What is your favorite 4X game?

[joonsk]

I don't own that much x4 games, but I am beginning to like the Total War series more and more, and I am planning to buy Alpha centauri from GOG.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

MOO 2 is the best by a long shot. Its downfall is the micromanagement required it the later games made it tedious.

So my solution was to always play in a tiny or small galaxy. That made things a bit more luck based but the games tended to be much faster so it didin't matter.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Civ V is the only one I can get into, but I've played 100 hours of it.

I also wanna try out hearts of Iron III or PzCom III.

If Civ V is the only game you play, Hearts of Iron 3 will kick your ass.

How so? Is it hard to learn, hard to navigate, or just hard in general? or all 3?

 

[NoPants2win]

I am a huge fan of Civ III and IV, I just randomly bought Alpha Centauri last night...

I just hope I can get over the horrible control scheme. Older games are bad for that.

There's a fan mod that fixes a lot of the bugs, you might want that. If I was nicer I'd get you the link.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Civ V is the only one I can get into, but I've played 100 hours of it.

I also wanna try out hearts of Iron III or PzCom III.

If Civ V is the only game you play, Hearts of Iron 3 will kick your ass.

How so? Is it hard to learn, hard to navigate, or just hard in general? or all 3?

It's very complicated first of all, it's hard to keep track of your economy, Tech, military, diplomacy you have to intensively micromanage it just isn't fun IMO.

don't know if I can get into the gameplay, i'll be fine. I'm a big WWII strategy nut, so I think that'll help a bunch.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

I played a good fifty or so hours last week of Civilization IV. I forgot I owned it and once I started playing again... the addiction took over D:

Been thinking of getting Civ V, but it seems to be little more than a shallow graphics update that's slowly having the features stripped from the series after IV patched and added back in through expansions.

Also used to play a ton of Sins of a Solar Empire. Typically played custom maps that took weeks to finish <3

I see this a lot from people who have never played Civilization V, but once you play it you CAN'T go back to Civ 4.

Eh. I don't know. Whenever I look into it, I don't see anything it has over IV, except graphics. Considering they only just added in religion, a core part of the prequel, I'm not given much reason to want to "upgrade."

 

[goodman528]

nothing can top Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

+1

Best civ game ever made, and it doesn't even carry the civ name.

 

[Elate]

Offt, I'm gunna have to go with a top 3.

1)Alpha Centauri (more so Planetfall mod for Civ 4)
2)Sins of Solar Empire (ALL OF THEM)
3)Civ 4 Beyond the Sword

I see this a lot from people who have never played Civilization V, but once you play it you CAN'T go back to Civ 4.

Disagree completely, I play both. Civ 5 is good for a quick game with friends, Civ 4 is good for those 20 hour games.

 

[Glover09]

I've only played two, only one I know the name of, and both were on one of those 100+ demo compilation game discs. Space Empires 2, wasn't that pretty or complicated, but my god did I rack up DAYS of playing time just going through any situation that either I came up with or the game put me in.

 

[That Guy Ya Know]

I have to throw out another vote for MoO2, I picked it up a year or two back of GoG and love it.

My favourite part is creating ridiculously overpowered races, like a telepathic race with the +20 spying bonus so they can steal all the techs. or a tolerant and subterranean race which has so many people per planet it's a joke.

 

[roshelsanchez]

Combat is attractive. Superb shield and weapon effects, I always like to find a good choke spot and put although of gauss cannons there and watch them brake upon it like a wave.

 

[Starke]

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

This. What other game lets you control rainfall by terraforming mountain ranges?

Yeah, I'm going to go with this as well, but with the black mark that I have never gotten Alien Crossfire to work. :\ I've always wanted that Pirate civilization that replaces the Spartans... but never did get the chance to play them...

After that Galactic Civilization 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire are my two picks.

 

[Brawndo]

I played a good fifty or so hours last week of Civilization IV. I forgot I owned it and once I started playing again... the addiction took over D:

Been thinking of getting Civ V, but it seems to be little more than a shallow graphics update that's slowly having the features stripped from the series after IV patched and added back in through expansions.

Also used to play a ton of Sins of a Solar Empire. Typically played custom maps that took weeks to finish <3

I see this a lot from people who have never played Civilization V, but once you play it you CAN'T go back to Civ 4.

Speak for yourself. I used to frequent the Civfanatics forum and there was a sizable minority of Civ veterans who hated Civ 5. I played about 25 hours before I got sick of it, compared to the 400+ hours I put in on Civ 4 and who knows how many on Civ III and II.

 

[Silvianoshei]

MoO2. Also, if you haven't tried the Endless Space Beta, you should

 

[Wicky_42]

Space Empires V >>> GalCiv II

New weapons that actually do different things, huge variety in technologies and strategies - weapon equipped satellites, fighter/bombers, mine fields, space stations, orbital shipyards, constructor ships and all the dozens of utility ships needed to supply, repair, transfer, stock and maintain your fleets and planets. Not to mention end-game constructs such as Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres.

It's a lot more interesting than a laser of +2 vs missile of +3...