Right back to CIV3 as always!

[PrinceBimz]

Then again I never actually left it Just that lately I was spending a little more time playing Empire Earth, RoN, and Battlefield 1942. Don't get me wrong, these are all excellent fun games, but they are not CIV3. Most of you know what I mean by this too. So now in the end, as usual I am right back playing CIV3. When I get C3C, I guess I won't be playing those others games much at all. If anything those will be my break time games I will just play them when I am taking a short break from C3C. So in the end, CIV3 still comes out on top as an overall better game.

[Egbert]

You are not the only one. I had been playing other games for some months. About 6 weeks trying out Galactic Civilisations. Several months on yet another Imperialism 2 jag with a few games of Anno 1503, Caesar 3 and Pharoah for good measure. Now I am playing Civ3 again and later I will try this Conquests thingy (and then presumably my next Imp2 jag).

[vmxa1]

Welcome Kotter, I mean PrinceBimz. Looks like C3C will be a lot of fun.

[alva]

Looks like C3C will be a lot of fun.

Didn't think I would, but yeah, I'm looking forwards to it's release too.
Can't wait to get a few new PBEM's started, and a couple of training SP games

[Grim Legacy]

Heh I've returned to Civ3 only recently as well. When I played it two years ago it somehow couldn't capture my interest for very long, but I put it aside knowing that I would be playing it again sometime in the future... and now I do.

If C3C features *everything* from PTW, I'll be getting that one too. A double serving of new stuff for me then!

[Spiffor]

I too am often "back" to Civ after straying for a few months. Sometimes I spend too much time in the OT to play Civ. Sometimes I spend too much time on some RPG or Space Opera game. Sometimes I even spend too much time working

But I always come back to my first true love: Civ

[spy14]

Deus Ex is the only game that will remove me from Civ for any length of time (until Deus 2 that is). Vice City had a go but while its great it's also painfully flawed (I check for police, turn round and steal a car, and shock an officer has spawned 10 metres behind me, mission over). Staying on topic, Civs combat system sometimes irritates but apart from that its an extremely replayable game.

And no I dont work for the people who are producing Deus Ex!!

[Solver]

Welcome back... I guess that, if you love Civ, you can never leave it. Many players, myself included, experience peiods when they stop playing civ for a while. Sometimes I will have breaks even a few months long... but, as Spiffor, I always come back.

Interesting how Civ never gets old. Like, Age of Kings was a game that I loved and everything, but after a year, I stopped playing it. I got all out of it that I could, and the replayability wasn't enough to keep me coming back... although the year was great. Civ, I'm playing that for many years, and I don't see myself stopping that in the foreseeable future.

[FrostyBoy]

I have always looked at Civ as a really indepth and large Chess game, and Chess is also a game that does not get old.

Civ has a "set it up and try it out" purpose to it. Which is the way Chess is. This might be why people come back to it. To truely strategise, to try and see how smart and clever you are, more of a mind thing than a mouse thing.

[Grim Legacy]

I think that many Civ players are also true veterans- as in people who played Civ1 for years, then Civ2 etc. As said, the game concept is almost infinite, much like chess indeed.

Hehe I remember my Civ1 moments on a now ancient 286 very well.

[spy14]

Thats just it - the best games have a simple concept that allows endless possibilities to happen. Thats why Civ is so replayable. So games are excellent but linear so you have no replayability (Monkey Island anyone?)

[alva]

Hey I like monkey Island !!!
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Often don't play for months on end either, I usually get an 'overdose' after playing a game, If I play one, I tend to play too much, IE doing 12-16 hour sessions .
I would like to start a game now but gonna wait for C3C though

[Solver]

True, Civ is a mind, not a mouse game. I can see no reason why I couldn't be playing Civ with my grandchildren...

[Basilisk]

Yeah, I just recently came back too. I got Civ3 earlier this year, after finally getting a computer which coudl handle it Up until then I'd had to rely on SMAC to quench my civ-thirst, and the old Civ2 as well... but then I strayed to Counter Strike

Needless to say, I'm back. It's strange, it was History in school which drew me back... so I got Marla's world map to see what I could do

[Alex]

I think that most (if not all) of us have had this experience, I mean, playing civ and then leaving it on the shelf for a while, only to return to it later. Civ is a cyclical game for me, and it never leaves my HD - if I have to format my disk, Civ is the first thing installed after windows.