October 14, 2001, 11:34
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Intro Video on Gamespot
Not sure if this has been posted about before, but Gamespot has posted what they advertise as the Civ3 Introduction Video. I'm downloading now, so I can't say whether or not its anything we've seen before. Here's the link:
Gamespot Civ3 Intro Video
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October 14, 2001, 11:39
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Cool! Thanks! 
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October 14, 2001, 11:55
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It's not the trailer and I haven't seen it before....it must be the intro.
A nice fly around of the strange multi-civ tower from the box, including some geese 
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October 14, 2001, 12:17
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I have ADSL and all I get is 1KB/s? 
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October 14, 2001, 12:20
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I'm on my college network and only getting about 6 k/sec
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October 14, 2001, 12:22
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Goddamn download froze at 63%. Crappy freaken server. Time to try again.
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October 14, 2001, 12:24
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I'm on cable and selected streaming @ T1 and it worked beautifully. But then, I don't have United States type cable, which is so slow that you might as well have 56K.
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October 14, 2001, 12:38
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are there any mirrors anywhere? its only coming in at <4 KBs ...and its not being bottlenecked from my end, either...its the dam zdnet server
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October 14, 2001, 12:41
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hey! it's not a bad intro!
I was pondering over whether I should see it when I get the game or ruin it now. well.. I couldn't help it 
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October 14, 2001, 12:42
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The intro looks awesome, I can just imagine it in full screen, now there's something to get me in the mood to civ
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October 14, 2001, 12:44
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they must be trying to fool us
we had similar problems with the Lord of the Rings trailer. then someone who had downloaded it already put it on a better server (illegally) and we could download it from there with better rate. so if someone has it downloaded, please, put it up onto a good server. and it is possible that this server is quicker at times when none of us is on, so we mighjt eventually have good luck...
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October 14, 2001, 12:48
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Yeah. Upload it to some place with good speed.
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October 14, 2001, 12:49
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Originally posted by Nemo
are there any mirrors anywhere? its only coming in at <4 KBs ...and its not being bottlenecked from my end, either...its the dam zdnet server
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Use Flashget and select 10 as the number of parts to split it into. Goes much faster. Only took me a few minutes to get the 18MB file, even with the ZDNet server being really slow.
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October 14, 2001, 12:52
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I don't know about you, but I'm kind of disappointed in that intro. Hopefully there's more to it in the actual game.
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October 14, 2001, 12:53
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where can I get that flashget thing?
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October 14, 2001, 13:18
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I'll send you now. But it wont help, i'm using it and I still get low speeds.
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October 14, 2001, 13:20
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Originally posted by Eli
I'll send you now. But it wont help, i'm using it and I still get low speeds.
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It might depend on exactly what time of day you download it.
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October 14, 2001, 13:24
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I've seen the streaming video. It is so cool. I'm trying to download the file, but it is really slow. Now, is there any difference between the formats? (other then the size)
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October 14, 2001, 13:37
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the streaming one was fucked to fuckery
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October 14, 2001, 13:44
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Very cool! Thanks for the heads-up, Serapis.
The music was incredible. I'm sure this bodes well for the in-game music as well. The visuals were ok, but then again, who watches an intro movie more than a handful of times? Usually I just hit Esc/Space/Enter/Mouse Click/whatever and get into the game.
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October 14, 2001, 13:45
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Originally posted by Ecthelion
the streaming one was fucked to fuckery
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I think it was quite good, but it must be lower quality then the other as you can see the streaming one in 2 minutes, and the other take LOOOONG to download.
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October 14, 2001, 13:49
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I think the intro is very good, but not the best. (Nothing can beat AoK's intro!!)
It does set the mood really well. Seeing the Tower of Babel evolve through the technological eras does a good job, I think, in giving the player that sense of building something great through the ages. And that is what civ3 is all about, right? So, I think the intro does a great job in illustrating what the game will be about. And, the music is so much better than previous civs.
I give this intro a B+
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October 14, 2001, 13:49
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it didn't even load properly... their server is quite the bitc chas s thing 
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October 14, 2001, 13:52
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The 56K streaming was absolutely horrible, but the cable streaming looked much better although it was a bit slower.
Now I'm downloading the 17MB file at 4KB/s 
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October 14, 2001, 13:56
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gRRRRR taking too long to download!!! anyway, it cant be the HWOLE movie if its only 17 mb, can it?
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October 14, 2001, 14:02
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it is the whole zip, the movie (1:44) is 23 megs....
watched it... 
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October 14, 2001, 14:04
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I'm starting to get the reviews back on this intro movie and people are saying that it's a snoozer! 
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October 14, 2001, 14:06
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Originally posted by Jason Beaudoin
I'm starting to get the reviews back on this intro movie and people are saying that it's a snoozer!
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Yeah, I was expecting some bloodshed. Thankfully, I'll probably only watch the intro once or twice. Its the actual game that matters.
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October 14, 2001, 14:13
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Someone needs to post this movie on another site because it is so painfully slow on Gamespot!
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October 14, 2001, 14:16
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k, i have the movie d/l'd ...who has a server to upload it to?
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