Why do you keep playing Civ2?

rwprice · August 3, 2001, 16:03

I'm curious, what keeps you coming back for more? Is it simply that you have a great time, or is this your favorite form of intellectual stimulation? Are you obsessed with getting a higher score or getting to Alpha Centauri sooner? Or maybe you're not sure why you keep playing, you're just addicted!

sboog · August 3, 2001, 17:38

None of the above. I just keep coming back. Not sure why.

sboog

DarkCloud · August 3, 2001, 18:27

You should add a few more options:

The new maps.
The new scenarios.
Designing Scenarios.
Designing Maps.
Multiplayer
Other

etc.

Alex 14 · August 4, 2001, 02:48

Civ 3 is fun. Like Firaxis said you start doing one thing, then another, then the first thing is done, and you start doing something else, ect.

alms66 · August 4, 2001, 03:05

My reason is that there is simply nothing better to play right now (as far as strategy games go). The most promising prospect is Clash of Civilizations, but seeing as their demo 5 was supposed to be out over a year ago, and it has still to see the light of day, it's not a very promising prospect indeed.

Rasputin · August 4, 2001, 05:41

just for the MP interaction its great

Juggler · August 4, 2001, 05:48

because of the addiction
It's one of those games that never becomes too boring

Solver · August 4, 2001, 07:11

You'd add an option "I rarely play Civ 2 nowadays, mostly SMACing or else".

Rasputin · August 4, 2001, 08:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Solver
You'd add an option "I rarely play Civ 2 nowadays, mostly SMACing or else".

oh a real S&M fanatic... do you use whips and chains too or just into smacking !!!

Solver · August 4, 2001, 08:56

Nah, nah

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Marquis de Sodaq · August 4, 2001, 10:48

Mostly I play to unwind from a busy reality. The main reason unwinding involves CivII is because of that needle running from my pc to my arm. I'm addictied!

Ming · August 4, 2001, 14:36

I play for pure enjoyment reasons.... I'm an addict... enough said

sboog · August 4, 2001, 16:34

Another reason I play, is that someday I hope to have Civ3. And I just think for me there is more integrity playing and studying the classic one first.

Kind of like getting to know the original before you haul off and get the one with bells and whistles.

Play Bach Inventions before you tackle his "Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue."

Gives you something under your belt.

sboog

SandMonkey · August 5, 2001, 14:04

i play for the sheer enjoyment - no other game has ever kept my attention longer (nearing 5 years)

Jay Bee · August 5, 2001, 16:32

For me it's a little bit of ev'rything: sheer enjoyment, addiction, challenge...

Winston · August 6, 2001, 09:38

Yes, it's a little bit of everything for me as well. One thing's for sure though, the Civ virus is in my blood now and I'm afraid it's an incurable disease.

If Civ rehabilitation clinics are ever opened, they'll have to commit me by force! :banned:

drake · August 6, 2001, 12:17

I play for the MP interaction experience......and the opportunity to build an impressive civilization.......also, the occasional chance to blow somebodys sh1t up

Dan Severn · August 6, 2001, 14:43

I love the fact that no two games are ever similar, and the power to build a small, ambitious Republic though colonization and trade, then rule the Seas and therefore the world with 40 or more Dreadnoughts! To rain terror and destruction upon mine enemies(everyone I meet), Destroying their civilization and erasing their cultures.

I'm so sick, I automatically rename any cities I conquer. It lets me imagine my stormtroopers looting and burning their priceless works of art, destroying their heritage, suppressing their language and Customs, until Rome becomes r1734, and 12 years later, London is l1746. Conquering the fertile countryside, and eradicating any memory of their homelands. MUHAWHAHAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHA!

Laszlo · August 8, 2001, 22:45

I don't know about all you, but I do it to get girls!