compare with the big budgets like CIV3

Suicide Junkie · #1 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?

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capnq · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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.

Skulky · #6 January 2nd, 2003, 04:19 AM

right, i forgot about alpha centauri the good 'ole days, and SE4 looks to be the Last vestige of a glourious line. Too many high budget, low quality games these days.

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couslee · #7 January 5th, 2003, 01:30 AM

the DEMO for SE4-g is better than Civ3. That game is Booooooooooooooooooooringggggggggg.

SE4 reminds me a lot of STARS! Stars is fun, but limited, and late game tedious, but that can be overcome with victory settings. which are similar to to SE4's. race design is more complex in stars, and I got tired of waiting for super-nova to come out. I hear SE4 is lot like MoO2.

I only have the SE4-G demo right now. my copy has not been delivered yet. I got a whole 8 turns into the demo before ordering it Online.

My suggestion for you is DL the demo and try it out. I has JOMT like Civ2, SMAC, Stars!. besides, the demo don't cost anything but a little DL time, and a day and a half of eyes-glued-to-the-screen to get the idea of the fun factor.