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Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.
Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.
Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Monday January 07 2019, @08:32PM (6 children)
You poor silly deluded fellow. You do realize Civ II and IV still work on modern computers?
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday January 07 2019, @09:05PM (5 children)
I do, but as noted I only really like it with the Vox Populi mod and as far as I can remember it's only available for Civ5. CivII was great, CivIII was better. I never really liked Civ4, it was very weird until a few of the extra content mods arrived, also I think this was new around the time that I played a lot of WOW. Civ5 was quite bad at the start to but after, as noted, finding out about Vox Populi it became a lot better. So much so that I still can't stand a game without and I was more or less instantly turned off Civ6 -- I like some of the concepts and the graphics but I just hate the tech/social tree.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday January 08 2019, @08:51PM (4 children)
Please enlighten the ignorant -- what does Vox Populi do?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday January 08 2019, @09:39PM (3 children)
It changes a lot of the core functions of how the game works. Making it both harder and more interesting then normal. It's probably just easier to link to the wiki then to try and spell it all out, I'll probably forget or miss something. As it stands now I don't think I could even bother to play a Civ5 game without it. It really does change everything for the better.
http://civ-5-cbp.wikia.com/wiki/Civ5_CBP_Wikia [wikia.com]
https://forums.civfanatics.com/tags/vox-populi/ [civfanatics.com]
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday January 10 2019, @12:22AM (2 children)
Does it fix the glitch that only allows you one unit per square/hex?
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:03AM (1 child)
I assume you are referring to combat units, in that case no. That is still a thing. So no stacks-of-doom moving about the board as in some of the previous versions of Civ. If not that then you can have workers/diplomats/traders in stacks and with one combat unit, ships can be on top of embarked units to. I don't really recall now which was in the non modded version or not but I think it is the same. It is a bit annoying compared to previous games that you can't cover ranged units with a melee unit on top for protection -- so you have to sort of surround them etc if you want that kind of protection.
BTW somewhat unrelated. Did you use to play a lot of CIV4? I seem to recall someone, with your nickname, playing a lot of GOTM:s over at CF among other things.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday January 10 2019, @02:24AM
Was not me as far as i know but i play CivIV extensively. Before my kids were born five years ago played several hours a day.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam