What computer games do you have installed right now?

[Imran Siddiqui]

After installing Vista, I haven't really installed many games.

In fact, I think I only have World of Warcraft, which I haven't played all that much lately. I'll reinstall CivIV+Warlords soon enough. At least before the expansion.

And probably reinstall Oblivion and put on there the next version of Football Manager.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, just reinstalling stuff at this very moment!

[molly bloom]

American McGee's Alice

American Conquest: Fight Back

Imperium Galactica

EntEntE

Ascendancy

Alien Legacy

Empire Earth Gold

Battles of the World

The Great Battles Collectors' Series

EU & EUII

As well as the usual Civ and Smax.

[Cyclotron]

Civ IV
Rome: Total War
Medieval: Total War
Mount&Blade
Day of Defeat: Source
Neverwinter Nights
Ascendancy

[Sandman]

I've just completed Knights of the Old Republic 2. It's not a bad game, it still captures the KOTOR magic, but it's sadly unfinished, with the plot unravelling about halfway through and an army of bugs. It's not very difficult either, with the way that it throws items and credits at you. Even on difficult mode with a 'difficult' class (Jedi Consular), I found myself removing bits from my lightsabre to make things more challenging.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Cyclotron
Civ IV
Rome: Total War
Medieval: Total War
Mount&Blade
Day of Defeat: Source
Neverwinter Nights
Ascendancy

I would never have guessed that Cyclotron would have Ascendancy installed

Asmodean

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Wycoff


Those were nice, but they just felt superficial. IMO, they chaged tactics more than they changed strategy. My gripes:

I never felt that my game was substantially more or less fun if I founded four religions or if I didn't found any. Part of the disappointment came from the fact that the religions were bland. It didn't matter if you were Jewish, Buddhist, etc. I know that it would have been problematic to implement, but it would have been nice if civs received different bonuses depending on the religion that they followed. For instance, Buddism could have generated added war weariness but less civil unrest.

I also didn't like that there wasn't more fluidity in the religious system. It seemed that later discovered religions like Islam were often neglected. It would have been nice if the newly founded religions would catch fire in the civs that founded it and in the surrounding civs, spreading regardless of whether the civ wanted it to spread and causing major problems when it did spread. I recognize that the involuntary spreading did happen, but that spreading didn't cause your civ any problems.
This took away from the experience of religious conflict.
Founding as many religions as possible was beneficial, because you could get the temple in your civ, spread it to all of your cities and those of the civs surrounding you, and reap the benefits. I thought that founding more than one religion should have caused at least short term problems within your civ and those surrounding you, maybe causing armed rebellions to rise, maybe causing some cities to break away from your civ to start their own, etc.

I also would have liked it if you got a certain amount of gold per city in which your state religion was founded, but that amount was reduced for every other religion in that city. You could persecute those non-state religions to increase the percentage of your preferred religion in that city, but doing so would hurt relations with other civs who had that religion as their state religion.

In short, I hoped that religion would fundamentally change the way the game worked. IMO, it changed the game somewhat, but not enough. Religious conflict and upheaval is nearly missing from this game, represented only by the moderately altered attitudes of other civs towards you. Religious strife within a civilization is conspicuously absent, aas is the turmoil caused by new faiths arising in territories that follow an older faith. I had fun founding my religions for awhile, but the novelty wore off.

My main reason for not liking Civ 4 as much was the new unit upgrade system. The fact that I found the religion system underwhelming was just a secondary factor in my decision to uninstall & sell the game.

I wish they hadn't introduced religion at all, or gave us the option to disable it

[Spiffor]

Are you serious? :wtf:

[Colon™]

Civilization 4 forum.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Colon™
Civilization 4 forum.

This site has Civilization forums?

[DrSpike]

Yeah they are here as backup for when it gets quiet.

[Asmodean]

Oh you mean like now

[Wiglaf]

COMAPNY OF HEROS :B: :B:

Other games forum TAKING IT

[Tattila the Hun]

SupCom and Kotor

[Julian Delphiki]

Haven't really had any games besides CIV4 (+warlords+bts) on my PC in ages.