20th November 2004, 9:21 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Most of the time it's not so bad, but when your starting city is surrounded by mountains and there are no rivers there... well, you might as well start over...
It's not bad in the previous games either, I'd say.
They basically removed the video content. Civ II has animated heralds (on the diplomatic screen), a video High Council where the five people tell you what they think you should do (they're funny too... :)), and a movie whenever you successfully complete a Wonder. Civ III just has static images and text for Wonders, diplomacy, and the opinions of your councillors. It does still have an intro movie (which is neat but not as good as the Civ II one) and a win movie for the space race (which is pretty cool, just like the Civ II one was), but that's it for them...
Oh yeah, and Civ II also has more (I believe) and better music.
Artillery was great in II... maybe too great, they thought, but I wouldn't say so. If you could attack artillery with any contemporary unit it'd probably lose... they don't defend well. :)
The Cheat and Editor (if you have the second expansion, Forgotten Worlds) menus were more than your average cheat stuff. First, it was a menu right there on the screen. Now, there is a cost -- use it and your score has a big red CHEATER label on it on the high score table. What is it most useful for? Not really for me but for scenario designers. It let you, right in the game, do a huge amount of map and game manipulation... creating cities and units, terrain too I think, changing alliances, etc... you can do so much with that to make scenarios. Basically, the map editor made maps and then you did the scenario design ingame with those menus. Cool.
Yeah, the added campaigns are one of the big reasons I want Conquests -- I liked some of the missing ones! However, even renaming doesn't fix one flaw: you can't change the leader's gender. In Civ II you could choose male or female (with a default name) for each civ. I guess they didn't want to bother to make a portrait for both genders for each civilization...
Campaigns. That's also missing from normal Civ III. I know basic Civ II pretty much doesn't have them either, but each of the two expansions added 10 campaigns and there were a lot of awesome ones among them... I definitely missed them from Civ III. That's the other big reason that that would be worth getting. The multiplayer? I never played Civ II Gold Multiplayer Edition (civ ii + both expansions + win95 + multiplay) online, so that doesn't matter much.
Well they should have added a option to dig a resservoir for irrigation! Thats happen to me a few times but I just explored till I found one planted a city started to get workers to link the waters , Atleast the areas near mountains have more fertile grasslands.Unless your stuck in a tundra which would suck , At that point you either find nice land to settle or restart from scratch.
Like I said the start up thing needs to be fixed.
Really all they need is a early ancient times research that allows you to get a resservior, Then it wouldnt hurt so bad.
Conquests has a new Intro movie , Starts off with a Samurai and then switches to a Roman legionaire finally changes again to american GI in Japan firing away his flame thrower. Speaking of which I havent seen any flame throwers yet?
I never got the space victory yet, Since I have only been in the modern age for two turns and then the game ended, I still won though.
Any suggestions to improve the amount of time it takes to boost scientific research?
Music well your right , Conquests has added a new song , Its nice stringed folk music gets you into the pioneer spirit. But you can only hear it in certain campaigns.
As for changing gender you can do it but the avitar doesnt change , personally I remeber that CIV1 had the two avitars for man or women.
I would have liked it, Since Id probaily play Russia more if it werent for that ugly woman, Peter the great or Lenin Stalin would have been cool.
England and egypt as well , Elizabeth I is a ugly bitch , King Henry or Richard would have been nice.
Cleopatra isnt too bad , But Id like to see Ramsees or Khufu.
To be honnest I can see both sides on Artilery , but right now it could use a buff.
What Sid Said in a interview is that they made the AI remeber your abuses and dishonnoring your treaties, Asking for free passage but use it as a way for a sneek attack so fourth, You can do it once but not twice.The other civilizations that are in contact with your victim take note as well.
There is a map editor and campaign editor but not in game.
The Cinematics are not being put into games as much anymore,Look At blizzard the original starcraft had FMV all over its campaigns but in brood war now then only have the intro and episode endings, War3 III TFT Has a Intro and a ending FMV but its even less then usual.
To me CiV 4 should be a mix between 3 and 2 too please both the new and old fans.