Civ 4 still worth it ?

[Timsup2nothin]

Alone all the mods make it 10 complitely different games. It is definetly worth of your cash.

And that's just the included mods. Add another however many available here.

 

[GKey]

I'm just curious as to exactly which article you're referring to, can you provide a link?

Here: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/civ4_haters.php

 

[epicivfreak]

Here: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/civ4_haters.php

Thanks GKey...

 

[GKey]

BTW, when I recommended non Steam version, I did not mean all this Steam shut down/account hijacking staff (I can't even think of amount of data I lose if Google goes down, yet I keep using it.)

What I meant was hassle with installing mods on Steam version (notably BUFFY, but there are many others), inability to open save by double-clicking it in windows explorer, not working shortcuts and many other small yet annoying issues that come with Steam version of game.

 

[lymond]

inability to open save by double-clicking it in windows explorer

that issue is not exclusive to Steam version

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Just because I'm me and it had never occurred to me to try this I just did...worked fine. Might not be exclusive to Steam version, but it's not a problem on my version.

 

[vincentz]

Is civ iv worth the money?to be honest im not sure. Lots of bytes have run through the wires since civ 4 came out. I very much doubt that anyone here will say its a bad game, being that its civ4 forum and that pepole here are still here after all these years. A lot have happened in game designs. Some will call it streamlining, others dumbing down. The whole facebook/smartphone/tablet cash cowing in app purchase thingy have definately not helped the situation.
I remember when i first started video gaming (im close to the forties). Games were impossible to finish. They were challeging and required lots of thoughts, but often being vitually impossible to finish. Now it seems like you just need to push the mouse/controller enough times and spend enough money on it to get an advantage, with crappy gameplay usualle being camoflaged in nice graphics.
Civ 4 is neither of those. It is a prime game from what i personnally (and keep my age in mind), call The Golden Age of Computer Gaming.
It adds the perfect level of detail, strategy, micromanagement, "realism", ui, balancing and with a decent AI.
Is it perfect.... hell no... but it gets as close to it for me to call it the best game ever created in the entire history of the known universe.
And with it comes probably one of the nicest places on the webs. Right here at CFC. Nice and quiet. until a minor steam war breaks out that is ;-)

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

I know people complain about how without Steam you are going to loose your disk, not necessarily true with the DRM free Civ 4 collection. Now I would never endorse pirating materials and I have a Steam account with over 200 games but if loss of the physical disk is a concern to you I see no problem imaging the disk for your own personal use.

I myself legitimately own the Civ 4 DVD-ROM DRM-free complete collection and keep an iso image of it for longevity.

 

[gps]

Now I would never endorse pirating materials ...

You don't have to. Backing up a DVD for personal use without circumventing a copy protection is perfectly legal in any country imaginable (including the US with its strict DMCA legislation). It's the natural thing to do for anyone who paid some money for a game or piece of software and was recommended by game companies in times when games were still sold on fragile floppy disks and before piracy paranoia became a common phenomenon in the software industry.

 

[Lennier]

that issue is not exclusive to Steam version

It's also an issue with the Mac version.

Spoiler :

This probably belongs on the Mac forum, but after I upgraded to OS X10.9.1, double clicking on a BTS file starts Rhyes and Fall, not plain BTS

 

[NiRv4n4]

It's totally worth it if you haven't tried either of my Civ IV maps!