Sid Meier's Civilization 2 - (One of the Greatest Strategy Games Ever Created)

[@domiparavasilinus603]

Oh, Civ2. I played the living hell out of it. Those old days when you didn't have access to thousands of games at any given moment really let you appreciate the games you had, warts and all. I still have my original 1996 boxed copy of Civ II (for PC) on my shelf next to my original boxed copies of HoMM II, Diablo, Diablo II, Baldur's Gate II, DOOM II, Half Life, Jedi Knight Dark Forces II, Crusader No Remorse, Duke Nukem (holy Moses, I haven't examined that shelf for ages) even the very first boxed copy of EverQuest that I could barely play via my then already old and gimpy modem that couldn't keep a connection for more than 10 minutes at at time. Man, I spent more time doing corpse runs than anyone, I bet, because of that. But I digress. Good times. Good times.

[@Misa_Susaki]

Thats a GREAT selection of games. Thats like a desert island shelf.

[@dogrudiyosun]

Oh the baldurs gate, played it a bit on friends. The times of sharing, gifting, copying music on cassettes. I assume myself lucky, what do young people share these days, weed?

[@dougiebarx]

I played so much Civ 2 when I was way too young to understand what I was doing because I wanted to play the games that my dad and older brother played. Just hearing the audio cues in the game brought back so many great memories. Thank you for posting this!

[@joshuaivy9381]

My dad started playing the game when it released, and he still plays it to this day. I offered to buy him the newer civ games and he just told me he doesnt like the 3d look. He is likely in the top 5 for most hours played of Civ 2 in the world. He occasinally takes a break from the game for a few weeks. But he has probably put in like 20 hours this week already. The game is amazing though and it holds up pretty well vs the modern offerrings.

[@Bill_Garthright]

Thanks, Nook! I played Civ2 for years and years. For decades, I considered it the best game of all-time. (X-Com: UFO Defense was second on my list.) Eventually, I'd had enough. But no other Civ game has come close to this one for me. (Civ3 was especially disappointing.) The thing is, my favorite unit was the engineer - the worker unit. I loved terraforming my land. I loved building roads, and then railroads, everywhere. I needed the combat, but the combat wasn't why I played the game. I really wish that Civilization would go back to that kind of thing.

[@Jukahetube]

One thing that really strikes me about this is how it feels like you are looking at abstract representations of units and cities on a map, rather than the later games where you are looking at units that are the size of mountains walking around. I really wish the people making the modern games understood what the old game was doing with its art. They should have realistic looking terrain but have units and cities that are clearly just abstract markers. Another thing is the combat system. Old civ was that was because of technical limitations, not because it is the best way of abstracting civilisation scale conflict in a game. They could do so much better if they tried.

[@Officinalis13]

i started playing it when it was released and never stoped since... now not regurarly, but still, once in a while

[@Jukahetube]

So much yes. Newer games feel so sterile.

[@ThrashingMadPLStreamy]

Countless hours spent playing this back in the day.

[@jdelark6428]

Nice, hello Civ2 my old friend!

[@takkik282]

Civ1, original colonization & Alpha centauri were my jam back in the days.

[@takkik282]

@Orthodox_Serb-x4u I was so disapointed by Beyond Earth. AC is still solid today! I think the visual & audio make it unique. Prerendered graphics have a different feel. Sad how modern game dev can't surpass or at least do as well then older game.

[@brinaldi81]

Started playing civ 1 at 10 years old. Civ 2 is so good

[@ShawnKavanagh]

Here since '91

[@JOEL00111]

Ahhh finally! Thanks buddy glad you heard me out, in your civ 1 vid, I'm gonna enjoy this modern civ 2 gameplay with some cold ones! Cheers!

[@Death2Weebs]

The best military advisor in all of Civil War history

[@ginrou1840]

i didn't realize how much i liked the corny advisors, and am sort of sad they never incorporated the throne room/palace in later iterations of the game.

[@KarlKapo]

Best game ever

[@aabenhus]

Such a great game. One of the games that got me into gaming as a kid.

[@dougdupont6134]

Oh man I've been waiting for this. Back in the day I used the largest Earth map to edit the files so that populations in the modern era would match real-world populations. It was so fun and felt so epic

[@fyrestorme]

Considering what has been announced for c7, going back to 2 at this time is appropriate

[@Lightclaw]

How did you know I was watching your OLD let's play on Civ2 the past few days AND POST THIS

[@kevnar]

Where did you get the version with the advisor videos? Do you actually have the old CD rom? Edit: you answered this question like 30 seconds after I commented. lol

[@jamesbriggs9014]

Civilization Call to Power was the one I played a lot as a kid. I liked opening the map editor, destroying the whole map, and making a 3x3 square with one of my cities on it and just playing on without any other nations or barbarians to interrupt me. Building wonders and watching their movies as well as whatever the throne room equivalent was were the highlights for me when I played.

[@morebakeder]

I have Civ 2 Test of Time, that version has a few extra play modes, my favorite being fantasy races. you chose which race you are and play against the others instead of having different countries. the different races had buffs and nerfs and special abilities unique to each race. you could be human, elf, undead, goblins, merfolk, bird people. i forget what the actual name for the last two was and I think there were 2 other races i can't remember anymore, I probably didn't play as them much. It was Civ 2 but fantasy coated, instead of Nukes you had Fireball. and it had multi layer mapping, there was the regular normal map, sky map, underworld map, and underwater map. There was also a sci-fi mode that is basically the same but you play as different alien races, different maps were different planets. Don't remember much about this mode only played it a few times compared to fantasy mode. by far my favorite version of the game.

[@GodwynDi]

That was one of my favorite modes as well. Spent so much time on Civ 2 making maps and designing things.

[@Sukotto82]

Wow this takes me back. I got into civ 2 late and didn't play it much because civ 3 came out and I jumped right to it. I continued playing civ 3 for a very long time. I remember using the editor to create a new wonder, civilization, resources and units. The new unit copied some aspects of a unit that had a chance to create another if itself while fighting. I made that because my tank got destroyed by a warrior so since my advanced technology didn't make since that a guy with a stone axe could win a 1v1 against a tank so I made a new unit that healed when fighting and had a chance to duplicate itself. I still lost a unit in situations that didn't make sense but my units duplicated frequently enough I never lost a fight that didn't make sense again. It was too effective so I just started messing with all kinds of things in the editor after that. I tried my best to make an advanced unit that wouldn't lost to a primitive unit and was balanced but I couldn't figure out the perfect solution eventually I gave up and just played regularly occasionally using the op unit just for fun.

[@astonmartin8537]

Me and my cousin played civ2 back in the day for many hours.

[@TheVanillatech]

I didn't like Civ 1. Tried to like it, back in the day on my 486-SX-33. But I was far too busy with Wolfenstein and Doom back then. Civ 2 however, is easily my favourite Civ game of all time. Well that and Alpha Centauri. I remember in secondary school, I finished Civ 2 for the first time and felt extremely proud. Told the other nerds at school. They asked what my score was, and I told them 34%. They laughed, told me I was a bad player and that was a bad score, they had gotten over 70%! So as I kept on playing over that summer, each time I got more efficient, made better decisions, figured out every little aspect of the game and when I returned to school in september I took a floppy disk with my saved game on it with a score of 126%. That shut them up! XD

[@acouto20]

I wanted to play, but I only found versions of this game where the high council and conversation with other civilizations are not assessable (does not work). How did you make it work?

[@KarlKapo]

You need the disc version to see council and movies

[@glmrgloam]

i started playing this again recently and actually looked up strats and discovered the early game wonder rush strat disbanding diplomats (switching to caravans when you get trade) in your capital/main science city. rush colossus then beeline copernicus and isaac newton's college in the same city.

[@peterkragelund4794]

Really agree with you, that this is the best. But have not been able to play it recently, as Windows have not supported 2D-acceleration since Win 7. How did you make it work?

[@gumdeo]

Civ2, never gets old.

[@theprinceofmilk2510]

Test of time is still the best Fantasy civ, i wished it got a more modern look one day

[@brigbrizz]

Prime dad joke at the beginning sir! ❤ My favorite exploit was Leonardo's Workshop (I think it was called?) Then spam the heck out of basic warriors a few turns before the workshop finished, then boom, dozens of musketeers. :)

[@thundreturtle]

Civ III is mz jam! contles hours on it, never beaten it XD I never bothered to actually look up how to properly play it, but I looooveeee playing it

[@dcorgard]

Civ IV was the last good Sid Meier Civ game - with Civ V, they screwed it up with: Single Units on cells & Hexagonal Cells... Civ I and Civ II were a godsend in childhood. Now it's Civ IV: A New Dawn - a mod making the game so much better.

[@birdlives829]

The intro joke XD also Civ II was where it all began for me

[@mackijs1]

4:30 Lol, what is the Elvis councillor supposed to be?

[@IronMeatCurtain]

This is awesome! I wish the way Sid Meiers colonization was upkept, I wish someone would make an open source Civ II updated for the modern times,

[@VerilyVerbatim]

This is also one of the most debated questions.... do you settle where you start, or move around for a few turns to see if there is a better location nearby?

[@robrisk387]

I move around first to try and find a few huts. You can't unleash barbarians if you haven't built a city yet, so you'll likely get advancement or units. But gotta build your city by like turn 10-12 if you wanna get hanging gardens built.

[@munki2]

My favorite Civ for sure!

[@davidmcclung8344]

There are dozens of us!

[@hellsraider7746]

love it, I have Civ2 for playstation 1 and still play it lol

[@CircleJCMerchHobbyShop]

Civ 1 and 2, alpha centauri, wow nice ones long time ago! 😊 the dune, war inc and fallout1 best games grind all day and night

[@jadall77]

unciv I think it it called in the google play store for android. Pretty close to civ 2. Had Civilization on the n-gage phone I had and I remember it got pretty slow between turns.

[@KesSharann]

Civ 2 is great. Got a boxed copy with expansions and everything around here somewhere.

[@centurionplay9880]

Where can i get the game? Please sheare the link if possible. I cant seam to find it anywhere. So nostalgic!! Please help a old brother feel that joy again.

[@ShawnKavanagh]

Brilliant game by all measures

[@rafidog]

civ2 was good but Civ2 Call to Power is the one I keep going back to. No other civ came close in my opinion

[@Death2Weebs]

Awesome

[@HilariousButTrue]

Man that AI took off it's belt and gave some boomer discipline in this game.

[@robrisk387]

How are you still playing this? I seen your videos from 9 years ago... but my old disc doesn't work anymore

[@hibiirdofficial5100]

He explains where he found the game at 24:12

[@Orieni]

I loved Civ II and happily built any scenarios, while downloading dozens from others. Then they produced Call to Power with those dumb 3d icons which made it far harder to mod, but which added multiple maps in one scenario. I wanted Civ II with those multiple maps, and the game went in other directions, without me. I was happily planning a scenario with an Earth map, an ocean map and a moon map for a nice end game land grab. Pity.

[@stevennewsom7670]

I so wish i could get civ 2 again but cant find it to be able to play on win 11

[@stevennewsom7670]

@Orthodox_Serb-x4u all the ones ive found always crashes or has viruses or just wont run at all

[@6StimuL84]

I got civ 2 and civ 2 test of time to both run on windows 64x with the Mastermind patch then the Editbox Patcher. All you have to do is look for them.

[@keysersoze8762]

what a mistake - the jungle bananas should have been terraformed into wheat. P.S. building courthouses in a democracy is some top level play.

[@wslayerem6996]

4 is my Favorite, but 2 was pretty good.

[@inderawahyudi2182]

i recently plays civ 4 colonization with we the people mod

[@grayaj23]

I probably have 2000 hours playing civ 2. I played a lot of civ 1 until I found out about the Mongol Horde strategy. Beating your opponent in 0ad by rolling mechanized infantry at them got boring. I played probably 1000 hours of civ 4. But civ 2 is best civ.

[@hibiirdofficial5100]

You could solve 100% of your problems if you taped the two books together

[@chrisflyvr]

played it for 16 years then civ 5

[@poyaispanic5269]

Lol Anarchy is awesome

[@txdmsk]

I used to love this game as a kid, but I barely remember it. I loved Civ III more, and the best in the series was Civ IV with mods, such as Chronicles of Mankind. The more recent civs were garbage for low intellect humans and little kids with not fully developed brains.

[@Leverquin]

civ 3 AC is king of throne.

[@pokedude104]

Civ 2 is my favorite strategy game of all time. Maybe even my favourite game full stop. I like all the games for the most part but I've steadily lost interest as time has gone on. I've really tried to like Civ 6 but it just seems way too inflated with mechanics that were added simply for the sake of new content. I don't wanna worry about districts, city states, civics trees, religions, culture, tourism, volcanoes, floods, world congresses, or any of the other million things the game has now. I just wanna paint the map with my cities, build roads and irrigation, amass an army and conquer the world and I feel like civ has lost its way from those roots. I understand a lot of people really love it though, to each their own.

[@johannd.6546]

Best civ! Player 100dreds of hours, as kid

[@captainkoloth1631]

Civ 2 is the most underrated of the Civs. It's never talked about because it didn't come out in the last five seconds and it's not currently on any digital marketplaces (probably due to licensing issues with the movies), but it set the tone for what became Civ and remains in my opinion the pinnacle of the series along with 4. The kids stuck on 5 and 6 have no idea what they're missing in terms of depth of gameplay and modding.

[@Slaintemaith]

Mmmm... 180 Lakefront.

[@BTCforce]

Classic

[@costakeith9048]

Best civ game... unless you count Alpha Centauri as a civ game.

[@forTodaysAdventure]

too bad you couldnt play the music

[@markmelvin4254]

still think Civ 1 is best. can't understand this isometric thing. or hexagonal