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


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John Crichton said:
And I think it's a tad unfair to go all the way back to Civ1 at this point. The comparisons are too far apart. But hey, at least they are addressing it as a real issue, ya know?
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Well, I only mentioned it because that's the only time I can recall them addressing real borders.
 

Andre said:
Gotta agree. Civ 3 isn't nearly as addictive as SE4. In fact, I haven't played Civ 3 in a couple years, but I'm currently playing a couple games of SE 4 Gold (my own version of DevNull Mod - fighters were too good).
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[OT, sorry] Yeah, I'm playing one with DevNull171. Didn't get much sleep this weekend. ;)

Andargor
 


A round planet at last? Oh yes yes yes yes yes.

Borders -- SMAC had good borders. Man, I liked that game so much better than any Civ game.

SMAC2 (on a ROUND PLANET) would utterly destroy.

-- N
 

I'm not wetting my pants, but I might be come Novemeber (uh, figuratively speaking, of course). The Civ series is one of my favs, though I haven't been a fan of the knock-offs (Alpha Centauri, Call for Power, etc). It's the only game I'm really looking forward to (along with Oblivion).
 

I guess I'm in the minority, because I prefer Civ3(if you count ALL of the expansions). I thought it was more challenging, than Civ2. I liked the new units and new civs. I liked the way each civ had their special units.

Anyway I am looking forward to Civ4.
 

Apparently, it looks good but I wonder if it can play on my 5-year-old PC (P-1.4 GHz, 256MB).

Any chance I can create new tribes on Civ4 like Polynesians (as PC, not NPC barbarians)? Can we have two portraits for existing tribes (one male & one female)?
 
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I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I loved SMAC. Initially I was really not happy at all about CivIII and much preferred CivII - in no small part due to the way they nerfed spies - eliminating the unit and making it much harder to conquer other civs by basically buying out their cities - which had been one of my favorite tactics in CivII. It eventually won me over though and I play it regularly to this day - not to long ago I was rocking the world as the Greeks. I think Civ III is much better once you add the Conquests expansion on to it, there are a lot of little tweks they made that make it much more satisfying at least for me. I really like what I've seen and heard of CivIV so far. I can't wait!!

John Crichton said:
Yeah, I thought that the borders issue would be fixed from the Civ3 previews but it still didn't keep rival civs from popping a city right in the middle of a small section of your area.

I think my favorite new feature is going to be the pollution fix. The late game was already too messy and the way pollution was handled always seemed somewhat out of place within the game.
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I'll be curious to see how they handle pollution. I actually liked the slightly porous borders though!! I loved using them to my advantage. Once they stopped me ouright buying cities I started popping my cities among theirs and made their cities come and beg to be part of my glorious civilization due to my high culture.
 


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