Re: Civ IV System Requirement


"spartacus" <rmielech@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JAB wrote:
>> Reece Hasson wrote:
>>
>>> Civ IV needs only one requirement. A 9.0 or better on Gamespot and other
>>> sites and Firaxis will make a ton of money but only if it will run
>>> on enough machines. I thought RTS and action games were supposed to have
>>> high computer resource demands not turn based games? Some games used to
>>> allow the user to adjust the video and sound according to the
>>> capabilities of the machine.
>>
>>
>> You're right me Speccy 48k is going to have problems with this ...
>
> I don't have a DVD drive either, and I'd wager that more than a few old
> time Civ fans don't. I doubt they're going to increase their sales by
> going DVD only. My kids have all the DVD drives, and none of them wil be
> interested in Civ 4 just like they didn't care about Civ 3. Time does
> march on, but not with me any more as far as DVD drives go.

Yeah, for people who build there own systems, like me, there really hasn't
been any point in getting a DVD drive, since there were so few games that
actually used them exclusively.

There really isn't much of a jump over a cd-rom drive, except for not having
to swap discs when installing.

While in the early days of Cd-rom drives for computers, there were whole new
types of games. Things like 7th Guest and Megarace which in retrospect were
pretty crappy, but at the time used streaming graphics to look amazing. And
various shovelware stuff, like 1000 games or 1000s of UFO photos.

Sure, I guess you could watch DVDs on the computer, but I don't really get
the point of that, when it's much simpler to watch them on a TV and DVD
player


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