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Title: Only 2 days left......
Post by: Kosh on October 23, 2005, 04:20:31 am
Until another game comes out that I can.....aquire and become addicted to.




Civ 4!
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Post by: aldo_14 on October 23, 2005, 07:27:56 am
Bloody winter A* title launches.  Can't these people see I have no money?
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Post by: MatthewPapa on October 23, 2005, 09:01:09 am
only 4 days left until X3 is out also.....its gonna be hard to decide what to play
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Post by: IceFire on October 23, 2005, 09:56:33 am
Civ 4 sounds very cool...I'm hoping to have a demo version so I can see what they have done with it but it sounds fun.  I have Civ 2 from way back when and I played the original too.

I still vividly remember my original Civilization...
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Post by: mikhael on October 23, 2005, 12:39:34 pm
Civ 4.

Might as well write my epitaph now. I'll likely be found at my PC starved to death, just so I could play JUST ONE MORE BLOODY TURN.

Tag line should read, "Civilization 4: Let the Addiction Begin"
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Post by: Corsair on October 23, 2005, 02:35:09 pm
Civ 4 looks pretty awesome... I'm psyched. The screenshots that are posted at Gamespot looked a little odd... I mean, I know it's a turn-based strategy game but I wasn't such a fan of the graphics that were being shown. Maybe they'll turn out to be better in the real game, though.
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Post by: SadisticSid on October 23, 2005, 02:41:34 pm
I couldn't give a gnat's testicle about the graphics - hopefully this one won't suffer from 'musketeer beats F-15' syndrome that made 2 and 3 a little silly. Regardless, this game is going to really eat into my time... probably my brain too. :p
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Post by: MatthewPapa on October 23, 2005, 03:25:52 pm
yea, I too was a little dismayed to see my armies of panzers get stopped by a few spearmen and warriors.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on October 23, 2005, 03:32:05 pm
It's coming out? Didn't realize it was this cloe to release.
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Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on October 23, 2005, 04:42:01 pm
Wow......I haven't played a Civ-series game since Civ 2.  I kinda lost interest in the genre after I overplayed Alpha Centauri (good game, by the way).  Maybe I should get it.  It would be nice to revive the experience of being an emperor.
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Post by: Corsair on October 23, 2005, 05:09:42 pm
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Originally posted by SadisticSid
I couldn't give a gnat's testicle about the graphics - hopefully this one won't suffer from 'musketeer beats F-15' syndrome that made 2 and 3 a little silly. Regardless, this game is going to really eat into my time... probably my brain too. :p

Meh, some of those units looked like cubes. Cubes with slightly different textures. Even thought it's not like graphics really matter, it's always nice to have something that looks a little nicer.

As for the whole stone age unit beating modern armor stuff, it looks to me from the previews like they pretty much beat it. I suppose it might still be able to happen like .01% of the time but I don't think it'll happen too much any more.
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Post by: mikhael on October 23, 2005, 07:59:50 pm
They fixed the spearman-in-city-beats F15 thing in Alpha Centauri and Civ3.
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Post by: IceFire on October 23, 2005, 08:02:20 pm
Looks very nice to me.  The graphics look great and very polished and consistent along the whole thing.  I watched the IGN video review...game looks and sounds great. They love it.

I'm hooked!  I think I'll be making a purchase soon!
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Post by: Kosh on October 24, 2005, 01:59:30 am
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Originally posted by mikhael
They fixed the spearman-in-city-beats F15 thing in Alpha Centauri and Civ3.



No, they didn't in Civ 3. That was the biggest complaint about the combat system was it depended so much on randomness. I have heard in many cases of modern armor units (the most powerful land unit in the game) being stopped by spearman (the second weakest in the game).


I did hear that they have fixed this problem in Civ 4. Now it is no longer possible for a completely obsolete unit like a spearman to beat a tank.


EDIT, oh, I forgot to post the official system requirements. Personally I think they are a bit steep for a game like this.

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MINIMUM

    * Windows 2000/XP with SP1 or higher
    * Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.2 GHZ
    * 256 MB RAM
    * 64 MB graphics card with Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better)
    * DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
    * DVD-ROM drive
    * 1.7 GB free hard disk space

RECOMMENDED

    * Windows XP with SP1 or higher
    * Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon CPU with at least 1.8 GHz
    * 512 MB RAM
    * 128 MB graphics card with DirectX 8 support (pixel- and vertex shaders)
    * DirectX 7 compatible soundcard
    * DVD-ROM drive
    * 1.7 GB free hard disk space
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Post by: Grey Wolf on October 24, 2005, 09:25:47 am
I never had that problem really in Civ 2 or Civ 3, though I did pull off some pretty insane defenses in Civ 2 (Rifleman can stand up to surprising amounts with city walls and large cities). Though I did have an interesting experience with a single unit of Armor, three Carthaginian cities, and a few spearmen.
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Post by: Kosh on October 24, 2005, 09:43:53 am
Still, I don't like the idea of spearmen being armed with plastique. :p
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Post by: Grey Wolf on October 24, 2005, 09:44:47 am
The Armor was fine. It was just impossible to hold all three cities :p
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Post by: Ryx on October 24, 2005, 11:46:58 am
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Originally posted by mikhael
Civ 4.

Might as well write my epitaph now. I'll likely be found at my PC starved to death, just so I could play JUST ONE MORE BLOODY TURN.

Tag line should read, "Civilization 4: Let the Addiction Begin"


www.civanon.com ;)
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Post by: Corsair on October 24, 2005, 12:01:45 pm
1.7 GB?!
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Post by: Rson on October 24, 2005, 01:41:20 pm
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Originally posted by Corsair
1.7 GB?!


Looks like I won't be buying it soon...
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Post by: mikhael on October 24, 2005, 04:16:45 pm
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Originally posted by Kosh
No, they didn't in Civ 3. That was the biggest complaint about the combat system was it depended so much on randomness. I have heard in many cases of modern armor units (the most powerful land unit in the game) being stopped by spearman (the second weakest in the game).


Well my veteran spearmen behind city walls with other buffs failed to repell modern armor in every single case. In the reverse case, when I rolled my old school Spanish tank divisions across America, I rolled over the amber waves of grain and their musketeers like... tank divisions through musketeers. :D
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Post by: IceFire on October 24, 2005, 04:35:11 pm
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Originally posted by Kosh



No, they didn't in Civ 3. That was the biggest complaint about the combat system was it depended so much on randomness. I have heard in many cases of modern armor units (the most powerful land unit in the game) being stopped by spearman (the second weakest in the game).


I did hear that they have fixed this problem in Civ 4. Now it is no longer possible for a completely obsolete unit like a spearman to beat a tank.


EDIT, oh, I forgot to post the official system requirements. Personally I think they are a bit steep for a game like this.

 

I have to say that those specs aren't that steep at all :)

1.2GHz?  Not much of anything really.  And 1.7 gigabytes...not a huge amount these days either.  What will be interesting is if its shipped on a DVD-Rom or on multiple CD's.  I've been holding off on the DVD-Rom drive but it may now be time :)
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Post by: Taristin on October 24, 2005, 04:36:16 pm
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Originally posted by Rson


Looks like I won't be buying it soon...


FS2 used more than that.
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Post by: kode on October 24, 2005, 04:46:01 pm
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Originally posted by Corsair
1.7 GB?!


darn, I can only install it 30 times over, then.
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Post by: Corsair on October 24, 2005, 05:25:38 pm
I use a laptop. And I'm trying to figure out what all of that 1.7 GB is for... it's not like a game with a huge amount of pretty effects and textures and models and stuff like FS is...
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Post by: kode on October 24, 2005, 05:30:26 pm
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Originally posted by Corsair
I use a laptop. And I'm trying to figure out what all of that 1.7 GB is for... it's not like a game with a huge amount of pretty effects and textures and models and stuff like FS is...


I could install it 20 times over on my laptop*, had it had enough processing power... but yeah, it's probably bloated as a means of copy protection or something like that. or movies, uncompressed and hours long.

* 300mhz, 40gb hdd, 64mb ram. yes, the hdd's freaking out-of-place in that machine.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on October 24, 2005, 06:16:18 pm
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Originally posted by IceFire

I have to say that those specs aren't that steep at all :)

1.2GHz?  Not much of anything really.  And 1.7 gigabytes...not a huge amount these days either.  What will be interesting is if its shipped on a DVD-Rom or on multiple CD's.  I've been holding off on the DVD-Rom drive but it may now be time :)
I'd say DVD, as it is listed as having a DVD-ROM drive as a requirement.
Title: Only 2 days left......
Post by: Kosh on October 24, 2005, 10:57:44 pm
In the US, it will be sold on CDs, but in Europe it will be on DVDs.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on October 25, 2005, 02:31:34 am
And this information is from....?
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Post by: Kosh on October 25, 2005, 02:36:11 am
www.civfanatics.com
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Post by: Kosh on October 25, 2005, 11:21:43 pm
This is to :bump: the thread.


http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=132750


It's been delayed.