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You mean the one with which you could ship gold without taxes, Pizarro? Getting fountain of youth with the Spanish is a must, otherwise you should've been playing the English ($$$ is nice, but in the end you need lots of pop to beat your way towards the independence). |
Hmm, I think it was some spanish conquistador founding father, and it meant you got loot every time you burnt down an indian vilage. My memory is a little rusty though.....
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Sid would probably prefer to create original new games, but it's what the fans want that matters. What could Sid possibly think of that could do better than Civ, Colonization, or SMAC? His own interstellar game? A SimEarth/ SimLife type game? (hint hint)
Pirates I have no interest in, and anything else by Sid isn't interesting enough for me to be aware of.
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take the first word of each sentence  quite a good poem all said and done.
@CapTVK, i hear what your saying, and from that viewpoint i would agree.
The other viewpoint is that there are plenty of companies out there making new types of games, or just rehashing the same themes as is most often the case.
I read a few threads in various places that were discussing lack of innovation etc, and i'm sort of the opinion that it is much harder to come up with completely new and origonal idea's that work well and are succesfull these days.
Partly because i suppose, in a fundemental way, you can only interact with a graphic+sound effect(+now rumble pack) in so many ways.
Think of all the different types of games you've played over the years, and think of the ones that really stick out in your mind as being the cream of the crop.
Civ is definately in that list. And i guess for many of us games like Pirates!,F15(although i preferd Solo Flight),Silent Hunter,Xcom etc are probably in that list also. They just happen to be under the Microprose label.
I think i can live with seeing remakes of the great classic games of compting.
What distresses me more in seeing a whole raft of FPS military clones that get spewn out in a seemingly ever increasing rate. Does each new one add anything really great to the genre? Why are the games companies so obsessed with all this war stuff other than they are forced to produce whatever sells best, to recoup the millions each one costs to make. Why are we gamers seemingly happy to lap them up? I dont know.
Imho I could live with a Colonisation2(or even 3 maybe), or Civ4 etc in our particular games market as it currently stands. Just no more war based FPS please
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Las Vegas, Nevada
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Originally posted by child of Thor
take the first word of each sentence quite a good poem all said and done.
@CapTVK, i hear what your saying, and from that viewpoint i would agree.
The other viewpoint is that there are plenty of companies out there making new types of games, or just rehashing the same themes as is most often the case.
I read a few threads in various places that were discussing lack of innovation etc, and i'm sort of the opinion that it is much harder to come up with completely new and origonal idea's that work well and are succesfull these days.
Partly because i suppose, in a fundemental way, you can only interact with a graphic+sound effect(+now rumble pack) in so many ways.
Think of all the different types of games you've played over the years, and think of the ones that really stick out in your mind as being the cream of the crop.
Civ is definately in that list. And i guess for many of us games like Pirates!,F15(although i preferd Solo Flight),Silent Hunter,Xcom etc are probably in that list also. They just happen to be under the Microprose label.
I think i can live with seeing remakes of the great classic games of compting.
What distresses me more in seeing a whole raft of FPS military clones that get spewn out in a seemingly ever increasing rate. Does each new one add anything really great to the genre? Why are the games companies so obsessed with all this war stuff other than they are forced to produce whatever sells best, to recoup the millions each one costs to make. Why are we gamers seemingly happy to lap them up? I dont know.
Imho I could live with a Colonisation2(or even 3 maybe), or Civ4 etc in our particular games market as it currently stands. Just no more war based FPS please |
oh yeah.  , actually I already have that bookmarked.
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Voorburg, the Netherlands, Europe
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Originally posted by child of Thor
take the first word of each sentence quite a good poem all said and done.
@CapTVK, i hear what your saying, and from that viewpoint i would agree.
The other viewpoint is that there are plenty of companies out there making new types of games, or just rehashing the same themes as is most often the case.
I read a few threads in various places that were discussing lack of innovation etc, and i'm sort of the opinion that it is much harder to come up with completely new and original idea's that work well and are succesfull these days.
Partly because i suppose, in a fundemental way, you can only interact with a graphic+sound effect(+now rumble pack) in so many ways.
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The discussion about what is original and what's not isn't new. You saw it the 8-bit days, the 16-bit days right up to now and beyond. I've thought about it as well and I still think you can come up with something that is good and "original" (this can also mean original in the sense of presentation and implementation of a familiar/old concept). While most games are clones. There also have been plenty of surprises throughout the years.
Because if it isn't it would mean that we've entered an era where Every song has been sung, every great novel has been written, every great painting has been painted, every great game has been coded .... In such an era there would still be plenty of games and other forms of art but it would be a creatively bankrupt society. Concentrating on controlling and recycling as much IP as it got its hands on.
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Brent
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Actually, I did acquire SimGolf as part of a package of four games just to get SimCity3000, but so far haven't tried SimGolf.
Maybe Sid could come up with his own idea to do something that goes along with Colo and Civ, but not really a sequel to either? I guess just any other sort of TBS. Just not Dinosaurs. A Sim City TBS, a TBS exclusively for the ancient world, an exclusively Biblical TBS...
Personally I'd like to see a Jumpman 2, with basically the same level of graphics as the original, with an editor. Maybe Sid's next big thing should be a Pong clone... A Super Breakout game with an editor would be cool too... Pacman... a new In Search of the Most Amazing Thing... Tetris but with fivesquare blocks...
Leave original new games to original new designers.
Maybe Sid should work with LucasArts, or someone who does Trek, LotR, or Dune games. Electronic LotR Risk would be nice... MesoAmerican Risk...
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02-04-2005 12:51
You mean you don't worship Sid every day for creating the greatest game ever... SimGolf? 
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