disappointment when finally winning game?

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mevlin

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Hi all

Jeez, I don't know why I keep playing this game! :D Everytime I go on to win a massive game I feel such a pang of disappointment when it suddenly flashes up YOU WIN!! It's like, all that time you spend and then bang, all over and no more points :( . Does anyone else get that pang or do you honestly feel proud to have won?

Still love it though... It's as addictive as crack! :thumbsup:

Mev
 
In a word: no. By the time I win the game has usually become routine, and I want to get on to a new one. When I win, that says, "Now you can start a new game."
 
I feel proud for a moment... and after that all hollow. Time to start a new game :D

Stay away from crack, stick to nicotine :joke:

[offtopic] It is a great movie, in your sig.
 
Very true. Games should not end... Is it possible to disable ALL the victory conditions?
 
Call me crazy, but I actually like the "you win" box. Anything more elaborate than that would lose its luster over time anyway.
 
Aw c'mon, you get a bunch of nice little features at the end. The warrior with the hammer, the minimap movie, the other leaderheads telling you off. I usually sit back, play the minimap movie and bank in my glory for a few minutes.

(If you really want a disappointing ending, play any of the Paradox games - Europa Universalis et. Al. - you get a single placard, Game Over, that's it.)
 
Umm...no. Usually, I'm happy to get the game over with by then. Either I've had a tight, dramatic finish (and feel a great sense of accomplishment) or I had the kind of game where I know I could have won by several different means and never felt threatened, in which case it was kind of boring. I recently tried an always war scenario at Regent (I've been playing Monarch/Emperor lately, but I'm not a good warmonger) and got bored of taking over all my opponents cities with little resistance. It was fun early, but after wiping out the two civs on my continent, it got dull. I was at about 50% of the world's pop, but didn't bother to follow through to the inevitable conclusion. I was actually tempted to see if I could win diplomatically just to get it over with.
 
Maybe I would be disappointed if it ended in the industrial age or sooner but mine go all the way through the modern age and Future tech 1,2,3 etc. by then I'm begging for mercy to get that last 1 or 2 percent for a domination victory... :)
 
Usually I get bored near the end of the game. The fun part is getting to that point when you know you are going to win (or the thrilling ending), not the so called "mini-milking" stage.
 
Tomoyo said:
Usually I get bored near the end of the game. The fun part is getting to that point when you know you are going to win (or the thrilling ending), not the so called "mini-milking" stage.
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That's it exactly. I think I'll start declaring victory when it is achieved instead of waiting for one of the standard ones to kick in, and use mapstat to watch the movie...
 
I don't feel dissapointed. I am happy that I won. I then watch the minimap replay and save the final minimap and see my final score, and get on with another game
 
Is it possible to disable ALL the victory conditions?
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Yes it is. Just uncheck every box in the game setup screen (except for civ-specific abilities and anything that isn't a victory condition).
 
Tomoyo said:
Usually I get bored near the end of the game. The fun part is getting to that point when you know you are going to win (or the thrilling ending), not the so called "mini-milking" stage.
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Yep, that's how most of my games end now-a-days. The tipping point - oh look, I'm the biggest, baddest mutha on the planet - excruciatingly tedious artillery warfare to crush thy enemies and take over the world - or struggle with a new game to get to the tipping point again... I usually chose the latter.
 
I always find modern-era wins disappointing, because by that point I've either assuredly won or assuredly lost. I always look forward to fighting Cold War style conflicts of strategy, and using nuances of all the units to the utmost advantage-- but it never finishes that way. It's almost always rather dull by the time I win. Still, I always do have that stab of regret when the You Win box comes up and I realise I have a gigantic military and 40 nukes and a massive, layered naval defence/offence, none of which I ever needed to use. It's a bit like saving all kinds of money up and then getting right into heaven without ever using any of it.
 
I think the worst for me is an unexpected cultural victory. It happened to me so many times when I first started playing I used to turn the victory condition off. It would be something like "Yes, I've got tanks! Gandhi's gonna pay now!" Then with 10 tanks sitting outside of Dehli I get the "You've achieved a cultural victory!" popup. :(

For me nowadays, the difference between whether I play past the tipping point on not seems to be whether or not I take a break. If I know I've won the game already, I'm a lot less likely to keep playing it the next day.
 
I agree to some extent, usually I have won the game before the end... I only play on to finish it, sometimes this is not really "exciting".

But well, this is no fault of the endgame "Victory" screen. What should appear otherwise -> a cinematic you would probably skip with ESC?
 
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