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Rohag
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Whether or not RoN topples Civ, I believe it will force the turn-based strategy world to respond. The best response may not come from Firaxis.
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Rohag
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Originally posted by aahz_capone
An hour?! So, like there will be no more games lasting days and days? This will have the speed of starcraft then? poo... |
All reports are that RoN offers many game variants and options allowing players to vary standard game length. At the recent Fragapalooza event in Toronto Paul Stephanouk told VGM Fusion that RoN’s single-player Conquer the World campaign is designed to provide about 50-60 hours of gameplay.
Link to the video interview
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Peter Triggs
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Gone Fishin, Canada
Jan 2000
time: 05:24
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No doubt about it.
It will be quite interesting to see which forum is busiest at this time next year.
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123john321
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RON will toppel civ... until a new civ comes (and I won't said 'Civ3 sucks' because I never played it before... but getting it this Chirstmas!)
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Rohag
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I thoroughly enjoyed Civ II, but life events took me away from games for a while, and didn't return to the Civ series. So I haven't played Civ III but it's impossible to not notice the controversies surrounding it.
I don't wish to hijack the topic, but could someone point me to a concise summary of the "Civ III Imbroglio?"
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Capt Dizle
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Concise summary of the "Civ III Imbroglio?
I'll try. A glimpse behind the scenes:
Firaxis and Infrogreed team up to produce Civ3.
Wild party ensues because everyone will make a lot of money.
At wild party Sid declares he doesn't do sequels and leaves.
Wild party hits second gear. This means that BR will design as he did for Civ2 and SMAC. Overjoy! BR is a better designer than Sid anyway. Civ3 will be great!
Cut scene.
BR, busily working on Civ3, is called into Infrogreed meeting. Slash budget in half. Game cannot be in-depth masterpiece. Infrogreed has lots of games and wants to sell all of them. Nothing can stand out. Civ3 to be dumbed down to mass market (7 year old level). BR says **** that, takes a few pals and goes to see Bill Gates.
Post BR meeting. Sid is playing with dinos on floor. Sid declares he doesn't do sequels and leaves. General dismay. Who will design Civ3. Jeff Briggs says that Jeff Briggs will do it. Everyone laffs ass off till they realize he is serious. Uneasy silence. Someone ventures that Jeff Briggs might need a little help. Someone is fired. Jeff Briggs says, anyway, I have someone in mind to help out. Everyone wonders who will help cause Jeff can't design a paragraph, but no one asks. Jeff Briggs responds to unspoken question by reaching into pile of rejected resumes. Jerks one out. I have a great guy here Briggs proclaims.
Soren Johnson and Jeff Briggs design and release Civ3. It sucks.
And, per Infrogreed's plan, we are here looking and praying for a good strategy game.
But I won't buy Moo3. The last laff is on them.
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123john321
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Disorder eh? Well, civ3 looks fun, because of the culture and dipomant vics! And I was play Chietian-King (using civ2 levels,) anyways.
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tniem
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Hope College
Apr 2000
time: 00:24
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Originally posted by HuangShang
RON will topple the Civs |
What do you mean topple? Do you mean it will cut into sales of Civ3? Do you mean that there will never be an urge for a Civ4? Do you mean that it will make people ever forget their was a Civilization game?
Define topple because by the time RoN is out, Civ3 sales will be damn slow anyways (the expansion was an effort to get them going again but horrible reviews and word of mouth destroyed that effort). So how will RoN topple Civ? If they came out at the same time one could dominate the other but that was not the case and I am sure Infogrames and Firaxis made a ton on Civ III. If you instead mean that people will forget their urge to play another Civ TBS game, I believe you are quite mistaken. I will always have that urge to play a game where I cannot go to sleep until I have played that one more turn. So I need a more precise meaning of what you are writing before I can even begin to see what you are saying or where you are coming from.
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Peter Triggs
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Gone Fishin, Canada
Jan 2000
time: 05:24
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St Leo,
RoN will come equipped with a variant game called 'Conquer the World'. It's been described as "Risk meets RTS" and, from what little we know so far, sounds mighty like the Total War series that Kull and Field Marshall Klesh were raving about last month in the SLeague forum.
In his account of the Fanstock event
http://ron.heavengames.com/press/ev...tock/day1.shtml
Obsidian wrote:
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Conquer the World
Now here is a game variant that is sure to have the gaming community standing up and cheering for quite some time. I can’t really say much about it due to a Non Disclosure Agreement, ...
What I can say here is that in my opinion, this is the feature that will keep players interested in this game for years to come. There are still a number of tweaks to be made to it, but even in its limited version I was incredibly impressed. In talking with Brian Reynolds about this later in the day he would say “I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be cool to have the #1 Real Time Strategy game and the #1 Turn Based Strategy game? Is it possible?” Based on what I have seen, it just might be.
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When Brian Reynolds says something like that, anybody interested in Civ type games has gotta sit up and take notice. 
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16-12-2002 21:09
. For me this ridiculizes the civs, look, in the place where we see two small pine forests we can build 4 civs 2000 years history. 
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