Gamer Plays Civilization II for Almost 10 Years, Turns World Into ‘Hellish Nightmare of Suffering and Devastation’
June 12th, 2012Via: Reddit:
I’ve been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was already well into the distant future. I then thought that it might be interesting to see just how far into the future I could get and see what the ramifications would be. Naturally I play other games and have a life, but I often return to this game when I’m not doing anything and carry on. The results are as follows.
The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.
There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.
Related: r/theeternalwar
Any story I read on both Cryptogon and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, is bound to be a good one. This comes straight from the pages of 1984
Now that CIV 5 has finally brought espionage back via expansion, I might need to let off a few suitcase nukes off (IN THE GAME, BACK OFF SECRET SERVICE) for old times sake.
Pretty awesome he would keep it going that long. But the Civ II strategist in me was cringing. He’s definitely role-playing a bit in keeping to democracy and communism over fundamentalism late game. Basically handicapping himself. But it’s his sandbox and certainly a memorable feat on his part.