What should I buy Codex, Civ III or IV?

[Tails]

The best game is actually Alpha Centauri.

Anyway I didn't like Civ III, it looks more like parody of Civ games.

 

[Durwyn]

buy me a beer...

Srsly , CiV IV complete edition. Then play with mods.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The best part of Civ IV is entering the world builder and dropping fallout around enemy cities at 500 AD.

 

[sheek]

Civ VI is going to be awesome I'm sure. Wait until it comes out and then get that.

Until then though, it's either Civ 2 or Civ IV. Civ III is a meh inbetween step. Civ IV added resources which is like "Now I have a reason to invade somewhere because I need Iron!" rather than the usual "Kill nearest civilization".

Strategic/luxury resources were added in Civ3.

So were borders and culture and national wonders, increaseable unit hitpoints, interrupting attacks and many other things that you might like Civ4 for. The diplomacy system was developed. It was an innovative game, what hurts it really is the bad AI (cheating to make up for difficulty). But Civ4 AI 'can cheat' too.

 

[Panthera]

Civilization 3 was an innovative game, what really hurts it is the Infinite City Sprawl.

 

[sheek]

Where Civ4 wins is that it has adopted all the new features of Civ3 (so people don't remember Civ3 for them) and added several others which were as innovative but more fun: unit promotions, great people, the health variable, civics from AC etc.

By the way, Civ3 also invented Great Generals (Civ4 just extended it to Citizen types) and Armies.

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Civ is fun.

 

[TheWesDude]

installed civ 4, no barbarians, me vs ghandi, marathon speed...

i won in like 2010 by domination, almost finished space race.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

installed civ 4, no barbarians, me vs ghandi, marathon speed...

i won in like 2010 by domination, almost finished space race.

No barbarians? Pussy.

 

[Angthoron]

The best part of Civ IV is entering the world builder and dropping fallout around enemy cities at 500 AD.

Giving nukes to warring sides is always a laugh as well, unless you're involved.

 

[The Feral Kid]

Civ III is Civ II with better graphics and some bad gameplay tweaks. Civ IV is different and in many ways better than Civ II.

Ugh...

 

[Elwro]

It's true, BTW.

 

[HanoverF]

I really hated the way espionage is handled in civ4, but it's a better game than Civ3

 

[Claw]

What do Codexians think of Call to Power, btw?

 

[spectre]

This piece of the Hivemind thinks: CtP had a number of interesting pieces in, but ultimately failed to deliver. But that was a few years back. Hmmm. Wonder if I could enjoy it now.

 

[TheWesDude]

i dont like to continually churn out combat units.

i prefer to play games to space race victories.

 

[mondblut]

I loved Call to Power 2. It had fascism and fascist units. Wiping off the untermenschen with machinegun-totting blackshirts in 500 AD never was more fun :D

 

[Talby]

Are the any mods that add futuristic tech to the end of a normal game? There seems to be lots of mods that have a futuristic setting, but I really want to build up a civilization from the stone age and eventually have a cool sci-fi thing going with lasers and satellites. Like in Call to Power 2.

 

[MaskedMartyr]

The Epic War mod thats included with BTS adds on a future era onto normal play. Honestly though I don't like it, it doesn't have the depth I'm looking for.

I've been playing the literal shit out of Fall From Heaven 2, Fall Further, and everything FFH related for 2 weeks. I'm enjoying it since it focuses less on age advancement and more on classic strategy game style teching. Plus the modmods add innovation on more innovation, so much that it's daunting and intriguing at the same time.

This is the kind of shit I waste my social life for.

 

[Talonfire]

Civ IV, but don't be surprised if all of your cities become Jewish after twenty turns.

 

[SmokedWolf]

The best game is actually Alpha Centauri.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I prefer Free Religion, though. Its just a matter of getting a butt-load of religions inside cities and building their temples. Shitloads of hapiness and culture, specially if you are Creative.

And you don't get ' (-10) WE ARE UPSET THAT YOU HAVE FALLEN UNDER THE SWAY OF A HEATHEN RELIGION!!!!' from every possible civ.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Personally, I just find it annoying that the AI almost always goes for Free Religion and Emancipation due to their Happiness Penalty effect.