I too won't be able to play it until thursday, but I can read the manual and look at the pretty pictures!

 

[Kanegrundar]

My local Gamespot had it listed on their computer as a pre-order only release. I went ahead and paid for it and should have it this afternoon.

Kane

 

[DaveMage]

The Best Buy web site lists its relesae date as the 27th.

If anyone actually gets their copy today - please post!