Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

That was my experience. I loved Civ I and Civ II. Played Alpha Centauri, then tried both Civ III & IV and was left cold.

Dominions scratches the same itch, but is even deeper.

I'd still go back to play Alpha Centauri, if some upgrade hadn't broken it's compatibility with Linux install.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

I am not saying Civ 4 is a bad game. But look at it from my perspective. I'm a few weeks short of 56, so I played all the Civ games the day they were released and when they were state of the art. I am still a major Civ fan. Civ 1 broke new ground in the gaming world. The others 3 were the same game with improvements, many in gameplay, but mostly in graphics.

Dom 3 is Civ 1 with an increase of complexity by several magnitudes. Civ 2, 3 and 4 are Civ 1 with an increase of complexity of several multiples. Therein lies the difference.

By saying I like Dom 3 more than Civ 4 I am not downgrading the Civ 4.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

Yeah, Civ 4 is highly polished but very derivative. It's great, but very familiar. Sometimes familiar is what you want, but Dominions is like a brand new adventure every time.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

I find that civ 4 is very diffrent from earlier civs.

Civ 1 was a great game, 2 and 3 was allmost the same. Civ 4 was the first civ that changed the gameplay.

I also agre on that Alpha Centauri is also a great game. At the moment I will not compare it to civ 4, but it was better then 2 and 3.

Dom3 is really a great game but I would say that most people will enjoy civ 4 more.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

Alpha Centauri !!! what memories. sigh.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

Has anybody tried the "Freeciv" ?

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

Freeciv is like Civ2 but with worse sprites and better multiplayer support. I like it alot.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

Alpha Centauri is way better than Civ III and IV. I still play it time to time. But for MP, no turn based strategy comes close with Dominions III, let alone equals. All in my opinion, of course.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

I pretty much agree with everything here. Civ4 is a wonderful, polished, fairly deep 4x turn based game. It's glaring problems are it's lack of originality (it doesn't really change much from its originals) and it's horrible MP play.

I played civ4 for awhile and admired it but I tired of it quickly because I felt as if I'd already played "that game" to death.

Of course - you could say the same thing about Dom3 just being an updated Dom2, but then I never really played Dom2 so the whole game feels fresher to me.

Re: Comparing it to Civ 4..
 

I heard Sid is making the sequal to this...

Anyone know if its true?