What the... people still play this game????

[Ifrit9]

Heh seems I'm the only one here who prefers CIV1 economical and military models over its Civ 2+ analogues.

 

[TeamEvil]

Yep, people still play this game, and we love it
Myself i grew up with it, my mother played it all the time and when I was about 6 or 7 she learned me how to play it. The only bad thing about it is that I don't have the manual for it, so when the question comes and you have to prove that you're the one who should be leading the civilization I sometimes has to guess =/
I havn't played Civ 3 and 4, just Civ and Civ 2, and out of those Civ clearly is my favourite

 

[Tenochtitlan]

The only bad thing about it is that I don't have the manual for it, so when the question comes and you have to prove that you're the one who should be leading the civilization I sometimes has to guess =/

That's why you have to memorize the tech tree like I did

 

[TeamEvil]

That's why you have to memorize the tech tree like I did

Hehe, I guess I should... But then I'll have to write everything down, and I'm to lazy to do that

 

[ffifield]

The only bad thing about it is that I don't have the manual for it, so when the question comes and you have to prove that you're the one who should be leading the civilization I sometimes has to guess =/

That's my situation as well. I still have the DOS disks but I always guess wrong on the questions.

 

[seghillian]

I played Civ1 (or just Civ as it was then of course, we didn't know there would 2, 3, 4 etc!) from when it first came out - 1991? 1990? It followed soon after Railroad Tycoon which was another Meier masterpiece - I was hooked on that one so just had to get Civ.

Is it better than it's successors? Probably not - there's no way it could compete graphically and after 15 or 16 years of development you might expect some improvements in gameplay to have happened! However - it was the first - a groundbreaking game - the first version of one of the most addictive strategy games ever devised, and if you played it back then, you're bound to want to return to it every now and again with some affection. Lot's of chrome has been added since then, but the basic concepts are still the same, so much credit to a brilliant original.

If your first experience of Civ is 2, 3 or 4 then if you check out Civ 1 you just might find it very clunky by today's standards. (In the Stone Age 1 turn=20 years - and I was running on a PC where this appeared to run in real time - lol!) But take a look at what else we had back then, and you have to credit Sid with one of the most awesome game designs ever.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I still remember how my cousins had given us the first Civ, and how my father and I struggled to figure it out with no manual. Lucky thing I did, though; it's all thanks to Civ that I know anything about computers or world history! Now it's like I pay it homage every time I fire it up.

Why do people still play Civ 1? Is it because it's the original? Because it's so much simpler? Because you can take it anywhere? Or are some like me, who are drawn to an item's simple timelessness? Or maybe the answer is beyond explanation...

Here's to the unexplainable!

 

[Grand Dad]

It's still the best of the lot. I remember when I first got it Actually my younger son was the provider of 'games'. Used to play it from 5.25" floppies, until the HDD came. But they were great days.
Our first game was, if I remember was 'Digger' or Sid Meier's 'Pirates' glorious CGA/EGA. No internet and no CHEATS...still can't stand people who talk about cheats How old was I? Ah well I was still young...though I'm young at heart even now, but spend less time on computers.

 

[Piemaster]

Ironic that the guy who started this thread now has over 4000 posts.

 

[trada]

Ironic that the guy who started this thread now has over 4000 posts.

I've been here 5 times as long as him and I've got a margin of his posts :O

But then again, my posts have been mostly restricted to the civ1 section..

 

[Dong2Long]

It are good to see some still playing in modern game age. It is classic to play, and will never die. The one which began the legend.

 

[GoldBerg]

Ironic that the guy who started this thread now has over 4000 posts.

yeah.
and the [cynical]best[/cynical] part:

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My post was intended to be trollish at all.
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" ... the secret of all success threads in every kind of internet forums... "

 

[Grand Dad]

I didn't have a manual either, still don't, so wrote everything down with a rough sketch of the pic for each.
Best thing is open the Civlopedia and copy it down, maybe that's a minor form of cheating but that was the only way. I did write a letter to MPS but never got a reply

 

[Grand Dad]

Started as a Chieftain and ultimately graduated to Emperor, my record is conquered all 7 civilizations in 1570 BC.
The best thing about Civ is that the HOF shows the name of your country/tribe you choose and name at the start The later ones don't!

 

[JuanFernando]

I still remember how amazed I was when I played my first civ game. The feeling that I was creating a whole new world... how proud I felt when I discovered the wheel and a couple of turns later Caesar comes with "MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS".

I have played the 4 civilizations, and I have to say that I liked Civ 2, I think it was a good sequel. I didn't like Civ 3, I though it had lost the way, I considered Civ a serious game, and Civ 3 didn't have that. I loved to look into the text files of Civ and Civ 2, Civ 3 had many things hard coded.

Civ 4 is another thing. Although I would never compare it to Civ, I think it is a really good addictive game. I think Civ 4 is the best sequel, but nothing like the original.

 

[Grand Dad]

I'd vote for Civ I as the best...never played II while in III + it's 2 expansions never succeeded at the Diety level . Have recently got IV but haven't yet played it

 

[Blinking Joy]

I play Civ 1 since 1992/1993 and every time I start a new game it's still a big challenge. I know that in the following days I will feel addicted to this new world I'm creating. It will be harder to think in other things like work and family because in every hour of the day, even when I'm not playing, the game will persistently occupy the back of my mind.

It's fascinating to me as the game is always different. I never play the same way. I love the way geography interferes with my strategy. Being a geographer, this is maybe the thing I love best about Civilization - the combinations of the world map are virtually infinite.

Besides, I love Civ 1 graphics. They are much more abstract than the later versions of this game. I don't want a game full of nice visual effects, 3-d views and stuff like that - that's for children. I want a serious and adult game that gives me an immense intellectual pleasure. Civ 1 does that for me.

This says it all, and says it nicely. Sadly, I have been bereft of civ.dos for a good six or seven years now. But I played it constantly from 1994 through 2000, even after Civ II came out -- Civ II wasn't remotely as captivating and and fun for me. When work, school, family or friends weren't pulling me away, I would be playing yet another game of civ. And I can really attest to the hold it had on my mind! Whenever I was in the middle of a game, I would always be thinking about it, about where I wanted to put my next cities, about what areas needed fortification, about the general condition of my cities.

I was big on population -- I tried to have as many cities as I could, and to grow them all huge -- like size 25+...I saw someone had posted that they had a civilization population total of something like 350 million! I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one. I think I manage 200 million, but I remember mostly having numbers like 120 million or so...but then, I liked to keep other civilizations around for trading, for variety, and...

But I digress! CivDOS is splendid in every way. "Elegant," as another said -- and yes, I like the iconic, abstract look of it, more symbol than exact picture.

 

[Acadien]

Osalvo, Blinking Joy,

I have to say, for me too, the exploration and geography aspect is one of the high points for me. Also, the geography of cities of the civs is of great entertainment for me. I never play aggressively because of that. I see no satisfaction and interest in seeing a map coverved by cities of only one civ, how boring to me.

 

[Acadien]

Now, I have a confession to make.

In all my life, I have never played anything but civ1. I actually have never played civ2 civ3 civ4. Ultimate fidelity. What can I say? I am fullfilled by it, I need no other food. So yes, people not only still play this game, People LOVE this game!

 

[Grand Dad]

Acadien...hats off to you for your uninstinted devotion to CIV. It has meant a lot to me too and I still have the original 5.25" floppies close to my heart. Never got Civ II, but Civ III with it's two expansions and Civ IV but to be honest they have never managed to compete with the greatest, the one and only CIV.
Good Luck and PEACE!