Do you still play Civ II - Page 4

Dis · December 11, 2002, 05:41

a virus wiped out all my civ2 stuff. I did manage to save my Hall of fame though. That is all that matters.

DrSpike · December 11, 2002, 14:51

You will be remembered as Dissident the pathetic.

Old n Slow · December 11, 2002, 15:01

Civ II is the first thing I put on a new computer -- it's my way of runninga test to see if the machine is working -- I figure if I can't play civ, then there is something wrong with the box.

I've had SMAC for about three years now and have yet to open it...Ditto for MOO2. I can't wait for civ III to get to discount prices so I can have it (unplayed) on my shelf as well.

Jac de Molay · December 12, 2002, 14:39

You really gotta play SMAC

It's the best TBS made. Makes Civ 2 look quaint, though I like Civ2 in a nostalgic way.

DrSpike · December 12, 2002, 14:44

Boooo........Hiss

Straybow · December 12, 2002, 18:11

Quote:

248Mb, 2004 files, 96 folders...

SG[1]

How many of those files are saved games? At up to 150k a pop they can add up quickly. Mine are either zipped or erased after a while.

MariOne · December 17, 2002, 08:12

Hmmmm... someone posted in Other Games that no one posted anymore in CivII forums, so I came to give a look.

Actually, I stopped dead playing CivII when SMAC demo came out (although for the first 6 or 7 months I kept thinking that CivII was still "somewhat" superior to SMAC....). Except a very short interval when a former colleague rescued the MGEdition and I "tutored" him for a while over my former company's lan...

The options in this poll don't befit me tho, because I will never state that "I lost my interest" in CivII, and I'm NOT playing CivIII (and I'ma breaking the legs of anyone who told that :grrr: )
I would just say that my interest in a classic jewel like CivII is in a "suspended animation" mode, and considering that I'm getting off SMAC (with lotsa effort...), I might give CivII a kick again next fall, especially since when I last played it I didn't even have an Internet account, leave alone knowing of Apolyton existence...

El León · December 17, 2002, 13:19

ALWAYS Civ2 until someone comes up with a better game to make scenarios with. That to me is the main attraction of anything in life

- the possibility of co-creation.
Plus I learn so much history from other scenario makers in a fun way.

By the way, we have been having a series of wars in the Spanish forum about Civ2 and Civ3. In the end, there are more Civ2 fundamentalists than Civ3 fundamentalists...

Civ2 is a cult game. Civ3

will fade away and be "one of those games"

spartak · December 19, 2002, 10:36

I'll have a +1 banana please.

MariOne · December 19, 2002, 10:57

is that a +1 To-Hit or a +1 To-Dam?

Cyrion · December 19, 2002, 11:52

Quote:

Originally posted by MariOne
is that a +1 To-Hit or a +1 To-Dam?

I guess it wasn't a +1 at the saving throw versus "Otto's Irresistible Laugh"...

JCP · December 19, 2002, 16:00

I did not "weigh" my CivII files,

but if saved files are light, Mods with sounds are heavy! :

There may be several hundreds of Mégabytes (Mo) on my disk.

War4ever · December 19, 2002, 23:04

i only MP, about 1-2 twice a week when i can

trickey · December 23, 2002, 13:17

wuddya mean do I still play? I just started

DrSpike · December 31, 2002, 12:24

Well the fact that civ2 is still drawing new players speaks for itself.

Heresson · January 3, 2003, 11:24

I am back to civ2.

Static Universe · January 3, 2003, 16:47

I just played my first Civ II game in years on New Years Day and am hooked again!

Heresson · January 3, 2003, 17:01

War4ever · January 3, 2003, 21:46

yeah, mp is a drug.......eventually even the best need their fix

SCG · January 14, 2003, 22:43

I keep coming back every once in a while. I've tried SMAC (didn't like it) and CTPII (started to really get into it for a little bit), Civ I (so limited compared to Civ II) and various other games (online muds, Baulders Gate, WarCraft, Rage of Mages etc) but keep coming back to Civ II. Interest for me is up at the moment after reading a couple of the succession games, but with most of them being in MPE format, not sure how long my interest will last this time

DrSpike · January 15, 2003, 05:22

Civ2 does seem to be a game you can put down for a while then suddenly take up again. I don't do this generally with games..............I play them for a bit then forget them.

Scouse Gits · January 15, 2003, 05:44

Yes civ2 is the only game I have had consistently on my HDD for years - I play other games (Morrowind at the moment) but still return to Civ2

SG[1]

Straybow · January 16, 2003, 00:27

SCG, your wish is our command. Let's start a 2.42 Sxn Game.

Scouse Gits · January 16, 2003, 06:45

Well done, Stray!

SG[1]

Ming · January 17, 2003, 20:12

Yeah... many games come and go on my computer, but Civ II MPG will always stay on it.

War4ever · January 17, 2003, 21:12

unless they make a computer you can't put it on, then you will have this one machine for only civ

or maybe thats a

DrSpike · January 18, 2003, 07:13

Well keep a machine. You never know it might turn out to be a valuable antique. War's for instance is the first instance of a machine that crashes more often than it works.

Straybow · January 18, 2003, 09:14

FreeCiv is one fallback for the indefinite future...

spartak · January 18, 2003, 13:29

Quote:

Originally posted by MariOne
is that a +1 To-Hit or a +1 To-Dam?

I'm not sure. I'm not actually playing the game at the moment but I still have a disk somewhere and remember the game fondly.

Ming · January 25, 2003, 04:13

I can't believe this is still on page one. I guess that Civ II is still perceived as better than Civ III by many people.

Keep on Civin'