Sid Meier's Civilization

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ToroidalBoat said:
Only a brief demo. I've also played 1, 2, 3 (3 sort of sucks), CivRev (almost always DS version), another brief demo of 5, and some of 6. Still like 1 and 2 best after that.
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I don't know if you'd like it given I honestly can't fathom preferring 1 to any of the subsequent Civ titles but I highly recommend picking up Civ 4 right now, the game with all its expansions is currently bundled at $6 and the modding scene alone adds a decade to the game's half-life.
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Didn't they make a civ city builder sort of like the old Sierra games Caesar and Pharaoh?
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CivCity Rome, it was really neat and you could see inside the buildings when you clicked or zoomed-in. It was fun to see the animations for the different jobs.
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There's also a recent spiritual successor called Citadelum but I found it meh.
 
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Computer God Autism said:
preferring 1 to any of the subsequent Civ titles
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I think I like 2 better than 1, and 1 better than the rest. At least for now anyway, as that could change.

Like I liked Master of Orion 2 better than the original at first, but now I prefer the original MoO vidya.

Dammit Mandrake! said:
Caesar and Pharaoh?
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I played some of the Caesar II demo in the late '90s. Sorta felt like Sim City 2000 but Ancient Roman. Did not know there was Pharaoh.
 
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Haven't played them myself, but there's a couple of open-source versions of Caesar III, called Julius and Augustus.

You need the Caesar III files from Gog or Steam to run them though.

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius (Aims to be as authentic as possible, including bugs)
https://github.com/Keriew/augustus (Fixes bugs and adds QOL improvements)

There was also an ancient Egypt themed game based on Caesar III, called Pharaoh. There's an open source version, based on Augustus above, called Akhenaten.

This one needs the Pharoah + Cleopatra files to run, also available from Gog.

 
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LegoTugboat said:
Haven't played them myself, but there's a couple of open-source versions of Caesar III, called Julius and Augustus.

You need the Caesar III files from Gog or Steam to run them though.

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius (Aims to be as authentic as possible, including bugs)
https://github.com/Keriew/augustus (Fixes bugs and adds QOL improvements)

There was also an ancient Egypt themed game based on Caesar III, called Pharaoh. There's an open source version, based on Augustus above, called Akhenaten.

This one needs the Pharoah + Cleopatra files to run, also available from Gog.

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Didn't know they were open sourced. Thanks! Now someone needs to do Sid Meier's Sim Golf.

Caesar III is really good. But Pharaoh with the Cleopatra expansion is incredible. Give them a try.

Jesus Swept said:
Sid Meier's Pirates! chads where we at?
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Sis Meier's Pirates! (the remake) is one of my favorite games. I love it. It should be revived and expanded a bit, the whole thing seems a bit unfinished.
 
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One thing I noticed I sorta suck at in Civilization-ish vidya is building a large military force or fleet. In Civ vidya, I usually only assemble city defense forces. Also in "Civilization in space" vidya, I usually only get colonizer ships and maybe a few scouts built. Seems hard to balance the building of forces and developing cities or worlds.

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ToroidalBoat said:
One thing I noticed I sorta suck at in Civilization-ish vidya is building a large military force or fleet. In Civ vidya, I usually only assemble city defense forces. Also in "Civilization in space" vidya, I usually only get colonizer ships and maybe a few scouts built. Seems hard to balance the building of forces and developing cities or worlds.

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That's where your money comes in. You should rush out units to compensate for the wasted production.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
There is definitely some globalist undertones of "all cultures are replaceable and disposable" that can easily be read into it.
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It ironically has the opposite of a progressive globalist message.. Civs in previous games got bonuses, but the circumstances of the game could push you to winning cultural victories as militaristic civs and vice versa.
Civ 7 has you literally thinking "hmmm, time to be a bit cultural, better switch off this savage war civ into a culture civ".
 
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Anyone play the SNES version of Civ 1? It has BGM that changes with the millennia: one theme for BC, another for first millennium AD, another for the 2nd, and one for 2000+.

It added this lore of some goddess giving the player the mission to build a civilization.
 
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