This game is boring

[Dis]

and don't tell me to leave. That is my job. I was the first one to say this to civ3-haters

I liked the game for about a month. But I haven't played in about 3 weeks. I think this means I'm bored of it. Although I have been short on time due to shopping etc...

I might play 1 or 2 times before neverwinter nights come out. But it may be possible I'm bored of TBS games.

Yet I was one of the people who were "fan boys" and "civ3 likers". What can I say? I can't seem to find a reason to play this game.

so yes I will remain on these boards. As long as a game is on my hard drive, I still consider it an "active" game. It is a game I expect possibly play in the future. I only delete games I never intend to play again (civ2 being one of those). But I do intend to play civ3 again.

But I need something fresh. I may try to do a mod on my own. I don't like too many others I have seen so far. I need to make this game "fun" again somehow.

[yin26]

Well. A chair had been left open for you at the table. It reads: "For Dissent ... for he shall join us."

[Blackadar1]

Kind of funny when one of your biggest critics suddenly starts to agree with you...

[The Eliminator]

[Dis]

hey dammit!! you stole that from me

I was the first to use when people complained about the game.

I'm not saying the game is bad. It was good for a little while. but after all the bells and whistles wore off you have just another civ game.

in fact, I'm bored of the genre in general. maybe tbs games are dead...

P.S. I still don't think the combat system is broke. I just think you all suck . It just isn't interesting enough for me to devote my life to this game. I think I'll try to get the girlfriend I lost when I was playing the game

[nato]

Dissident - I remember your "If you never plan on playing civ3 again get the **** out" thread. My post on the first page of the thread "Top 10 Fun-Killers in Civ3" was largely in response to you ... other ppl made the same type of argument there.

Anyway, I want to talk about why I think the game feels boring. I think there are a lot of fun things in Civ3, and a lot of fun decisions to make. I think the problem is that in between all of these fun things there is a TON of boring things and boring decisions to make. To get to do one fun thing, you have to do like 50 boring things.

A lot of games are like that. I think the problem is that in Civ3 the ratio of boring things to fun things is just way too high.

I think a solution should try to list out the fun things in Civ3 and the boring things. Then try to figure out some (hopefully not too complicated programming wise) ways to maximize fun things and minimize boring things.

However this is probably not going to happen because it is too much work to change the game like this ... the only hope is that something like this can happen for an expansion, since they will get money for that. However, they can get the same amount of money for just adding things and not doing fundamental reworks, so I'm not super hopeful there either.

Oh well. Maybe someone will come up with a brilliant way to cut through all the boring work to let players get to the fun stuff much faster.

[bahoo]

You're just mad because you got your butt kicked on Deity!!! Go whine somewhere else, real men play civ3!! Neverwinter nights is for nancy boys!

[codemast01]

Originally posted by bahoo
You're just mad because you got your butt kicked on Deity!!! Go whine somewhere else, real men play civ3!! Neverwinter nights is for nancy boys!

"whiner," "real men" and "nancy boys" ?!? If you're going to insult people, please refrain from repeating what you hear at elementary schools.

Dissident is right. CivIII lacks replayability. This is most evident in the endgame. If you look at CivIII carefully, you'll notice that units, culture, science all basically focus on one thing. Units help you attack and take over cities. Culture helps you peacefully take cities. science gives you units and railroads to speed up expansion. Basically everything focuses on expansion. However in the endgame. there is no reason to expand your cultural border or take over a cities because any city you take will only make one shield. If the purpose in CivIII is to expand but there is no reason to expand, then there is no reason to play CivIII.

[Q Classic]

I'm bored with the game too.

But that's because it won't run on this godforsaken p2/266.

damn, damn being away from college on this accursed break, and not being with my beloved new computer, and having to end that affair, at least temporarily, to carry on with this ugly, painful, slow, stupid old computer-witch.

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on the other hand, i don't get much chance to play it at school, so...

it's still active. i just haven't played it.

fragfests over the dorm's lan are much more entertaining, at least for short periods of time.

[dissent]

Yin said:

Well. A chair had been left open for you at the table. It reads: "For Dissent ... for he shall join us."

Wrong guy. I'm already sitting at another chair. I got bored of the game about a week ago, but still check the forum hoping patches, mods or whatever make the Late game era more interesting.

[yin26]

I ... still check the forum hoping patches, mods or whatever make the Late game era more interesting.

Yes, as I've made clear almost from Day 1, that's precisely the chair I'm sitting in, friend.

[Ferdi]

After 6 weeks, I have to say with regret that civIII is really boring. My opinion was totaly different at first but suddenly changed when I compare it with smac.
No more to say, civIII is dead.

If you have played civI, civII, smac, ctp then your opinion cannot be the same after 100 hours playing civIII.

[Immortal Wombat]

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[Dis]

hehe

I might play next week if I have the time. I have yet to play the game after the patch came out . Modern era still needs some work. And the game could be speeded up some. Maybe I have less attention span now. I want to finish a game in 1 day- not 3. Maybe I'll just retire before I hit the modern era- there seems no point to it. Ancient and medieval are the best times.

[FNBrown]

The problem with the game is that it gets sooooo sloooow from about the time steam power arrives on....

If they'd cut out the four-turn minimum tech research time, maybe things would move along a little better... each turn takes so long to complete, that going from Riflemen to Nukes takes about 10 times as long (in real time) as it took to go from clubs to muskets.

Of course, somebody's probably already written a mod for this, and I'm just too much of a clod to have found it on my own...