Any word on Palace/Throne Room screen?

[Xorbon]

My favorite version of Civ for the "eye candy" was the original game. I liked how you could see your soldiers marching through a just-conquered city. I also think the palace reward from Civ 1 was the best of the series. These little 'useless' features helped with the immersion into the game.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Xorbon
My favorite version of Civ for the "eye candy" was the original game. I liked how you could see your soldiers marching through a just-conquered city. I also think the palace reward from Civ 1 was the best of the series. These little 'useless' features helped with the immersion into the game.

i agree

[Adagio]

Xorbon is right, Civ1's eye candy was the best

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Xorbon
My favorite version of Civ for the "eye candy" was the original game. I liked how you could see your soldiers marching through a just-conquered city. I also think the palace reward from Civ 1 was the best of the series. These little 'useless' features helped with the immersion into the game.

I agree 100%. I think it's the extra stuff (wonder movies, advisors, etc) that got me so imersed in Civ2. The lack of decent replacements is one reason why I lose interest so quickly in my Civ3 games

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah, Civ3's was boring, but I never got tired of Civ2's throne room.

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Yeah, Civ3's was boring, but I never got tired of Civ2's throne room.

Actually, I thought the throne room was the worst of the three. Not because I like the idea of a palace more than a throne room, but because there was no choice as to the appearance of the throne room. The palaces in Civs 1 and 3 allowed the player to mix and match the architecture of the palace.

Having said that, Civ 2's eye candy was quite a bit better than Civ 3's. Civ 2's wonder movies and advisors kicked the butt of Civ 3's leaderheads and wonder/victory screens.

I especially don't like how some of the eye candy in Civ 3 (i.e. the palace) gets automatically turned off when you play a mod.

[Grandpa Troll]

I too enjyed in previous versions where the advisors argued with each other

The military guy killed me as did the queer one...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Yeah, Civ3's was boring, but I never got tired of Civ2's throne room.

I got bored of the throne room within a couple of games
Even Civ3's boring palace view was better than Civ2's throne room

[Alex]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
I too enjyed in previous versions where the advisors argued with each other

The military guy killed me as did the queer one...

It's incredible the attention to details in Civ2... It would have been easy to overlook the fact that players could check the advisors while they were changing governments, for instance. But they thought about this too, and loved the first time I checked my advisors while I was in anarchy...

[Kaak]

i kinda liked the throne room. the idea was novel, and i hope there is something along the same lines in civ4

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Alex


It's incredible the attention to details in Civ2... It would have been easy to overlook the fact that players could check the advisors while they were changing governments, for instance. But they thought about this too, and loved the first time I checked my advisors while I was in anarchy...

This kind of attention to detail is exactly what I'm hoping for in cIV. Even though I never followed their advice 100%, I really enjoyed being able to check with my advisors. I felt a bit more like I was ruling a civilization, rather than just clicking to move units around a giant rectangle

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Sabre2th


This kind of attention to detail is exactly what I'm hoping for in cIV. Even though I never followed their advice 100%, I really enjoyed being able to check with my advisors. I felt a bit more like I was ruling a civilization, rather than just clicking to move units around a giant rectangle

thats what I felt as well

gave me some laughs when they were going at it



I am gonna find a screenie of this somewhere

for nostalgia at least

[Adagio]

I'm not interested in playing Civ2 anymore, but I must admit that I have several times thought about installing the game just to see the advisors again

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Adagio
I'm not interested in playing Civ2 anymore, but I must admit that I have several times thought about installing the game just to see the advisors again

indeed, the graphics are not even able to hold mya ttention

but like you said the leaders only

GT

[Grandpa Troll]

this may be slighy clearer