Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri?

[Burning Bridges]

Maybe I should say that after my copy finally arrived I didn't get much out of AC.

I liked how the SF background was done, but actions and units felt meaningless and shallow. I particularly didn't like how the game rushed through the technology tree, and everything progressed too fast. I enjoyed Civ1 and Colonization many many years ago, but maybe I played too many other games in the mean time, that I can't get involved in something like that any more. Take this as a warning to other newcomers that AC doesn't come with an absolute guarantee for satisfaction.

I didn't find it bad, just not as good as advertised by some ppl.

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

care to give some examples of other 4x games that are supposedly so much better then AC and the Civ series? (im honestly interested)

 

[Burning Bridges]

You know yourself that not that many 4x games were made. From those I would rank MOO 2 and GalCiv 2 highest.

Maybe I don't like classic 4x formulas any more, and that I didn't like AC could be due to jadedness. But honestly - and I know this makes me some kind of imbecile in your eyes - as a strategy game AC might be overrated. As I was excited about the SF background as everyone else, but it didn't completely make up for the gameplay.