Does Anyone Else Prefer Civ 3's Graphics Too?

[Nubianmercenary]

Lol! We are actually arguing on whether civ 3 can compare to civ4 (graphics wise)?
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:Well thank god! cause I thought it would never come up.

First of all, civ3 has that very "smooth" feel to it, eg: the leader heads on civ 3 (if looked at closer) actually move more "flowing-like" then compared to its big brother.

But personally civ4 contains actual "full" 3-dimensional graphics. And civ3 is just another civ 2 clone with 32 bit textures. Not an actual competition if you ask me.


Civ 4 graphics wins my vote! due to not only its "live" resources and terrain eg. trees actually sway, water actually flows. But also its special 3d effects! (have you ever tried dropping a nuke in civ 4)? the resulting atom cloud will "wow" you off your feet!

While a civ3 nuke-dropping looks like one of those blue smurfs ate an un-ripe mushroom and spewed it back up!



NubianMercenary

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by KeldorKatarn
How about this one:

Ack, my eyes!

[Adagio]

Originally posted by KeldorKatarn
How about this one:

Aarrgghh!!! Who'd ever use that?

[Kuciwalker]

DrSpike: why'd you have to QUOTE them?

[DrSpike]

I wanted to make sure you endured the same pain I did.

[Nikolai]

And on a new page nonetheless. A, for a short while, nice and virgin page, not yet corrupted by the evil looking world on the page before...

[PrinceBimz]

Re: Does Anyone Else Prefer Civ 3's Graphics Too?

Originally posted by Jerh9e1k5
Hey everyone,

I recently fired up CIV after a long break from playing and I find myself annoyed with the graphics once again. I don't know if I'm the only one who feels this way but I much prefer the graphics from Civ 3. They are simple but gentle on the eyes, and there aren't too many movements on the screen at once. If someone were to make a civ 3 graphics mod for CIV I would be very greatful, anyone know if something like this exists?

Jerh9e1k5

I like Civ4 graphics and animations, the battles are just awesome. I think Civ3 had nice graphics for its time, much better then the previous versions. What do you find annoying about the Civ4 graphics? Do you have your settings in the game turned up? Also what size monitor are you playing on and at what resolution? Reason I ask these is because they do make a huge difference.

[PrinceBimz]

Originally posted by KeldorKatarn
Textures? 8bit? You guys do know how to tell Civ4 textures from a civ3 terrain mod, right?

I just think they are so used to Civ4 that they forgot how much improved the graphics are compared to Civ3.

[Prussia]

By the way, that's not Civ 3.

[Jerh9e1k5]

Re: Re: Does Anyone Else Prefer Civ 3's Graphics Too?

Originally posted by PrinceBimz


I like Civ4 graphics and animations, the battles are just awesome. I think Civ3 had nice graphics for its time, much better then the previous versions. What do you find annoying about the Civ4 graphics? Do you have your settings in the game turned up? Also what size monitor are you playing on and at what resolution? Reason I ask these is because they do make a huge difference.

I've got a strong computer so I've been playing civ 4 at the max graphics settings and at a good resolution. My game always looks like the screenshots of civ4 games on the net.

I simply find that any game that uses 3-D graphics gets a lot more "pixelly". You can see the polygons and such. In other games like first person shooters I can see why 3-D is needed, but for a game like Civ 4 it is unnecessary.

Thanks for the questions

[Generaldoktor]

I have to agree with Jerh. 3D was unnecessary and just taxes my system. (I used to think I had a "strong" computer, until this game rolled along.) I also dislike C4 for being so dark. The mountains I don't feel have any texture and their regular shape suggests a girl in a sweater. I don't have the game on to look at presently, but I also recall I had issues with the appearance of forests and jungles. Terrain selection itself, I guess is not a graphics issue, but the maps are put together using odd parameters and I found C3 much more logical for that. I'm thinking though that this is another one of those useless arguments where nobody is going to convince anybody of a differing view. I agree with Prussia, the screenshots shown on this page do not appear to be vanilla C3, maybe a mod.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Generaldoktor
(I used to think I had a "strong" computer, until this game rolled along.)

On my system Civ IV runs better than Civ III did, and I don't have a "strong" computer

[Nikolai]

Of course that's not vanilla Civ3, have you followed the discussion here at all?

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Adagio





On my system Civ IV runs better than Civ III did, and I don't have a "strong" computer

Same here. Civ3 was like sirup on my stationary computer, while Civ4 is heaven in comparision. I'm very grateful I doesn't have to wait several minutes for a new turn like in Civ3.

[Kuciwalker]

I'd assume that's because the graphics requirements are higher but the AI has been improved (so it's faster).