/vr/ - Retro Games

>>686116
Atrocity!

>not glorious psi worms

Shit, must have been 10+ years since i played this...

>>686116
ITT: University of Planet general

14 years passed since ;_;

Sure hope you guys bought it.. it's 6$ @ http://www.gog.com/gamecard/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

>google Brian Reynolds
>2009, joined Zynga
>oh right, fucker...
>2013, left Zynga

There is still hope!

>>686175
is it too much to hope for a reboot?

>>686164
And nothing came even close since

>>686198
still the best 4X TBS

>>686197

Yeah and a Kickstarter is probably also out of the question. On the other hand we waited >10 years for Sim City 5 and look what we got so...

>>686217
yeah but that was to be expected because EA

>>686198
And I still wish this was animated

>>686217
fuck you FIRAXIS... this is all we get after all this time?

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/13/ace-patrol-review-sid-meier/
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/02/firaxis-haunted-hollow-available-now-on-ios-for-real-this-ti/

They are dead to me.

>>686234

Yeah, pretty much went to shit after Take-Two took over, as usual.

>>686234
What the fuck am i seeing. So this is the new target audience...

>>686247
R.I.P Firaxis, MicroProse, Infogrames

>>686264

Just rip all the old gaming names and studios, they're all shit these days or bought up and doing shit.

>>686271
Still keeping my hopes up for Stainless with Carmageddon: Reincarnation. They didn't sell out, and the original team is developing it.

>>686289

No offence but that's not really what i would call classic gaming but hey, opinions and such

>>686289
Let's just hope they can learn from their mistakes

>>686297
It is a '97 reboot, and it's all i can hope for. I mean how the fuck can someone screw that up (except TDR)

I always used to steamroll this as Yang. Don't bother making military unless you absolutely have to, just make a former then focus on throwing out colony pods until you hit the cap(512 cities, between all factions).

For terraforming, always make forests on arable squares, mines on mountains. By the time you need more food, you should have made it to hybrid forests. No roads ever, so any invasion has to inch across your territory while you churn out a vast army to repel and then annihilate them.

For fun, construct a pressure dome, an elite empath chopper and an ocean former in every city. Then build factories of every kind and watch the planet flip its shit as sea levels skyrocket and your enemies are drowned or their cities starve as the AI tries to work out what the fuck. Use the choppers to cull mindworms for loot. Remember that you can't extract resources from xenofungus that's below -1000m, so be sure to use the "Sell all facilities of this type" option if things get hairy. I once got about 3000m of sea level rise, built so many ocean formers to try and keep resources where I could get at them that I hit the unit cap(1024).
Dammit, micromanaging a desperate terraforming effort to avert apocalyptic disaster was one of the greatest bits of fun I had with this game. Almost as good as the time I equipped all my hovertanks with chemical weapons and proceeded to rack up ten thousand years of sanctions as I steamrolled Morgan.

>>686307

>I mean how the fuck can someone screw that up

I guess we're about to find out?

And for all this "original team" stuff that's floating around KS, i don't really buy into it. Don't get me wrong, they might be great at what they do but when you look at what the old gods are doing these days, Sid, Will, Brian etc etc, i'd say that the old guard has rusted together.

>>686317
>not winning through Transcendence

>>686325
>look at what the old gods are doing these days
They are making money, not trying to please the "old guard" gamers. There are lots of kids who will spend their parents money on the games they are currently developing. I can't imagine anyone today (of our age at the time) who spends days to understand how a game works and try mastering it.

>>686372
If they keep losing or takes them more than 10 minutes to understand it, they call it shit and move to the next.

>>686116
I want to try this game. I've been a huge Civ1 fan and Civ3 a lot later. Is it kinda similar? Is it easy to get into without using guides and stuff. Do i need to use and emulator to play it?

>>686380
It's more like Civ 2.
>emulator for a PC game
What

>>686380
No emulators needed, just download the GoG version (fuck buying it to give money to Take2).
It's like civilization but in a SF environment.

>>686372

>They are making money

Yeah, that's sort of what i'm saying. That the "original team" is in on it doesn't really mean shit to me these days. I'd rather have a fresh new team straight out of college doing something new.

>>686380

You'll probably need Dosbox, google it. Really easy to use and the basic set-up should do for almost everyone.

>>686391
Civ2 is the one I actually never played. Well at the beginning I thought that it was a DOS game but now as look at OP pic i see that it's more modern than that.

>>686391
maybe he thought it needs dosbox or something

>>686380
no need for anything, download this

http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7948029/Sid__Meiers__Alpha__Centauri_____Alien__Crossfire__GOG

>>686380
>Do i need to use and emulator to play it?

It was made for Win98, there's a WinXP patch, and I'm pretty sure the GOG version should work on even more modern systems.

>>686407
btw this works fine on W7 x64

>>686407
Thanks, bro. Wanted to try it out long time ago as a kid but couldn't run it on my old PC, and now the time has come.

>>686425
I used to play the demo i got from a magazine back in 99 and got hooked. It's never too late to play the classics.

>Publisher EA are apparently out to reclaim the gaming territory known as Alpha Centauri after reports from various sources that the publisher has applied for the trademark to produce “entertainment services, namely, providing an on-line computer game,” as well as for “computer game software” based on the IP.
>Hopes are high that EA are looking to bring the game back in some way, either as a full-blown 4X sequel, a re-boot, or perhaps as a version for one of those popular social networking websites. (We know which one we’d prefer). Of course it could just be that EA want to mark their territory in case some one else tries to take it from them.

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

>>686443

>>686327

Once the world is flooded and nobody can do shit, you've got carte blanche to do what you want. I'd often murder everyone down to one last, barricade them in with twenty units around their city so they starve down to one pop, crank up happiness and food production, watch my population explode(Cloning Vats, Cloud Academy, Telepath Matrix, Orbital Farms out the arse) until the very last turn I possibly could, then rush the Ascent. Scores of 15000% were not uncommon.

Does anybody elses game run at a ridiculous speed?

I've taken all of the speed features of but it still runs too fast.

I hated Alien Crossfire. The original game was so perfect, with such amazing worldbuilding and that setting and the original factions were so great

All the added factions were totally pointless, they were either needless retreads of the original factions (gaians but CRAZY! hive but MORESO!) or just didn't jive well. It felt cluttered where the first game felt elegant.

>>687976
Alien Crossfire features seven new factions (two that are non-human), new technologies, new facilities, new secret projects, new alien life forms, new unit special abilities, new victory conditions (including the new "Progenitor Victory") and several additional concepts and strategies.

They were integrated ok thought. Doesn't feel cluttered here.

Here's something for those who are curious to hear more about the development process of Alpha Centauri. This podcast ends up being an interview with Brian Reynolds about his work on the game.

http://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/the-alpha-centauri-show

>>689696
We shall never see another Alpha Centauri ;_;