Modern city view VERY disappointing!

[Ilkuul]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
More recent city shots of even the ancient city showed every tile filled with buildings.

Could someone tell me where these more recent city shots can be found?? I've tried looking here at ACS without success...

[Jaguar]

If that is what modern cities end up like, I'll be pissed, but I don't think thats final.

[Inverse Icarus]

eyecandy is shit.

[FrostyBoy]

Uber, watch that swearing , MarkG probably doesn't care about your 'protests'


Anyway, the no anti-aliasing leaves me to believe that even the city view can be edited.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Steve Clark
IMO, it's just another example of Firaxis wasting time on needless art when such resources could have gone into gameplay issues.

Nooooo. Art is not needless. It creates the atmosphere. Atmosphere is one half of the appeal of civgames. Otherwise, you could just crunch numbers on a black-and-white computer screen. Pure gameplay!

[for once passionately defending Firaxis]

[Wittlich]

Re: Modern city view VERY disappointing!

Originally posted by Ilkuul
Anyone else feel the same?

I agree. At least in past Civ games, the "empty" spaces were filled with resdiential housing! A large modern city would have a lot of housing structures for its citizenry.

[connorkimbro]

i like the city view. it's eye candy, and i won't use it TOO much though. unless they bring back the city view animations from civ1, those were cool. but not necessary.

[Provost Harrison]

Sheesh, what an awful display of pedantry I am witnessing here. It looks fine. Central Park sits right next to a bunch of skyscrapers, or Hyde Park to the major shopping centre of London, for example. For goodness sake, if you are really looking this deep for problems, you really do have a sad existence

I think it looks fine, it appears to be a picture of a prominent but small city...

[SerapisIV]

Originally posted by UberKruX
eyecandy is shit.

Then how come there were tons of arguements complaining that borders cut through mountains and the forests looked ugly? Or that the mountains don't have snow caps and don't look realistic.

"I hate eye candy...I want Civ3 with ASCII art !!!"

[Executor]

All that blank space is for the Wonders that I'm going to build in my capital. I never build Wonders in any other city.

[Inverse Icarus]

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[Lorizael]

Uber, what was the point of that?

I think that an animated gif of a nuclear attack would look much better, especially if it used the Civ III graphics engine and was used against a city built with the Civ III graphics engine.

[Wittlich]

Lorizael, what are you trying to do?! Give Uber a challenge!?!

[Lorizael]

Since Uber got unbanned, he's been increasingly... how do I put it... childish.

I got banned for a week after only being registered (in reality) for four days! And I'm fine now!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I think that the tall buildings must be the small wonder Wall Street