Nostalgia

CrONoS · February 7, 2003, 12:53

Something come to my mind when playing a MP game of Civ3...

You remember in Civ I, when a great wonder was build by another country in the earliest part of the game, something like that was said " Travellers report that China build Great Wall" with a "nice" illustration of deck and boat... it was cool cause now you just see "The China build Great Wall"...

I know this is a pointless post, but some old feature was pretty cool...

Nice day everyone|!

nhnlodat · February 7, 2003, 13:05

No not pointless, I agree with ya and I find moments like this in lots of games. Maybe I am getting older but it seems hard to find a game with the same spark as I experienced in the past. The good old lose your self kind of games. Civ 3 is one of the closest.
I guess you could call this a pointless reply J

NHNLODAT

Alex · February 7, 2003, 15:42

Ahh, good old days...

I know it is not what cronos was referring to, but I liked this too...

statusperfect · February 7, 2003, 17:11

Try Unreal 2. Great plot, nice in-game cutscenes, lame jokes, funny characters.

I don't like shooters but this game really has THE spark.

CrONoS · February 7, 2003, 18:06

Wow what a great pictures, german wise man rulez!!!!!
If someone can have a picture about what i said before I'll be very happy...

Thanks for the pictures Alexnm.

statusperfect · February 7, 2003, 19:25

MrBaggins · February 7, 2003, 20:11

the graphics look somewhat primative alongside a newer game, like... say... Unreal 2K3.

Admittedly not the same genre, but still...

/me shakes his head

CrONoS · February 7, 2003, 21:06

thanks statusperfect,

That's remember me so many things... wow!!!
Man, with graphics like that, you got to have a big imagination to imaginate this square a city, this weird white and blue things like a settler... this graphics are pretty ugly, i dont remember played a games with so bad graphics...
hahahah, Old Times... Good Times!
Have a nice day!

notyoueither · February 7, 2003, 21:19

The glories of DOS based gaming.

CrONoS · February 7, 2003, 21:53

notyoueither:
oohhh yeahhhhh...

640 Kb of conventional memory always win... how many time you had to change your config.sys and autoexec.bat just to free up some conventional memory... i remember some game needed 590 kb of conventional memory... you had to run memaker, create EMS memory and load all in upper memory if i'm not wrong...
wow, that's was so great. Config your soundblaster... or your adlib for midi... in this time power was giving to the users. A multi config.sys and autoexec.bat for each game you played.
Computer was not friendly user.... wow, i am in loved with that elitism DOS System.

The Mad Monk · February 8, 2003, 06:25

I remember going from Ultima IV to Ultima V...

"WOW! you can go diagonal now!"

Master Zen · February 8, 2003, 13:27

Quote:

Originally posted by cronos_qc
notyoueither:
oohhh yeahhhhh...

640 Kb of conventional memory always win... how many time you had to change your config.sys and autoexec.bat just to free up some conventional memory... i remember some game needed 590 kb of conventional memory... you had to run memaker, create EMS memory and load all in upper memory if i'm not wrong...
wow, that's was so great. Config your soundblaster... or your adlib for midi... in this time power was giving to the users. A multi config.sys and autoexec.bat for each game you played.
Computer was not friendly user.... wow, i am in loved with that elitism DOS System.

such horror stories I remember with fondness!

I still like to play an ocassional DOS game once in a while, mainly Ultima VII which could never be run from Windows. Too bad Mr. Gates got rid of DOS for WinXP. At least I installed winME/winXP at the same time.

Thing about Civ1 that most cracked me up:

A powerful Despot Russia during negotiations. Stalin with with 4-man goon squad in the background (those guys looked like drug dealers) telling me those immortal words:

I HAVE DECIDED TO RID THE WORLD OF YOUR PATHETIC CIVILIZATION! PREPARE FOR WAR!

Usually Insane · February 9, 2003, 06:21

hosh, I remember when I thought that was the epitome in game design and graphics...

Alex · February 9, 2003, 09:53

The famous "journal"...

CrONoS · February 9, 2003, 12:35

Nice the newspaper, I was not remember this!!!
Thanks Alex

Crousto · February 9, 2003, 16:03

I remember that it took me aaaaages to realize that this white crescent thingy was in fact a settler's chariot

Alex · February 9, 2003, 16:30

Configuring your world...

CrONoS · February 9, 2003, 16:57

The early debut of a great games...

Forget all the things, all the detail, just think " about what is your feeling"
What is the Best Civ?

... I think Civ I was the best Civ ... The problem is, I will never come back to Civ I. Maybe I get to come back younger

....

Cesa · February 9, 2003, 17:50

Quote:

Originally posted by Crousto
I remember that it took me aaaaages to realize that this white crescent thingy was in fact a settler's chariot

Hehe, me too, thought it looked like a boat with a big white sail or something

asleepathewheel · February 9, 2003, 22:39

Quote:

Originally posted by Cesa

Hehe, me too, thought it looked like a boat with a big white sail or something

In case you didnt know (I'm not trying to be patronizing) that settler is an oldfashioned covered wagon that moved people out West in the US during the 1800's

Alex · February 11, 2003, 07:25

More nostalgia...

Negotiating with the Mongols...

Th0mas · February 12, 2003, 11:05

Quote:

Originally posted by Usually Insane
hosh, I remember when I thought that was the epitome in game design and graphics...

What do you mean WAS ???

I still get goosebumps when I think about CIV 1 and seeing those images again...aaaaaaa

....I remember that I used to have to watch the whole of the start-up sequence (..up to the modern world) until I upgraded my old IBM PS2 model 30 to a 486sx25.Then it would just get to the dinosaur era and the game would start.

..listening to the music with the PC speaker, before I got a soundbaster...

good memories

Stuie · February 12, 2003, 11:10

Amazing looking at that setup screen; we still have the same basic choices, huh? The more things change the more they stay the same.

Weren't the number of people behind a leader a measure of that Civs relative strength? Little things like that... I miss.

Alex · February 12, 2003, 13:03

Here's one from the Windows version. I can't remember exactly what was the purpose of that box below the "Status" title bar...

CrONoS · February 12, 2003, 13:14

****, this was under Win 3.1? No???

Wittlich · February 12, 2003, 18:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Alexnm
... I can't remember exactly what was the purpose of that box below the "Status" title bar...

That is how your Palace looks as an "overview." As you add to your Palace, the image will change/grow.

I do miss this feature in the later civ games...

Morrissey · February 13, 2003, 07:12

Ah the palace. It used to bug the hell out of me because it took so long to load up with floppies (I had Civ1 on the Amiga). I always used to disable it, it never did anything anyway.... as far as I could tell anyway

The best thing I remember was the music. It might not have been on the PC version, but on the Amiga, when you discovered an advance or built a wonder, it played a bit of music for the civ you represented. I always played as Germany simply because of their kick ass music! Again, as far as I could tell, there wasn't any differences between civs on that version.

Alex · February 13, 2003, 09:31

Thanks, Witt, now I remember...

CrONoS · February 13, 2003, 11:08

i dont remember the music!!!!!!!

If in the DOS Version we got this music too... different music for different nation????

Th0mas · February 13, 2003, 11:19

Quote:

Originally posted by cronos_qc
i dont remember the music!!!!!!!

If in the DOS Version we got this music too... different music for different nation????

My memory is a bit hazy, but I thought we got different music for different nations in the DOS version.