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Civ4

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:25 pm
by jason
Yeah, it's not new, but I recently picked it up after finishing BioShock.

Dear God, why? I thought WoW was addictive.

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:18 pm
by superdezign
I never got to try it. I almost did once because my father had a copy, but he wouldn't open it since Sid Meier signed it.
I was addicted to Civ2 and Civ3 though. I always had to quit cold-turkey. :P

Re: Civ4

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:31 pm
by The Phoenix
jason wrote:Yeah, it's not new, but I recently picked it up after finishing BioShock.

Dear God, why? I thought WoW was addictive.
Yeah, I finally broke my WoW addiction. I hadn't gotten my 'focused on leveling' character to 60 (despite Burning Crusade raising the cap to 70), when they announced the next expansion. Which raised the cap to 80 - with the statement that it would take longer to get from 70 to 80, than it did to get from 60-70, which in turn was longer than 40-60.

What. The. Hell.

So yeah, cancelled my subscription then. I was barely able to play for 2-3 hours during the week, and maybe 8 hours total on weekends if I totally accepted being beaten upon by my wife for ignoring everything. When THAT isn't enough, its not a game, its a job.

I too found the siren call of Civ 4 amazingly enticing, and I enjoyed its flavor for quite some time. It is definitely much better than Civ3, but still isn't as snappy as the original Civ. I could play a small game of Civ in hours, and a huge game in about 9 hours. No Civ since the original has come close.

But oh, its so nice.

Lately, I've been enjoying my exploration of new technologies more. iPhone, Macbook, Lighttpd web server, Postgresql database server, Parallels for virtualization, and so forth. I'm having a ton of fun with technology, and I haven't gotten to do that in YEARS.

Makes games look relatively boring.

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:53 pm
by s.dot
I choose to play video games that are relaxing, instead of addicting.

Like whenever I get done coding for a bit, or just want to do nothing, I play Excite Truck on the wii. Already beat it, but it's fun to just have a race every now and then.

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:07 am
by shiznatix
me and my old roomate used to play civ4 all night long. The problem was that one or the other would dominate the game and it would be no fun at the end. I don't think we ever finished an actual game but it was a lot of fun building your empire and crushing uprisings and all that fun stuff.

definatly a very awesome game just not one that I would play alone. Best when played with a friend

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:11 am
by RobertGonzalez
Minesweeper and solitaire for me. Sometimes I actually use real cards when playing solitaire, too. Yes, the game was once played with real cards.

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:41 pm
by guitarlvr
Everah wrote:Minesweeper and solitaire for me. Sometimes I actually use real cards when playing solitaire, too. Yes, the game was once played with real cards.
haha. Yes you can play with real cards. freecell however is a pain in the a$$ to play with real cards. solitare isn't to bad but freecell, give me a computer.

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:13 pm
by ReverendDexter
My prob with using real cards to play solitaire is that I'm always tempted to cheat :twisted:

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:21 pm
by superdezign
scottayy wrote:I choose to play video games that are relaxing, instead of addicting.
A couple girls I met on campus got me into Guitar Hero yesterday. THAT is addictive. :P

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:29 am
by ronnil
Haven't actually tried Civ 4... probably because i thought civ 3 sucked. But Civ 2 is still on the top 5 of my all time favorite games :)

What i love though, is the xBox Live Arcade concept. Don't have to buy new games as long as they release TMNT, Sensible world of soccer and the likes :P

Guitar hero is fun, but becomes boring when you're stuck at second level on hard :(