Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Free Civ Released

When I first got interviewed for the Junior-Under Terrain Monkey position here at Playnet lo those many years ago, Snail asked me what my favorite games of all time were. Pretty tough question for some but for me Civilization by Sid Meyer and its spin offs has always been at the top of the list. I used to spend long weekends hot seat playing conquer the world with Bloo and Krieger. Man those were the days. Next to Ultima and the Online varient, Civilization is probably one of the most defining games in my gaming history.

Good news than that FreeCiv 2.0 is now released under the GNU liscense and copntains the must have feature, multiplayer. Now if I can just get Shannon to go out of town for the weekend...

Get it here.

9 Comments:

bloo said...

Too bad you don't have cojones to *not* restart every 30 minutes as something goes wrong with your perfect plan for wurld domination.

8:08 PM  
gophur said...

Well...

I'll be the first to admit to being a "munchkin" as far as that goes but hey, if you're planning to spend 40 hours conquering the world you might as well start off on an island all to yoursel where you can build without having toi fight the locals.

You're right B, I'm a min-maxer.

8:31 PM  
Syme said...

I'm the same as far as islands go. When I play civ I just have to be on an island. It's the best way to go to ensure success. Just sit in safety and prepare your evil deeds for years, then pounce!

1:00 AM  
Gophur said...

Come to think of it, I always do play civ more like "Evil Genius" than "Axis and Allies".

10:18 AM  
bloo said...

Just so you realize that isn't "playing the game", it is "playing with the game."

What? No post yet about Sony's online lewt selling system?

How much for the Panzer IV?


[heehee. I'm blog camping!]

10:42 AM  
Gophur said...

Not even newsworthy IMHO. Sony has been coming out from under the "principles" banner for a long time.

They can make money off it. Ignorant not to do it and the 5% of their players who will be pissed about it can play on a "no cheating (except through ebay) server".

Idiots.

Ok maybe I shoulda blogged it. Figured it would be beat to death by every opinionated asshat in the mmogspace.

2:54 PM  
Gophur said...

Speaking of I guess I'll hit the gaming blogs and round up a few commentaries. Now that's entertainment!

2:55 PM  
Anonymous said...

Exactly. You're blog ain't worth crap unless you're talking about the same crap everyone else is blathering about.

Its an incestuous circle of noise and you have joined their infernal number.

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The Eyes of Texas are upon you!
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[to the tune of "the power of christ compells you"]

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3:26 PM  
Maybe Bloo, Maybe Not said...

That was me.

3:27 PM  

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