Recent content by Blackw3

I came across this from the GalCivIII page, which is basically what you're talking about here. "As previously mentioned, Galactic Civilizations was the first game to employ a multithreaded computer AI. Moreover, it made use of the Internet to (optionally) store player strategies so that the...

That's probably very accurate thinking about it actually. I beat BE twice under Apollo, got angry over how easy it was. Got over the game put it aside in about 25 hours, and the other day I asked a friend how he felt about the game and his response was, "Its a pretty good game, my only problem...

Its not a matter of expectation, its a simple matter of the type of games we love continuing to receive the attention and funds necessary to stay profitable. I don't have the exact figures, but this last decade has seen a huge surge of gamers from demographics that we would have never suspected...

I took a few years off from playing strategy games and only got back into it with the release of Rome 2. After having been disappointed with Rome 2's AI, then BE's AI, and now EL's AI, I can't help but question whether this is an inherit problem with the genre of strategy games (or maybe 4x more...

Ok perhaps on the technical side BE is a lot more polished (though I had absolutely no problems running both games at release) but I think a lot of BE faults are in game play and mechanics and not necessarily tech issues. So allow me to correct myself and say, on the non-technical side, the they...

I wanted to like this game, correction, love this game! Followed it up eagerly up until release. Watched the Maddjin tubes, even watched pretty much all of the videos with the developers talking about the game. Hell even knew of most of the techs and virtues before the game was released. Went so...

Thanks for the info! One question though, when you say 4 players are your referring to 4 live players or 4 civs altogether? As in do you think it will be as stable with 4 live players and 4 AI (8 civ game) or strictly 4 civs in a game.

On the contrary, I believe the criticism is good for patching the game and ultimately making it better. Its not that I can't simply bypass the negativity, or don't want to hear anyone's complaints, its just rummaging through all the posts to find the ones that are genuine. Its more of the way...

I've been playing PC based strategy games for almost 2 decades now, and I don't know if people are more vocal now, or forums have really gained in popularity, or if only now its really started to bother me. But is this how its always been after a game is released? I mean it seems to be the same...

I'm in the same boat. Though neither of us ever played Civ multiplayer, but I'm really hoping its a good experience and I can convince a few to join. Playing this game against competent opponents seems amazing.

Hello Everyone. This is my first post, though I've been lurking since BE was announced, and playing Civ since CivII. Cranked it up last night and got about 3 hours into it. I'm loving it, pretty much everything except maybe difficulty level and the AI. The community as a whole seems a...