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Posted: Sep 17 2007 12:56 am

I'm talking about city/civilization builders like Sim City, Caesar III, Emperor, Pharaoh, COTN, or even Civ 4? I just got Caesar IV, and am waiting for a new graphics card so it doesn't look like crap on my computer.

Name's Grimmriffer btw. Sorry for not introducing myself earlier, I like to lurk.

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I used to love those, especially Civ3. I'll get around to buying Civ4 eventually, I swear...

Sierra made some good ones, including one on Greek Cvilization, although it did seem like somewhat of a copy of Caesar...although Pharoah was a ripoff of that too.....

Posted: Sep 17 2007 06:38 am

I love the Civ series, and SimCity before they made it all crazy in-depth. After SimCity 2000, there was just too much shit to deal with for it to be fun. I still the Pharoah CD sitting around somewhere. Pharoah disappointed me. I was hoping for it to be basically SimCity set in Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't. It was scenario-driven, like the one player mode in Warcraft.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 08:30 am

Yeah, I'm kinda the same way when it comes to complexity. Civ II was the best for me becuase I understood all the elements of the game. CIV 4 seems like it would be a lot of fun, if I could just get the hang of it. I'm finding a similar learning curve going from Caesar III to IV.

And it is true that Caesar III, Phaoraoh and Emperor are all just pallete swaps of the same game with a few unique features added in, but that's what I loved about them! Why mess with a formula that already works?

Posted: Sep 17 2007 08:30 am

I have Civ III, and it's great. I also have Empire Earth, but that game is a little too in-depth for me.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 12:46 pm

I used to be a huge empire-building fan. I still play Civilization 2 and SimCity 2000 from time to time; they're on my laptop, so I could conceivably play them during class.

SimCity 3000 is my favorite SimCity. I tried SimCity 4, but like Syd said, it was just crazy in-depth. Every building and plot of land needed access to a road. SimCity 4 was like SimCity 3000's uptight little brother. While 4 would whine and moan about not having any road access, 3000 would say something like "Is that industrial zone five squares away from a road? Yeah? Then slap that bitch down and let's get movin'"

I haven't gotten the full version of Civ 4 yet, but I intend to. I played the demo, and I was intrigued, although I'm kind of worried about it being too complicated or else just too different from 2 and 3.

I also really like Rise of Nations, but I guess that's a tiny bit more of real-time strategy than empire-building. Still, good game.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 03:06 pm

I love SimCity. I played all of them. and I can pull out SimCity DS anytime.

Oh yeah, SimCity 2000 + SCURK + Streets of SimCity/SimCopter = win.

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I like Simcity and a few of the tycoon games, especially RCT3.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 04:19 pm

Age of Empires is also great, but that's more of an RTS.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 04:55 pm

Speaking of AoE, did anyone play Age of Mythology?
I always wanted to play it, but I keep forgetting to buy it. Now im wondering whether I should if its any good or not.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 07:16 pm

I love CIV 4. I have it and both expansions. It is completely revamped from 3, but in many ways the gameplay has been smoothed over, and the game just seems easier to play. The depth is still there by far, nor has the difficulty changed, it just seems like the controls and such have been more streamlined which makes it better to play.

Plus, you gotta love Leonard Nemoy narrating all the Technology advancements.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 09:46 pm

I have to get Civ 4, but I keep putting it off for some reason. Maybe now that the new expansion that goes from the stone age to the future with mechs and shit is out, I'll buy it.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 11:27 pm

I always want to play these, but I get 9-10 rounds into my game and stop playing. I guess I like to kill stuff more than I like to build stuff.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 01:27 am

I only liked to destroy what I or the default have built! Twisted Evil

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Char Aznable wrote:

Age of Empires is also great, but that's more of an RTS.

Don't get me started on AoE. I am addicted to AoE2. At one point, it was the only thing i played for months on end. I played it over the end of this summer, man it brought back some memories. I played some scenarios i made a year back and that was hours of fun and some were just weird. One scenario i made gave you the option to sacrifice women villagers at the monastery for food.

Posted: Oct 11 2007 11:57 am

Not to revive a dead thread but this seemed the closest to the type of news I just read from 1up.com:

Quote:

Global Warming an Inconvenient Truth in SimCity
Carbon emitting energy will cause climate change in latest city-builder.

The game won't force any particular type of energy to power your cities, but offer various choices with realistic costs and benefits. If you use cheap sources of energy with high levels of carbon dioxide emission, you'll save money but your carbon rating will rise. If it reaches a critical level, your city will be at a high risk of natural disasters, such as droughts and heat waves. Or, you could go green with a variety of BP-branded alternative energy sources with lower carbon emissions, but they'll be more expensive and produce less power.

full story: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163583

But regarding this, I think the SimCity series is just going a little too overboard w/these type of shenanigans. In fact, this type of crap makes it sound less fun.

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That reminds me of the Global Warming aspect late in the game of civ3. It was very annoying, especially if you have your workers on automatic; forests everywhere would start disappearing, so the workers would constantly plant forests in your tundra territory. It also angered me because I'm a skeptic of Global Warming.

Does anybody know if GW is a factor in civ4? I've heard that corruption isn't as annoying in it, so hopefully it's the same case for this.

Posted: Oct 11 2007 05:40 pm

I was talking to Coach Dikkut (a teacher at my school who is a major Civ and AoE player), and he says that global warming and pollution are way less annoying. I don't know personally, as I'm still hooked on Civ 3.