Comparing it to Civ 4..

[Edratman]

Shuma said:
I'm with Folket, Civ 4 is an excellent game. The best in the series, certainly.

Any beefs you have with that game specifially are more due to the genre than anything else. The gameplay has gotten to be so polished and streamlined that I don't understand where the gripes are coming from.

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.

[sector24]

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.

[Folket]

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.

[Cor2]

Alpha Centauri !!! what memories. sigh.

[Cor2]

Has anybody tried the "Freeciv" ?

[Dedas]

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

[Nikolai]

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.

[Velusion]

Cor2 said:
Alpha Centauri !!! what memories. sigh.

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

Anyone know if its true?

[NTJedi]

Velusion said:

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

Anyone know if its true?

Not sure about the Alpha Centuri sequel yet I do know Sid and crew have hired a developer who focuses purely on improving/creating the Artificial Intelligence. An important step for a great need within all PC games.

[Zeldor]

Velusion:

I hope it's true... but I've heard EA has rights to Alpha Centauri, so we are rather doomed.