Sid Meier’s Civilization II [1996]
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Such a great game. One of the games that got me into gaming as a kid.
The best military advisor in all of Civil War history
Civ III is mz jam! contles hours on it, never beaten it XD I never bothered to actually look up how to properly play it, but I looooveeee playing it
I hacked the rule file and added "Cyberdyne Systems" technology. When you researched it, it unlocked a Terminator unit. 999A/999D.
Where did you get the version with the advisor videos? Do you actually have the old CD rom?
Edit: you answered this question like 30 seconds after I commented. lol
Test of time is still the best Fantasy civ, i wished it got a more modern look one day
Civ 2 is the most underrated of the Civs. It's never talked about because it didn't come out in the last five seconds and it's not currently on any digital marketplaces (probably due to licensing issues with the movies), but it set the tone for what became Civ and remains in my opinion the pinnacle of the series along with 4. The kids stuck on 5 and 6 have no idea what they're missing in terms of depth of gameplay and modding.
Lol Anarchy is awesome
4 is my Favorite, but 2 was pretty good.
Best civ! Player 100dreds of hours, as kid
Civ 2 is great. Got a boxed copy with expansions and everything around here somewhere.
i didn't realize how much i liked the corny advisors, and am sort of sad they never incorporated the throne room/palace in later iterations of the game.
Considering what has been announced for c7, going back to 2 at this time is appropriate
I so wish i could get civ 2 again but cant find it to be able to play on win 11
i started playing this again recently and actually looked up strats and discovered the early game wonder rush strat disbanding diplomats (switching to caravans when you get trade) in your capital/main science city. rush colossus then beeline copernicus and isaac newton's college in the same city.
This is awesome! I wish the way Sid Meiers colonization was upkept, I wish someone would make an open source Civ II updated for the modern times,
civ2 was good but Civ2 Call to Power is the one I keep going back to. No other civ came close in my opinion
I didn't like Civ 1. Tried to like it, back in the day on my 486-SX-33. But I was far too busy with Wolfenstein and Doom back then. Civ 2 however, is easily my favourite Civ game of all time. Well that and Alpha Centauri. I remember in secondary school, I finished Civ 2 for the first time and felt extremely proud. Told the other nerds at school. They asked what my score was, and I told them 34%. They laughed, told me I was a bad player and that was a bad score, they had gotten over 70%!
So as I kept on playing over that summer, each time I got more efficient, made better decisions, figured out every little aspect of the game and when I returned to school in september I took a floppy disk with my saved game on it with a score of 126%.
That shut them up! XD
Civ IV was the last good Sid Meier Civ game – with Civ V, they screwed it up with: Single Units on cells & Hexagonal Cells… Civ I and Civ II were a godsend in childhood. Now it's Civ IV: A New Dawn – a mod making the game so much better.
Have you tried the open source clone C-evo: New Horizons?
Prime dad joke at the beginning sir! ❤
My favorite exploit was Leonardo's Workshop (I think it was called?) Then spam the heck out of basic warriors a few turns before the workshop finished, then boom, dozens of musketeers. 🙂
I have Civ 2 Test of Time, that version has a few extra play modes, my favorite being fantasy races. you chose which race you are and play against the others instead of having different countries. the different races had buffs and nerfs and special abilities unique to each race. you could be human, elf, undead, goblins, merfolk, bird people. i forget what the actual name for the last two was and I think there were 2 other races i can't remember anymore, I probably didn't play as them much. It was Civ 2 but fantasy coated, instead of Nukes you had Fireball. and it had multi layer mapping, there was the regular normal map, sky map, underworld map, and underwater map. There was also a sci-fi mode that is basically the same but you play as different alien races, different maps were different planets. Don't remember much about this mode only played it a few times compared to fantasy mode. by far my favorite version of the game.
I probably have 2000 hours playing civ 2. I played a lot of civ 1 until I found out about the Mongol Horde strategy. Beating your opponent in 0ad by rolling mechanized infantry at them got boring.
I played probably 1000 hours of civ 4. But civ 2 is best civ.
I used to love this game as a kid, but I barely remember it. I loved Civ III more, and the best in the series was Civ IV with mods, such as Chronicles of Mankind. The more recent civs were garbage for low intellect humans and little kids with not fully developed brains.
Man that AI took off it's belt and gave some boomer discipline in this game.
unciv I think it it called in the google play store for android. Pretty close to civ 2. Had Civilization on the n-gage phone I had and I remember it got pretty slow between turns.
How did you know I was watching your OLD let's play on Civ2 the past few days
AND POST THIS
Civ 1 and 2, alpha centauri, wow nice ones long time ago! 😊 the dune, war inc and fallout1
best games grind all day and night
The intro joke XD also Civ II was where it all began for me
Mmmm… 180 Lakefront.
My favorite Civ for sure!
Brilliant game by all measures
still think Civ 1 is best. can't understand this isometric thing. or hexagonal
Classic
I loved Civ II and happily built any scenarios, while downloading dozens from others. Then they produced Call to Power with those dumb 3d icons which made it far harder to mod, but which added multiple maps in one scenario. I wanted Civ II with those multiple maps, and the game went in other directions, without me.
I was happily planning a scenario with an Earth map, an ocean map and a moon map for a nice end game land grab. Pity.
One thing that really strikes me about this is how it feels like you are looking at abstract representations of units and cities on a map, rather than the later games where you are looking at units that are the size of mountains walking around. I really wish the people making the modern games understood what the old game was doing with its art. They should have realistic looking terrain but have units and cities that are clearly just abstract markers.
Another thing is the combat system. Old civ was that was because of technical limitations, not because it is the best way of abstracting civilisation scale conflict in a game. They could do so much better if they tried.
There are dozens of us!
Best civ game… unless you count Alpha Centauri as a civ game.
Wow this takes me back.
I got into civ 2 late and didn't play it much because civ 3 came out and I jumped right to it.
I continued playing civ 3 for a very long time.
I remember using the editor to create a new wonder, civilization, resources and units.
The new unit copied some aspects of a unit that had a chance to create another if itself while fighting.
I made that because my tank got destroyed by a warrior so since my advanced technology didn't make since that a guy with a stone axe could win a 1v1 against a tank so I made a new unit that healed when fighting and had a chance to duplicate itself.
I still lost a unit in situations that didn't make sense but my units duplicated frequently enough I never lost a fight that didn't make sense again.
It was too effective so I just started messing with all kinds of things in the editor after that.
I tried my best to make an advanced unit that wouldn't lost to a primitive unit and was balanced but I couldn't figure out the perfect solution eventually I gave up and just played regularly occasionally using the op unit just for fun.
love it, I have Civ2 for playstation 1 and still play it lol