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SMAC also had 10/10 flavor text and setting overall. It's a game that has a lot of character.

by tpeo 10y ago

Tossrock 10y ago
One of my favorite stories about Alpha Centauri was from a person on the PA forums called Wallhitter: I learned the word Atrocity from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri My dad and I had a horrible discussion in the car about the word, eventually. "Dad, what's an atrocity?" "It's when someone does a horrible thing to a lot of people" "...but sometimes they're necessary, right?" "..."
- wyldfire 10y ago
  This was pretty entertaining. I think I want to see if I can get this game now.
  - civilian 10y ago
    It's on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri and I was even able to play it on OSX--- GOG has packaged it with a Windows VM.
    - AceJohnny2 10y ago
      Furthermore, there are a series of community patches that improve the game in a number of ways, such as making it properly work in windowed mode in Windows, and give you smooth zoom: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=14308.0 http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=14308.0
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
  > "...but sometimes they're necessary, right?" Are we still talking about Caesar chopping off all those rebellious Gauls' right hands?
civilian 10y ago
Yeah it did. You can find the technology quotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ > “He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.” I know that my brother had difficulty with this quote. The mental image of someone's arm being jui-jitsu'd off is pretty powerful. My brother would click "OKAY" as fast as possible to avoid listening to the quote.
- StavrosK 10y ago
  Your quote is in this video, around the 4:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1N8_Lkeps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1N8_Lkeps
mdemare 10y ago
Any of you fellow SMAC fans play Beyond Earth? Is it a spiritual successor?
- Paul_S 10y ago
  Sadly, no. BE is a dressed up Civ5.
  - douche 10y ago
    Beyond Earth is kind of sad... Civ 5 wasn't bad, but I'd rather take on Auriga in Endless Legend if I'm playing a hexagonal 4X - plus it reminds me pleasantly of Master of Magic.
- dingbat 10y ago
  unfortunately would have to say no. bells and whistles and alien fungi but missing the spirit. Stellaris however is AMAZING.. its got the feel of original Master of Orion and old time Civs.
- throwaway7767 10y ago
  Unlike other commenters here, I didn't dislike BE. It's a fun game, and it's worth checking out (especially with the Rising Tide expansion). It's very much trying to be a spiritual successor, but I'm not sure it really achieves the goal. The setting isn't as convincing (it's mostly Civ 5 in space, with orbital units). The factions all pretty much play the same, just with some bonuses. The biggest problem (though I suppose this has been a problem for all civ games to some extent) is that the AI is bad. It can do tactical decisions, but strategic big-picture it seems to have no clear goal. It's worth checking out, but it's only partly the spiritual successor to SMAC it tries to be. I see a lot of people here recommending Stellaris, I haven't tried it but now I think I should.

SMAC also had 10/10 flavor text and setting overall. It's a game that has a lot of character.

by tpeo 10y ago

SMAC also had 10/10 flavor text and setting overall. It's a game that has a lot of character.

One of my favorite stories about Alpha Centauri was from a person on the PA forums called Wallhitter: I learned the word Atrocity from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri My dad and I had a horrible discussion in the car about the word, eventually. "Dad, what's an atrocity?" "It's when someone does a horrible thing to a lot of people" "...but sometimes they're necessary, right?" "..."

wyldfire 10y ago
This was pretty entertaining. I think I want to see if I can get this game now.
- civilian 10y ago
  It's on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri and I was even able to play it on OSX--- GOG has packaged it with a Windows VM.
  - AceJohnny2 10y ago
    Furthermore, there are a series of community patches that improve the game in a number of ways, such as making it properly work in windowed mode in Windows, and give you smooth zoom: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=14308.0 http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=14308.0
B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago
> "...but sometimes they're necessary, right?" Are we still talking about Caesar chopping off all those rebellious Gauls' right hands?

civilian 10y ago

Yeah it did. You can find the technology quotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24OXzIRIiMQ > “He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.” I know that my brother had difficulty with this quote. The mental image of someone's arm being jui-jitsu'd off is pretty powerful. My brother would click "OKAY" as fast as possible to avoid listening to the quote.

StavrosK 10y ago
Your quote is in this video, around the 4:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1N8_Lkeps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1N8_Lkeps

mdemare 10y ago

Any of you fellow SMAC fans play Beyond Earth? Is it a spiritual successor?

Paul_S 10y ago
Sadly, no. BE is a dressed up Civ5.
- douche 10y ago
  Beyond Earth is kind of sad... Civ 5 wasn't bad, but I'd rather take on Auriga in Endless Legend if I'm playing a hexagonal 4X - plus it reminds me pleasantly of Master of Magic.
dingbat 10y ago
unfortunately would have to say no. bells and whistles and alien fungi but missing the spirit. Stellaris however is AMAZING.. its got the feel of original Master of Orion and old time Civs.
throwaway7767 10y ago
Unlike other commenters here, I didn't dislike BE. It's a fun game, and it's worth checking out (especially with the Rising Tide expansion). It's very much trying to be a spiritual successor, but I'm not sure it really achieves the goal. The setting isn't as convincing (it's mostly Civ 5 in space, with orbital units). The factions all pretty much play the same, just with some bonuses. The biggest problem (though I suppose this has been a problem for all civ games to some extent) is that the AI is bad. It can do tactical decisions, but strategic big-picture it seems to have no clear goal. It's worth checking out, but it's only partly the spiritual successor to SMAC it tries to be. I see a lot of people here recommending Stellaris, I haven't tried it but now I think I should.