I bought Civilization IV a couple days ago and finally played it yesterday. Let's just say that I spent nearly six hours playing it before I ever looked at a clock. It's a really engaging game that's really fun to play. Keep in mind that it's a strategy game, so if you get bored easily you might not like the game too much. But Civilization IV is an outstandingly well-crafted game that I'm probably going to be playing non-stop for the next couple months. I'd suggest everyone check it out. Anyone else have anything to say about it?
A friend of mine bought it a few months ago, I think. It isn't really my kind of game but I can understand why you really like it. It's really "big" game but when I played it, it seemed a bit slow. I like strategy games but I like strategy games like Rome: Total War more than Civilization type of games.
I was hardcore into Civilization II Gold Multiplayer Edition back in the day. We had a game that had seriously logged a month of playing time. I haven't played any Civ games in a while, maybe I should pick it up. Do they have it for Macs?
I'm not going to lie: By "bought," I meant "downloaded". (But I'm going to buy it now. It's so good.) But there was a version for Macs I saw on a Demonoid, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that... yes, they do have it for Macs.
I'm proud. If you really did buy it, I would have to type one of these: *shakes head sadly* but now I can do this: *nods head in approval*
It's the first time I've ever downloaded a game. My friend suggested I do so to try it out (since he knew I download music all the time) so I did. After only playing it for six hours, I decided to ask for it for Christmas. I already deleted it and everything. No use playing it out now. But in my first game, I managed to take over the whole (randomly-generated world) in around 25,000 years. Now that seems like a long time, and it is. But in game time, it's really not. It's mostly real-time. I didn't found my first artery city until I was nearly four thousand years into the era, but when I did, it was exciting. I ended with over 40 cities and had conquered Cyrus and his race of peoples (I don't remember what they were called because I wiped them out so quickly) and conquered Alexander and his Greeks. I fought Cyrus for only about three hundred years but fought Alexander for nearly five thousand years. It was so much fun. Bombing chariots with stealth bombers is amazing.
Let me inform you on one of the truths of Civilization. You. Can. Never. Play. It. Out. My friends and I started out a game in the stone age and played it all the way to the nuclear age. You know how much time that takes? The only reason we stopped is because one of my friends moved to Maryland. And when he visits we STILL play. This is Civ II we're talking about. EDIT: Dude, is there an online multiplayer mode? If so, DUDE. We need to get an LPA world started up.
By "playing it out," I really meant "making it boring." I'm pretty sure there's an online mode. I wouldn't know though since I'm not too privvy for online games. But I'm pretty sure it asked me if I wanted to install "online components" and I picked no.
I installed the game and played it (since I burned it) and played on the actual Earth map included with the game. As of right now, I'm the Greeks and I control all of where the Ottoman Empire used to be, clear up into Siberia. And I've got some of Europe, too (with the Germans). I've "discovered the new world" so to speak and I've got several colonies set up in South America. But they keep getting destroyed by Barbarians. Fuckin' Julius Caesar won't help me out. The Japanese keep starting wars with the Chinese, and the Germans own most of Europe. The Mongolians don't exist because the Chinese owned them. The Persians don't exist because I owned them. The Egyptians have been pushed all the way down to the South Africa region by Caesar and his Romans, but his Romans don't even have any land in Europe anymore. The Indians only have one tiny town at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, and at last glance they were being attacked by the Chinese. I circumnavigated the globe and my ship got destroyed right before I got back to port by the Japanese and they took a ton of money from me as well as a bunch of workers I picked up from villages in South America and Australasia. It's so awesome what can happen in just a couple hours.