After all these years tho, I see the game as a bit rough and unpolished. A lot of trial and error in the pursuit of the perfect game with many restarts and loads. I played it every day for months and tried to understand it at the best of my capacity (was fairly young back then). Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | LinkĬiv 3 for me was the foundation of my love for the series. We reached to the stars and everything is now ours I also played Alpha Centauri (it was kinda boring) and Civ: Rise to power (very badly balanced, but original, I give them that). I missed the map and hunting for perfect cities, I guess. And playing a 50+ city sim was dreadfully boring.Ĭiv 5 - idk, I just hated it from the start, can't say why. The downfall for me was that quantity beat quality - an empire with 30 average cities would stomp over my empire with 8-9 perfectly planned and micromanaged cities by sheer numbers those 30 cities generated (science, wealth, production and so on). Civ 4 - I really liked this one, especially the troop promotions, resources, colorful map, resource managing, hunting for city locations and planning 'perfect' cities. That was the most fun Civ game I ever played.Ĭiv 2, Civ 3 - never got much thrill out of those. English - each of us on separate continent - they were one step ahead all of the time, and the little invasions and city-taking carried back and forth for many turns. I still remember the game I had as Muricans vs. Finding a technically advanced enemy (more than you) on a secluded continent produced the most intense, challenging games. It gave me chills as a kid to explore the dark mysterious map and run into a freaking 15-pop city out of the blue. Obviously due to nostalgia glasses, I prefer the 1st one. Myself, I played all of them (except the lil' spin offs like CivRev). Since the game is fairly popular with HoMM fans, I guess we should have a nice and clean discussion topic about it.

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