Favorite AC and Civ2 wonder flicks.

[Az]

In SMAC:
The hunterseeker Algorithm

In CTP1 ( yes, that's right! ): the "end to all deseases" thingee.
"Mommy, what is "sick"?" just made me shead a tear. *emotional*

[General Ludd]

While on the subject, would anyone happen to know of the "stock footage" clip where they got the scenes for the cloning vats from? I know those images are out of a factory farm, and I've seen them a few times before, but I'd like to know where they originally came from.

It's been so long since I played AC that I can't really say which is my favorite. They where all really good, though. The wonder movies, back story, and just all around atmosphere was absolutely great in AC.

[Az]

you probably played for the Gaians.

[Menlas]

I think the best was The Eden Project in CTP1.

However, the Sensorium was excellent too... The perfect geek wonder

[Alex]

In SMAC: Cloning Vats and Dream Twister. But I also like the Weather Paradigm, maybe because it was the first one that I saw (and I got all "oooooohhhhh! this is cool!").

In Civ2: Leo's is wonderful, that catchy tune remained in my head for a long time. The Colossus and Bach's Cathedral are also wonderful.

[Guest]

Come on!
In AC the best is the Self-Aware Colony
WE MUST DISSENT!
That one sends me chill every time
in CIV 2 i loved Bach's Cathedral for the music
hoover dam was really cool also, made you sense achievement.
I like manhattan project, music was cool, with all the dolls and such.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Azazel
you probably played for the Gaians.

And you probably played for the University.

Actually, I played all the factions a bit except for University, Belivers, and Spartans which never really appealed to me. Infact, I don't think I even played a single game as the University or Believers. I did try the Spartans once, though.

And I didn't play the Gaians or Peace keepers a whole lot either, actually. Most of my games where either as the Hive or Morganites.


It's kind of funny - although my real-life ideologies would fit the Gaians, they don't appeal to me at all. Maybe it is because it's too close to my real life, and sort of defeating the purpose of playing a game. It's the same in roleplaying games, too. My first character is inevitably a druid type, but I never feel comfortable playing him and can never roleplay - I always end up playing as some big stupid monster like an ogre or minotaur or something. Kind of like the Hive and Morganites, I guess.

[GePap]

My second favorites are:

from civ2:
Manhattan project
Adam Smith's
Pyramids

From SMAC
Self-Aware colony
Network backbone
Aesetic Virtues

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Smax - Cloud Base Academy - Gotta love the fighter jockeys fight scene in the canyons.

SMAC - Network Backbone - Just 'cause I love hearing Morgan do his best Bill Gates impression

Civ2 - Leonardo's Workshop - No particular reason

Civ3 - Ummm.......... Jeez it's just so hard to pick a favorite

[Patriqvium]

The live video footage ones in SMAC, especially the Cloning Vats and the Dream Twister. I also liked the minimalistic "innards of a particle accelerator" feel of the Supercollider video.

In Civ2, my favorites were the Great Library, Leonardo's Workshop, Bach's Cathedral and Women's Suffrage - all for the music.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by Osweld
It's been so long since I played AC that I can't really say which is my favorite. They where all really good, though. The wonder movies, back story, and just all around atmosphere was absolutely great in AC.

All of them? I got the impression that some of them were done really quickly and dirtily... for example, Xenoempathy Dome and Citizen's Defence Force (which was only a lot of camera runs over one still picture) and the Neural Amplifier were letdowns. A couple of the movies had a nice idea but a bad execution - for example, Hunter-Seeker Algorithm (IMO) and The Virtual World (which would have been nice otherwise but the equipment on that guy's face was just too silly).

[monolith94]

"I think it was called Bakura but it's been sooooo long since I've seen it...."
Could it be Baraka? I've heard of that movie, but haven't seen it.

[Provost Harrison]

Now I am going to demonstrate pedantry...the civ2 video for Isaac Newton's College. You know where it zooms into the university city at the beginning? Well Isaac Newton was based in Cambridge...yet the video quite clearly shows Oxford (All Souls College and Radcliffe Camera quite clearly in view) Naughty, naughty...

But favourite video? Oh, has to be some of the SMAC ones...The Space Elevator or The Pholus Mutagen (I am odd like that )

[Ben Kenobi]

Shakespeare's Theatre in Civ2.

Bonus, can anyone remember what play was used, and what was said?

[monolith94]

Hamlet, I believe, the speech where he's holding the skull?