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Offline Kosh

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on: October 23, 2005, 04:20:31 am
Until another game comes out that I can.....aquire and become addicted to.




Civ 4!
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #1 on: October 23, 2005, 07:27:56 am
Bloody winter A* title launches.  Can't these people see I have no money?
 

Offline MatthewPapa

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Reply #2 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
 

Offline IceFire

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Reply #3 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...
- IceFire
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Offline mikhael

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Reply #4 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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Offline Corsair

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Reply #5 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.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline SadisticSid

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Reply #6 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
 

Offline MatthewPapa

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Reply #7 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.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #8 on: October 23, 2005, 03:32:05 pm
It's coming out? Didn't realize it was this cloe to release.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline ToecrusherHammerjaw

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Reply #9 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.
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #10 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.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline mikhael

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Reply #11 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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Offline IceFire

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Reply #12 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!
- IceFire
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #13 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
« Last Edit: October 24, 2005, 02:02:19 am by 1313 »
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #14 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.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #15 on: October 24, 2005, 09:43:53 am
Still, I don't like the idea of spearmen being armed with plastique. :p
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #16 on: October 24, 2005, 09:44:47 am
The Armor was fine. It was just impossible to hold all three cities :p
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Ryx

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Reply #17 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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Offline Corsair

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Reply #18 on: October 24, 2005, 12:01:45 pm
1.7 GB?!
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Rson

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Reply #19 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...
"It's like how much more black could this be?  And the answer is none, none more black." -This Is Spinal Tap

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