Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond Earth - Alpha Centauri sequel announced!

The only thing I'm not looking forward to are the gazillion posts about how its not as good as alpha centurai, however good it turns out... :)
 
mark43 said:
The only thing I'm not looking forward to are the gazillion posts about how its not as good as alpha centurai, however good it turns out... :)
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I'll be one of the worst for this.

It will be great but nothing can match SMAC, still play it to this day :p
 
No1newts said:
How much is Sid Meier still involved and how much is just his name?

Loved the first smac and pray this is even half as good.
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The glory days of Civilization were never Sid Meier- He designed the first Civilization, was involved at the periphery of Civilization 2, and has basically just been the name after that.

Brian Reynolds was lead designer on Civilization II and Alpha Centauri/ Alien Crossfire, and the series probably peaked at III :)

Edit: As an aside, a cookie for anyone who recognises the origins of the critter in my sig (Related!)

-Leezer-
 
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leezer3 said:
No deformable terrain :(

It'll be absolutely nowhere near as good as the original without <snip>
-Leezer-
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It'll be nowhere near as good as Alpha Centauri, period.

Unless they copy the AC mechanics and ditch the Civ mechanics.

AC's factions were a masterstroke - a Brian Reynolds masterstroke. BR made everything about Civ better.

And I can't see Sid making a better game than AC. The focus will be on graphics, and simplifying the game even more beyond Civ V.
 
Let me share a story about Alpha Centauri (Amiga 500)

I think i was 15 or so when it came out maybe older... Anyway. I was off school/ for having the Flu and i mean proper flu, hallucinating, mind altering fever cold sweat inducing, screaming in fear kind of flu.

Before i "lost it" to my illness i was playing Alpha Centauri like crazy and it was obviously heavily on my subconscious. I spent an entire night thinking my duvet was a mind worm boil trying to swallow me alive.... I spent about 6h crawling across the floor to reach the floppy disks, which i ripped apart... lol i thought that would help...

So whilst i am ommmmmmg looking forward to it, i'm also scared ill be reliving that night from my teenage years :)

The music in AC was mind blowing too... i dunno how to describe it, some kind of disjointed babble of alien electronics...

im having flashbacks... need to take a cold shower before i smash this laptop...




jesus it was this music..... it ruined my life....

sounds pretty radical now :O industrial synth.. too much LSD .
 
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I'm going to avoid pre-ordering this one. Civ 5 was a huge let down for me. It felt massively simplified and quite frankly easy compared to 4.
I really hope this will be good, but I'm waiting for some reviews before I buy.
 
Anti grav sleds with singularity engines and weapons, spamming them . Coupled with mass psi worms ...sigh!
Thanks to gog, I still play this and crossfire.
Just remover to grab the nexus manifold.
 
I wish this wouldn't be in the civ engine, I'm quite tired of it.
Colonization didn't feel unique because of it and I'm sure this won't either especially with no deformable terrain.

It bugs me that they will charge full price for this like colonization, I mean, the engine is already there as well as the mechanics/idea/story board. They don't have to do much work (relatively). Make new artwork/textures, change the look of UI design, possibly add in some quests and minor adjustments.
The background/tech/game play has been worked out previously, it's not like they will be starting from scratch yet will charge full whack.
I feel like they basically make mods for the engine. Very well polished ones but mods none-the-less.
 
like call of duty? BF 3/4, nearly all Source engine games? neaerly all UT3 engine games?

as long as its ultra polished it'll be good.
 
I got Civ5 when it came out, rolled out a game on Immortal, conquered the continent (five other Civs) with four (?!) horsemen because the AI had no idea how to play the game for which it was designed. I'm not sure why the critics where giving it rave reviews (maybe the casual appeal?) but the fans of the series were definitely let down.

It took 3 years to turn Civ5 into a decent game, I really hope they learned their lesson.
 

Something in this reminded me how important i find the progression of time and the massive technological changes over human history in civ games.

Getting bogged down in minor tech tree tweaks was :/
 
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