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My wife adores Civ on the DS. She's been playing it constantly. I find it to be a poorly made slap in the face. Luck of the dice is intolerable and enraging in revolution. Combat wise it's like a painful return to Civ 2 with a Phalanx killing a Battleship. As far as the early parts of the...

I played the demo on the 360 and though... what a cute little thing they did here. The 360/PS3 version went too happy with the graphics to cover how much the game had been simplified, but it seemed like it would be a return to Civ1 or even 2 via the DS. After playing the DS version, I'm...

On the build screen, leave the cursor over the unit, every few seconds it switches between the stat info and the fluff text. As for combat, the top screen when you're ready to initialize it seems to be the only place. The Oracle supposedly will help see military disasters (haven't tried it...

Preferably playable through a free link up service (akin to blizzard's battle.net) or better yet just a LAN or Direct IP connection. I'd really like to play more games -with- my friends, not against them. I also would like to avoid playing with/against random other people. I know, this...

Jurrassic Park might have had some more interesting shooter games if it had at least come out (probably the movies more then the novel) during the 64 bit era of the N64, PSX, and Even the Dreamcast or later. Unfortunately, it came out right in the prime of the 16 bit era, which lead to a few...

I'm inclined to agree with this. As much as another RTS would be welcomed (Warcraft 4, Starcraft 2) as well as another edition to the diablo franchise... I'm sure they see it as 'competing with themselves'. I seem recall one of the big MMO companies almost 10 years ago decided AGAINST releasing...

World of Warcraft at one point really consumed my life to the point that it was all I thought about even if I wouldn't play it for a day (which was rare in itself). Thankfully this made me grow increasingly bitter towards the MMO because it felt like I was in a bad relationship that even Dr...

It depends on what you're looking for in a handheld system. The PSP is rather lacking in fun and well made games, so it really falls short for most people that would use it -just- to game. The only good personal testimony I've heard about it is from an online friend who actually puts other...

This is a very interesting idea, since getting a great general or two early on can be increadably helpful. I had a game where I got one around 2000 BC I think, which meant one of my cities was spitting out 2 promotion units while Vassalage wasn't even on the horizon yet. If you have a solid...

Wow, I didn't expecta simple question to get such a detailed and math riddled explanation. It's actually very insightful! It explains why beelining to a tech always seemed such a pain in the butt... well, aside from the obvious issue of too few beakers to put a dent in a tech with a high...

By challenge you mean go with 3-4 people you actually like and know are good players and 35 others that wouldn't have even made it to level 60 if the game wasn't so easy to solo grind in in the first place? 40 man content was a day time drama of guild politics combine with 'short bus'...

This is probably something most people don't even pay attention to... and for the life of me I'm not even sure what to search for if it's been covered already. :confused: On a typical ancient start, usually I see 10 commerce right from the get go. 8 from the palace, 1 from the city tile...

Civ 4's rock/paper/scissors/school bully (for lack of a better way of describing winning simply by being a stronger unit with no type vs modifiers) sort of system really introduced a nice aspect to the game that gives a flavor that's always appealed to me from RTS games. Warcraft 3 really...

What I have been happy with using this strategy is how much it does slow down an AI player. For those times I actually -want- to wait for the overpowering units, I can actually have a shot at pulling it off... compared to say trying to beeline for knights or macemen only to show up at their door...

The fact that 12 of those games all came out before 2000 says a lot about games themselves. The ooh and ahh of graphics only lasts so long, but the engrossing gameplay lasts for months. A good chunk of the pre-2000 games I agree with for being in the top though, particularly spot #1. That was...