Is this game still fun to play?

[ceroomaster]

You don't need the Civ3 CD to play PtW. But I'd still hang on to your Civ 3 CD, because if you need to reinstall...

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I feel like I was ripped off $49 bucks (or however much it cost).

crappy graphics, bugs, parts that just dont work. one big pile of sh*t. last Firaxis game I buy (without a test drive first).

still a civ 2 player!

[Romanus]

I started with CTP2, then bought Civ3....immediately patched it, and never looked back. I also bought PTW...love it. It adds a lot and the MP is fun. When people say Civ3 is a POS....I wonder what else they are playing. I have Civ2, and enjoy it...but it rarely gets played...same with Alpha Centauri.
I think the graphics, AI, and gameplay are as good as anything else out there in the genre. In fact, assuming there is to be a civ4, I hope they spend less time on graphics and more on improving gameplay, AI and such. Lets continue to improve what has been a civ staple, fun.

But, to reply to the original post, I doubt enough has changed to make the game that much more enjoyable if you tired of it the first time around.

[Ubergeek]

Originally posted by Romanus
But, to reply to the original post, I doubt enough has changed to make the game that much more enjoyable if you tired of it the first time around.

I must disagree. I tired of it the first time around, but I'm enjoying PTW -- I've certainly gotten my money's worth out of it, if nothing else. And I don't even touch the MP part.

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Romanus
But, to reply to the original post, I doubt enough has changed to make the game that much more enjoyable if you tired of it the first time around.

I also disagree with this. I hated pre-1.21 Civ3; the movement after combat bug, the crashing... it just had too many problems that should have been fixed before release. (Sorta like MOO3. ) But after 1.21 came out, Civ3 was finally fun for me to play; so I'd recommend that anyone who shelved Civ3 before 1.21 download the 1.29 patch and give Civ3 another try.

[AeonOfTime]

Civ your boredom away!

Quite honestly, I don't see how you can get bored playing civ to the extent of not playing it for more than a week

Even without PTW, you have a game in your hands that is new each time if you like, that you can change to fit your needs (let's edit, shall we?), that you can play a zillion different ways - I'm definitely an addict .

When I've played one game through, I start a new one with different settings, and I don't know any other games with that kind of replayability. Except Morrowind, perhaps - but that's a different story altogether.

[crotch]

pacman is good replabilliy better then civ and pong. many differnt ofptions make good gameing

[AeonOfTime]

Pacman???

Originally posted by crotch
pacman is good replabilliy better then civ and pong. many differnt ofptions make good gameing

You're mad

[crotch]

hav yoy ever played pacman 1.2? it very good you can eat aples in tis one

[Gramphos]

Pacman is a good game, but it's only Civ that you can play as long as you do.

[crotch]

pac man is classic civ 3 not but civ 2 classic

pic me!!!!

[Gramphos]

Civ2 is not classic. The only classic civ is Civ1

[AeonOfTime]

Civ 1

I remember my first civ game on my amiga 500 - quite an experience! That's classic, all right!

Gramphos: did you play civ1 yourself?

[Gramphos]

Of cource I playd Civ1. I remember when I first played it...

I was at one of my firends places and we were exploring his new Amiga.
We found this strange game were everything was black except one flashing wagon and a small area around it once you had set it up by default options. Nothing could be done with it, and the manual were only in English, and since this was before any of us (we were three) knew that language we just lerned by doing.

After about ten minutes we figured out that if we oved the mouse nextto that flashing wagon an arrow appeard and we could move it aroned. A few turns passed this way until we got killed by "the evil red once" (as we called the barbarians) not knowuing how to found a city.

We tried again, woila this time we walked with our settler i a good area to settle and got this message telling us to hit 'b' (I think that was the only thing we understood). Then we got a city. Not knowing of what the dangers were (and having wandered aroubnd for a while) our city were destroyed by the barbarians again.

Next time we started the game we found out that it was possible to enable keyboard movement. And we actually figured that we could build units. So we built a warrior to protect our city, but we could in no way figure out how to make the warrior not require to move (Neither fortify nor skip turn) so after successfully killed one of the red units our warrior were out of town when the next one arraived.

I could go on forever talking about these days at my firends place where we slowly figured out more and more of the game. But I'll save it for another time.

[Gramphos]

Of cource I've played it many times since than, and I still play it sometimes. (even thou I nowadays mostly play CivNet instead of the DOS Civ)