compare with the big budgets like CIV3

Mephisto · #1 January 2nd, 2003, 02:27 AM

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Originally posted by Taera:
Stand up and rise your hand if you play SE and never stayed up later than 2am just to play 'one more turn'.

*Me on lookout but sees no raised hands*

Ragnarok · #2 January 1st, 2003, 06:58 PM

*Raises Hand*

Suicide Junkie · #3 January 1st, 2003, 07:04 PM

Well, I'm not sure about 2AM, but I did miss newyears yesterday/today while playing a PBW turn

... does that count?

[ January 01, 2003, 17:06: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

capnq · #4 January 1st, 2003, 07:24 PM

At midnight here, I was polishing some background material for my race in History of the Galaxy II.

SE IV and Civ2 are respectively my favorite and third favorite computer games. (#2 is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire.) Haven't played Civ3 yet.

Graeme Dice · #5 January 1st, 2003, 07:29 PM

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Originally posted by Taera:
se4's 'one more turn' syndrome is that much stronger when compared to any other game i had even seen.

stand up and rise your hand if you play SE and never stayed up later than 2am just to play 'one more turn'.

Why on Earth would I have done that? I play SE4 to play against other people, not the AI, which is rather pitiful when compared to the AI in many other games.

Skulky · #6 January 2nd, 2003, 03:05 AM

I think the "one more turn" is great in SE4, however teh Ai is lacking. But granted SEIV is a much deeper game teh CIV making it harder to craft a difficult AI. I mean look at the Ai in simpler games like Starcraft and Warcraft 3. I've not played much, but the AI there is handing my *** to me on a platter consistently.

But i gotta go now, and play one more turn

David E. Gervais · #7 January 2nd, 2003, 03:24 AM

The 'just one more turn' factor in SE:4 is IMHO close to being on par with Heroes of Might and Magic. I'm not saying Homm is better, they are totally different games. But I've logged many hours in both these games and when it comes to 'just one more turn' they both manage to hook me every time!

I have Civ2:ToT and It doesn't compare. personally I find it much easier to say 'no' in Civ2 than the other two games. Alpha Centauri falls somewhere between Civ and SE4, but slightly closer to SE4 and heroes than civ.

Just one more 'opinion' for the sandbox!

Cheers!

P.S. If I go a bit further back in time there was another game that managed to 'hook' me with the 'one more turn' factor,.. it was called Conquest of the new world: Deluxe Edition (a DOS game) I would love to see an updated 'windows' Version of that game! Nuf said.