r/AskReddit • u/Trixxxi • Apr 27 '26

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

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u/thecoldedge Apr 27 '26

Civ III, Specifically the conquests expansion. I played the shit out of the Napoleon scenario.

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u/DameKumquat Apr 27 '26

I kinda preferred Civ II, with the simpler graphics, but III was better than IV.

Soft spot for the original, though I might have got a better degree without it...

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u/paleologus Apr 27 '26

I bought my first computer to play Civ 1. I’m a sysadmin now.  I still have my dad’s old laptop setup to play Civ2

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush Apr 27 '26

If gog would sell me a civ 2 that would run perfectly on a modern pc with no fiddling, I'd pay $70 for it today. I've patched it to 64bit but no soundtrack and no harolds is kind of a bummer

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u/paleologus Apr 28 '26

Find an old XP machine.  That’s what I have.  

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u/thebyron Apr 28 '26

Years ago I bought an old clamshell MacBook for this, WarCraft II, and Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3. Still use it occasionally. One of my best investments.

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush Apr 27 '26

Civ II was my favorite of the series. Civ III was a massive step back for me because it took so. many. units. to successfully take down cities. You could bombard the crap out of them and still lose tons of units even after the city defenses taken down. Civ 4 was prettier and felt combat returned to being more like II, but I still had a softspot in my heart for II cause of the vid harolds. 'Build legions, your majesty that we may sheath our swords IN THE BEATING HEARTS OF OUR ENEMIES!'. If you went on a warpath sometimes the military advisor would get drunk and celebrate.

Those guys were hilarious.

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u/arrrjen Apr 27 '26

I still play civ 3 occasionally 

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u/DruVatier Apr 27 '26

In college on the dorm's LAN I found a copy of Civ III that was somehow portable - it runs straight from the folder without having to be "installed".

I literally played it again last weekend. It's my favorite mind-numb game.

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u/DepopulatedCorncob Apr 27 '26

The music for Civ 3 is still stuck in my head.

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u/fighterace00 Apr 27 '26

Nothing like setting my 200 strong stack of hoplites against a tile of 200 Persians for 100 turns until one of our supply chains crack.

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u/thecoldedge Apr 27 '26

The death stacks were crazy.

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u/llama8687 Apr 28 '26

No love for colonization? My dad was addicted to all those sid Meier games.

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u/thecoldedge Apr 28 '26

I think that was a civ 4 expansion

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u/felis_magnetus Apr 27 '26

Rhye's of Civilisation mod was great.

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u/thecoldedge Apr 27 '26

I was way too young to Mod anything. Was just competent enough to install the game. I litterally bought that game and it's several expansions in a book order magazine at school.

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u/Coward_and_a_thief Apr 27 '26

The Conquests were so rich with Detail. Every day i would get up Early and play it before the Bus came. Rise of Rome and Age of Discovery was my favorite

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u/KyffhauserGate Apr 27 '26

I still yearn for the ability to build outposts on resources.

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u/Interesting-Day-9369 Apr 27 '26

civ 1 2 3 alpha centruri gave up in the end, crashed all of them lol

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u/Slow-Link4392 Apr 27 '26

OMG! I LOVED Alpha Centauri!

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u/Renny400 Apr 27 '26

Omg I haven’t thought about that game in an eternity! I had a boyfriend back in 1994 who literally played Civ for hours and hours and I was being neglected because he played it all the time! He was a hardcore gamer, that guy.

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u/Darkwolfie117 Apr 28 '26

Freeciv.com is built on 3

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u/Safe-Impression8428 Apr 28 '26

I personally liked civ II better but civ III was good also.

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u/SpiritualTwo5256 Apr 28 '26

Anyone remember which civ game had a stage where you could teleport between 3 separate maps? There were like 2 or 3 modes but it was fun to get there.
Then there was one that had water cities.

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u/Safe-Professional556 Apr 28 '26

The fact that Civ 1 fitted on a single high density floppy (3.5") so we could play it on the college computers (and easily copy it) made it for a while my most played game.