GOTM 141 Celts - Final Spoiler - Game Over

[serttech2003]

After more than a decade I submit another GOTM. Believe it or not this is me being aggressive. 1060 AD sadly. I still have a hard time disengaging from expansion/setup into aggressive. There is always one more tech or one more building that I want. I might just fire this one up again and try again.

690 bc monarchy--first mistake should have used republic
150bc GERMANS DONE
310AD Spain done
500 AD ROME TRIES 0CC
800 English done
880 Vikings done
1030 Mongols done
1050 rome done
1060 ottoman done.

Firaxis score: 4785
Jason score: 9086

 

[greatbeyond]

Welcome back serttech2003. Hopefully we will be able to entice you with some more games.

 

[templar_x]

cool. usually threads are dug out of their graves here around by necrophilists. for once they dug out an old player...
t_x

 

[serttech2003]

Last time I played Civ3 I had a 2 year old and a 1 year old and was living in Brazil. Now I have a 14 yr old, 13 year old, 8 year old and live in Peru.

So...is Civ5 worth it? Going back to US for a few months, Do you really need Stream to play it? Internet is iffy sometimes in the boonies of Peru. (look up Pucallpa to see where we live.)

 

[templar_x]

Looks nicer than Puerto Maldonado where i travelled to before i got my baby boy...
you will probably want the discs. guess you will be able to buy them dirt cheap somewhere. c3c was the last computer game i bought in my life, and it is very likely it ever will be. in my eyes, it is a great game and never becomes boring.
t_x

 

[serttech2003]

I tried Civ4 when it came out, still have the discs but it forced like the programmers read the forums and added everything in people wanted. So I walked away for years. Are there Civ3 mods worth playing?

I'd like to try Civ5 just for kicks.

 

[Lanzelot]

BTW: speaking of veteran players: I noticed recently, that we "lost" one of the legendary GOTM players who played every single GOTM since GOTM 1, and nearly every COTM (except for a few ones in the beginning): donsig

For some reason he stopped playing after COTM 104 and has now dropped off the list. Anyway, quite an achievement!

Regarding Civ5: it's quite different from Civ3, but I like it. Others don't like it, but I guess, if you are willing to accept that it's a different game, it is fun. (It even ignited the "civ fever" in me again, which Civ4 completely failed to do...)
Steam is a major drawback, but you only need to connect once during installation and then you can put it into "offline mode" and play without internet connection. (I guess it is advisable to go online once in a while to check for updates. They are still patching things...)

 

[serttech2003]

Thanks, willing to bet I can find it on sale in the U.S. somewhere this fall.

 

[Più Freddo]

Up until C3C, Civilization was a strategy game made for people who like strategy games. Then, they ****ed it up in order to sell it to people who don't like strategy games, because this is a much larger audience.

 

[serttech2003]

Up until C3C, Civilization was a strategy game made for people who like strategy games. Then, they ****ed it up in order to sell it to people who don't like strategy games, because this is a much larger audience.

Thats a little how I felt about Civ4. Way too many options (IMO), strategically it felt stilted, and the balancing they tried out (city costs, unit costs, religions, corruption changes) felt liked they subtracted simplicity for the sake of "strategy." I've never felt that Civ3 is a cookie cutter game (I've head that claim in the past). Each game for me has developed differently, forcing different decisions. Its true the rush to Calvary dominates, but getting there is all the fun.

I love Civ3, wish they would have further developed it. I asked before but are there any mods that are worth playing?