The High Council: Unseen footage

[Juggler_Bob]

I was bored this afternoon, and I was exploring the Civ II CD. I found the high council .avi files, and played them. If you have never done this, I suggest you do.

There are 3 files (1 for each period) that are long, back to back council statements from each advisor. You know: "Give me more soldiers, noble leader, so that they may sheathe their swords in the beating hearts of our enemies..." etc.

There are some sections in here that I have never seen in actual game play that are absolutely hilarious, like the science advisor in the medieval period:
"The very cobblestones in our streets possess more knowledge than we do. In truth, Sire, ...[looks over his shoulder]... We suck!" ROTFLMAO!

Most of the best messages are ones you recieve when a given advisor's area is extremely lacking (like the Modern trade advisor when you still do not possess the trade technology -- which is one of the funniest)

Also, there is a lot of extremely hostile bickering between the advisors that never seems to make actual game play... Have you ever seen the diplomatic advisor spit (Medieval, Modern)?

I wonder why some of this stuff never comes out during a game...

-Bob

[Adam Smith]

One day I accidently consulted the High Council during a period of anarchy ... and they cracked me up. They were all yelling at each other at the same time. "Who told you this was going to happen? I told you this was going to happen." etc, etc.

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[SilverDragon]

lol! *goes off to look at the avi files.* Damn, wheres that disk

[Chaos Warrior]

been there, done that... I had found that one years ago, but I think I even saw it in the game...

yeah, that crappy message in the game... what messy science politics I must have been playing there

[Craftsman]

Done that!

I think that the Medieval Science Advisor message:
"The very cobblestones in our streets possess more knowledge than we do. In truth, Sire, ...[looks over his shoulder]... We suck!" and the Modern Trade Advisor message: "Traaade!! Discover Traaade!! ..."
Are the best indeed! LOL

[Chaos Warrior]

Yeah, some of the advisor scenes are really hilarious... I also like the medieval trade advisor, saying:

"We're rich, sire! Rich, RICH RICH!!!"

[Theben]

"TRAADE, SIR! Trade! Here's you! Here's a clue! Get a clue! Discover trade!"

I wonder how someone could get to modern times w/o discovering trade tho'.

[Theben]

There're also some pretty venomous insults those advisors use for each other...

[Dis]

I sucked so bad on one game on diety I got the cobblestone science speech. embarrassing. but at least I have always researched trade by the modern age. I should check it out.

[Cyclotron]

"Platehead" is the most scathing one I've heard...

[Dry]

What I did once is:
save, cheat mode, then go to each AI and consult the High council.
Lot of fun.

[Dis]

lol,

even militarily I never got the bad ships one.

I am wondering what parmeters are required to get those bad settings. I suppose if you haven't researched map making by the renaissance age you get that message.,

hilarious though

[debeest]

So...um...HOW does one "play" the files?

[Theben]

You have to have the CD in the drive, look into the folder labeled 'video', and there should be 3 sets of .avi files, one for each council period.