Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Review)

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@Dog.Dad.Studios 10 ай бұрын

Howdy everyone! Thanks so much for watching. Which Wonder cinematic was your favorite? I really wish that they would release a redone version of the game, and not what they tried out with the newer one.

@fugitiveunknown7806 10 ай бұрын

Dream Twister and Immortality Vaccine.are probably my favorites.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 10 ай бұрын

@@fugitiveunknown7806 Immortality Vaccine was one of the ones I wanted to put in, but it's so hard choosing, and I kinda went overboard. But they are such a crucial part to the atmosphere of the game! Thanks for the comment, happy new year!

@cruelangel7737 Ай бұрын

Clinical Immortality.

@fugitiveunknown7806 10 ай бұрын

One of my all time favorites, actually. Where it excels is its ability to build lore into the game to create a theme with unique features and lore that states an immense amount about each of the factions and options. It's amazing how badly it's "spiritual successor" beyond earth completely missed the mark in terms of theme, lore and worldbuilding.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 10 ай бұрын

Howdy! Thank you so much for your comment! You hit the nail right on the head! Oh I didn’t mention it because of the bad taste. It was a cash grab and very sad because I would’ve worked for free making it at least a little bit like the original.. ahahah oh well, I now have a new found appreciation for the “oldies”

@RFCgrunt 10 ай бұрын

Great vid, love the games you're reviewing

@Dog.Dad.Studios 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@iainstewart102 4 ай бұрын

I bought this in the summer of 2000 and I still play it today. I only manage to get a few turns in a week and my current game has been running since 2022 but it never gets old, just cant beat the atmosphere

@Dog.Dad.Studios 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this! If you have the time, I’d love to know who are you playing as and what’s going on. Sounds epic!! Hope all is well!

@JorjiCostava- 2 ай бұрын

Post your save somewhere so we can see what you're up to! It seems like an epic game.

@isaackellogg3493 3 ай бұрын

You don’t need to drag units every turn. Use the number pad to move in any of eight directions. After you get used to it, it’s very intuitive.

@ratatoskr1069 Ай бұрын

The German voice acting is also really phenomenal. Usually I used to play games with voice acting in their original version (mostly english) but Alpha Centauri is a rare exception. I would say the German voice acting is even better than the english. This is a game that did not invest so much in grafics but in SOUND. Most games today completely lost the importance of sound. I believe good sound is a huge part of the experience of a good game.

@Dog.Dad.Studios Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this! I hope there is recordings on KZbin of the German voice actors! Not video games, but the French version of the Simpsons is actually fantastic, and I prefer certain characters in French rather than the original English. I agree wholeheartedly, sounds and effects gave games so much character; now I feel as if everyone gets their sounds from the same board. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this! Hope all is well!

@jes2276 7 ай бұрын

Love this game. I built a planet buster to keep everyone from attacking me, and it really hurt me on the diplomacy front. Let's not forget the attack that came from nature lovers after i started having problems with climate change. So many stories from this game.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! I love when people share their stories, and with this game the stories can last a lifetime! Really appreciate you sharing this story! What’s your favorite faction to play?

@jes2276 7 ай бұрын

@Dog.Dad.Studios Thank you. Assuming I'm not playing the expansion. I liked the hive for efficiency and the free perimeter defense. Everyone always seemed to attack me, so I gave up playing nice. Let's just say the peacekeepers hated me. For the expansion, I like the pirates for the water bonuses. It is easier to defend if you are on the water. My cities had extra protection because of the sea. My only wish for the expansion would be I wanted all the factions on the map, and the game limits the number.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 7 ай бұрын

@@jes2276Thank you so much for your detailed explanation!

@cruelangel7737 Ай бұрын

Free Drones. At first, like most SMAC players, I enjoyed playing as the University of Planet. Out teching everyone is fun but it gets old eventually. And if you fail to build Hunter Seeker Algorithm then just turn off your computer lol. Or it can also be a really nice challenge. Spartan Federation felt out of place in an environment of such brave new world in SMAC and I never finished a campaign. Peacekeepers, in terms of gameplay, is too vanilla, really boring. Which is the whole point. They represent the vanilla humanity of old earth. They are unstoppable if they build bases in the monsoon jungles though. Population boom like insane. Morgan Industries, it is fun rush building everything with money, but once you have more money than you ever need, it gets boring. And usually other factions really like to bully you because you cannot support a powerful military easily. In the end, combat is bribing the other factions soldiers and that is it. Miriam is fun but I am not much of a spymaster. They have really nice music though. Deidre, Deidre is only fun if you like killing every one with mind worms I think. The tech quotes kinda hint at that too. I played Yang a lot initially but the penalty to efficiency is very hard to manage for a beginner. I have lost track of how many times I got power overload and lost a building. If I ever install the game again I think I will try to win as the pirates without every setting foot on land, the pirates is the most unique faction in terms of gameplay. It is almost like they are playing a different game from everyone else. Which is what pirates are at the most philosophical level I guess. The aliens, I never felt role-playing potential as them. Which is the point I guess. They are aliens, their goals are alien to us. But even so they have the same winning conditions as the human factions. And play almost the same way. The Pirates are more alien than them. Yeah, they have the ET call home ending but I expected more creativity from SMAC than just the aliens calling reinforcements from home. I don't know. Maybe like Tanner in the Werewolf game, they can have an ending where they just left the planet and go home. The Cyborgs are just the University that is even more specialized. The Cult of Planet is Deidre that is not embarrassed of using mind worms. Data Angels is Miriam but you have to love being a spymaster because that is the only thing that will help you win. Firaxians just completely destroy the immersion for me. Free Drones. The game is a 4x. So, with +2 industry, SMAC just becomes basically Minecraft and there is so much you can do with +2 industry. The game is fundamentally about building cities and growing them, so that advantage bleeds into every other aspect of the game and if played right, the Free Drones can do just about anything. Just my subjective taste of course. Sorry for the wall of text. I just have so many fond memories of this game.

@FatTassieWombat 4 ай бұрын

one of the greatest games of all time

@Dog.Dad.Studios 4 ай бұрын

What’s one of your favorite moments playing the game?

@rogerlynch5279 7 ай бұрын

I sinply adore Sid Meier for doing such wonderful titles like this or like SID MEER´S GETTYSBURG! or like PIRATES!. Here he even included the player by giving him his own scene " THE PLAYXER ( Name ) GOES THROUG HIS BASE AND THINKS ABOUT HIS NEXT STEPS ... what a moment when I had read it I could not close my chin out of surprise.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! Absolutely, there is something so beautifully resonated with the Sid Meier games starting from the titles to the varied details in each game. No game is perfect, no company is 100%, but Sid Meier really outdid themselves back in the day, and I still play civ 6 from time to time. I just wish that the re-imagining of Alpha Centauri didn't flop hard. Hope you're doing well!

@Doc_Tar 7 ай бұрын

When you get down to it "Alpha Centauri" is a game with rules, sequence of play and opponents which are all well done. No matter how old this game is or looks there will be audience for it because it is such a good solid game with hours and hours of replay for any who want another try to beat their last score. I will always have this game on my computer and will always come back and try it again at different levels of difficulty.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I truly appreciate it! Exactly, there is something so unique and special to older games, and I'm so glad that you still play this game to this day. I hope you're doing well, and thanks for stopping by!

@isaackellogg3493 3 ай бұрын

Also press Shift to speed up the AI moves

@Dog.Dad.Studios 3 ай бұрын

Amazing thank you! I also sadly don’t have a number pad on my keyboard but that’s a great function! Hope all is well

@Brett-uq4tz 3 ай бұрын

@@Dog.Dad.Studiosquick question, does alpha centauri let you do blockades in the game?

@Dog.Dad.Studios 3 ай бұрын

@@Brett-uq4tz I’m not to sure on blockade, but you can definitely alienate AI economically through diplomatic action. Or make their cities succumb to the ocean.. by some nuclear way..

@budakbaongsiah 20 күн бұрын

obligatory "We Must Dissent" comment

@Dog.Dad.Studios 20 күн бұрын

One of the most vivid cutscenes in my memory, the graffiti bottle dropping to the ground because the person was vaporized from the cities “defenses” is honestly horrifying

@budakbaongsiah 20 күн бұрын

@@Dog.Dad.Studios I tend to agree with some people that see Miriam not as a total fundamentalist but more of a moralist, at least in the snippets of her opinions that we got from the texts and speeches. She's the only one that asked "why" instead of "how" and the only one who warns us to stop and ask whether the technological advancements are necessary or not.

@Dog.Dad.Studios 20 күн бұрын

@@budakbaongsiah ehh I disagree a bit especially with her quote on how the streets were never evil, it was the people. And if you believe in God then you don’t have to worry about the technological advances, which from my view point, seems much more fundamentalist than that of someone who is trying to provide moral pillars in an non authoritarian method, but that’s my opinion. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

@budakbaongsiah 20 күн бұрын

@@Dog.Dad.Studios Of course, she's still a zealot, after all. Thank YOU for the video!

@Dog.Dad.Studios 20 күн бұрын

@@budakbaongsiah I appreciate the kind words : )