I love playing TRON (The Rape of Nations) scenario on civ2...I think I downloaded it from civfanatics back in 2001! I second that the WW2 scenario that came with the game is fun. There is just something enduring about a game you can mod with Microsoft paint and notepad
How do you get Civ 2 to play? What version are you using? I do remember modding civ 2 quite a bit. I'd use unit graphics other people created since I didn't know how to do those, but even dummies like me could create scenarios and mods. I mostly just did scenarios.
I regularly play Civ 3 and 4, which I think still is the best the franchise has to offer. I even boot off Civ 1 once in a while just for the nostalgia. Sprinkle in with civ 5 occasionally. For me, Civ6 was always the weakest entry in the franchise, too easy, very cluttered maps, choices feeling arbitrary, uniformative graphics, poor UI, not liking sound design, religion gameplay from hell, the list just goes on) and I actually prefer all other editions.
After installing this program, run otvdm.exe and point to the Civ2 installer. Install the game. When the installation is finished run otvdm.exe again and open civ2.exe. That’s all.
I’ve tried the program on Windows 10 and it worked perfectly.
I have been a Civ2 enthousiast for several years now and was sorry to discover that this classic game wouldn't run on my recent computers. There are several posts around here explaining how to fix it. Still, many interesting informations are scattered in the forum.
It took me a few time to gather all these valuable data and would have been happy if a "no brainer guide" existed. So I decided to share this with others.
I'll provide all links to original files or posts and also to a full package which holds all the files for a more convenient use. Before applying any patches...
I have 1600 hours on CiV and I'm sure 80% of that time was played on Play Europe map with an extensive list of mods. I enjoy adding modded medieval civilizations to the map.
Civ5 is probably the last Civ where playing Earth maps is enjoyable. Humankind made me realize that real world maps are useless in games where cities can spread with districts. No one can convince me that having entire Iberian peninsula or Britain as one, huge city in medieval era, with granary the size of real life London and 1/3 or Ireland covered by Pyramid of Giza, looks good. Even with one-tile cities the scale is off, but not as blatantly as with unrestricted dictricts.
I spent an insane amount of time on Earth maps (mostly GEM and Europe) in Civ IV and V, and almost no time in Civ6 and Humankind.
Started a CIV 6 game a few days ago to keep the itch scratched for the next few days. Unoffficial map size (bigger than Huge) with 16 CIVs and i am having fun...have´t played the game for a while now. I have a lot of reservations for CIV7 regarding:
1. Small Maps, too few CIVs
2. Bare bones/incomplete Stuff (Religion, Balance, UI, AI)
3. Not a single Greek leader yet! when others have already more than one.
4. CIV switching as well as Eras and the effect they will have on immersion.
but still, the hype has caught up with me and i want to try it out. What can possibly go wrong? we'll see in the coming days after release.
I love to make custom scenarios in Civ III.
Civ VI editor is also fun to use, but when the game start... no fun...
Try to make a WWII scenario in Civ VI and the Ai will never build any airplane or carrier. It just can't work.
It's still fun but Civ III editor final results are really on another level of playability and that is what is most important to me.
I regularly play Civ 3 and 4, which I think still is the best the franchise has to offer. I even boot off Civ 1 once in a while just for the nostalgia. Sprinkle in with civ 5 occasionally. For me, Civ6 was always the weakest entry in the franchise, too easy, very cluttered maps, choices feeling arbitrary, uniformative graphics, poor UI, not liking sound design, religion gameplay from hell, the list just goes on) and I actually prefer all other editions.
Cluttered indeed. The external improvements, and towering colossi-like units were some of my esthetic gripes. The improvement looks to be definitely back with a vengeance in Civ7. I also agree, religion in Civ6 was way too cartoonish. But the iteration you, conspicuously, didn't list is by, far, my own favourite.
I am still playing Civ 4. Compared to later iterations it feels more "sandboxy". Tons of good mods, maps and scenarios available out there. And the best AI in the whole series.
I don't quite understand why some of you say it hasn't aged well.
Cluttered indeed. The external improvements, and towering colossi-like units were some of my esthetic gripes. The improvement looks to be definitely back with a vengeance in Civ7. I also agree, religion in Civ6 was way too cartoonish. But the iteration you, conspicuously, didn't list is by, far, my own favourite.
Yeah I have a soft spot for 2 as well! It has the best intro screen music of all the civ-games.Back in the days we played it so much we used to delete the settler and place it at the north pole. HAve fond memories of building a railroad across the Antarctic to invade the AI. It's been a while, but been thinking to try it out with the expansion (I never played that)
I love to make custom scenarios in Civ III.
Civ VI editor is also fun to use, but when the game start... no fun...
Try to make a WWII scenario in Civ VI and the Ai will never build any airplane or carrier. It just can't work.
It's still fun but Civ III editor final results are really on another level of playability and that is what is most important to me.
Anything from Civilization IV onwards is perfectly playable for me.
I play a lot of Civ4, Civ4Col, Civ5 and CivBE (Realism Invictus, We The People, Vox Populi and Codex).
I can see myself revisiting VI if I ever feel like experiencing the traditional single civ-style gameplay again.
V, however, has had very little staying power with me since VI released. I go back every now and then for nostalgic purposes, to play with mods or simply to play a game where the World Congress isn't as annoying. But I can never stick with it for longer periods of time nor for longer playthroughs, because the map just looks so boring. Everything I build looks dull. All of my cities look small and unimportant, even if they have 30 pops each. VI took the right steps towards the sprawl I didn't know I was looking for at the time, but wasn't quite there yet. From all of the (frankly gorgeous) screenshots I've seen, VII might just finally have it figured out.
I've been playing Civ 3 recently, after picking it up on a Steam sale so that I had a version I could actually load on my current computer. It's still a blast, and I'm just playing vanilla at this point, haven't loaded any mods (yet).
My son saw me playing it and asked what it was. When I told him it was Civ 3, his eyes went bug-eyed and he blurted out, "There were two even older versions??"
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