Which was better: civ3 with all expansions/patches or cIV at launch?

[bryanw1995]

this thead http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=404408&page=4 seems to have some interesting conversations about cIII vs civ4. civ4 has been so great for so long that I'd truly forgotten most of cIII, but it seems that there is still some debate out there. poll is public.

added links to civ3 and civ4 general discussions forums as well.

 

[lschnarch]

Technically or design-wise?

 

[bryanw1995]

however you want it. which game in your opinion was better. technically, game wise, immersion wise, whatever you use to define "better". I personally don't really remember, but I enjoyed cIV enough that I stopped cIII cold turkey and haven't played it since so I voted cIV.

 

[lschnarch]

however you want it. which game in your opinion was better. technically, game wise, immersion wise, whatever you use to define "better". I personally don't really remember, but I enjoyed cIV enough that I stopped cIII cold turkey and haven't played it since so I voted cIV.

That's it for me pretty much, too.

 

[Yrkoslaw]

Me too. Maybe ciV is buggy, maybe it is dumbed down, but it is still new and shiny, and, well, even more "new" with all those changes. So I enjoy it so far, and play it exclusively!

 

[Mustakrakish]

Me too. Maybe ciV is buggy, maybe it is dumbed down, but it is still new and shiny, and, well, even more "new" with all those changes. So I enjoy it so far, and play it exclusively!

They mean civ4...

 

[bryanw1995]

sorry, I'll change the title to make it more clear.

 

[Horizons]

Why don't people just use 'Civ5 or Civ V' - is there a general desire to use slick abbreviations?

 

[Buccaneer]

Oh heck, I'm biased. Anything else Firaxis had done was better than Civ3 pre-release, upon release and post-release with all of the upgrades.

 

[joyous_gard]

Comparing the versions of Civ is like comparing great boxers. Everyone knows Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest pound for pound fighter that ever lived, but then inevitably, someone comes in with a little cog to mess it all up.

I can't vote in this Civ poll because I don't have the credentials (+2 frowns at join date). I played Civ III on rental from the library and really liked it and then I learned about IV and bought "gold edition" for like 50 bucks and then bought bts for another 20 or 30 (best buy has the greatest impulse buy deals - +2 frowns for best buy's deals).

"Why don't people just use 'Civ5 or Civ V' - is there a general desire to use slick abbreviations?"
QFT

 

[Buccaneer]

Why don't people just use 'Civ5 or Civ V' - is there a general desire to use slick abbreviations?

QFT too. CiV or CIV was one of the worst things to come out of CFC.

 

[cf_nz]

Why don't people just use 'Civ5 or Civ V' - is there a general desire to use slick abbreviations?

It would appear so. IIRC there were even polls about it.

 

[Yrkoslaw]

They mean civ4...

My bad But I really read it like CIV5 not the CIV4, so yeah xD Point still valid, just not according to the topic.

 

[Spoonwood]

Why is this in a civ V forum? Why not in both the civ IV and civ III fora?

 

[Androrc the Orc]

Why is this in a civ V forum? Why not in both the civ IV and civ III fora?

I imagine because it serves to compare with the "Civ4 with all expansions vs. Civ 5 at release" situation.

 

[Spoonwood]

I imagine because it serves to compare with the "Civ4 with all expansions vs. Civ 5 at release" situation.

Then I would suggest it get cross-posted in all three fora.

 

[bryanw1995]

Why is this in a civ V forum? Why not in both the civ IV and civ III fora?

because I didn't think to post it there instead. I don't play those much if at all anymore (especially cIII as mentioned) and I honestly didn't even think of it. It was inspired by a conversation we had in the "jon shafer is gone" thread. besides it seems that the vast majority of civ5 players also played civ4 and cIII so the comparison is valid. If I posted it in the cIII or civ4 forums then there would likely be a strong bias towards the game that the forum was talking about, while this forum is allegedly "neutral".

Then I would suggest it get cross-posted in all three fora.

I'll go check the other forums. If nobody has posted it there then I'll post a link to this thread so that there is one poll for everybody.

 

[LegioCorvus]

Why don't people just use 'Civ5 or Civ V' - is there a general desire to use slick abbreviations?

I also just use Civ 5 or Civ5. It's clear & simple. (Ah, advertising brainwashing. That's an acne medicine slogan, isn't it?)

Using CiV, CIV, cIV, etc... just feels like I'm trying to use 733t speak.

 

[Iranon]

There were plenty of things wrong with Civ4 at launch, but I preferred it anyway... mostly because I felt it had a much higher ratio of decisionmaking : busywork. Civ3 could feel too much like accounting for my tastes.

 

[mjb2k8]

I voted for Civ 4 at launch. I had several issues with the game at the time but I found it hard to play Civ 3 after a few games of Civ 4.