Why do you like Civilization ?

[Heresson]

Have You tried Civ2?

[Aro]

Because I'm addicted. It's sad, but true.

[LordShiva]

All the above listed reasons.

Civ1 civilopedia was the best.

[boann]

Originally posted by 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.

thats sort of how i feel about it.

[Tingkai]

I have no idea, but I am addicted to the point of playing it for hours on end. And I often wonder what the F am I doing. But still I play.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Tingkai

And I often wonder what the F am I doing. But still I play.

proud member of the club

[Aro]

Same here.

[Dis]

kind of silly pushing numbers on a number pad moving silly little sprites around the screen.

why do we do it?

[Heresson]

Yeah, lets stop! Lets stop it now! Let us be free!

[GeoModder]

One more turn...

[conmcb25]

The Epicness is what I like and strategy games are my favorite.

[Drakan]

- the multiple strategies that can be adopted
- the historical background
- the management/building
- the decision-making
- every map is different/ every game is different
- negotiating/trading

RTS games bore me except a blend of TBS and RTS such as RTW or X-Com.

[uberloz]

'Just one more turn' has a lot to recomend it, but this isn't so much a feature of the game as it is a result of our attitude towards what makes us want that 'one more turn'.

Which to me is a compilation of every aspect of this game.

I even 'love to hate' the things I don't like about this game, ie pollution and corruption and a conscript cavalry charging unscathed passed an elite guerrilla attack only to then fight and win hand to hand against elite cavalry! (I've heard legends of the spearman winning against a main battle tank and as much as that must suck to have happen TO you I bet it's awesome if it ever works FOR you!)

But the main reason why I love these games is that for me they are unpredictable and therefore 'new' to me every time I start one.

I don't burden myself with perfect city placement or crunch the algorithms or try to play the 'perfect civ game'.

I just play it and get joyfully shocked or maddened by the 'randomness' of it all.

The Civs series is unique to me in that it is one of the few games I play that is constantly challenging me. It reminds me that I am a good strategist and game player one minute while completely crushing me in the very next minute.

Maybe one day I will become an expert at this game and be able to beat it consistently, but realistically, I loathe the time that day comes because it will somehow cheapen the game for me.

off topic..I often wonder what it must be like to be a worldclass grandmaster at chess, it must be very lonely not having much competition or reason to play when the outcome is all but inevitable.

[ElConejo]

Originally posted by uberloz
off topic..I often wonder what it must be like to be a worldclass grandmaster at chess, it must be very lonely not having much competition or reason to play when the outcome is all but inevitable.

Thats deep. I like it though!

[M. le Comte]

Originally posted by Drakan
RTS games bore me except a blend of TBS and RTS such as RTW or X-Com.

What's RTW ?

And by the way, what does imho mean ?

May the people of Apolyton stop writing acronyms that are unknown from the common Civ player .