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Re: holy shit? by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 1:46am PDT
FABIO wrote:

Firaxis developed this one? I should have made the conncetion when they decided to paste Sid's goofy mug all throughout the game, but for some reason (which looks stupid now) I thought some other company that had retained the rights to the Civ name had produced it. Are you telling me that effort was spent shitting out this monstrosity instead of making Alpha Centauri 2?


You will never see SMAC 2. Its even less likely than functioning multiplayer for Civ3. BWAHHAHAHAHA

Alpha Centauri was friggin great. I cant understand how people prefer Civ 2 over it. The biggest (and only) complaint I've heard about AC was rather than using existing and well known technologies, it went with esoteric concepts like superstring theory. This apparently killed the game for many people.


That's pretty much what killed it for me. Sci-fi tech trees I can handle; I extend my Civ3 game with several 'future' technologies and units. Its that I didn't care about any of the 'civs' in the game, or the setting for that matter. There's no urgency to it. For me the appeal of Civ1/2/3 is the 'creating history' or alternate timelines stuff. I genuinely care when its the Koreans sneak attacking me, I could give a shit when its Hives or whateverthefuck.
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Rebuttal to Mao by mark 04/24/2003, 3:31pm PDT NEW
    Re: Rebuttal to Mao by foogla 04/24/2003, 4:17pm PDT NEW
    I'll write more later... by Chairman Mao 04/24/2003, 4:24pm PDT NEW
        Score 1! by mark 04/24/2003, 4:32pm PDT NEW
            I'm not enraged. by Chairman Mao 04/24/2003, 5:33pm PDT NEW
                Re: I'm not enraged. by mark 04/24/2003, 6:28pm PDT NEW
                    Eh... by Chairman Mao 04/24/2003, 7:33pm PDT NEW
                        holy shit? by FABIO 04/25/2003, 1:04am PDT NEW
                            Re: holy shit? by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 1:46am PDT NEW
                                Re: holy shit? by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/25/2003, 1:59am PDT NEW
                                    Re: holy shit? by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 2:10am PDT NEW
                                        You quit on AC because you couldn't get into the BACKSTORY????? by FABIO 04/25/2003, 4:06pm PDT NEW
                                            Gratuitous Star Control Reference by Damocles 04/25/2003, 5:12pm PDT NEW
                                            No by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 5:23pm PDT NEW
                                                Re: No by FABIO 04/25/2003, 7:30pm PDT NEW
                                                    YES FABIO, THREE TIMES NOW. NT by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 8:08pm PDT NEW
                            Re: holy shit? by mark 04/25/2003, 12:14pm PDT NEW
                            Re: holy shit? by laudablepuss 04/25/2003, 1:11pm PDT NEW
                                Re: holy shit? by FABIO 04/25/2003, 4:02pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: holy shit? by Ray, of Light 04/25/2003, 9:04pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: holy shit? by laudablepuss 04/26/2003, 4:53pm PDT NEW
                                        Re: holy shit? by FABIO 04/27/2003, 2:31pm PDT NEW
                                        Deadlock / Deadlock II by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/27/2003, 4:53pm PDT NEW
    Re: Rebuttal to Mao by Zebco Fuckface 04/25/2003, 6:13pm PDT NEW
        Re: Rebuttal to Mao by Chairman Mao 04/25/2003, 6:25pm PDT NEW
            Re: Rebuttal to Mao NT by HURRRRRRRRR N/T 04/26/2003, 4:12am PDT NEW
    This ended up being the perfect Civ5 review as well by V for Vagina 04/11/2013, 12:39am PDT NEW
 
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