Greetings, CivFanatics!
I just registered on this forum, even though I have known about it and read it for a few weeks already. I am a veteran gamer in my mid-thirties, with strategy games and RPG's being my favourite genres. My love of strategy games derives from me being a historian as well.
As a teenager, I extensively played the very first Civilization almost twenty years ago. I also had a brief look at Civilization: Call to Power later on, but basically moved on to other series of strategy games. Especially the ones by Paradox Interactive, like Europa Universalis III etc. In recent years, I have been playing a lot of EUIII with the excellent Magna Mundi mod.
My interest in the Civilization series was recently rekindled by the release of Civilization V. A gaming buddy got it and I played it for a bit at his house, but I did not buy the game myself because I was somewhat disappointed and I could see from the comments on the web that many of the old followers of the series are disappointed as well. It does seem like the developers dumbed down the game somewhat and also released it before it was fully finished (an all too common practice these days). I also don't like Steam. That said, I think it is far too early to give up hope in Civilization V. With an expansion or two, plus the work of the modding community, it might still become a great game.
Still, playing a Civilization game again inspired me to buy Civilization IV, which is a much more polished and complex game these days than its still-young sequel, obviously. I like it a lot, and I am currently checking out the mods for it, like Rise of Mankind.
So, you will probably be hearing more from me on these forums.
). Saw the MOD's doing a google search and downloaded a couple (haven't quite figured out how to make everything work yet though, Windows 7 makes things interesting to say the least. That's about it for now, hopefully I can figure out how to run this Zombie MOD it looks awesome.
