Sid Meier, the great video game genius, is at the helm once again. It look utterly, amazingly awesome. They’re improving it in exactly the manner I was hoping.
I’m already trying to determine how I can quit my job so I can play it full time. If I never leave the house, I don’t need a car. I don’t incur travel expenses. Technically I wouldn’t even need to have any clothes. Can it be done? Perhaps.
Folks, this game is going to be an obsession for millions. I just can’t wait.
If I were you (or if you were me, but I don’t think that works as well), I’d spend the next month stockpiling on unperishables. I’m also thinking about either getting a colostomy bag installed, or setting up a peripheral station in my bathroom.
I’m preparing for Civilization 3. How am I preparing, you may ask?
I’ve picked up a small dorm-sized fridge, and moved it into my computer room. I’ve put a fold-out couch in there, so I don’t have to walk the twenty feet to my own bed. I’ve even arranged for a week of vacation time in November, ostensibly to head out east, but realistically to play Civ3. I’m even considering custom-building one of those toilet-recliners that Homer invented in the Edison Simpsons episode.
(I still play the original 1991 DOS version, too…)
My main complaint about the last two, and my sincere wish for #3, is that we will be able to raze and destroy cities that we conquer. To hell with the diplomatic fallout - I’m sick of invading a weaker civ, conquering a city, and then them somehow conquering it right back and sneaking an advanced tech out from under my nose. When I invade their continent, I’m coming to wipe 'em all out…
Woo Hoo! I knew they were working on it but didn’t know it would be out in the near future. I can tell you from experience, I actually looked forward to a mind numbingly boring 28 hours of flight time from LA to Sydney and then back because I brought my laptop with Civilization II loaded on it! I never get that big a block of time to play any more.
Has anyone played the extended version of Civ II? I mean the one where you keep playing after you reach Alpha Centauri, and get to colonize the new planet as well.
FEAR my internet Civ! My economy will bury you! My happy minions will ignore the blandishments of your propaganda machine! My mighty armies will conquer your cities, and my enlightened policies will make your citizens rush to my call!
Well, I don’t know anything about Alpha Centauri, but Civilization: Call to Power was not endorsed in any way by Sid Meier, and I think Activision got in a lot of legal trouble for putting the Civilization name on their game. (which, BTW, is no where near as good as Civ II, you can’t even view the cities!) You might not have noticed, but Activision made a Call to Power II, but didn’t put the civilization name on it.
I knew it was coming, but I forgot it was so soon. I love Civ III!!
Mr Cazzle and I used to kick back and play network Civ II over whole weekends. Friends knew not to visit, cause we weren’t budging out of the computer room for anything. Thermos of tea and packet of dry biscuits to sustain us, we’d start Friday night and play until the wee small hours. The next two days, we’d wake and go straight back to the computers, finishing up late Sunday night. Ahh, those were the days
Civ III is going to be a blast! We so cannot wait for Civ III marathons!!
My ultimate wish is for this game to have a savable multiplayer mode-my friends and I cannot lock ourselves down for three-day marathons like true Civ players.
My penultimate wish is for there to be a bonus for building/conquering all the wonders. Double-extra bonus points if you can do it all in one city. Many are the attempts by me to build Washington DC, City of Wonders.
