Off Topic DO NOT BUY CIV 3 - Page 8

MarkP · #71 December 27th, 2001, 05:31 PM

Alright when I was thinking of my Last post I detent have a chance to read Atrocities post, But I�m glad that you will give it a chance when it gets better.

Atrocities · #72 December 27th, 2001, 07:01 PM

MarkP, its not that I hate the game, its that I dislike its current condition. Hell ya I will play the game once some of the issues have been corrected. Man I stayed up overnight playing it for several days. I played if for a month before getting ticked off at the stupid Military adviser, the one that makes the really dumb and annoying face and really does not help you.

The game has a lot to offer, and you should be proud that you enjoy it, and have it. I know that even if the game does not get improved, I still somewhat enjoyed it.

As Mephisto said, if a game can make you feel anything, SEIV would make a person feel like superman. Civ3 made me feel like a dark lord full of anger, and I had to step away from it. It may make others feel like Kings, and for a while it did that for me, but to me, the game is like that Ring in LOR's, it eventually took over my mind and made me evil..... wonders off to hurt something ........

mac5732 · #73 January 3rd, 2002, 08:13 AM

Well, my daughter got me CIV3 for Xmas, so I will give it a try eventually, currently also got EU2 for xmas and that's what I'm playing around with for now, also ordered SEIV-gold.

Yin, sorry I didn't get to read your message sooner, didn't get my son Battle Realms but he has birthday in March, I'll get it for him then, I got him Conquest and Napoleon at Australitz by Matrix. They'll keep him busy until then, but tks for the info on the game

just some ideas mac

bstripp · #74 January 3rd, 2002, 06:29 PM

I havn't made it through the entire thread yet, but if no one has posted the link to Illwinter's site it is:

http://www.illwinter.com/dom_intro.html

I'm downloading the demo now as it looks pretty cool.

Jmenschenfresser · #75 January 3rd, 2002, 10:57 PM

Menschenfresser here...had to get a new account for stupid reasons.

I haven't read the whole thread so forgive if this have been stated before, but I noticed that several people were harkening back to olden days when war games and strategy games were simple but excellent. Some listed were: Global Conquest, Empire Deluxe, etc. I haven't looked them all up, but check out www.theunderdogs.org for old abandonware games. I know they have the two I listed. The games don't always work, so be warned, but I do know Empire works. And the web site is often extremely slow, but if you show a little patience, you will come out with some old classics. Most of the games have manuals as well.

Enjoy.

mac5732 · #76 January 8th, 2002, 09:03 AM

Mens..... in regards to the old games, did they upgrade them to windows format? do they play any better then before, I really enjoyed Empire Delux, was a fun game. tks I ck the site

mac

tesco samoa · #77 January 8th, 2002, 07:04 PM

another good site is

matrixgames for old ones
and don't forget

http://www.militarygamer.net/
http://www.navalwarfare.net/
use it as a portal for all your military gaming needs

Jmenschenfresser · #78 January 8th, 2002, 09:59 PM

Mac,
Some yes, some no. I don't know what sort of issuses you had with the old Versions, but the ones that I get to work, usually work fine. I did come across one RPG (don't remember the name now), that hadn't been recalibrated for newer, faster machines (at least I assume that is the problem) because the movement of the game was extremely fast (light speed). Most war games don't have that problem. Although I did run into it when I bought an old copy of The Ancient Art of War for a resale shop. The animated battles happened at light speed and I had about enough time to get in one maybe two commands before it was over.

If you are worried about it working and don't want to waste hours waiting for a d/l that won't work, check their forum. You can find complaints there about games not working.

I've only played two games on the Empire Deluxe I got from there and both went fine, but off the top of my head I can't remember if it ran in windows or Dos.

And thanks Tesco for the others...

mac5732 · #79 January 8th, 2002, 10:22 PM

Mens.....I was just wondering if they would work in windows on a faster machine. Thought of same problem you had, with moving way to fast to enjoy. They worked fine on my old atari & commodore, just didn't know if the would work right on my Dell 733. tks for the info.

Yes, tks TS for the other sites, will ck them out

just some ideas mac

Suicide Junkie · #80 January 9th, 2002, 12:48 AM

A neat one is "AlphaMan". (Absolutely no speed problems)
You're a mutant in a future wasteland, and have to fight your way through forests & explore buildings & stuff.
You get 2 random mutant powers at the start to keep things different.

The thing I like best is that all of the hightechtoys & most items are given nonsense names until you figure them out.
You have to fiddle around with the "Large Metal Object" for a while before you figure out that its a hovercraft.
(And the names are randomized each game, so you can't memorize it

)

I'd love to have that sort of thing in SE4, where players don't know what each tech area will provide until they've figured out the prerequisite techs.

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