Damn you Civ....

[dfcrackhead]

So because of all the hype about Civ 5 I started playing Civ 4 again. This was my first game in months, so I put it on the easiest difficulty, my favorite map, and strapped in for an easy fun game. I (of course) started out dominating, I was rich, vastly advanced in tech and military and quickly dispatched of my two close neighbors. I expanded to the point that I had control over an eighth to a quarter of the map. I was preparing my military for another war, this time, to kill De Gualle simply because it annoyed me that a barbarian settlement he took over was really close to me and he just wouldn't sell. I wasn't paying much attention to the fact that Julius Cesear and Sitting Bull were having some election, I didn't care, I could kill them. Then I get a big notification that I, the guy with all this advanced shit, more cities than anyone else, 10 million citizens and basically friends with everyone else, had lost because Cesear won a Diplomatic Victory. I had major rage, so I rage quitted Civ 4 only to find myself 4 hours later(4 hours that were wasted because of JC's stupid "diplomatic" victory) starving and angry....

Damn you Civ, why must you be so addicting?

You guys got any stories, similar experiences?

Also, whats your longest time playing a Civ game in one sitting? Mine is about 6 or 8 hours if I remember right.

 

[lacktheknack]

17 hours straight... I reeeeally regretted it.

And I lost the Space Race victory by two turns. FML.

That said, I can't wait for when I have sixty bucks...

 

[dfcrackhead]

17 hours straight... I reeeeally regretted it.

And I lost the Space Race victory by two turns. FML.

That said, I can't wait for when I have sixty bucks...

I think my first victory ever was a space race, it's REALLY tedious.

 

[lacktheknack]

17 hours straight... I reeeeally regretted it.

And I lost the Space Race victory by two turns. FML.

That said, I can't wait for when I have sixty bucks...

I think my first victory ever was a space race, it's REALLY tedious.

I don't find it tedious at all, it's really panicky because I'm desperately swatting down diplomatic victory attempts, breaking up wars, protecting myself from wars, trying to get all the research I can, while building four separate pieces of a six piece rocket, only to launch it two turns too late.

And my last ditch Diplomatic Victory got knocked over.

 

[Starke]

17 hours straight... I reeeeally regretted it.

And I lost the Space Race victory by two turns. FML.

That said, I can't wait for when I have sixty bucks...

I think my first victory ever was a space race, it's REALLY tedious.

Mine was. It was also freakishly tedious. Though I was playing Civ2 at the time.

 

[Flac00]

I kind of a n00b at civ, but I love the game. Too bad my record is 4 hours. See, a n00b at heart. Once Civ V comes out for the mac i think my grades will start dropping.....

 

[tahrey]

Yeah, this kind of shit is why I don't let myself play Civilisation, Railroad Tycoon, Sim City, MLM or any of that kind of game any more. Or Minecraft neither.

As Gabe said in a recent Penny Arcade... it's a premonition of the "Oh shit... Oh shit... I'm in some real fucking trouble here". (After the realisation that... meh... you chop trees... it makes wood... and with the wood you can make... uh oh!)
Too immersive, too engrossing, too much to deal with at once (the real-timeish ones like RT end up on "slow" or "pause" a LOT of the time), massive massive incredibly fascinating time sinks.

Great fun, but seeing the sun rise over your monitor when you just meant to spend twenty minutes ekeing your last save game along a little gets old after the fiftieth time.
And that's just playing Civ ONE (STILL a great game - with a quite pretty intro!). I shudder to think of the complexity or sheer sophistication of mind-entrapment that must be embedded into the 4th or 5th generation of similar.

Nowadays its youtube and internet fora. Something else always fills the space :/

 

[Numb1lp]

Probably 14 hours.
I started playing at around 8 or 9 pm. Stopped playing when I realized there was sunlight in my room.

Oh man, have I been there before.

 

[Tanis]

Civ games can get me for around 5 hours or so.

GalCiv2?
I had one gaming session that lasted 15 hours.
No bathroom breaks, no eating breaks...just me and the PC screen.


God I love that game.

 

[Kurt711]

My first game I played really passively. It was about 4 hours of play time when I just explored the game and was nice to each of the other civilizations. I one a time victory!

 

[Kajt]

My longest Civ session is, shamefully, only six hours. Me and my cousin was playing Civ IV LAN for six hours straight. It ended with us wiping out all other Civilization and flipping a coin to decide who gets the diplomatic victory.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

14 hours, midterms of last year. I remember looking at my watch, going "HOLY CRAP I'M LATE" and then getting dressed and tear assin' it all the way to school, in 15 minutes (normally a one-hour commute) despite the heavy rain

 

[Hanzo Hattori]

Civ 4? Quite a lot of things.
But yesterday it was pretty awesome at Civ 5.
I started playing when I came home from work (Have just been accepted at the police and ministry of interior headquarters in Austria ) at about 5 pm. I was playing for a while when I got a message from my girlfriend about 7 pm. She asked me to call her in half an hour or something. Since I was totally focussed on the game I forgot to call her, When I stopped playing at 2 am I just remembered...
Well I called her then. She was already asleep, of course.

 

[Marlun_42]

Alpha Centauri. I had a 3 day weekend when I was in college and I decided to try the game. I got knocked down to 2 cities after having a very competetive empire due to 2 other empires allied against me. I could not let that stand, so I spent the next 20-22 hours building up my empire and crushed my enemies in a glorious hail of fire.

 

[JaysonM]

The AI pisses me off...

Germany was like "Fuck you I'm gonna start a war with you",
I defend
Germany was like "Hey I was just kidding with that war right, peace treaty!"
I accept
Germany builds up armies around my borders, it being completely obvious that the Germans were going to start another attack
Germany was like "Fuck you I'm gonna start a war with you",
I defend
Germany was like "Hey I was just kidding with that war right, peace treaty!"
I accept

Repeat process..

WHY DO I HAVE TO BE SUCH A NICE GUY!