12th January 2004, 10:22 PM
Wha... er, that is EXACTLY the point! Exactly! My point was that since you put down the Civ series I didn't think you'd played it much. I was exactly right. You are being absurd. I mean, you are acting like it's fine to say that one game is better than another with what clearly looks like not nearly enough information on one of the games you're judging...
Oh, and Civ actually in some ways is a lot like SimCity. Just today or so Gamespot added SimCity (original) to its 'best games ever' list... in the article they say how SimCity was an influence in Civilization, and I see it. Both games are big and open, with no one way to progress and nothing forcing you to do anything. Civ obviously is martial, but you can be peaceful if you want... you can build your civilization however you want, like a city in SimCity. Civ is a quite different game of course but I can see the influence... Civ just has so much more to do, and so much more variation (the biggest problem with SimCity is that after a little while all the cities start to blend together...)... I like SimCity, but Civ is a noticably better game.
Oh yeah, and just like SimCity the first Civilization is by far the worst...
Oh, and Civ actually in some ways is a lot like SimCity. Just today or so Gamespot added SimCity (original) to its 'best games ever' list... in the article they say how SimCity was an influence in Civilization, and I see it. Both games are big and open, with no one way to progress and nothing forcing you to do anything. Civ obviously is martial, but you can be peaceful if you want... you can build your civilization however you want, like a city in SimCity. Civ is a quite different game of course but I can see the influence... Civ just has so much more to do, and so much more variation (the biggest problem with SimCity is that after a little while all the cities start to blend together...)... I like SimCity, but Civ is a noticably better game.
Oh yeah, and just like SimCity the first Civilization is by far the worst...