Galactic Civilizations?

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro:
I bought it. Played it for a week then really lost interest in it. And I was winning too. It is a very good game but I cannot explain why the sudden lost of interest. I also cannot explain the sudden interest in me going back to games like Warlords III and Civ III suddenly. I even have an excellent se4 game on hold. The good reviews outweigh the bad ones (are there bad reviews?).

Like wise, I just got realy bored with the game within days of buying it. Its a great game, but just for some reason did not keep my interest. I guess its because it was lacking the essense of a true space exploration, extermination, expantion, and explotation that SE 4 has.

I would buy GalCiv but don't pay $49.99 for it!

I hear Atari is releasing a new Civilization game. Also, has any one played the new Deus Ex game?

[ December 05, 2003, 00:35: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Fyron]

A new Civilization game? What will this be? Civ 4: Corporate Garbage Take 2?

[Cyrien]

Sure you aren't mistaking a new Civ game for the newest Civ3 expansion? Civ3: Conquests. You know the one that makes Civ3 do everything it should have done with the first release? The one that makes Civ3: PTW actually work in an MP environment, and includes it so if you bought that one you just wasted a nice wad of cash and they want you to do it again so you can get the game that you thought you were getting when you bought Civ3 when it first came out.

I love the most recent trend that seems to be coming out where you call really big patches expansion packs and sell them.

Next:
MOO3: Return of the Orions *sarcasm - not real*
Since Atari won't fund us for another patch we will release it in the guise of an expansion pack!

Atari... where do I know that name... MOO3... and... Civ3!
Do I see a pattern.

[Fyron]

It was Infgrames that screwed the fan base originally with Civ 3 and Civ 3 PTW... the game was made not complete rubbish, just regular rubbish, under Atari... interesting, eh?

[oleg]

Firaxis is working on CivIV !
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=54046

[gregebowman]

Let add my two cents here (actually, that's all I have right now. my alternator on my car went out Monday and cost me over $300 to fix, and payday isn't until Friday!!). GalCiv is a great game, and there are times when I'm torn into which 4x game I want to play. I think SE4G is more moddable, or at least I can understand the modding more than I can for GalCiv. But GalCiv is a great game, and would highly recommend it.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by oleg:
Firaxis is working on CivIV !
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=54046

*shudders voluntarily*

Lets hope they don't pull another civ 3...

[Iron Giant]

Galactic Empires is to 4x as Chess is to wargaming.

I tried hard to like it, but SEIV is much deeper and GE is missing so, so much. GE has a couple of good ideas, but good ideas do not a game make.

Even on the largest maps, you feel like the universe is so small. Ships are just pegs on a board that move until they "click" against an enemy world and then combat is very similar to Civilization 3.

I want a grand space opera, Galactic Empires is Muzak.

[Narratio]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Gamespy is the borg dressed up in a sheep suit.

Not so sure about sheep... goat maybe, but it's certainly great septic tank filler.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by oleg:
Firaxis is working on CivIV !
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=54046

*shudders voluntarily*

Lets hope they don't pull another civ 3...

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Here comes a moo3 clone if ever there was one to be.