[Civ2] Birdilization Modpack (see it to believe it lol)

[Blake00]

Just when I thought I'd seen every wacky Civ2 scenario idea out there I find this while doing my lost Civ2 websites search and scenario hunting & rescue work.

The moment I landed on the website archive I knew it's creator was bit c u c k o o (you'll get the joke in min lol)
https://web.archive.org/web/20091023180036/http://geocities.com/coox3d/index.html

That's a... LOT of birds.. my speakers also started making chirping sounds too lol

Over the last few weeks as part of my big Civ2 scenarios & mods preservation project I've been searching all over the net and have found some amazing looking/sounding super rare scenarios with dead downloads meaning they're likely lost forever.. but this modpack downloaded just fine!
https://web.archive.org/web/20091023180036/http://geocities.com/coox3d/birdilization.zip

And boy it does not disappoint.. every single unit sound is replaced by birds screeching hahahaha.. you swing a sword you get a chirp.. your plane crashes you get a squawk! haha

But oh it's gets better.. wait till you see all the bird related Microsoft Windows Paint drawings! What is even happening here???

brilliant hahahahahahaha.. look like they were done by 5 year old hahaha

But oh wait there's more.. he's changed the advice file so you get nice things like "The birdies grow restless. Let us appease them with a Colosseum." and "Why are we allowing worms to rot in the fields? Let us build a Supermarket to distribute it properly!". Or at least that's what it would say if he hadn't of changed the buildings too of course haha as we've got things like "nest of worship", "bird poop nest", and "worm exchange" haha.. all the advances are changed to bird stuff like "flock senate" and "bird religion".. and of course all the units too with pretty much every bird you can think of and not think of (eg suicidal crow) hahaha.

So did it's creator 'Coo3d'/Nick Coman have a brilliant sense of humour? a brilliant supply of drugs? or maybe he was just dared to do it in a scenario/mod design contest? or was he just a kid?.. I'll let you guys decide haha.. either way I just had to share this discovery with the community as like so many scenarios/mods it was lost to time and was just too funny haha

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[CurtSibling]

Never do drugs and design scenarios, kids!

 

[Knighttime]

@Blake00 Maybe this author took his idea elsewhere and struck it rich. Have you heard of Egg, Inc.? Looks like "Civ with chickens" but has better graphics than MS Paint.
Apparently you can eventually build a spaceship to fly your chickens into space.
And no, I haven't played it.
At least not yet.

 

[Blake00]

hahaha that'd be right.. making money off an existing formula with birds slapped on top reminds me of that whole bloody Flappy Bird thing years ago too..

See this is why I'm not rich.. where I see lunacy, others see a gold mine opportunity hahaha

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[CurtSibling]

Angry Birds - Nuff' said!

 

[ncoman]

Just when I thought I'd seen every wacky Civ2 scenario idea out there I find this while doing my lost Civ2 websites search and scenario hunting & rescue work.

The moment I landed on the website archive I knew it's creator was bit c u c k o o (you'll get the joke in min lol)
https://web.archive.org/web/20091023180036/http://geocities.com/coox3d/index.html

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That's a... LOT of birds.. my speakers also started making chirping sounds too lol

Over the last few weeks I've found some amazing looking/sounding super rare scenarios with dead downloads meaning they're likely lost forever.. but of course this guys modpack downloads just fine doesn't it!
https://web.archive.org/web/20091023180036/http://geocities.com/coox3d/birdilization.zip

And boy it does not disappoint.. every single unit sound is replaced by birds screeching hahahaha.. you swing a sword you get a chirp.. your plane crashes you get a squawk! haha

But oh it's gets better.. wait till you see all the bird related Microsoft Windows Paint drawings! what is even happening here???

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brilliant hahahahahahaha.. look like they were done by 5 year old hahaha

But oh wait there's more.. he's changed the advice file so you get nice things like "The birdies grow restless. Let us appease them with a Colosseum." and "Why are we allowing worms to rot in the fields? Let us build a Supermarket to distribute it properly!". Or at least that's what it would say if he hadn't of changed the buildings too of course haha as we've got things like "nest of worship", "bird poop nest", and "worm exchange" haha.. all the advances are changed to bird stuff like "flock senate" and "bird religeon".. and of course all the units too with pretty much every bird you can think of and not think of (eg suicidal crow) hahaha.

So did it's creator 'Coo3d' - Nick Coman have a brilliant sense of humour? a brilliant supply of drugs? or maybe he was just dared to do it in a scenario/mod design contest?.. I'll let you guys decide haha.. either way I just had to share this discovery with the community as like so many scenarios/mods it was lost to time and was just too funny haha

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I made this when I was 12 — in 7th grade. I’m 36 now… and I laugh whenever I read the reviews that are still being written… my pre puberty bird sound voice was pretty special. Birdilization forever.

 

[Blake00]

I made this when I was 12 — in 7th grade. I’m 36 now… and I laugh whenever I read the reviews that are still being written… my pre puberty bird sound voice was pretty special. Birdilization forever.

OH MY GOD it's the bird guy haha!!! He's back!!! Welcome to CivFanatics my friend, and thank you for confusing the hell out of us all a few years back haha. Honestly when I originally found your mod I didn't know whether it was youth or drugs or a practical joke on the community back in the day or WHAT haha. You were 12 so I guess youth is the winner then lol! Please tell us Nick, was Knightime right & you struck it rich and are now a owner of some huge bird related business empire? Or did you grow out of the whole bird thing and now you can't stand the bloody things?

Jokes aside I'm a big fan of total conversion mods and the effort people put into them so despite being wacky as hell it's pretty cool just how much of the game you changed, and the fact you built a whole website around it too, and to figure all that out at 12 is pretty good too! Quite impressive actually!
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[Kaiser0985]

Reading this topic is like looking through a window, watching our youthfulness, little sad but we are still here.

Birdman deserves RESPECT for what he has done to our poor Civ2, I mean, you have to really think crazy to get an idea like this.

 

[Dadais]

I made this when I was 12 — in 7th grade. I’m 36 now… and I laugh whenever I read the reviews that are still being written… my pre puberty bird sound voice was pretty special. Birdilization forever.

Nice feelings we're sharing towards this game.
Here's the important point you can be proud of, as what you achieved at the age of 12 :

I just had to share this discovery with the community as (...) it (...) was just too funny haha