I'm sorta disappointed.
I purchased Civ 1 for my CPU 9,5mhz 8088, Tandy 100RL with only 768?kb of ram, 320x240x16colors(not 16k colors, but 16). The game came on a handfull of 720kb floppies to install on a 20MB HDD((your not going to hear me complain about multi discs).That's right that was my first Intel based computer. Note the power. I played for over 24 hours. I played part 2 and thought it had some nice improvements. Then I played part 3 and thought the game lost appeal.
I'm disappointed. Civ 1 was hard on higher difficulties. The Maps were plenty big with a random map generator(a fractal map generator with the same seed would work).
To hear that the AI is poor? What after so many years and the DS having a 66mhz fireball having a poor AI?
The maps are small? What It took my computer 2 minutes to generate random maps. The DS has 128mb, I'm sure there is enough space to store some nice size maps. Heck even random maps should have enough storage.
There are only 47 advancements to me is a joke. Again give us options. Civ 1 ticked under 10mb. DS can have a 128mb to play with at a lower resolution.
I understand wanting to appeal to more people, but please add options. This is a case
With the restriction of the DS from size and speed I was hoping for a nice clean merger of Civ 1 & 2. Apparently that's not what we got.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
