What in the HELL is doing Firaxis now?

[laurentius]

When I become the antichrist I'll let everyone know, I promise

[Paddy]

Originally posted by laurentius
When I become the antichrist I'll let everyone know, I promise

oh I am dealling with someone who wants to be the anti-christ excellent...

trouble with that is that when you become the anti-christ you will want to encourage these companies to sucker us more and more

[laurentius]

You're right. Maybe I'll just start to sell every game with MR. Meyers name on it

HAHAHAHAHA

[Paddy]

Originally posted by laurentius
You're right. Maybe I'll just start to sell every game with MR. Meyers name on it

HAHAHAHAHA

great...

I can just see the packaging...

Sid, The AntiChrist and a Pirate:

all steering Pirate ships with Cutlasses in their mouths....
all screaming "aye me hearty"

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by laurentius


exactly my point.

Brian scores 2-1 in the great game compo

Solver: Last time I checked my Civ3 box said "Sid Meiers Civ3"
So maybe he should be little more careful what to take credit for. Or then it is a great game and I just dont like it.

Spiffor: Not all of us are in love with the guy. He started annoy me at the same second I saw his stupid face as my science advisor....Sid fuken jong Il. How narcistic of him.

The reason I think Sid is overrated is because he has in fact made only one good game...Civ 1 most of the other games are just unrelevant crap

Ever play Sid Meier's Gettysburg?

[Paddy]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Ever play Sid Meier's Gettysburg?

was it any good...?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot


was it any good...?

hi ,

its a decent game

give it a try ones , copies can sometimes be found at around 10-15 bucks

have a nice day

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot


was it any good...?

I didn't think so, but then I'm not a fan of real-time games. I constantly put on pause to make adjustments to what I'm doing and that was tedious. I always won the battles - I don't see where the challenge was in this game.

[Paddy]

thanks for that. I appreciate feedback on games.

[laurentius]

So, some people think it is good and somepeople think it's unrelated. Most predictable since opinions vary.
But tell me why would anyone other than american care about any game called Gettysburg? Most people probably dont even know what, where, when and why about Gettysburg. It's not a civ game, its not universal, modifiable, its dated. Unlike civ2 and AC it hasnt stood the test of time.

The question still is wheter Sid Myers means quality or not. I thought it meant but I dont think so anymore.

[Asmodean]

So what if his name doesn't mean quality. This is a Civ site, not a Sid Meier site.

But for the record, I like most of the games he has created. Including Civ 3.

And with conquests coming, I have a feeling that more people wil come to like Civ 3.

Asmodean

[Peter Triggs]

In 1999, two games like Civ were released. Call to Power, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Even initially, before any opinions could come, Alpha Centauri sold more copies because it had Sid's name on the box, while CtP didn't.

Apparently a lot of CTP1's sales were down to the fact that it was called "Civilization: Call to Power", i.e., it had the word "civilization" in it's title and people thought it was the sequel to Civ2. Actually, in a way, it was.

And as for "Gettysburg", Sid had help on that one too:

http://www.bighugegames.com/team/brianreynolds.html

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Feephi


I didn't think so, but then I'm not a fan of real-time games. I constantly put on pause to make adjustments to what I'm doing and that was tedious. I always won the battles - I don't see where the challenge was in this game.

Re pause - i like that, makes more emphasis on thought and less on how fast i can click. And to some degree its realistic. The game plays at roughly 5 times actual "real time" speed, (IE 2 and half hour battle plays in 30 minutes) So you should get extra time to make changes.

As for challenge. I find it challenging even on 3rd (IE fair) level. If highest is too easy, theres always MP (if theres still an MP community for this game) Maybe youre just a better player.

Or maybe you should handicap yourself by NOT constantly pausing to tweak your troops. That might both relieve tedium and make it more challenging.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs


Apparently a lot of CTP1's sales were down to the fact that it was called "Civilization: Call to Power", i.e., it had the word "civilization" in it's title and people thought it was the sequel to Civ2. Actually, in a way, it was.

And as for "Gettysburg", Sid had help on that one too:

http://www.bighugegames.com/team/brianreynolds.html

Quote from the Reynolds bio on the BHG site

"At Firaxis, he contributed to the design of Sid Meier's Gettysburg™(1997)"

CONTRIBUTED - this wasnt a "Brian Reynolds design" like SMAC.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot


was it any good...?

I think its an excellent game. A highly accurate (I think) recreation of the major engagements from the battle of Gettysburg at the grand tactical (IE regiment/Brigade) level. Includes detailed morale, formations, distance and height effects, leader effects, etc. You can maneuver regiments independently or grouped as brigades. Its real time, but IMHO it works. If you maneuver at brigade level there arent too many units to control, youre not building or researching anything (well D'uh) and the pathfinding works reasonably well. The real time makes playing the game much like watching a civil war movie, except, well, youre commanding (not always controlling ) one side.

An excellent example of 1. Using real time for an historically accurate war game 2. Making a real time game that doesnt play like a typical RTS. 3. Making an historically accurate war game thats fun and that was a reasonably big seller, as historically accurate war games go.

An influence, IIUC, on Shogun: Total war, on Rise of Nations, and on EU.


Definitely a good game, at the very least.