Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Damn! I am convinced this game is giving me migraines!
I play for an hour at a time, and by the end of that hour I have a horrific left hemisphere migraine. I would normally play a game, like TW, for 8 -10 hrs a strecth with no problem. I have never had anything like this before. I can't even even play it anymore. This has been going on for three days and only with Civ IV. Bizarre!
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
I can't believe you can play any game for 8-10 hours without getting a migraine... I haven't been able to do that for years, and I'm only 22.
Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Not that hard at all. All you really need to play videogames for a really long time is a couple of friends and alot of caffeine. I've played Halo 2 for 20 hours straight easily before and have had 36 hour nonstop LAN parties. You do get extremely tired towards the end and your reaction time becomes horrible, but I just somehow never get sleepy until after it during which I sleep for like 10 hours straight
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
My guess is a kind of graphic glich, that you aren't aware of. Test checking the net and testing other graphic settings. Another thing could be the sound, but that's more unlikely that there's something that you don't notice.
Personally I don't have that problem with Civ IV, so I doubt that it's a general problem as if things are wrong I can get headaches pretty easily.
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
The last time I played a Civ game it was Civ III Gold Edition and I couldn't get the hang of it after hours of play! I always ended up having my populace rebel and riot setting my cities on fire while my armies smashed and conquered. I would be forced to return, kill off my population and then go back and regain all that I had lost, including my own territory! And I really tried dangit!! Now, how is Civ IV compared? I almost bought it but couldn't decided to get that or that Rome game by the chumps who did Europe Unviversalis.
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Civ IV is enormous fun, imo. There's 2 expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword(they gotta squeeze us for more dollars, I guess). However, you can get Civ IV gold, which has Warlords included, and Beyond the Sword is relatively cheap. I'd say the expansions are definitely worth it. I haven't played EU Rome, but I've heard its not nearly as good as the other EU/Victoria/HoI games, so I'd say to go with Civ. I'd say in comparison to Civ III, IV is better as a whole, with the only exception being that you can no longer go through other people's cultural borders unless you get open borders, which I personally find absurd. I don't know what you were doing to get your cities to riot on you in Civ III, but I haven't had too much of that kind of problem in either game. The game is similar concept, but executed differently, and the combat is more detailed and involved than Civ III. Oh, and I guess the other thing I miss from Civ III is that I can't build a massive army of 100 stealth bombers and utterly annihialate everybody who dares to stand in my way, because the bombers can no longer kill units completely.The last time I played a Civ game it was Civ III Gold Edition and I couldn't get the hang of it after hours of play! I always ended up having my populace rebel and riot setting my cities on fire while my armies smashed and conquered. I would be forced to return, kill off my population and then go back and regain all that I had lost, including my own territory! And I really tried dangit
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Wow...I think you almost sold me on it lol...I'll do a little more research on it but I think you practically sold me on itCiv IV is enormous fun, imo. There's 2 expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword(they gotta squeeze us for more dollars, I guess). However, you can get Civ IV gold, which has Warlords included, and Beyond the Sword is relatively cheap. I'd say the expansions are definitely worth it. I haven't played EU Rome, but I've heard its not nearly as good as the other EU/Victoria/HoI games, so I'd say to go with Civ. I'd say in comparison to Civ III, IV is better as a whole, with the only exception being that you can no longer go through other people's cultural borders unless you get open borders, which I personally find absurd. I don't know what you were doing to get your cities to riot on you in Civ III, but I haven't had too much of that kind of problem in either game. The game is similar concept, but executed differently, and the combat is more detailed and involved than Civ III. Oh, and I guess the other thing I miss from Civ III is that I can't build a massive army of 100 stealth bombers and utterly annihialate everybody who dares to stand in my way, because the bombers can no longer kill units completely.And as for the riots, well I get the same problem in my TW games lol...I guess I'm just a bad leader lol...
"No one said it was gonna be easy! If it was, everyone would do it..that's who you know who really wants it."
All us men suffer in equal parts, it's our lot in life, and no man goes without a broken heart or a lost love. Like holding your dog as he takes his last breath and dies in your arms, it's a rite of passage. Unavoidable. And honestly, I can't imagine life without that depth of feeling.-Bierut
Re: Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Civ IV with both expansion packs (GET THEM!) is definitely the best version of any of the Civ games ever made, including Alpha Centauri. I have played ALL of them, and this is the first one that balances everything very well. It is probably the single best strategy game ever made IMO and is infinitely replayable. On top of it all, they've actually figured out how to make it work well with multiplayer. MP games are now not only possible, but relatively painless to play. Not that you need a human to make the game challenging, though, it also has one of the best AIs I've ever seen in a game.
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