An homage to the greatness of Simcity 4

[A Black Falcon]

You may well like SimCity over Civilization. I'd actually be interested to hear your opinion on Civilization. I just think that its best to *play* it first. And not for five minuites. That seems a very reasonable thing! Your position is that its fine to say that you like one game over another while not knowing much about it (you say that I 'became convinced' of that, but you sure haven't said anything that makes me think otherwise)... that idea is just absurd.

GR, your reaction to that post of mine really surprised me. You see, it was written under the assumption that you'd played both serieses for a significant amount of time and knew them both well and preferred Civ... something I obviously disagree with and would have liked to hear reasons for... but that wasn't the case, so the post was innacurate. You seemed to think that I knew you hadn't played it much and said that anyway or something, which is just wrong... you really blew this way out of proportion.

Okay... let's go over it again. I say that I like Civ more than Simcity. You say you like Simcity more. This was my first reaction.

At me wondering how much you've played the Civ series, that's where.

Seems like the most sensible thing to say from any measure I can see... you say you prefer one very good game to one other game which has been given even more accolades (and is liked more than the first by hardcore gamers; sorry, but it's true), and I want to know if you've actually played said games... why did this statement set you off? I don't get that at all... you seem to think that it's actually okay to hold an opinion with no hard knowledge of what you speak. That is a very badly flawed idea.

ABF needs to learn that his views aren't always entirely accurate.

No, I need to know what YOUR views are on the game before I make a judgement on you! I tried my best to do that by asking you first off, but you refused for a while... it did not look good, so I had to say more..

Sure, some groups would like Simcity more, namely those that hate games with fighting, or hate strategy games, or hate slow-paced strategy games... but for people who like all those things... I just don't see how anyone could like Civ more... as I said, Civ just has so mure more to the game. Exponentially so from SimCity. It's deeper, more complex, more varied, far more interesting...

But answer my question. Have you played Civ II/Alpha Centauri/Civ III a lot?

Listing the most obvious groups that would prefer SimCity. Given that I would not say that you are in any of them, your choice of SimCity seems surprising to me.

Then you say that you actually HAVEN'T played Civ much, and all is explained...

Oh yeah, and if you play Civ now I bet you'll still say SimCity is better out of spite at least more than anything else. :)