Maybe it’s because it was the first one I played, but something about the 2d aspect of this game gripped me. I don’t have the same love for the games that came after it, the 3d graphics somehow take me out of the historical element.
The fact that in the older games you are basically playing on a map, gives off this almost board-game feeling that is cosy and immersive. (I know that civ was inspired by a board game)
Playing civ3 as a kid really made me feel like I was in whatever era I was playing at. Still remember those jazz fusion tracks especially.
I remember convincing my dad to buy me this game. I was about 9 years old and the guy running the game store told me it was really good and kind of like Age of Empires II.
After installing it, I realised that it was NOT like AoE2. I broke down in tears when I saw all the elaborate menus with complex English words and was confronted with boring TURN BASED gameplay. Who the hell has that kind of patience??
Same night I had to be dragged to bed because I couldn’t stop playing hehe.
I remember playing against several computer players on a huge map. I can’t remember who I was playing as. Probably either Britain or America. But I remember Gandhi approached me as an ally early on. He then pulled me into conflicts with all the other civilizations (damn, that NPC was bloodthirsty!), and together we fought and destroyed each of the other NPCs.
I over-extended myself a bit far on the last of those opponents, and he decided that was the perfect time to attack me. I knew he would at some point, since it’s part of the game. But I was so angry at the timing of that betrayal.
I fended off the Indian civilization’s attacks, and carefully rebuilt my resources. When I was clearly stronger than him I attacked, and hit him hard. As I ground his forces down more and more he kept pleading for a surrender. But I kept refusing.
I basically got him down to one pitifully small city that was pinned on and had no real defenses, and then played with them like a cat with a mouse. I held out on destroying them for ages, just so he could be as miserable as possible for as long as possible. Yeah, I know it was just a dumb NPC that couldn’t feel anything really, but it was still very satisfying.
This is what happens to everyone who betrays me in Civ. The pixels will pay for what they have done.
I do this in Stellaris.
I grind some foul xenos empire down until they’re left with a single blockaded system.
I then enslave them and make them pay excessive overlord taxes.
If they complain I glass the planet.
Did someone say consume everything? All are prey. Especially the ones that fight back.
This galaxy is a human galaxy
This was my first entry into the series after playing Civ Rev ps3.
I loved using the infinate money/steal cities exploit before it was patched. I would spend hours letting countries built up against me, only to use that glitch to build ICBM and nuke to high heavens.
The soundtrack was great too! I loved the acient theme. I had a lor of the ost on my mp3 player.
I doubt it runs on linux. Last time I tried 15 years ago, it ran but everything was black and the mouse wouldn’t capture within the game window.
I doubt it runs on linux. Last time I tried 15 years ago, it ran but everything was black and the mouse wouldn’t capture within the game window.
Civ Revolution is not available for PC. So did you try a different Civ game on Linux? If you want play the PS3 version again and have a powerful machine, then emulating PS3 with RPCS3 is an option. The compatibility rating for the game on the emulator is rated as Playable.
EDIT: Oh you was talking about Civ3! Looks like I can’t read, sorry. Well Looking at recent ProtonDB user reports, looks like Civ3 is playable on Linux. But its not perfect, reports say without music and you need to install C3X. I personally have no experience, so cannot assist further.
Just like zelda, the civ game most people prefer is the first one they played.
For me its civ 2. The advisors and building the palace and the music. Chefs kiss
Putting all the palace upgrades into the throne and having a modern-future throne in a cave.
civ2 is great too, I remember a friend playing it on the PS1
I still have the ~300pg instruction book for it on my shelf. Still the only game instructions I’ve read cover to cover.
It had a lot more detail than I’d ever seen in a game booklet before.
Great game, and the last civ game I felt like I fully understood (even if I wasn’t great at it).
Oh. And I remember my automated workers paving the entire world into roads by mid game.
I was playing this game in college like 16yrs ago. Me and a few buddies played it regularly. While studying with one of them I’m taking a break and watching him play. He’s playing against the AI on one of the harder difficulty levels with Raging Barbarians on. Then he gets a warning about a barbarian camp near one of his major cities. I’m watching and was like, “Dude you should take care of that before it gets bad”. “It’s not a problem. I got the forces to deal with them anytime I want.” He is pretty arrogant. A couple turns later they attack. I’m watching like 30 barbarians from that camp raid his city. It took 5 to break his defense and the other 25 pillaged all of his resources.
I fucking miss this game!
Knew a guy like that. We finally convinced him to try horizon zero dawn after I already beat the game. So now it’s on new game plus extremely hard experienced players only pass this point please. He claims that’s how hard he wants it to be. So I let him get stomped on by sentient lawnmower. He complained it was too hard after that.
I can’t remember civ 3 nearly as much as 2 and 4.
I’m still playing Civ 3 as of this week. Mostly a mod, CCM, now.
I remember getting the soundtrack out of the files and playing it on media player on a continues loop. I remember cleopatra becoming my nemesis constantly, and most of all, I remember the auto workers. I miss those little guys.
Civ and Call To Power had some banging soundtracks.
Rhye’s and Fall of the Roman Empire mod.
I remember seeing resources on the map, hating how arbitrary they felt, and then grew to love macemen as midgame doomstacks that justified any war for iron in the early game.
Civ3 helped me understand and justify my early wars for any nation, not just the Mongols and Zulu.
