OT: Galactic Civilizations (the game)

Fyron · #1 September 28th, 2004, 02:39 PM

Civ III had even less replay value than GalCiv, due to horrible bugs and design decisions... not to mention the insidious marketing ploys... ugh.

Roanon · #2 September 28th, 2004, 03:50 PM

Oh yea - Civ III was worse than Civ II, a waste of money. Reminds me slightly of another xxx 3, the name escapes me at the moment...

GalCiv is not worse or better or as good as Space Empires - it is different. Apart from the multiplayer aspect, Space Empires is for planners, calculators and (micro)managers. GalCiv is for those who love unpredictability, random events, and sudden twists in gameplay. I would not consider them of being in the same Category or genre. It is like comparing chess to poker.

gregebowman · #3 September 28th, 2004, 03:58 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Civ III had even less replay value than GalCiv, due to horrible bugs and design decisions... not to mention the insidious marketing ploys... ugh.

I disagree. I love CivIII, and even though I haven't played it in awhile, I will always have it on my computer. I've d/l the patches, and bought the expansion disks. I could have waited to get the combined package that just came out Last week and saved a few bucks, but I didn't. I agree that Atari, or whoever is in charge of the Civ franchise, could have done a better job of it. But that doesn't take away my pleasure of playing this game.

Fyron · #4 September 28th, 2004, 04:16 PM

So I can get the all in one package to get a game that is not up to par with its predecessor? No thanks. The "Civ 3 Gold" Version is what the original release of Civ 3 should have been. Nothing new has been added, other than ridiculous play modes akin to RTS games... Plenty of the better aspects of Civ 2, especially from the expansions, were cut and never returned...

Atrocities · #5 September 28th, 2004, 04:35 PM

Civ3 was a waste of money and I ranted about it for months. I guess when you get spoiled on excellence, it is hard to go back to game play that is more about turning a buck at the expense of the player than it is about game play.

gregebowman · #6 September 28th, 2004, 05:28 PM

Ok, Atrocities and Fyron, it's obvious you don't like CivIII. Of all the incarnations I've played, though, I like this one the best. Marketing ploys and bugs aside, I like the game and the gameplay. Maybe if they ever make a Civ4, it will have the options you like. Maybe not. There was one of the games out there I liked one option, and that was the one where you could build your space station and see the earth from orbit. I want to say that was Call to Power, but I could be confusing it with another Civ game. There have been so many.

Fyron · #7 September 28th, 2004, 09:42 PM

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gregebowman said:
Ok, Atrocities and Fyron, it's obvious you don't like CivIII. Of all the incarnations I've played, though, I like this one the best. Marketing ploys and bugs aside, I like the game and the gameplay. Maybe if they ever make a Civ4, it will have the options you like. Maybe not. There was one of the games out there I liked one option, and that was the one where you could build your space station and see the earth from orbit. I want to say that was Call to Power, but I could be confusing it with another Civ game. There have been so many.

Yes you could do that in Call to Power. You could do something similar in Civ 2 Test of Time expansion. It allowed up to 4 maps, layered on top of each other, to exist in one game. It had a fantasy mode where the maps were the surface world, a subterranean world, the cloud layer (for hawkmen races and such), and the sea floor layer. There was also a sci fi mode where one map was the starting planet. The next was the orbit, where there were ancient platforms built by a long gone race. There was then a mars-like planet and a gas giant to travel to. It was extremely fun. Too bad it, and everything else, added in the Test of Time expansion was canned for Civ 3, other than animated units...

Stupid egotistical Sid Meier...

gregebowman · #8 September 29th, 2004, 10:21 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Yes you could do that in Call to Power. You could do something similar in Civ 2 Test of Time expansion. It allowed up to 4 maps, layered on top of each other, to exist in one game. It had a fantasy mode where the maps were the surface world, a subterranean world, the cloud layer (for hawkmen races and such), and the sea floor layer. There was also a sci fi mode where one map was the starting planet. The next was the orbit, where there were ancient platforms built by a long gone race. There was then a mars-like planet and a gas giant to travel to. It was extremely fun. Too bad it, and everything else, added in the Test of Time expansion was canned for Civ 3, other than animated units...

Stupid egotistical Sid Meier...

I remember buying those expansion sets, but I don't ever recall playing them. Maybe Call to Power came out shortly after I got my pc, and I started playing that instead. I just don't remember. Never played Call to Power 2, because my old pc didn't meet the hardware requirements. Now I play Civ 3. I recently discovered a forum site where people have made fantasy mods and star wars mods, so I might try those out in the future. But the mods are so huge, it might take me awhile to get them.