Alpha Centauri

[Nick_i_am]

While the game had it's day for me, and I loved it to peices in that time, I noted that it got a lot of love over in the civ thread, and I was wondering what it was about the game that appealed to you guys most.

 

In other words, why the love bruddas?

 

My own answers to follow shortly and within.

[greylord]

I can't really put my finger on it to tell the truth. It was well constructed and fun to play...I suppose would sum it up for me.

[alanschu]

Unit Customization and the Civics.

 

The setting itself was neat too.

 

Civ 4 brought in the Civics though, which was a great idea.

[Oerwinde]

what sold me was the ocean colonies. I also liked how in Alien Crossfire there was an ocean based faction.

 

I liked that it had a rough storyline too.

[Darque]

The story, the factions, the terraforming (I spent hours building worlds), the unit creation.

 

In effect, everything :D

[Nick_i_am]

Yeah, awsome points to any game the includes a pirate faction, the ocean cities are somthing I miss as well, along with being able to raise/lower land (sinking a hostile city without a pressure dome was funny),

 

More than that though, there was just somthing about the atmosphere, the sheer unpolish to the whole thing, the annoying blip menus would make and the messyness of all the interface screens.

 

I do love the way these days though that the original can be bought for a fiver, while the expansion costs an arm and a leg.