It’s almost out… about one week remaining. Here’s the new Civilization IV web site.
And a screenshot:
If it’s as addictive as the first 2 Civs, or as Alpha Centauri… I foresee unslept nights ahead.
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Just finished Fahrenheit. It’s not really a hard game. It is, however, a great one.
Amazing direction, voice acting, soundrack, and the first 3/4 of the game are some of the most emotional gaming moments ever seen in a game. The last part of the game, however, feels a bit rushed, and the story becomes much less believable, making me shake my head and say “come on…” a few times.
If you have a relatively recent PC, a Playstation 2 or an Xbox, and like aventure games, or simply great stories, please do yourself a favor and buy this game right now. It’s brilliant, innovative, and will actually make you think (and not just in the sense of solving puzzles)
Tycho from Penny Arcade nailed it perfectly: “an adventure game where you play a murderer and the investigators of the murder set against the backdrop of a Mayan prophecy”.
It plays a lot like “living” a movie - and no, I don’t mean in the sense of the first CD-ROM games back in the 90s, with crappy full-motion video, which weren’t really games at all, but bad movies where you had to do something at some particular times, so that the movie could go on. Believe me, this one is different.
It’s called Indigo Prophecy in the USA, and Fahrenheit in the rest of the world. Most likely, they didn’t want the “Fahrenheit 9/11″ association. 
The American version is slightly censored - I guess that, after the GTA:SA “Hot Coffee” mod, no (non-Hentai) games can have sex scenes in the US, at least for a while.
What is a speed run (or “speedrun”)? Wikipedia says it’s “a play-through of a computer or video game, the whole game or a selected part such as a single level of it, with the intent of completing it as quickly as possible.” That’s their competitive usage.
But I like to watch them for fun and “education”, as well. Especially older games, which I may have played a lot of, at a younger age but which I am relatively unlikely to invest the time into playing again. Some speed runs skip a lot of the game, and/or show a “perfect game”, but others are more “human-like”, and show the entire game. It’s like watching a great player play the entire game for you.
Of course, that would spoil current games, or games I still have the intention of playing through. But, as I said, for older games… it’s fun.
Here’s a link with a lot of movies at The Internet Archive. Some are small, some are huge, but all I’ve seen so far are very interesting… to me, at least.
In the state of Michigan, U.S.A, apparently a law forbidding the sale of “mature” (you know, what in a movie means PG, but in a game means M or even AO) games to minors passed. Even though it’s unconstitutional.
But, surprisingly, the video games industry is fighting back. For a change. About time, IMO.
I think I’m going to play Puzzle Pirates again. I really don’t have time for MMORPGs, but, somehow, that one “feels” different - it’s actually enjoyable, instead of feeling like “work”, and rewards skill instead of spent time.
Also, it works in Linux as well.
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