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Wargaming => 4X Gaming => Topic started by: bbmike on October 05, 2019, 09:30:44 AM

Title: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: bbmike on October 05, 2019, 09:30:44 AM

War Stories: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game (https://youtu.be/XwUM33VJRbY)

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 05, 2019, 09:44:32 AM

Thank gawd he didn't

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: Martok on October 05, 2019, 11:08:25 PM

Fascinating; I didn't know that.  One has to wonder how different the 4x & grand-strategy genre would be if that had happened. 

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: Staggerwing on October 06, 2019, 07:12:22 AM

It most likely would have looked like Age of Empires/Empire Earth.

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: Martok on October 06, 2019, 07:32:41 PM

 :sick:

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 06, 2019, 07:42:31 PM

Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 05, 2019, 09:44:32 AM

Thank gawd he didn't

And if he had, how would we know  :o

Title: Re: How Sid Meier Almost Made Civilization a Real-Time Strategy Game
Post by: Staggerwing on October 06, 2019, 08:03:31 PM

Quote from: BanzaiCat on October 06, 2019, 07:42:31 PM

Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 05, 2019, 09:44:32 AM

Thank gawd he didn't

And if he had, how would we know  :o

Somewhere, in a diverging alternate universe, folks are playing Civcraft...

Oh, wait...
https://civilizationcraft.gamepedia.com/CivilizationCraft_Wiki

... looks like we've already passed that fork.