cat98
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In responce to the most recent rash of Firaxis bashing threads, here is a nicer one! After all, have they not provided us with countless hours of quality gaming?
ALL HAIL PHARAOH's QUICK EMERGENCY RESPONCE TEAM!
All Hail Firaxis!!!
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In responce to the most recent rash of Firaxis bashing threads, here is a nicer one! After all, have they not provided us with countless hours of quality gaming?
ALL HAIL PHARAOH's QUICK EMERGENCY RESPONCE TEAM!
sabo
My Ancestors were Vikings
I must say it's the greatest friggin game I've played (14 year experience) I DO have minor beefs with the game (I wish AI combat was a little smarter) but as a whole I've been playing solid for about 3 months now, most games I buy I play once or twice then it bores me. The concept of Civ was ingenious!!
Thanks Sid!!!
Thanks Sid!!!
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It's even better than Rolaids or Tums.
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Sid had nothing to do with this turkey other than sell his now tarnished name to supercilious Firaxis.
The complaints about Civ 3 are not a "recent rash". They've been ongoing since the buggy beta game was sold to us in November. They have in fact been fewer complaints lately as many dissatisfied people long ago left for greener pastures. (Anyone remember Libertarian, for instance?).
Sadly, Firaxis, experts at marketing if not game development, is laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.
The complaints about Civ 3 are not a "recent rash". They've been ongoing since the buggy beta game was sold to us in November. They have in fact been fewer complaints lately as many dissatisfied people long ago left for greener pastures. (Anyone remember Libertarian, for instance?).
Sadly, Firaxis, experts at marketing if not game development, is laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.
That's funny, besides the the same old and tired complaints, voiced again and again by the same people, the vast majority of messages are about how much people enjoy the game.
Just because you whine enough for 10 people, doesn't mean lots of people feel anywhere near the same.
Just because you whine enough for 10 people, doesn't mean lots of people feel anywhere near the same.
sabo
My Ancestors were Vikings
Whaddya mean Sid had nothing to do with it, where did they get all those Sid clone advisors faces from??
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Zouave
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It's a good thing there's copy and paste, or Zouave would have carpal tunnel syndrome by now.
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It's a good thing there's copy and paste, or Zouave would have carpal tunnel syndrome by now.
cat98
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I read that you are a history proffesor Zouave, is this true? Do you hate historical fiction? };-)We love this game! We love this game! We love this game! Death to frenchies everywhere! We love this game! We love this Game! Death to Hushpuppy Aztecan Scumbags Everywhere! We love this game! We love this game! Death to those Rat Fink Facists who call themselves Americans! We love this game! We love this game! Death to spear throwing Zulus everywhere! We love this game! We love this game!
ALL HAIL PHARAOH's SINGING PROPAGANDA TEAM!!!
C'mon people! Sing It! Just add any Civ to preference and salt to taste! We love this game!
-Dont mind me...
Cade Foster
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Hey, the game's good, but they missed a few things that would have made it great!
I mean, Civ2, I still play it, and I'm still hooked, but Civ3, well, I too often get frustratedf by the same things again and again and again...... Why didn't they take the time to get the game to 1.16f standard before release? It would have been great then! OK, some things that are in 1.21f aren't really stuff you can foresee, and they take too much playing for Firaxis to really figure them out before release, but why do i get the feeling noone at the firm every played more than his/her first game on standard map, Monarch level to the end? Why is the Modern Age relatively sucky? It wasn't tested sufficiently, and this is the big gripe here!
Give me Civ3 off the shelf as it is NOW (1.21f), and I'd maybe feel differently, but this way.... I dread MP, cause it's gonna be buggy as hell, too!
So I can understand both sides very well, those who complain, and those who don't get why some whine. Maybe some of you never experienced some of the problems, because of your choices of level, map size, civ number???? Maybe some of you think it sucks because your choices make the problems appear all the time?
I play lotsa different settings, and I think the game is '' this close to great - maybe the next patch will make it so!
And some others and I find more and more stuff in this game that's - well - strange, or at least unexpected, and some of it sucks. So, adjust you say, quite rightly, but we do get to the point where i simply adjust by playing something different, and it is because of sooo little things.....
All hail Firaxis if the next patch does the job on the few issues that remain!
I mean, Civ2, I still play it, and I'm still hooked, but Civ3, well, I too often get frustratedf by the same things again and again and again...... Why didn't they take the time to get the game to 1.16f standard before release? It would have been great then! OK, some things that are in 1.21f aren't really stuff you can foresee, and they take too much playing for Firaxis to really figure them out before release, but why do i get the feeling noone at the firm every played more than his/her first game on standard map, Monarch level to the end? Why is the Modern Age relatively sucky? It wasn't tested sufficiently, and this is the big gripe here!
Give me Civ3 off the shelf as it is NOW (1.21f), and I'd maybe feel differently, but this way.... I dread MP, cause it's gonna be buggy as hell, too!
So I can understand both sides very well, those who complain, and those who don't get why some whine. Maybe some of you never experienced some of the problems, because of your choices of level, map size, civ number???? Maybe some of you think it sucks because your choices make the problems appear all the time?
I play lotsa different settings, and I think the game is '' this close to great - maybe the next patch will make it so!
And some others and I find more and more stuff in this game that's - well - strange, or at least unexpected, and some of it sucks. So, adjust you say, quite rightly, but we do get to the point where i simply adjust by playing something different, and it is because of sooo little things.....
All hail Firaxis if the next patch does the job on the few issues that remain!
warpstorm
Yumbo? Yumbo!
Actually, I think the MP game will be far less buggy than what we've seen so far. They actually have testers now, which they didn't before this spring. With any luck, this will remove some of the gross errors from the game before it is released.
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