What is it about Civ4?

[Crossfire]

I have gone off and played GalCiv2 and Medieval 2:Total War, and even Quake 4, but I keep coming back to this game. I have played this game more than any other game except the original Medieval:Total War. And this game still frustrates the heck out of me half the time. But then that is probably why I come back, isn't it? How about you? Any other games have your interest? Any other games keeping your interest?

[Dale]

Civ4 = computer cocaine.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Dale
Civ4 = computer cocaine.

But only for people that don't mind thinking...

I've found many people don't like Civ and that's the best reason I can come up with

[Solver]

You'll find lots of people that don't like any given thing. Though I guess yeah, for someone who likes computer games in general, the main reason to dislike Civ is disliking an intellectual challenge.

Then again, playing at Settler, the game isn't even an intellectual challenge, so go figure.

[Dale]

Originally posted by Solver
You'll find lots of people that don't like any given thing. Though I guess yeah, for someone who likes computer games in general, the main reason to dislike Civ is disliking an intellectual challenge.

Then again, playing at Settler, the game isn't even an intellectual challenge, so go figure.

Hehehehe. Unless someone like me comes along and makes a mod so hard even playing on settler is hard.

[Dis]

Civ is frustrating. My last game just pissed me off. I was being gang banged by both of my neighbords. I was hard pressed against the Japanese and had most of my army on that side. Then Alexander moves a huge stack of doom next to Sparta (which I had taken over 1000 years earlier). No hope. This game just pisses me off. How can a handful of cities build that many units and still keep tech parity with me? It pisses me off every ****ing time.

[Dale]

Originally posted by Dis
Civ is frustrating. My last game just pissed me off. I was being gang banged by both of my neighbords. I was hard pressed against the Japanese and had most of my army on that side. Then Alexander moves a huge stack of doom next to Sparta (which I had taken over 1000 years earlier). No hope. This game just pisses me off. How can a handful of cities build that many units and still keep tech parity with me? It pisses me off every ****ing time.

Whipping and chopping.

I assume you had Tokogawa who's notorious for attacking viciously and ignoring your peace cries.

And come on, you took the city in the past. They wanted it back (especially if the city still had some greek culture).

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Dis
Civ is frustrating. My last game just pissed me off. I was being gang banged by both of my neighbords. I was hard pressed against the Japanese and had most of my army on that side. Then Alexander moves a huge stack of doom next to Sparta (which I had taken over 1000 years earlier). No hope. This game just pisses me off. How can a handful of cities build that many units and still keep tech parity with me? It pisses me off every ****ing time.

I had this in my most recent game on monarch. I had the technological edge - quite some technological edge in fact. And by later on in the game I was fielding a large military (I had annexed several neighbouring civs to get me to the position I was in). But the Mongols had a higher power rating than me without the same technological capability - they must have had a stupidly large military. Although I did have the Great Wall and the Spanish landed a stack of doom next to my stack of doom (hehe), my stack of doom being far more advanced, experienced and larger. I think I got a whole GG from that (and a bit) on something like the 3rd GG

[Solver]

Sorry Dis, the problem is simply that you suck at Civ .

Whip, chop, cottage, conquer, raze, extort!

[Tattila the Hun]

Yah, not a builder game, this.

[Crossfire]

Extort?! Maybe that is the part I am missing and why I suck at Monarch and above. I have a hard enough time with the whip and chop part.

[Solver]

Well, you can't extort a lot in Civ4. Although I do routinely bully weak civs that hate me anyway for some gold.

[rah]

Any civ that declares war on me usually ends up giving me all their money to stop it after I've taken a few of their cities.

[Solver]

Bump up the difficulty level .