.jayderyu said:
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.
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If I could hug someone right now...It'd be you.
I think the issue is the PR people, and the "image" that certain systems, like the DS, are getting. The issue is that whe they (whomever made Civ:Rev - be it Fraxis or Infogrames, or whomever) they figure that the DS market, as well as (to a sickening extent) PS3/X360 fans are of lesser intelligence, and didn't like Civilization the way it was. So they hack away at it, to where you have a weak, smaller shell of a game that it once was.
Problem is, they forget that they came out with Civilization 1 for the SNES many years ago, and the game was very, very good. It was my gateway into the Civ series, and didn't provide incredibly dumbed down gameplay from the PC version, and was a pretty good game.
So as time goes on, instead of giving us a more robust product, they give us a dumbed down version. And my question is: Who the heck is THAT going to cater to?
