Tweet
I am with big dave et al.
drdanger - dave havealways been fairly balanced with his opinions in the past - he has admitted that the game has good qualities, but he, like myself, is rather upset with the whole situation of feeling so ripped off by an inferior programming design.
as for myself, i honestly dont see how you could think this to be a game of good quality lets think of some of the bugs:
-doesnt center on moving units during turns.
-if you had a system near the min. req. you could go to the bathroom in between turns and come back before it was finished.
-any plane attackin/defending over water would autodie
-a phalax could kill a plane (and this was complained about and fixed in civ 2 - which means activision did not do their homework)
-no notification when an improvement was built
-the interface was downgraded/made more difficult (not my opinion, but by human engineering (i.e. GUI) text book example of what NOT to do)
-whole units would disappear off the screen
and those are just off the top of my head, not to include multiplayer gliches that i have heard of, but never experienced because i don't use that aspect of the game.
in all honesty i have never seen so many CRITICAL fixes listed by a gaming company during a patch release(s).
it is the ONLY game i have ever shelved to wait for a patch just to use it. i waited for the patch like is was a new game. _the most_ disapointing/unpalyable game i ever baught. and teh ONLY GAME i ever actually downloaded a patch for.
while the game had _many_ new and enlightening features, most of them didnt work right. activision sucks, they push crap out the doors too fast and dont care about their consumers. i remember the good old days of activison when they would give the customers gifts (remember when the would give you gifts for getting high scors in pitfall for atari?) i used to love activision. but this game totally turned me against them. i am going to give them a second chance only becaue of my memoriable childhood with them reminds me that it is possible for the company to do better for their consumers. but i beleive warez is looking like a nice review/30 trial for this patch, err game
(sorry, no EBX in my deprived area to have a 30 day trial legally) - IF it is good i will buy it, otherwise i wont have to flame the message boards when i get pissed cause i lost $40 for another unfinished/unplayable game.
i think one of their programmers summed up both CTP I & II rather well:
hmmmmmm, sounds familar doesnt it??????!!!!!
yeah, thats what i thought - cant argue againt the horses mouth
------------------
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
-Michael Sinz
[This message has been edited by Nemo (edited November 02, 2000).]
drdanger - dave havealways been fairly balanced with his opinions in the past - he has admitted that the game has good qualities, but he, like myself, is rather upset with the whole situation of feeling so ripped off by an inferior programming design.
as for myself, i honestly dont see how you could think this to be a game of good quality lets think of some of the bugs:
-doesnt center on moving units during turns.
-if you had a system near the min. req. you could go to the bathroom in between turns and come back before it was finished.
-any plane attackin/defending over water would autodie
-a phalax could kill a plane (and this was complained about and fixed in civ 2 - which means activision did not do their homework)
-no notification when an improvement was built
-the interface was downgraded/made more difficult (not my opinion, but by human engineering (i.e. GUI) text book example of what NOT to do)
-whole units would disappear off the screen
and those are just off the top of my head, not to include multiplayer gliches that i have heard of, but never experienced because i don't use that aspect of the game.
in all honesty i have never seen so many CRITICAL fixes listed by a gaming company during a patch release(s).
it is the ONLY game i have ever shelved to wait for a patch just to use it. i waited for the patch like is was a new game. _the most_ disapointing/unpalyable game i ever baught. and teh ONLY GAME i ever actually downloaded a patch for.
while the game had _many_ new and enlightening features, most of them didnt work right. activision sucks, they push crap out the doors too fast and dont care about their consumers. i remember the good old days of activison when they would give the customers gifts (remember when the would give you gifts for getting high scors in pitfall for atari?) i used to love activision. but this game totally turned me against them. i am going to give them a second chance only becaue of my memoriable childhood with them reminds me that it is possible for the company to do better for their consumers. but i beleive warez is looking like a nice review/30 trial for this patch, err game
(sorry, no EBX in my deprived area to have a 30 day trial legally) - IF it is good i will buy it, otherwise i wont have to flame the message boards when i get pissed cause i lost $40 for another unfinished/unplayable game.i think one of their programmers summed up both CTP I & II rather well:
quote: There were a lot of really horrendous bugs that quite frankly we didn't know how to fix in the amount of time we have. |
hmmmmmm, sounds familar doesnt it??????!!!!!
yeah, thats what i thought - cant argue againt the horses mouth
------------------
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
-Michael Sinz
[This message has been edited by Nemo (edited November 02, 2000).]
Comment