I am jack's utter disappointment...

[Kaak]

Oh well...I guess i'll have to wait for civ4 to come out before i switch. THE SCREENSHOTS have left me HORRIBLY disappointed. The visual interphase has crap thrown all over the screen like CtP. I like the nice clean interphase MUCH BETTER. What a pitty this great game is ruined....

[Ralf]

Now that you mention it I must say that I also get second thoughts. Not so much because of the terrain-graphics - that can rather easily be updated/changed the next couple of months. Im thinking more about the interface itself.

It reminds me to much of the interface-graphics in CTP. Also, I hated the blurry look of TOT. I prefer the crisp-sharp look of MS windows-graphics. Whats wrong with Civ-2 windows-style, with standard dropdown-menus an added rightclick-menus? Also, I want to be able to play the game in a window. And perhaps with different skins to play around with.

[Shadowstrike]

I hope to God that this is an alpha screenshot. Because if the game looks like that in the final release, I doubt that many people would buy it.

[SerapisIV]

People don't buy Civ for flashy graphics, they buy it for the game. CivIII would easily be able to surpass The Sims sales if was sold today, even being at an off-time (not holiday)

[EnochF]

Oh, here we go...

Aside from some of the terrain squares, the graphics are fine. We've already seen the City Screen and we know it's not going to be plagued by CTP's infernal slider bars. And even if SMAC didn't convince you that pull-up menus can be as effective as pull-down menus, keep in mind that you can still use your function keys to call up pertinent information. There's nothing in the pictures we've seen that points to a problem with the i-n-t-e-r-f-a-c-e.

Sheesh.

Quit whining about the greatest game in the universe.

[EnochF]

By the way, that extra stuff at the bottom left of the screen isn't going to be there all the time. It's pretty clear that those icons relate to the possible actions that be taken with the highlighted unit: fortify and go, for example.

[Roman]

As far as I am concerned, the graphics are completely fine.

[connorkimbro]

I agree, the graphics are FINE!! If nothing else, they make me want the game all the much more.

****, the game is MONTHS from being released, and you're complaining about the graphics because of what you ASSUME about the interface, which probably will change a DOZEN times before release? come on now. .

[Sirotnikov]

I guess it's not the final version, but a test version of SMAC with Civish graphics. I read this in Gamespot UK interview with Sid.

[ASHBERY76]

Of course civ games are about gameplay but firaxis claimed that the game will have the best graphics of this genre.
I DONT THINK SO.

[Roman]

I don't want the graphics to be any "better" than they already appear to be from the screenshots. Too much animation and graphics would merely make the game look childish.

BTW: Well done Firaxis!!!

[EnochF]

By the way, who is Jack, and why are you his utter disappointment?

[Ralf]

quote: Originally posted by connorkimbro on 04-26-2001 08:03 PM ****, the game is MONTHS from being released, and you're complaining about the graphics because of what you ASSUME about the interface, which probably will change a DOZEN times before release? come on now. .

OK, then - perhaps I was a little to quick to comment that. As I said in another post; We havent all cards on the table yet - and the ones that IS available, can be replaced and changed I guess.

By the way, that Domestic advisor screen looked nice.

[raingoon]

Enoch, I believe "Jack's Utter Disapointment" was Ed Norton in the movie "Fight Club." By the way, how's Seattle? My own Apolyton name is a reference to that city you live in, my old home town, I'm sure everyone has been dying to know that! Well, now they do.

So yeah, I must say I love seeing the whining and and kvetching start about what's wrong with the game, because it can only mean one thing -- THE GAME IS FINALLY COMING!!!!

[drake]

quote: Enoch, I believe "Jack's Utter Disapointment" was Ed Norton in the movie "Fight Club."

It is a fight club reference, but that doesnt sum it up very well.......anyway......

The Screenshots look fine to me. I don't see what the big deal is. There's nothing overly great about them, but there's certainly nothing wrong with them either.