anyone play any video or computer games?

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I'm playing a silly "Mario" game right now. I'm not very good at it.

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america's army is pretty cool. FPS, and it's free and online. and its by the US Army. americasarmy.com

Halo2 and Call of Duty 2 and 3. We just bought a new television -- a 42" LCD flat panel -- and it has dramatically improved my game play; my nearly 40-year-old eyes can actually *see* the bad guys hiding in the foliage.

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I just bought Civ4, but I'm still trying to get used to it. I don't really understand all the added features concerning religions, but I think it will pretty cool once I know what I'm doing.

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. "You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Interesting -- that's the sort of thing that could cause some controversy. How do they handle it?

Do religions only offer differing benefits, or do they have drawbacks as well?
Does your civilization have to have a religion, or can it be atheistic? If so, what benefits and drawbacks do they give to atheists?

I've only played the older civ games, and I think I read that they decided to remove the "fundamentalism" government and "poison water supply" spy option after 9/11.

EVE - Spaceship MMORPG

City of Heroes - Superhero MMORPG

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (only when my internet is down) - Theme Park simulator

I haven't gotten far into the game yet, and I don't read manuals, but I think there are both benefits and drawbacks. One benefit of discovered so far is that you can create missionaries that you can send to other civilizations and convert a city. Then that civilization is supposed to be friendlier during diplomacy and the converted city may revolt if that civilization attacks you.

It seems that way. Religions are tacked onto different discoveries, so if you learn meditation before any other civ, one of your cities will automatically found Buddhism and become its holy city. Polytheism gets you hindu (if I remember correctly); monotheism gets you Judaism; theocracy gets you Christianity. There's also Taoism, but I forget which discovery you need for that.

Once you have religions established, your civ might also randomly create religious leaders (you can't create them, they just appear) who can perfrom a variety of functions, such as building a temple in one of your holy cities.

You can choose to have no official religion. One benefit to an official religion is friendlier diplomacy with other civs that have the same official religion. One drawback is your cities may revolt if you attack another civ with the same official religion.

Like I said, I just bought it, and I'm not even halfway through my first civ (in hidnsight, it was a really stupid purchase as I really don't have the time to play much), so I'm still learning al the details myself. It all seems so incredibly complicated, so I really have no idea what I'm doing. It's fun, though. I think I remember MerlinX talking about civ4 a while ago in another thread.

Yeah, I used to play Civilization: Call to Power, which had a lot of terrorist style options, such as setting off nuclear devices and biological attacks. It also had a theocracy government.

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. "You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

Yeah, my wife and I played Civ IV for a while. I've played all the Civ games since Civ I (loved I through III) and I'd have to say it took me a while to wrap my head around the new rules. And you know what? After playing off and on for a few months, I came to a surprising conclusion: Though this version had improved and expanded on virtually every individual aspect of Civ III, the whole was less than the sum of its parts. In other words, when all was said and done, I found I still enjoyed playing Civ III a whole lot more.

Somehow Civ IV's gameplay had suffered. Many aspects of it felt more like work than fun. And it almost seemed like the game was "preachy" for lack of a better word. For example, it tends to penalize you for playing as a conqueror - by making rapid expanson all but impossible. Also, the Civilipedia Tech Tree quotes in this edition have a not-so-subtle anti-capitalist bias. A minor annoyance, but I think they should have kept politics out of it.

More importantly though, I really liked the Baba Yetu song. But does that thing get stuck in your head or what?

I enjoyed Call of Duty 2. How's 3?

Lately I've been splitting my gaming time between Neverwinter Nights 2 (Very good RPG; it would have been great except for its unsatisfying ending) and Bookworm Adventures (incredibly addictive word puzzle game).

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Nowhere near as good, IMO; too much of a guided tour. CoD2 is a bit like that, as well, but the various scenarios were better and more interesting. CoD3 is much more of "take THIS sniper rifle and take out THOSE mortar crews." Plus things like bazookas that magically run out of ammo as soon as you destroy the last tank -- but have unlimited ammo until then.

And both have the *really* annoying "can only save the game between scenarios" feature. At least on Xbox.

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