Civilization 4

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Originally Posted by Happydude

so is Alpha Centauri only space-based? or does it begin in the stone age or something like and you get to advance to the space age?

if it's only space age then i'm good with galactic civ already

Yeah it's only the space age, after they reach Alpha Centauri. I gotta admit that it would be fun to have a full Civilization game from the stone age all the way into the sci-fi realm of the time after they reach Alpha Centauri, though.

I looked up IGN's review on Galactic Civ, and it looks like fun. I might have to try it when I get a bit more time this summer.

Originally Posted by Tyhpoid

Alpha Centauri came out after Civ 3, I believe.


Anyways, i wouldnt recommend that game to anyone. I thought it was horrible, and confusing at first. And once you got the hang of it, it was just relatively queer. I mean queer as in odd, there. I like the premise of it a lot, but it just wasn't executed well in my eyes. There isn't enough diversity from game to game. The maps are always more or less the same, and the outcome is more or less the same each time.

I think I was more or less of the same opinion when I played it. I said it was the sci-fi part of it that turned me off, but really it's not because I hate sci-fi, it's because of how off in la-la land everything in the game was. I mean, all of the technologies you research were (naturally) futuristic. But many of them seemed to have no basis in reality. I'd bring up an example, but I can't remember anymore. Plus, while the basic technology researching, city-building, and military-building game mechanics were all fairly similar to the original Civs, all of the units were (again, naturally) much much different than what they were in the regular Civilization. Admittedly, I don't why I was expecting to have the same civilization game for a game on a planet far far away, but I did.

I think that was my biggest problem -- misguided expectations. I stress the MY part there. I don't necessarily think it was a problem with the game itself, just a problem with my epectations. I'd love to go back and try the game over again now that I'm a little more open to it methinks.