This MoO3 Civ3 crap

June 30, 2001, 00:07

MoO3 is in space, Civ3 is on earth. To be honest I couldn't care less how much greater MoO3 will be to Civ3, just like I couldn't care less how much greater Duke Nukem Forever will be to Civ3.

MoO3 and Civ3 are two different games, why even dare compare the two?

KrazyHorse · June 30, 2001, 00:53

Well, they are both TBS. There is something of a point here, though. Civ and MoO "feel" different when you play them.

Rasputin · June 30, 2001, 01:10

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Originally posted by ContradictioN
care less how much greater Duke Nukem Forever will be to Civ3.

Duke Nuker Forever ?? Will it ever be released on PC.. Ahh it brings memories back of the only shootemup game i enjoyed, of course i had to load all the R rated mod packs to make it interesting

Quartz Dragon · June 30, 2001, 10:51

MOO and MOO2 were fun, but not as good as Civ and Civ2

Just imagine what Sid could do if he decided to do an intersteller Civ

Nemo · June 30, 2001, 11:01

I think that moo3 will have the same group of people following it as smac. i spent countless hours at civ/civII, but only a very few hours (in comparision) playing with smac. it's just that you have your history buffs that come out of the woodwork to play the civ's and your sci-fi fanatics to play smac/moo. While they both pertain to the TBS audience, they split the audience up rather decisively. sci-fi people can relate to civ (we all have had at least one history class in school

), but it doesnt work the other way around though. i mean, unless you are individually interested in sci-fi...moo/smac dont really appeal as much. so, i see it as civ having the upperhand

, since theyy can appeal to both sides of the TBS audience, where as moo/smac can only appeal to one side.

Sabre2th · June 30, 2001, 11:22

Nemo makes a good point. The two audiences do overlap, but they are different in a lot of ways.

Father Beast · June 30, 2001, 16:36

I don't know. I was a BIG moo fan, while moo2 never grabbed me.

still, they are different from the civ games. Indeed, one of the things that turned me off the most about moo2, was that it was more like civ, and less like moo.

KrazyHorse · June 30, 2001, 17:59

I know this isn't really germane, but do you realize how stupid we sound talking about the moo series? It's like we're in some twisted alternate universe where cows run the gaming industry with iron fists.

"I liked that last game you made. It had cows in it. I like cows"

"Please! I don't want to do any more cow games"

"Silence, human, before I squirt you with my udder of doom"

Urban Ranger · July 2, 2001, 11:15

I don't think we can compare MoO with Civ. They are superficially similar and MoO has its roots in Civ, but that's about all the similarities there is.

I also disagree that MoO is the same as SMAC. The latter is a whole lot closer to Civ than the former.

Grumbold · July 2, 2001, 11:40

They are all turn based 4x games. Lets not draw artificial barriers because some have cities and single unit combat while others have planets and multiple unit combat. Civ spawned a genre and it now has quite a lot of different games in it. Most of them have been substantially different to Civ because they didn't have the copyright advantages Activision had when making CtP.