And I remember being excited about playing chess!
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Civilization IV - Using the “Rise of ManKind - A New Dawn” mod
Madden 08 - Using the Football Freaks Madden 12 Mod
Sim City IV - Tons and Tons of cheats.
I play games to enjoy myself. I enjoy myself when I win. So I play on easy levels and destroy my computer opponents. I have no shame in this endeavor. I dominate, and dominate always.
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I consider myself a Civ IV diety. Very silimar to ‘The Borg’. Completely unbeatable, and basically your cities and/or culture and technology will be assimilated one way or the other.
To challenge myself, I play in what I call “Handcuff Mode”. In Handcuff Mode I don’t build any Wonders, and if I acquire a city with a Wonder, no roads can be built to it.
[quote]waldo21212 wrote:
Most people don’t seem to get “guilty pleasure”. I consider most free to play/pay to win type cell phone//tablet/facebook games a guilty pleasure at best.
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Yeah it would seem they dont, but theres still some solid and nostalgic titles being thrown out there.
How difficult is Civilization? I always enjoyed building cities and developing worlds (like Total War, Spore, Stronghold, Sim City) but I always seem to falter at some point economically in a couple of the games. Things will go along fine and then all of a sudden there is a drop off in population/funds/whatever.
I’d really like to get into this game, but don’t want to waste the money to find that its going to require hours and hours to become even initially proficient at.
If you had to liken Civilization to another game, what would be its closest counterpart?
[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
How difficult is Civilization? I always enjoyed building cities and developing worlds (like Total War, Spore, Stronghold, Sim City) but I always seem to falter at some point economically in a couple of the games. Things will go along fine and then all of a sudden there is a drop off in population/funds/whatever.
I’d really like to get into this game, but don’t want to waste the money to find that its going to require hours and hours to become even initially proficient at.
If you had to liken Civilization to another game, what would be its closest counterpart?[/quote]
It’s medium to difficult depending on the level you play and who you select starting the game. Once you learn to play, it’s so damn addicting. If you like SimCity… think that with… maybe Command and Conquor/World or Warcraft/StarCraft type of world domination. But you can also win by diplomacy, or you can colonize Mars. It’s just not as fun! But if you Nuke someone, the damn UN puts sanctions on you, it’s hilarious!
The only thing I don’t like about it is that there are certain advancement- both in military units and in technology- that are disproportionate. Once you reach them they give you such a jump over your opponents, you can quickly declare war on them, deploy spys, make treaties, etc.
It’s the best game I’ve ever played. It’s up there with Halo, Quake, Mass Effect, Diablo and their sequels.
Yes, I forgot to add Command and Conquer. So it does sound pretty good. Its turn-based right? I imagine it would be incredibly difficult to do all of that in real-time… almost makes you feel bad for real world leaders, heh, almost.
Civ 5 is the most current version. Can it easily be picked up or will I be missing out if I don’t start at earlier versions?
This is a fun conversation, I’m enjoying it. Its great to get to talk video games while being unable to look at gaming websites at work… so thanks!
Also, how far away is Civ 6? I saw mention of it in Google searches yesterday, should I wait for it to come out instead, or is it a few years off? How has the series changed over time, is it always the same setup - start crude and advance through time and history to futuristic capabilities/weapons/culture, just with more improvements, different maps, etc.?
Yes, all Civ games are turn based. In real time there is n way you could both manage you cities and fight your enemies/defend cities, conduct diplomacy and continue to explore, build and expand your empire simultaneously. No way.
I play Civ IV, Civ V with the expansion pack Gods and Kings. You can play Civ 5 by itself, but in my opinion they made changes that they corrected in the expansion pack that I didn’t like- but still a solid game. They are basically “stand alone” games, so it needs no experience or learning curve (although it helps) to start playing and enjoying the game.
I don’t know where they are with Civ 6. I know they just came out with another expansion pack for Civ 5 called “Brave New World”. It’s got something called a ‘World Congress’ whatever the hell that is.
Oh, and Civ V is a hell of a lot harder too in my opinion. I think they updated the AI engine with your opponents with Civ V.
The game has always been the same: start with cavemen setlers, and the first city is basically a camp. Then the final city is a metropolis of millions with nuclear power launching a rocket to Mars and defending the city with a Star-Wars type of missle defense.
RE: topic - I don’t play video games anymore, too much of a time waster. Especially for me… Put Assassin’s Creed II into the DVD Drive and you can pick me up two days later, covered with fast food bags and sleep-deprived. It’s this bad.
Guilty pleasures… Hm. I quite like the old Commander Keen games, does that count?
(although I’m more of a sandbox games fan, the Assassin’s Creed series and Pandemic’s Saboteur in particular)
Does anyone remember Quest 64? That game was the shit too!
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]waldo21212 wrote:
Most people don’t seem to get “guilty pleasure”. I consider most free to play/pay to win type cell phone//tablet/facebook games a guilty pleasure at best.
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Yeah it would seem they dont, but theres still some solid and nostalgic titles being thrown out there. [/quote]
That would be kinda boring.
I play words with friends at work…(Cool Story Bro! I know I know)
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]waldo21212 wrote:
Most people don’t seem to get “guilty pleasure”. I consider most free to play/pay to win type cell phone//tablet/facebook games a guilty pleasure at best.
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Yeah it would seem they dont, but theres still some solid and nostalgic titles being thrown out there. [/quote]
That would be kinda boring.
I play words with friends at work…(Cool Story Bro! I know I know)
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Hey, im not really complaining. I’d rather my thread get some good responses even if they are a bit off the topic than have it get no responses at all.
I can think of nothing more humiliating than watching my lonely thread fade into obscurity on the message boards…
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
And one other super baseball 2020[/quote]
I didn’t think anyone else knew about this game. This ranks in my top 3 baseball games ever. The other 2 are equally absurd. Loony Toons basketball was a pretty sweet basketball game.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
And one other super baseball 2020[/quote]
I didn’t think anyone else knew about this game. This ranks in my top 3 baseball games ever. The other 2 are equally absurd. Loony Toons basketball was a pretty sweet basketball game.[/quote]
YEAH! I actually found for 9 bucks at a used video game store a couple months ago! I wish all my brother’s friends still lived around here so I had someone to actually play with, LOl.
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.
NBA Jams for the Genesis was another one that was pretty high up there.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.[/quote]
HOLY SHIT YOUR AVI IS FUCKING COOL.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.[/quote]
HOLY SHIT YOUR AVI IS FUCKING COOL.[/quote]
Haha love me some Venom. I was the weird kid that watched Spider-Man and wanted to find the symbiote, not get bitten by the radioactive spider.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.[/quote]
Exactly. Since you dont have DW4 anymore, 6 is the best one since.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.[/quote]
Exactly. Since you dont have DW4 anymore, 6 is the best one since. [/quote]
Thanks for the heads-up. Will have to check that out. I am actually very short on games as my 360 just went out and I was only using my PS3 as a Blu-ray.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
Dynasty Warriors 4 was always my “don’t have to think to hard” game before I very recently sold it and the PS2. I freaking loved that game and Unreal Tournament for the PS2. Both games that you could play brain dead but could spend hours on.[/quote]
Exactly. Since you dont have DW4 anymore, 6 is the best one since. [/quote]
My buddy torrented Dynasty Warriors 8 on a whim. It brought us back to the old days on the PS2. We even used to use “Dynasty Warriored” as like a phrase to describe a scene in a movie or something whenever one person would take out a bajillion dudes single-handedly.