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Just got back to playing Civ 3 complete edition after a few years of not playing. I have spent many hours on this game and i still love it. Anyone else still play it?

Awesome game - I thought 4 was the best, before the series dumbed down big-time for number 5.

Even 2 has its moments actually. Read about some guy who had played multi-player with no turn limit until the year 3000 or something, just a few isolated cities fighting over the scant resources left in a nuclear blasted wasteland - really cool!

Civ2 was my favorite; CivIII and IV were good. I think V gets a bad rap though; with G&K (The first time Religion has been done well in a Civ game) and BNW (interesting and well deployed mechanics) plus Workshop integration it makes for a really fun game.

-actually Alpha Centauri was my favorite, but it wasn't technically a Civ game.

Whats the second one like?

The problem i have with 5 is it feels like im running a small nunch of settlements and nothing was on a massive scale. Unlike the third one where its a constant arms race against your enemy. Where everything is important towards crushing the entire world (especially on a huge map). Civ 5 makes the world seem small. I did like the way resources worked ish on civ 5. Each resource had an amount and each unit used a certain amount. But overall i still play the 3rd for hours because it really feels like a power struggle.

Civ 4 was my favorite game! I remember getting the Beyond the Sword expansion and playing through the very cool and quite different mods. I tried to play 5, but my computer goes bat insane when it tries to run a game that's not Dark Crusade or Minecraft.

By the way, anyone heard Ghandi talk about how his words are backed with Nuclear Weapons? I heard it happens in 3.

Haha i have had Ghandi tell me to remove my common Spanish rabble from his territory. (only workers where going through.) Soon after he declared war and waves of bombers started terror bombing my cities. Ghandi had just started the first world war, 5 nations would collapse and by the end of the war the planet was covered in radiation and looked like an arid wasteland. Everyone on the planet was dying slowly of starvation and ruined cities scattered the landscape.

That was the last time i trust the face of a peaceful leader lol.

I think I once had half of the map's civilizations fighting the other half of the map's civilizations. It... was...GLORIOUS!
Then again, I had to manipulate my allies into fighting the others.

Yea i know how you feel. I still remember my first game and that had happened. (well similar.)

I was playing as rome and was on an island with some other nation. I thought i was huge, the other nation had 4 cities i had like 11. I had no idea what i was really doing but i made it into the modern era, but had not descovered any other part of the world. I decided to try out the nuke, bear in mind i had never faught a war yet, on the pathetic other nation. After that turn i got message after message about nations declaring war, My navy of 2 iron clads and ground forces of few crap units prepared to defend my country.

The next turn wave after wave of the smaller nations tanks and so on came rolling in, My men died very quickly, marines and other modern units where landing on my shores and bombers where decimating my cities. My iron clads fell to huge modern navies and nukes where landing everywhere on my island.

The next turn i think i had descovered the world map thing and realised my nation was like dust compared to that of all the others. And as a result of my actions nukes where being used (mostly against me). China made an alliance with me out of desperation and died the next turn.

The game ended soon after. That game left a huge impression on me and got me hooked. I had never seen carnage and warfare on such a huge scale before and it was just glorious.

Moments like ours really make the game sound awesome. Of course it takes a lot of work to get there at times.

Civ 3 was my gateway to the rest of the Civ games. I don't remember much of Civ 4 to be honest, but Civ 3 and 5 were/are both awesome in their own ways.

Civ 3 had this one scenario/map/thing you could play on that had extra civs and dozens of new units. Something like 'TETurkhan Test of Time' or similar. I played that thing for days on end until I last partial vision in my right eye (old boob tube monitor with the contrast and brightness at max). Civ 3 definitely had much larger empires; I remember playing as China on a map of the Earth and pretty own all of mainland China, India, Mongolia and much of modern day Russia.

I don't miss the old stacks of doom though, so I like Civ 5's combat better.

Either way, great game. The built in editor was a nice touch too.

I find that interesting because the huge stacks of men is what made the game awesome for me. Having 4 divisions of riflemen baccked by arty on a fortified mountain choke point holding off against a horde of AI units slowly eating through is so much fun. Without it i dont have that full on war feel. Also combined forces really help out in civ 3, like artillery then you have defence units to protect offensive and so on. I guess it can make them much harder in the long run though.

Civ 2 is still my favorite. I loved the WW2 mod that it came with.

I've played 3-5 as well, and none of them have really stuck with me like 2 did.

Agree that 2 was a brilliant game, probably spent more man-hours on that than any other.

On the back of this thread have gone back to playing 4 again. After the initial shock of the graphics (5 is quite a pretty game) it's just totally grabbed me once more. What a game, there is just so much depth and subtlety to how you play - different ways of playing, and the level of abstraction I think it just right.