What is your view of Civ3?

[Aleksey_aka_al]

The worse one of the series, including spin-offs.

 

[Azale]

It is superior to Civ4, only inferior (arguably) to Civ2 MGE.

 

[Formaldehyde]

are you playing vanilla civ4 or one of the expansions?

Vanilla.

vanilla had a lot of bugs...

That they haven't bothered fixing in the vanilla version?!?

 

[Takhisis]

Why fix the vanilla when you can sell the patch as a nearly worthless expansion?
That's the reasoning behind having two expansions per game. Vanilla sucks and is bug-ridden, expansion #1 is mostly a large patch, expansion #2 is more of an advanced beta release.

 

[Zelig]

That they haven't bothered fixing in the vanilla version?!?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any vanilla PC games with expansions available that are worth replaying for non campaign/storyline purposes once an expansion is released.

 

[aelf]

I disagree, aelf.

And you have no evident reason to

 

[Glassfan]

Civ III Conquests was excellent. Civ IV Vanilla was an inferior game, with fewer actual combat units and lots of glitches. Three patches and the BTS expansion pack and IV is finally good. Civ V will probably be a similar situation - good graphics but inferior game - you'll be required to keep buying expansion packs until it's a descent game.

 

[Godwynn]

CivIII was my least favorite Civ game.

 

[Jabarto]

Civ V will probably be a similar situation - good graphics but inferior game - you'll be required to keep buying expansion packs until it's a descent game.

Going the Paradox Interactive route, eh? I hope not, but you're probably right.

 

[Takhisis]

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any vanilla PC games with expansions available that are worth replaying for non campaign/storyline purposes once an expansion is released.

StarCraft.

 

[Zelig]

StarCraft.

I just played Starcraft last night, I had that in mind when I typed my post.

Starcraft without Brood War is awful in comparison.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Of course I play. Its the best of the civ series.

 

[bombshoo]

I haven't played in years. I miss it. Your picture made me nostalgia pretty hard.

 

[dirtyparrot]

For some reason, maybe it's nostalgia, but I preferred CIV I the best. I do actually like CIV IV (at least BTS). However, I have to agree that I don't like how I can't play anything larger than standard maps (without the game slowing down dramatically). I also miss the saltpeter resource needed to create gunpowder units. I also wished that they would fix the AI cheating (i.e. knowing where all your units are without having to be able to "see" them) and that the AI would actually bribe me (or at least ask the other AI's as often as it does for me) to join their pointless wars or demand techs.

 

[Kyriakos]

I haven't played in years. I miss it. Your picture made me nostalgia pretty hard.

Visit the community sometime, you might find new things that make you want to play
I too haven't played in years, but i still make stuff for the game.

 

[Kyriakos]

And so as to help you decide, here is another thing recently created for civ3

 

[str8_probe23]

I stuck this bad boy in my cd drive this morning and its still very very good. Much better than Civ 4.

 

[Takhisis]

That's the spirit, Mr. str8_probe23!!

 

[Kyriakos]

You know, Takhisis, we might proselytise some people to the civ3 community afterall

 

[Takhisis]

Yes... gotta catch 'em all!