pc.ign.com review up: 9.3! *nt*

[Fidel]

if you can play cossacks....
i found that game absolutely unplayable dull, boring, derivative

[yin26]

Also, Yin - wait until it hits the bargain bin. I must admit I have spent my money on things worse than Civ3 may yet turn out to be in your most catastrophic predictions

LOL! Well, that seems to be the way things are looking. Even a cheap $35 LE seems too much at this point. Looks like I'll be checking out the Gold Edition a year from now. Until then, I need to decide if it's worth my time to post here without the game in-hand...

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by korn469


overall i give the review a 4.7, it didn't bring anything new to the table and it didn't offer any real information to make a purchase decision except for

and.....

Originally posted by korn469
a decent 2000 word review, it seemed like good old steve butts actually played the game but probably more from a "hey cool i got civ 3 lets enjoy this baby" than an "i need to examine each area and make a detailed analysis" not enough reflection on the lows and highs and not enough new info

ummm, Korn, are you rating the review? is this your review of the review?

[GodSpawn]

[Mistake]

[Stuie]

Originally posted by yin26

LOL! Well, that seems to be the way things are looking. Even a cheap $35 LE seems too much at this point. Looks like I'll be checking out the Gold Edition a year from now. Until then, I need to decide if it's worth my time to post here without the game in-hand...

Let me help: It's not worth your time posting here without the game in hand.

[Jason Beaudoin]

I'm getting so sick and tired of the negative comments about this game. They come mostly from people who haven't played it yet.

Really, if you don't like CIV3 or Firaxis, what are you doing here? Why are you making yourself heard? What are you trying to accomplish here? Do you enjoy feeling resentful all of the time?

Yin: Buy the game and play it. Then, come here and give us your review. Once you've trashed the game at length, get over it and move on. Buy yourself a FPS, join a Korean-Anti-Japanese support group, or attend some anger management courses. Do whatever it takes for you to get yourself re-adjusted, because I come to these forums to enjoy myself, not to listen to this.

If CIV3 sucks, I'll be your first convert, but it will be a cold day in hell before I accept any critism about CIV3 from anyone who's never played the game.

[Fidel]

Originally posted by Jason Beaudoin
I'm getting so sick and tired of the negative comments about this game. They come mostly from people who haven't played it yet.

Really, if you don't like CIV3 or Firaxis, what are you doing here? Why are you making yourself heard? What are you trying to accomplish here? Do you enjoy feeling resentful all of the time?

Yin: Buy the game and play it. Then, come here and give us your review. Once you've trashed the game at length, get over it and move on. Buy yourself a FPS, join a Korean-Anti-Japanese support group, or attend some anger management courses. Do whatever it takes for you to get yourself re-adjusted, because I come to these forums to enjoy myself, not to listen to this.

If CIV3 sucks, I'll be your first convert, but it will be a cold day in hell before I accept any critism about CIV3 from anyone who's never played the game.

he is currently aspleep

[The Big W]

a formal apology

Yin26: I would like to apologize for my earlier comments... I accused you of being overly negative all the while that I was writing a negative and insulting (to you) post...I truly am sorry.
I may have to stop making comments on these boards...it's just too tempting sometimes to say something nasty in a state of anonymity...
I do believe that you have a right to your own opinion, and that some of your concerns are valid, but I must admit that I still hold high hopes for the game...

[Steve Clark]

Sigh.

Two of my friends, Imran and yin, are going at it again. I agree with yin on one thing (don't quote me on that ), all Civ games are supposed to be deliberate, taking the time to understand it and to get a real feel for it. I thought there had been alot of noise about Civ3 this year, but that was nothing compared to all of the useless garbage we've seen since Monday. Imran, I have said the same pyschobabble about yin in the past ("feeling cheated because he couldn't get Firaxis to make the game revolutionary"), but it's just more of a fun thing to say.

yin, as mentioned in the other forum on your thread, I have been assigned to write a three-part review of Civ3 (manual, tutorial, regular game) in the forum of game critics. The first two parts will be done in a week but the regular game review won't be done until mid to end November. Anything less should be taken with a grain of salt, imo.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yin: Buy the game and play it. Then, come here and give us your review. Once you've trashed the game at length, get over it and move on. Buy yourself a FPS, join a Korean-Anti-Japanese support group, or attend some anger management courses. Do whatever it takes for you to get yourself re-adjusted, because I come to these forums to enjoy myself, not to listen to this.

Well said Jason, and Yin, before you start to bash, remember Jason had a very dedicated SMAC site (the best, IMO), and left it because SMAC was going in a direction he didn't like. And never bashed it, even though he put in so much time into the site.

Steve:

Don't you know Yin and I ALWAYS go at it with each other . This is a 3 year thing, man!

[Utrecht]

What is most confusing here is, I do not understand what Yin's purpose is.......

Taking a step back and ignoring all past histories, this is what appears:

1) Yin has not and will not purchase the game
2) Yin will ONLY post the negative elements in an OVERWHELMINGLY positive review

The combination of these two things really do not seem to add up. What is hoped to be accomplished? To convert the unwashed heathen into the light?

Yin, you are going to have to accept the fact that this is a Pro-Civ3 forum. People are brought here because of their LOVE of the game. My recomendation (echoing others) is to let it go. Obviously, whatever hopes/dreams/asperations that you had for Civ 3 will not be realized.......... find something else.

[Haphazard]

Why are you posting here Yin? To point out all the flaws in Civ3 so they can be fixed? If so that's great but no other explanation makes sense at the moment.

[yang27]

Cool off people. Give it a few weeks and the dust will settle. We'll see how good the AI is and find out a few loop holes by then.

[PGM]

Everything this guy (yin26) has been posting in the last days or weeks is nothing but rubbish, upsetting people totally WITHOUT any experience of civ3. An absolute waste of space.
I'm sorry, I've been quiet, just reading, and reading, but it's just too much. Some guy's computer has trouble scrolling the map and yin26 just assumes the problem is in the game and panics? Ridiculous. I wonder if the game had gotten a 7.0 review...?
Fortunately after Nov.16 people will be too excited playing civ3 and will leave him complaining about a game which, at that point, he will probably be the only one to NOT have played it. Now that's sad...

[Alexander's Horse]

Yin 26 was a major contributor to Civ III through modding this site for a couple of years. So shut up.