Twojeffs PC Meltdown
Shupinola:
Quote from: Misty on 2005 November 08, 22:16:50
Anyway, I'm wishing you all the best and yes, DO let us know how Civ IV is! I'd love to hear something favorable like that it's almost exactly like Civ II but with cooler graphics, etc. I have Civ III and have never been able to get into it like I did Civ II.
I'm also thinking of getting Civ IV for the same reasons. I like some aspects of Civ III, but it just takes too long to get anywhere and the game punishes you for doing well. But I recently had a really good game of Civ III where I just seemed to do everything right. I was playing with expansions and played the Japanese. I ploughed all my money into scientific research, made about 6 warriors and sent them out to auto-explore. I then started building cities like crazy. By 780 AD I was in the Industrial Age and I had Steam Power by 910 AD. It took me much longer to get iron and had to build right into the spaces between rivals, but by 1470 I was in the Modern Age and building tanks. By the 1700s I was thriving and had wiped out the Indians and the Mongols. But then the long dark endgame had begun and I got bored even though I was winning easily. I read a review of Civ IV that said that the endgame is still tediously slow.
If you're stuck waiting for hacks to make TS2 playable, and you have a PS2, then consider buying SSX On Tour. It's a bit of a toss up as to whether SSX 3 or SSX On Tour is the better game, but the latest version is much easier to get to grips with for beginners. Events get progressively harder, but they take place on the same set courses. Like SSX 3, courses run into each other, but there are many more of them, so a freeride trip from the highest peak to the bottom takes around 23 - 25 minutes to complete and is great fun and the feeling of speed is superb and it's much easier to get onto rails now. If you like Motorhead, Def Leppard and Iron Maiden, you'll love the soundtrack, but I preferred the SSX 3 soundtrack. Maxis were obviously involved in the design of the character generator (clothes, boots, hats, hair, make up, beards, stubble, skin colour, body build and size). The new boarders and skiers look so much like Sims. And yes, you can ski as well as board now. Finally, you can knock over recreational skiers and there's even a mission where you get to just knock over kid skiers which is mean, but great fun.
Finally, to Two Jeffs. I'm sorry to hear that your PC decided to try to kill itself. Having suffered simillar situations, I understand the frustration you're going through. Like many, I'm eagerly awaiting NL versions of many of your brilliant hacks, but when things like this happen, there's no point in us 'users' getting upset about it. Good hacks are worth waiting for. There's no point trying to rush things. Enjoy Civ IV and come back to the hack design refreshed and sated from all that stategic fun.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Shupinola on 2005 November 09, 13:18:27
I'm also thinking of getting Civ IV for the same reasons. I like some aspects of Civ III, but it just takes too long to get anywhere and the game punishes you for doing well. But I recently had a really good game of Civ III where I just seemed to do everything right. I was playing with expansions and played the Japanese. I ploughed all my money into scientific research, made about 6 warriors and sent them out to auto-explore. I then started building cities like crazy. By 780 AD I was in the Industrial Age and I had Steam Power by 910 AD. It took me much longer to get iron and had to build right into the spaces between rivals, but by 1470 I was in the Modern Age and building tanks. By the 1700s I was thriving and had wiped out the Indians and the Mongols. But then the long dark endgame had begun and I got bored even though I was winning easily. I read a review of Civ IV that said that the endgame is still tediously slow.
The game kinda ends when you do the Alpha Centauri thing, no? You don't have to play it out the bitter bloody end if you don't want to, there's plenty of ways to win.
rohina:
Even if you are doing Alpha Centauri it can be really dull at the end. I haven't played a whole game yet, but I kep hearing groans of frustration over my shoulder (because my husband is playing it). He says it still gets boring at the end. Perhaps not as much as in the previous game, but still it is quite repetitive. Apparently.
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