Why do you like Civilization ?

[Dis]

I realized I suck at RTS after playing command and conquer. I was only able to beat the first mission . I like to build slowly, but the computer doesn't.

as I always say. The turns are in spans of years to 50 years. It only makes sense the game is turn based. If it's not, you are essentually taking a decision that you have 50 years to make, and condensing it into a microsecond.

[M. le Comte]

Originally posted by Dis
I realized I suck at RTS after playing command and conquer. I was only able to beat the first mission . I like to build slowly, but the computer doesn't.

Me it was at Age of Empire...

[Datajack Franit]

same here!

[Top Twig]

Got an active thread going here,but this is the only one I've replied to, so there. And this is only PC game I play. Why? Its the strategy & building graphics.Open end possibility to kick ass even when you lose by score. Just one more turn!

[Addled Platypus]

AOE,RON they are over fast , click fests as well...not much fun

[Datajack Franit]

hope civ4 will focus more on those extras that everybody likes

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
AOE,RON they are over fast , click fests as well...not much fun

AoE yes, RoN no. RoN is defently of the "slower" types of RTS games, so there's more time to actually think about what you're doing

Of course it kinda depends on what game you're playing. If you play a game with all settings set to fast then it becomes a click fest

[Heresson]

Today, after 8 years of playing, civ is simply part of my life, part of my own identity. I don't have to like it - it is and will be.

[MxM]

Originally posted by Adagio
AoE yes, RoN no. RoN is defently of the "slower" types of RTS games, so there's more time to actually think about what you're doing

No, RON is as well a click fest. If you actually thinking in RoN, then you will lose the game. (Single player is an exception, you can pause it).

In RoN, when you start a game, you have to already know you build order (how many farms, what building, technology to get and so on). And then it is just an execution of the plan, with minor variations. But you can not possibly decide during the game what is better to build one more farm or to research a technology that improve the farming. This things you have to know in advance.

So what is left there is a tactical portion, which is still good, but it is no CIV at all despite all similarities.

[laurentius]

Its my primitive desire to build my own bastion and destroy the competitors that keeps me playing. Same reason I love games like Stronghold 2, Caesar 3 and C&C clones..

[Adagio]

I know it's not Civ, but I was comparing to other RTS games

[Donegeal]

I like thinking. Civ makes you think. All others rely on your ability, or more like your computers ability, to scroll to problem areas.

[TheArsenal]

Immersion and scope.

[Spiffor]

Re: Why do you like Civilization ?

Originally posted by M. le Comte
I like civilization because:
- I like history and political science (I've got a master degree in political science)
- I like strategy, negociations, calculation etc...
- I don't like the stress of RTS. I want something to aerate my brain.
- I'm megalomaniac.

Exactly the same (even the degree in political science part )

Edit: Well, in more details, here's what I like in Civ games:
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[ElConejo]

I have always been a fanatical PC gamer, I grew up playing the original Command & Conquer and came back to every single release after (exception being Generals which I heard made even God cry). I played many different types of PC games, but if you would have asked me what type I played most it would have most certainly been RTS.

But all that is gone now. I stumbled upon Alpha Centauri, an odd so-called "Turn-Based" game which I was not familiar. I loved it because I could BUILD do DIPLOMACY and CONQUER my enemies all in one game. Then I found Civilization 3. It surpassed SMAC and pulled me in kicking and screaming.

Civ3 was one of the ONLY games I brought to college with me. And I know for a fact Civ4 will be one of the only games I buy with college money. I love Civ for its open endedness, for its history, strategy both on and off the battlefield and most of all MAKING ME THINK.