LGR - Sid Meier's Civilization - DOS PC Game Review
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Speaking of the game's -One More Move- power over the player, I was once playing an intense came of Civ II on my Windows 95 tower PC, when the power supply fan failed. I knew that it would overheat if I didn't turn it off, but. I just wanted one more move. And another. And another. And. I'm not sure how many moves later, but suddenly there was a shockingly loud POP, and my screen went dark. Oops. Thankfully, replacing the power supply still did the trick, and nothing else in the system was damaged. Whew! Some of my friends still bring that up for a laugh to this day, when one of us loses track of time playing a game.
Date: 2022-04-14
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PillarNexus
There's Avalon Hill's Civilization board game, Sid Meier's Civilization computer game, the computer game adaptation of Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization board game, Eagle Games' Sid Meier's Civilization (3) the Board Game, Fantasy Flight Games' Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game, Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn, another board game by FFG, Gibsons' reprint of the classic Civ. board game, and the reimplementation/reimagining Mega Civilization. Whether PC or tabletop, there's a lot of Civilization to play.
I haven't played any of the Civ games until last year when I found Civ 3 at Goodwill and thought I should at least try one. Definitely interesting but strategy is something I might struggle with until I figure it out. I would like to spend more time on it.
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There's Avalon Hill's Civilization board game, Sid Meier's Civilization computer game, the computer game adaptation of Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization board game, Eagle Games' Sid Meier's Civilization (3) the Board Game, Fantasy Flight Games' Sid Meier's Civilization the Board Game, Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn, another board game by FFG, Gibsons' reprint of the classic Civ. board game, and the reimplementation/reimagining Mega Civilization. Whether PC or tabletop, there's a lot of Civilization to play.
I haven't played any of the Civ games until last year when I found Civ 3 at Goodwill and thought I should at least try one. Definitely interesting but strategy is something I might struggle with until I figure it out. I would like to spend more time on it.
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Aquaferme134
This is my top game, the best game in the world and of all time in my book. I was so adept at it. I cam to be able to play at most difficult level, and also, you get quickly boared in winning by conquest, so I always played for winning the game by reaching alpha Centauri. I always liked to somewhat -preserve- the other civs and see how they evolved on the map. My favorite strategy is aiming for universal sufferage and also building united nations wonder, to be able to always force peace each time I spoke to a leader with a diplomat. with a prosperous and advanced republic you can have a small army of diplomats and diffuse wars by forcing peace all the time, only needing to use military units defensively, or to correct a gross imbalance by one of the other civs.
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This is my top game, the best game in the world and of all time in my book. I was so adept at it. I cam to be able to play at most difficult level, and also, you get quickly boared in winning by conquest, so I always played for winning the game by reaching alpha Centauri. I always liked to somewhat -preserve- the other civs and see how they evolved on the map. My favorite strategy is aiming for universal sufferage and also building united nations wonder, to be able to always force peace each time I spoke to a leader with a diplomat. with a prosperous and advanced republic you can have a small army of diplomats and diffuse wars by forcing peace all the time, only needing to use military units defensively, or to correct a gross imbalance by one of the other civs.
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Brian
Lol. You name stuff after Duke Nukem in your videos I noticed. I used to do the EXACT same thing when I was a teen. In Civ, my leader would be Duke Nukem. In Sim City my town would be named after him. Or if I played an RPG that you could name your characters (Like 'Final Fantasy' or 'Earthblund, I would name them Duke. The Duke Nukem franchise was one of my most favorite games. So was Civilization, and Sim Earth, Sim City, etc. Other franchises were Doom and Silent Hill. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Time Killers. I never played 'Way of the Warrior' on 3DO, but I imagined I would love it.
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Lol. You name stuff after Duke Nukem in your videos I noticed. I used to do the EXACT same thing when I was a teen. In Civ, my leader would be Duke Nukem. In Sim City my town would be named after him. Or if I played an RPG that you could name your characters (Like 'Final Fantasy' or 'Earthblund, I would name them Duke. The Duke Nukem franchise was one of my most favorite games. So was Civilization, and Sim Earth, Sim City, etc. Other franchises were Doom and Silent Hill. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Time Killers. I never played 'Way of the Warrior' on 3DO, but I imagined I would love it.
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Erdrick
I've been playing Civilization Revolution lately. I prefer it over Civ 4, 5, or 6 (the only others in the series I've played. The game's systems are a bit simplified, but still complex enough to be interesting. The gamepad-focused GUI also makes the game easier to jump into, with clear prompts for everything you can do at any given moment, minimizing the chance you'll forget something (I lose track of what I'm doing a lot in long strategy games.
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I've been playing Civilization Revolution lately. I prefer it over Civ 4, 5, or 6 (the only others in the series I've played. The game's systems are a bit simplified, but still complex enough to be interesting. The gamepad-focused GUI also makes the game easier to jump into, with clear prompts for everything you can do at any given moment, minimizing the chance you'll forget something (I lose track of what I'm doing a lot in long strategy games.
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Jeremy
-for a while this constant march forward in time researching stuff like philosophy and being ancient hippies, is all well and good. but eventually push will come to shove and someone will want to crap on your parade, usually in the form of arrows to the face and burning down your precious hippy empire- - this is how I feel about all the Civ Games(never really played Civ3, the other 5 - yeah)
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-for a while this constant march forward in time researching stuff like philosophy and being ancient hippies, is all well and good. but eventually push will come to shove and someone will want to crap on your parade, usually in the form of arrows to the face and burning down your precious hippy empire- - this is how I feel about all the Civ Games(never really played Civ3, the other 5 - yeah)
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0311Mushroom
Bit of trivia about the music and text during the -world building- phase. That was put in place to give the player something to watch and listen to as our 8086-80386 was crunching numbers and actually making the world.
It was realized it would take several minutes to make a world, so they put that in to keep us entertained and not think it had locked up.
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Bit of trivia about the music and text during the -world building- phase. That was put in place to give the player something to watch and listen to as our 8086-80386 was crunching numbers and actually making the world.
It was realized it would take several minutes to make a world, so they put that in to keep us entertained and not think it had locked up.
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BiznizTrademark
It is a great game. But the two things that annoy me the most are that you can't force units from other non-enemy civs to leave your territory (often they are fortified right outside your cities, and that you can't save money instead of building stuff (when you have built everything your only option is to start selling off buildings.
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It is a great game. But the two things that annoy me the most are that you can't force units from other non-enemy civs to leave your territory (often they are fortified right outside your cities, and that you can't save money instead of building stuff (when you have built everything your only option is to start selling off buildings.
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bzdtemp
The Windows version of the first Civ game is better to play.
It is totally the same game only you can take advantage of a modern screen size and see more of the world at the same time, the Civilopedia is a Windows help file one can have on the screen next to the game it self for easy access and really it is just better that way.
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The Windows version of the first Civ game is better to play.
It is totally the same game only you can take advantage of a modern screen size and see more of the world at the same time, the Civilopedia is a Windows help file one can have on the screen next to the game it self for easy access and really it is just better that way.
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Billie
I could write C code and there was a way to write to a saved game and change your money available to the maximum. It was like FFFF (65, 535)
There were cheats built into Civ II. Once I started using those I got bored with the game. But sometimes, ya got bored with the game cheating you and you just wanted to smash the bad guys!
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I could write C code and there was a way to write to a saved game and change your money available to the maximum. It was like FFFF (65, 535)
There were cheats built into Civ II. Once I started using those I got bored with the game. But sometimes, ya got bored with the game cheating you and you just wanted to smash the bad guys!
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