Worst Quotes

The first game I played I had the volume down because my girlfriend was watching TV. I thought the 'beep....beep....beep.....beep' thing was kind of stupid. Then the next time I played I head Leonard Nimoy read it out and it became rather funny.
 
Does Nimoy read our the "pig iron" bit from Rock Island Line as well? Deadpan, or (as Arlo Guthrie would inveigh) with feelin'...? (Not able to use sound here except very early in the game.)
 
When I first saw that there were quotes again when you discovered techs ala SMAC, I jumped for joy.

Who could forget Academician Prokhor Zakharov? "Technology is an apparently iterative process ..." The high-science concepts just stayed with me through all these years (even though I hated SMAC's city-centric unit support instead of empire-centric). I even got into a debate with my professor when I quoted "In the face on the mountains of evidence humans will pin the hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist. Therefore, he must exist".

Which isn't to say SMAC didn't have its lighter moments too. I can still hum along to that Network Node song they made.

Overall, I think the choice of quotes is fairly good - I can understand how the high-brow science-fiction concepts in SMAC might have turned people off, and the light humor involved is something that just goes with the territory. When you're covering 6 millenia of human progress, being serious the entire time leaves out so much of the breadth of human emotion. They don't all have to be pedantic excerpts on the contribution to mankind's development, you also have to look at the humanistic side. The sorrow of a widow whose husband was felled by the first bronze spears; the dry wit of an assembly line worker as he struggles through the day; the laughter of a child as she hears the first christmas radio broadcast; the awe of an astronaut on his first space flight. Beyond what we think, its what we FEEL that makes us more than just very advanced primates.
 
I like most of the quotes.

However I have one gripe. Nimoy doesn't say where the quote is from. In SMAC they'd say " 'blah blah blah' - Chairman Shen Zhi Yang, Ethics for Tomorrow "

It gave it a quote feel. When Nimoy says 'Beep... Beep... Beep' it would be so much better if he'd say 'Sputnik one' afterwords.

But that is an extremely minor gripe. I'm just glad they saw fit to use quotes again. And as I said, I highly approve of most of them.
 
Galumphus said:
The "I got pig iron" quote has to be the worst. It is just so pointless. I can tell someone just liked that song and put the quote in there.
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It's not the quote that's annoying, it's Spock's reading of it. His gravitas-laden voice doesn't exactly seem appropriate to the quote itself. That said, overall I love his readings, especially the one for...rats...Priesthood, I think. From Numbers.

That said, I agree with gradenko that I loved the Alpha Centauri quotes (and, for that matter, the Project movies) and wish we could have them back. They infused the game with such incredible personality. Of course, it was easier when there were only 6 leaders, and they were fictional.
 
I like the "pig iron" quote. I just add the word "Hello everyone ... I'm Johnny Cash" and let the song play in my otherwise empty head.
 
Thank you CVDon. I was just going to suggest that anyone who had complained about the pig iron quote without knowing where it came from listen to a recording of Rock Island Line by Johnny Cash. And for anyone who already knew where it came from and still didn't like it, then that's your opinion and its fine with me if you don't share my musical tastes. This is actually one of my favorite quotes in the game, of course it is kind of amusing hearing it in Nimoy's voice.
 
BeefontheBone said:
Personally, the pig iron thing annoys me, and that Caesar salad joke is rather pathetic, but they're mostly not too bad - the SMAX ones were definitely better done though.
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Well I found that the Caesar salad joke a bit cheesy, but kinda disarming. I found out pretty quickly that salad jokes aside, Caesar does move fast to attack if you're not careful though.
And I do find the "Political power came from a barrel of a gun" from Mao rather fitting for the game.
 
I love the quotes, and Nimoy doesn't annoy me too much. Heck, it's only a couple of seconds every few turns. You can always just close the dialogue box and distract yourself by playing the game (a novel concept) so that you don't even pay attention to the quote.

I get the idea some people are easily annoyed.
 
Trajan13 said:
I like most of the quotes.

However I have one gripe. Nimoy doesn't say where the quote is from. In SMAC they'd say " 'blah blah blah' - Chairman Shen Zhi Yang, Ethics for Tomorrow "

It gave it a quote feel. When Nimoy says 'Beep... Beep... Beep' it would be so much better if he'd say 'Sputnik one' afterwords.

But that is an extremely minor gripe. I'm just glad they saw fit to use quotes again. And as I said, I highly approve of most of them.
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That's something I've thought the same about. It would be nice to hear where the quote came from, just to lend an certain air to it.

You know what's really bad? I completely forgot about the quotes in SMAC. :( I feel like a terrible person now. I'll have to go back and play that just to see them all again, because I remember how great they were. :D
 
I hate that they decided to use quotes and wonder movies. Not as much that they have them, but that they put absolutely zero effort into it. Compared to SMAC they're absolutely horrific. And Leonard Nemoys monotone voice with absolutely no feeling doesn't help any. I can live with it, but it makes me sad everytime I hear it.
 
My favorite quote, from Napoleon:

" You can call me Little Colonel but then I'd have to kill you "

:lol:
 
I like the one from Thomas Jefferson, it's so true even today.
I don't mind the "beep,beep,beep" quote, its quite funny and unexpected.
 
Gufnork said:
I hate that they decided to use quotes and wonder movies. Not as much that they have them, but that they put absolutely zero effort into it. Compared to SMAC they're absolutely horrific. And Leonard Nemoys monotone voice with absolutely no feeling doesn't help any. I can live with it, but it makes me sad everytime I hear it.
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I share your feelings. When I heard that Civ4 had wonder movies and "Spock" voice acting, I was delighted. But both turned out to be mildly disappointing. The wonder movies look uninspired, and Nimoy's voice sounds monotonous. It's not important and doesn't keep me from enjoying the game, but it looks like a missed chance.

However, I'm glad that the functionality for quotes and wonder movies is there. This means that the modders can have a go at it. :)
 
All I can say is: "Not only does God play dice, but the dice are loaded". I can totally cope with the quotes, I am really annoyed at the wonder movies. I mean when I think of Civ 2 and Alpha Centauri, the movies in Civ 4 do leave me with the feeling we are going backward instead of forward, they are cheap. I feel everything is over simplified to the level of a 3 year old
 
I think for the beep beep beep "quote" they should have just used a sound effect... Nimoy probably rolled his eyes when he had to read that aloud...

this is the only so called 'quote' that bothers me...
 
My favorite is either the one when you research Banking, or the one when you research Liberalism. Third would be the one when you research Satalite.

Least favorite would be, without dobut, the "Pig Iron" when you research Railroad. Nimroy's voice makes it feel so...dull...
 
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