Right back to CIV3 as always!

PrinceBimz · October 20, 2003, 01:46

Then again I never actually left it

Just that lately I was spending a little more time playing Empire Earth, RoN, and Battlefield 1942. Don't get me wrong, these are all excellent fun games, but they are not CIV3. Most of you know what I mean by this too. So now in the end, as usual I am right back playing CIV3. When I get C3C, I guess I won't be playing those others games much at all. If anything those will be my break time games

I will just play them when I am taking a short break from C3C. So in the end, CIV3 still comes out on top as an overall better game.

peterfharris · October 20, 2003, 02:33

You are not the only one. I had been playing other games for some months. About 6 weeks trying out Galactic Civilisations. Several months on yet another Imperialism 2 jag with a few games of Anno 1503, Caesar 3 and Pharoah for good measure. Now I am playing Civ3 again and later I will try this Conquests thingy (and then presumably my next Imp2 jag).

vmxa1 · October 20, 2003, 02:53

Welcome Kotter, I mean PrinceBimz. Looks like C3C will be a lot of fun.

alva · October 20, 2003, 04:05

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Looks like C3C will be a lot of fun.

Didn't think I would, but yeah, I'm looking forwards to it's release too.
Can't wait to get a few new PBEM's started, and a couple of training SP games

Grim Legacy · October 20, 2003, 06:33

Heh I've returned to Civ3 only recently as well. When I played it two years ago it somehow couldn't capture my interest for very long, but I put it aside knowing that I would be playing it again sometime in the future... and now I do.

If C3C features *everything* from PTW, I'll be getting that one too. A double serving of new stuff for me then!

Spiffor · October 20, 2003, 06:57

I too am often "back" to Civ after straying for a few months. Sometimes I spend too much time in the OT to play Civ. Sometimes I spend too much time on some RPG or Space Opera game. Sometimes I even spend too much time working

But I always come back to my first true love: Civ

spy14 · October 23, 2003, 17:02

Deus Ex is the only game that will remove me from Civ for any length of time (until Deus 2 that is). Vice City had a go but while its great it's also painfully flawed (I check for police, turn round and steal a car, and shock an officer has spawned 10 metres behind me, mission over). Staying on topic, Civs combat system sometimes irritates but apart from that its an extremely replayable game.

And no I dont work for the people who are producing Deus Ex!!

Solver · October 23, 2003, 17:36

Welcome back... I guess that, if you love Civ, you can never leave it. Many players, myself included, experience peiods when they stop playing civ for a while. Sometimes I will have breaks even a few months long... but, as Spiffor, I always come back.

Interesting how Civ never gets old. Like, Age of Kings was a game that I loved and everything, but after a year, I stopped playing it. I got all out of it that I could, and the replayability wasn't enough to keep me coming back... although the year was great. Civ, I'm playing that for many years, and I don't see myself stopping that in the foreseeable future.

FrostyBoy · October 23, 2003, 18:26

I have always looked at Civ as a really indepth and large Chess game, and Chess is also a game that does not get old.

Civ has a "set it up and try it out" purpose to it. Which is the way Chess is. This might be why people come back to it. To truely strategise, to try and see how smart and clever you are, more of a mind thing than a mouse thing.

Grim Legacy · October 24, 2003, 05:47

I think that many Civ players are also true veterans- as in people who played Civ1 for years, then Civ2 etc. As said, the game concept is almost infinite, much like chess indeed.

Hehe I remember my Civ1 moments on a now ancient 286 very well.

spy14 · October 24, 2003, 09:37

Thats just it - the best games have a simple concept that allows endless possibilities to happen. Thats why Civ is so replayable. So games are excellent but linear so you have no replayability (Monkey Island anyone?)

alva · October 24, 2003, 10:29

Hey I like monkey Island !!!

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Often don't play for months on end either, I usually get an 'overdose' after playing a game, If I play one, I tend to play too much, IE doing 12-16 hour sessions

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I would like to start a game now but gonna wait for C3C though

Solver · October 24, 2003, 10:59

True, Civ is a mind, not a mouse game. I can see no reason why I couldn't be playing Civ with my grandchildren...

Basilisk · October 26, 2003, 03:40

Yeah, I just recently came back too. I got Civ3 earlier this year, after finally getting a computer which coudl handle it

Up until then I'd had to rely on SMAC to quench my civ-thirst, and the old Civ2 as well... but then I strayed to Counter Strike

Needless to say, I'm back. It's strange, it was History in school which drew me back... so I got Marla's world map to see what I could do

Alex · October 26, 2003, 10:30

I think that most (if not all) of us have had this experience, I mean, playing civ and then leaving it on the shelf for a while, only to return to it later. Civ is a cyclical game for me, and it never leaves my HD - if I have to format my disk, Civ is the first thing installed after windows.

Solver · October 26, 2003, 10:59

But it's hard to explain just why do you leave Civ on the shelf for those several weeks, isn't it?

WarpStorm · October 26, 2003, 11:44

Easy for me. I get a new game I want to try out.

Solver · October 26, 2003, 12:11

I usually switch between Civ and all other games. There's a period when I play only Civ - and even then, I tend to spend a bit more time than I should on it. Then, there's the period where Civ is given a rest, and I play a bit of the other games I like - Age of Mythology, Wolfenstein, Rise of Nations, Morrowind, or whatever I may have at the time.

alva · October 26, 2003, 12:24

I usally switch with some no brain games, a racing game or something, or even a game like VC.

I do play less and less, even got bored with simcity way to quickly.
I guess I'm either getting old or bored with PC games in general.

MUST BE the latter

vmxa1 · October 26, 2003, 14:17

Glad to see there are others with the affliction, maybe we need a a 12 step program.

Alex · October 26, 2003, 15:35

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Originally posted by Solver
But it's hard to explain just why do you leave Civ on the shelf for those several weeks, isn't it?

Sometimes I just get bored of ruling the world.

asleepathewheel · October 26, 2003, 18:36

Usually play a console game or something. A season in NCAA 2003.

Played HOI nonstop for probably 2 months

played MoO3 and Galciv a collective 3 weeks.

Theseus · October 26, 2003, 19:45

I switch between Civ3 and 'poly.

Alex · October 27, 2003, 09:05

But 'poly is not a game... er... hm, I see what you mean.

zorbop · October 27, 2003, 11:38

i too have not played civ3 recently. i got halo for pc and have played in almost nonstop for a month