Akka
Moody old mage.
I'm sure about it. I pressed ESC/Spacebar/Enter, and it ended usually about the third or fourth screen. I was never forced to wait until the very last one.
What was your first video game?
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The Civ 1 Intro Music was EPIC! The tribal drums and percussion sounds blending into more modern instruments... just... EPIC...
Just thinking about it still gets me pumped for some hardcore Civ'ing... even to this day.
Just thinking about it still gets me pumped for some hardcore Civ'ing... even to this day.
Recon Rover
Warlord
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
It was loading itself, I had a HDD so I ran Civ on my HDD so the l would be able to skip the intro almost straight away.
I think the second of the intro screens for me I was able to skip the intro.
Maybe. Though i run it on an Amiga 500 with an extra 512 (?) kb of Ram, for an impressive grand total of... 1024 kb Ram!!! (ie the optimal amiga at the time), and the intro either took 15 min to end, or even worse it would get stuck. I suppose i did infer from this that it was a memory issue with building huge maps, but they really should have been more careful.
That said, i recall that the contemporary PCs had better gfx (eg some more animation) for Civ1, which was really shocking, cause back then it wasn't certain that PCs would take Amiga out of the market. A few years before that PCs were a laughing stock as a game machine, with gfx seen in Maniac Mansion and Zac Mcracken
Narz
keeping it real
Snafu, Intelivesion
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
That reminds me I had to write a custom start up sequence, to use up less memory which was only 1 Meg at the time
Else civilization wouldn't load completely and was missing some important unit graphics. Unlike today with our Gigs of cheap ram, back then I couldnt even open up too many windows or loadup other other programs in the background because Civ would use up almost all the memory buffer.
Back when the Amiga first came out it was heads and shoulders more advanced then the PC, People were running that jet strike game in full 3D, then they would load up a word processor do some work, Pull down the window and show multitasking as the Game was still running in the background. Commodore then screwed up by investing the the stupid CD-ROM and a Console which both flopped badly and thus never recovered. Really all Amiga had to do was follow the PC with better CPUs each year and lower prices. Only the real hardware nerds upgraded their Amiga processors if only Commodore had mass marketed this and kept prices below that of the PC market.
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Akka
Moody old mage.
640k actually. The 1M limit was already an extension.
Who from these times doesn't remember the metagame of trying to free enough of CONVENTIONAL MEMORY (drums and lightning strike boom) to run their games ?
I managed to get a 616K config with everything but the CD driver loaded, 610 with it. My first computer-related crowning accomplishment. ON YOUR KNEE AND WORSHIP ME, PLEBS !
Now that I go back and look... although the Civ 1 music was still pretty epic... that wasnt the music I actually had in mind. The song I actually had in mind was the Civ 3 opening music. Enjoy:
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Civ 2 wins the aesthetic game for its moment for me.
Thorgalaeg
Deity
Civ 2 was the "real" civ for me. I played Civ 1 a lot too but it was more of a prototype. Never got really hooked by 3,4,5,6,7...
I definitely "hooked" on 1. Two was more of a novelty. When 3 came out, hooked again... then 4 = hookgasm... 5 meh, 6...we'll see, haven't played it yet.
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
Kill the HERETIC
The stacking mechanic was stupid, how can anyone say it is the best Civ game of the series ?
Akka
Moody old mage.
Well, it IS by far the best Civ of the serie. 1upt is utterly idiotic and has lots of terrible consequences for the game.
Also, the design of Civ4 is very elegant, allowing for lots of different strategies and a level of abstraction that is good both for immersion and gameplay (though I'd rate Civ3 higher in immersion, but that's more because of interface details and music).
Also, the design of Civ4 is very elegant, allowing for lots of different strategies and a level of abstraction that is good both for immersion and gameplay (though I'd rate Civ3 higher in immersion, but that's more because of interface details and music).
Lexicus
Deity
It is head and shoulders above the other Civ games I've played, which are 3 and 5.
Akka
Moody old mage.
TBH, I don't remember anything in Civ5 that was an improvement over Civ4. I know I'm in the minority, but even the graphics were a step down for me (too lifeless and paint-like).
