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Title: Sid Meier
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jul 2005, 15:57

Who else here worships this man as the rightful God of Epic strategy games?

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Stranger Dan on 22 Jul 2005, 16:02

I'll admit that I have a soft spot in my heart for Civilization 2.
Gettysburg wasn't bad for a RTS that only had one map and three units.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jul 2005, 16:06

Gettysburg was quite fun.

Also, Alpha Centauri > Civ 2. Imo anyway.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 22 Jul 2005, 16:06

That man may be making crack and not video games.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: edwartica on 22 Jul 2005, 18:05

Quote from: KharBevNor

Also, Alpha Centauri > Civ 2. Imo anyway.

Ooo, loved the expansion pack on this one. Too bad it doesn't run very well on XP.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jul 2005, 21:13

Does yours have lots of trouble with the videos as well?

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Simulacra on 22 Jul 2005, 23:14

oh my God, i completely forgot alpha centauri existed!  i am so tracking it down before work tomorrow.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: ASturge on 23 Jul 2005, 02:36

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

has it I think..

[It also has freespace ;) ]

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: BlueCoatKarma on 23 Jul 2005, 11:25

I <3 Alpha Centauri. Civ II was really good as well, I played it way too much.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: MoiraFae on 24 Jul 2005, 04:31

I bow before Sid Meier and burn objects that would create a pleasing scent at his altar. For he is truly the god of the strategy game, and lo, the strategy game is my ultimate weakness.

Next to RPGs, that is. But we're not talking about that! No! I <3 Civ 2 & 3 and AlpCent!

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Gryff on 25 Jul 2005, 16:57

Civ2 was such a good game and such a time consumer. I want Civ3, so I can waste away more of my life!

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: JP on 25 Jul 2005, 23:27

Haven't played Civ3? What've you been waiting for, man!?!

Although by this point, unless you really have a burning desire for some Civ3 action, may as well wait till November for Civ4.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Saturday on 26 Jul 2005, 07:10

Quote from: KharBevNor

Gettysburg was quite fun.

Also, Alpha Centauri > Civ 2. Imo anyway.

one of my favourite games ever. i lost so many nights playing that thing... *nostalgic*

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Sythe on 26 Jul 2005, 10:20

Centauri... I remember making the little mans and eating people...

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: practicality on 26 Jul 2005, 15:33

I really enjoyed Civ 3... I have to hunt down the CD and put it on this computer.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Gryff on 26 Jul 2005, 15:34

Quote from: JP

Haven't played Civ3? What've you been waiting for, man!?!

Well, not owning a computer made it rather difficult...

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: JP on 26 Jul 2005, 16:45

Good answer.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Abattur on 27 Jul 2005, 05:36

Colonization!

Sid Mayer indeed is the king of Strategy games (but not war games).

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: 5thWheel on 28 Jul 2005, 02:16

Doesn't it wind anyone up that none of your "Allies" have the silghtest shred of a sense of honour.  I mean I know it is realistic and all but it just makes me tired at times when I've carried a neighbour nation through the whole game and then near the end they launch some half-assed surprise attack that means I have to wipe them from the face of the planet.  I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't get so damn suicidal, at least if they beat me I could see the point.
Don't get me wrong, I do love Civ 3 (and loved 2 in spite of all the hassle of setting up trade routes which seemed to last forever (and loved 1 for that matter :) )) although it is a shame espionage isn't as much fun in 3 as in 2 IMO.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: nickyandthefuture on 29 Jul 2005, 04:20

Christ do I love Civilization III.  I've wasted so much of my life on it.

One thing that does bother me is that the AI is so obnoxious.  They have absolutely no respect for your borders, but if you so much as build a free railroad for them they act as if you've pushed the world to the brink of total annihilation.  They also have some strategies that make no sense from the perspective of someone trying to win the game and all the sense in the world if they're trying to make me just quit in frustration, such as fucking Babylon building thousands of bowmen in the modern era and slowly but relentlessly marching them towards my cities to do a "sneak attack".  One can easily mow every one of them down, but it takes about half an hour of extreme tedium that I usually don't have the patience for.

Anyway, the feeling of taking the strongest enemy on the map and reducing him to a single city on an isolated desert island is one of the better feelings in existence.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Lug on 29 Jul 2005, 08:57

Chris Taylor > Sid Meier.

Chris is the game designer behind Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: happybirthdaygelatin on 29 Jul 2005, 09:14

Pirates, ARR.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Oerdin on 04 Aug 2005, 09:00

I like Sid but he hasn't come up with a new idea in years.  He's basically making his living lending his name to new versions of games he came up with in the 1980's.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: nihilist on 07 Aug 2005, 10:02

Civ3 was crack.  The remade pirates was also fun, except that there was some bug in the game that kept me from finishing it.  Boo.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Johnny C on 07 Aug 2005, 12:27

SimGolf owns you.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Kjammer on 31 Aug 2005, 02:37

Civilization always has a place in my heart.  I was 7 years old when I played the DOS virsion of Civilization I.  For that I have Great respect for the Civ series, Sid, and his little company Firaxis (and sympathy for MicroProse).  

And his other games are great too.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: Jarne on 31 Aug 2005, 20:32

Gettysburg was just so much fun.
I also played an older Civ game, but it had some sort of subtitle. That was fun as well.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: ellipsis on 02 Sep 2005, 04:44

Alpha Centauri and Gettysburg.


Somehow, you never even realize that the latter has only one map. :D

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: ellipsis on 02 Sep 2005, 04:50

Quote from: Lug

Chris Taylor > Sid Meier.

Chris is the game designer behind Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.

Dude. Total Annihilation. Dude.


Seriously, that, in my opinion, will always be the Best. Game. Ever. ©

The physics engine in that game just rocked.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: RedLeather on 02 Sep 2005, 05:55

Hey! Nobody has mentioned Sid Meier's pirates....it isn't strategy, nor is it particularly gory..but their is something about beating down the entire Spanish Armada in an armaggeddon esque scenario.

Title: Sid Meier
Post by: IronOxide on 02 Sep 2005, 06:29

I have a newer computer so civilization III will now work! I'm going to go play it.