[quote who="Larsenex" reply="1" id="3427265"] Go to start > Run > type in dxdiag It will tell you your system specs like your processor, ram, and video card. Those are the basics to see if it would play Gal Civ III.[/quote] Will that also tell me if my system is really 64 bit and or 64 bit capable but not actually running in 64 bit, (if that's possible)?
Never bothers me, except those times i had a hard time finding the saved game folder!
I managed to have the foresight to buy a 64 bit system five years ago (windows Vista) and now i hear Galciv3 will only run on 64 bit systems! But since my computer is now five years old,,,, i dunno?? I cannot remember the stats of my computer exactly (I'm at work right now) but it is what you would call a 'mid range' gaming system five years ago, purchased from an online Ebay store.
I wonder if the OP has played Alpha Centauri? I think that game more closely matches Galciv, and you can design your own units, but not as good as Galciv. But even more closely matching is the Civilization Call to power 1 and 2, whereby 1 actually has a space level, and the combat system in Call to power (armies) is actually superior (in my opinion) to Galciv save for the useless Call to power AI. I say the Call to power combat system is superior because it recognizes the way 'fro
[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="13" id="3427248"] What's up with that anyway? I always hear about Australia prices being 50% higher, but I've not seen a good explanation as to why.[/quote] I think Australia is busy running a large scale experiment on the benefits to the rich of anti competition behavior. In Australia, you can kill bank chairman's by sneaking up behind them and saying the word "competition", the shock will kill the
[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="5" id="3427106"] Some say digital distribution killed retail (true, to some extent - as long as we have some "platform" to have entertainment on, it is only wise to put something to be entertained with on abovementioned platform). But there is no difference in price between retail copy of game and digital - same "spherical in vacuum" $60 per copy, even if you don't have any overhead expenses, storage fees, logistics costs, printing price, or middlemen sa
No, they have to be valuable....... My 2 year old child is very smart, she somehow instinctively knows what is 'valuable' and those things she want's the most! We cannot even pretend something is valuable, such as an old tv remote, she knows and won't touch it,,,, well she will 'pretend' to play with it until our back is turned, then drop it and go for the 'real' tv remote! But the disk collection, i am naturally protective of it, a habit ingrai
I found a good use for my old disks.... keep them neatly stacked near my computer as always and continue the illusion they are valuable. My 2 year old child won't walk past the disks (she has to grab them and play with them) and therefore my computer is kept safe!
[quote who="Seilore" reply="4" id="3426943"]You don't need multiplayer to have strong community, you just need a strong fan base, multiplayer does not make a game great, a good game that keeps the user entertained and into the game. Which I believe is the true nature of a game. [/quote] I am not a big fan of any multilayer games online, i don't see the point of watching 'hotshots' kick my ass all day, its pointless. Let the hotshots duke it out amongst themselves
[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="3" id="3426468"] I'm inclined to agree, but I don't want it to become vapourware like certain games that shall not be named..[/quote] Steve Jobs came along and said, "we need to fix these fonts, no matter how long it takes"
[quote who="Illauna" reply="25" id="3426669"] I would define rap as rhythmic chants. It is basically the evolution of quick speak and work songs sung by slaves. It goes pretty far back but it wasn't identified as rap music until fairly recently. Well within the last century. I think it's better when the rapper is actually rapping about issues with the world (Biggie, Jay-Z, etc) instead of just going on about, well you know the stuff that the average person thinks about when they
[quote who="Illauna" reply="28" id="3426549"]However, Civ4 release version was just nearly as bad and at the time people claim that Civ3 was superior to Civ4.[/quote] Not just the released version, When i first played civ4, i was utterly devastated at the loss of 'bombardment'. That just smacked of... too lazy to fix the AI, instead just removed it! After getting over the insult to my intelligence with such absurdities as having to ram enemy units with a
I would agree too, but with reservations.... you want them to take their time, but you don't want them standing around the coffee machine half the day either!
[quote who="Illauna" reply="17" id="3426291"] I only really like classical in my games, err the gaming version of classical. I personally listen to rap, 5 seconds of hate starts now...ok stop. I grew up to listen to my dad's rock records but I like the rythmn of rap music. [/quote] People really 'like' Rap music?? I thought it was just one of those things people pretend to like in order to fit in. Or they identify with or are otherwise inspired by
[quote who="Illauna" reply="19" id="3426238"] You can make a game better. Just kidnap Sid Meier and tie him up in your basement, then make him come up with a better game...Umm just joking if anything happens to Sid I had nothing to do with it. P.S. I would have said Brad but he has bees and they are dangerous. [/quote] Oh i already tried to kidnap Sid but some unnamed organization had implanted an explosive devise in his head that will go of
Classical music is good when your concentrating on the game, but normally i find most classical music a bit dull - especially Mozart. What little classical music i do like is mostly from Wagner, or Vagner. As for heavy metal, i dunno what is going on there? How come i absolutely love metallica black album, ,,, all and eveything else 'heavy' metal, i do not like, with only 2 exception - One, by Metallica and Voodoo people by the Prodigy?? Celtic Women could probably mak
[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="2" id="3184912"] Looks interesting, kind of a bland Alpha Centauri I guess. Something to look into.[/quote] Not Again!!! WWhhhhhyyyyy is it so damn hard for anyone to actually make a 'better' game than Alpha Centauri???????? Sxxt on a brick, snakes on a plane.... the game was released 15 Fifteeeeeeen years ago and I'm still waiting?
[quote who="Illauna" reply="18" id="3426184"] That was about the time Brave New World came out have you tried it? The changes they made really help with the 'End Turn' loop that you go through the last 100 or so turns in 4x games when you are finishing off the last opponents[/quote] Probably have not tried it, but i never 'finish' games anyway, no time for mopping up.... sometimes in the cases where one of the AI opponents really annoyed me, i just
[quote who="Illauna" reply="16" id="3426174"] When did you play Civ5 last? Just asking because the game was greatly improved from vanilla to GnK and went from good to brilliant with BNW. Also, one trick for enjoying games more, takes practice, but try to not save and reload and work with bad outcomes. You will get a lot better at the game and the additional umph to your choices, will mean that much more. Instead of meh when you complete something you will dance a happy dance when
I did not like civ5, cannot remember why, something spooked me about it when i first played it. Civ 4 is brilliant but also disappointing at the same time. They came up with a fantastic unit promotion system in this game but you need to reload allot keep it interesting, otherwise you will lose all your best units in no time. If i had a dollar for every time i lost a unit when the odds were supposedly 99% in its favor..... (But this was fixed in Civ 5) Civ 3 is what i would cal
I used to think similar to the OP but my main objection to digital downloads is that you don't own the game. I say that because a game that you buy off the shelf in a box, if you wanted to, you could sell it (i know there are more and more exceptions these days), because you can sell things that belong to you. You cannot sell a digital download, and therefore it cannot be defined as being your own property. What i think these days is that digital downloads are brilliant! Because i
[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="5" id="3425611"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 4It is also handy to whack a Z in front of the names of all the template ships so they go to the bottom of the ship list and don't get in the way during play. Are you referring to DL or DA? Because in TotA, you could save your ship design as template. It would then get added to the Template tab in the Ship Designer, and wouldn't clutter up your buildlist.[/quote] I re
[quote who="Tridus" reply="50" id="3425666"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 47 Hmmm, i don't like the look of this thread, cause i don't like an AI that will 'beat' me! What i want, is an AI that will 'withstand' me which is something very different entirely. The problem i always encounter in the old Galciv games, if my difficulty level is too high, i get wasted early on in the game, but if i put the difficulty down a bit, yes the early game is
[quote who="Wetballs" Listen, I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything, but what's the point of these patterns? Are "good" players supposed to memorize these patterns in order to game the system? What is this, Super Mario Brothers?[/quote] On the other hand, these patterns ensure a reasonably fair distribution of resources (But not planets, GRRR) which is something you will definitely need with multilayer. With regard to the AI knowing where the good p
Hmmm, i don't like the look of this thread, cause i don't like an AI that will 'beat' me! What i want, is an AI that will 'withstand' me which is something very different entirely. The problem i always encounter in the old Galciv games, if my difficulty level is too high, i get wasted early on in the game, but if i put the difficulty down a bit, yes the early game is challenging but then after that the AI flops over and dies and I'm sitting there wondering