Galactic Civilizations?

Fyron · #1 December 5th, 2003, 03:04 AM

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

Cyrien · #2 December 5th, 2003, 03:14 AM

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 · #3 December 5th, 2003, 03:17 AM

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 · #4 December 10th, 2003, 04:03 PM

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

gregebowman · #5 December 10th, 2003, 05:12 PM

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 · #6 December 10th, 2003, 07:59 PM

Quote:

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 · #7 December 10th, 2003, 08:19 PM

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.