civ1 was not perfect either

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by TheHateMale
When people use complaints like 'It's 2005*, why won't the game just run?' they seem to forget the fun of having to create custom boot disks (which could take ages to figure out the correct settings for), having to configure the OS for the game as well, only being able to have one or two games installed at once anyway, setting IRQs and hardware configurations and ending up with all the sound coming from the PC speaker regardless. (Beep indeed, Mr. Nimoy)

You are such a masochist, man. Fighting with the computer and/or the OS just to play a game definitely isn't fun in my book.

OTOH, trying to squeeze more performance out of a prehistorical computer is.

[VetLegion]

You know, my pet peeve is how all the later versions went out of their way to make the map more incomprehensible , units more confusing , distances more difficult to estimate and interface more difficult to work with

I roll my eyes at that

I'm playing Civ4 and I'm quite liking the design so far, but the interface and usability is atrocious.

Here's how it should look:

[VetLegion]

[Nikolai]

Ah! Those were the times!(admittably I played Civ later than most others here, but it was through Civ1 I came into love with the genre... )

[VetLegion]

Yeah, did I mention how in Civ1 units conveniently blinked when active?

In Civ4, I can't tell which unit is active half of the time!

[Adagio]

Now that you mentions it

I'm still waiting for the Civ1 graphics mod to Civ4

[Zoid]

Meh, Civ 1 is ugly.

[Enigma_Nova]

Who's that dude in a top hat, the one north of the Babylonian Spearman?

[Robert]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Yeah, did I mention how in Civ1 units conveniently blinked when active?

In Civ4, I can't tell which unit is active half of the time!

That's why grannies like you can play civ1 while the more modern and healthy persons can play civ4

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Who's that dude in a top hat, the one north of the Babylonian Spearman?

I think that´s a spy or a diplomat or something like that.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
Who's that dude in a top hat, the one north of the Babylonian Spearman?

It's the Roman diplomat. If it had been red, it had been the barbarian leader.

[player1]

There are no spies in Civ1, only diplomats.
And barbarian leaders.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by VetLegion
I'm playing Civ4 and I'm quite liking the design so far, but the interface and usability is atrocious.

Your eyes must be sore from all that rolling. I agree with you that the currently selected unit is not always obvious - I usually hit C to centre on the current unit and see where it is, then look at the bottom left of the screen to see what is. Apart from that, I don't find the interface 'atrocious'. I see you prefer the Civ 1 screen, but I'm not sure that many would agree with you.

[Zoid]

Compared to the cluttered mess of buttons and thingies in C3C, I think Civ4 is much better. Less is more! Unless it´s pixels of course...

[DrSpike]

Nice pics, brings back memories.