rebuying civ 3

[bryanwallace]

my civ 3 copy broke and i am getting civ withdrawal symptoms.

does anyone recommend buying civ 3 again or should i go up to 4??

 

[Taras Bulba]

I thought there was a way that you could show proof of purchase and get Civ III again if it broke, or am I mistaken?

I might've dreampt that, but I SWEAR I read it somewhere on here

 

[bryanwallace]

its too old now to do that-disc got scratched etc..etc.

 

[Taras Bulba]

ooh.... well... frankly, if you're going to buy it again, I'd buy Civ III Complete for $20 (US dollars, idk other currency costs)

then if you want to upgrade, you can get the newest versions coming out when they come out, and save some cash.... its what I'd do

 

[bryanwallace]

civ 3 comp is 12$ on amazon now
complete set inc civ 4 is 26$

 

[TheOverseer714]

Buy Civ3 Complete. Civ 4 is probably a year away from a complete edition, and still costs more, beside the fact that it doesn't work with Vista and requires a powerful PC.

 

[Taras Bulba]

really?

is that for all the new versions (i.e.-warlords, etc...) for Civ IV?

I thought it was more expensive


EDIT: BAHH! Cross-post with Overseer, I knew I was gunna' do that sooner or later

 

[bryanwallace]

no just the orig civ 4 inc in civ chronicles 26$-wonder if that would work -my computer only had 512mbytes memory.

 

[Taras Bulba]

I thought so.... but Overseer is right.... Civ III Complete is... well.... complete.... Civ IV has a little ways to go

 

[Northen Wolf]

I brought my civ3:complete from local computer shop for ~13 USD. (It was in cheap games box)

On my laptop (when it worked) I had civ4 + warlord - came with laptop.

If you want to know if game will work on your computer then:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com
If loading freezes (more than 10 seconds) on 'download' then just hit back.

Also note, SRL compares your computer with minimum requirements, that means, often enough "only" graphic card is weak to run game you chose, you should check by hand if you can run your chosen game without that graphic requirement you got (for an example it can't transform lighting shaders). (if cpu is weak, then game will be very, very laggy.)

 

[Quintillus]

no just the orig civ 4 inc in civ chronicles 26$-wonder if that would work -my computer only had 512mbytes memory.

It's not very fun to play Civ4 with 512 MB of memory. It becomes much more fun after you get 1024 MB (1536 MB with Vista - but I'm guessing you aren't running Vista with 512 MB). A large part of the reason I didn't like Civ4 was that it ran oh so slow with 512 MB of RAM - there's other reasons too of course, but unless you also plan to spend the money on upgrading the memory - making Civ4 even more expensive relative to Civ3 - I'd stick with the Civ3 that's giving you withdrawel symptoms.

 

[darski]

There is a demo of Civ 4 out there somewhere and it will tell you if you can run 4. My son tested that demo and that is how I knew it wouldn't work. The funny thing is that he stopped playing 4 and wants to go back to 3 again. C-IV just didn't keep his interest.