Hi Sid & Soren !
Tonight I went to the FNAC des Ternes in Paris (close to the Arc de Triomphe, but who cares ?), for a showcase (or whatever you'd call that) with Sid Meier and Soren Johnson. :) Got there while the intro movie was ending (Lion King music), a little room with like 50 people max (staff included). Then Soren did a little demo to show the major, new features (a bit boring when you know it all), and in the end the video system was glitching ! [lol] After that, there was a lengthy Q&A session ; I first wanted to ask about those st00pid, early, wild animals, but then I thought it was st00pid anyway, so I didn't ask a question (a bit shy too). After that we all got a Civ4 white T-shirt, which I don't think will suit me (physically). [hmm] And then of course, the usual signing session, and I got both signatures on my manual, with the "Get civilized" motto of course. :D As they were signing that, I asked them whether Firaxis would be interested in playing in a multiplayer demogame for Civ4 someday in the future. ;) They were OK with the idea but still objected that such games take so long to end, to which I replied that they DO finish. I also tried to tell them it wouldn't start before some months because we all got to learn the game, otherwise we'd be doomed. Not sure they understood that I was speaking of when it'd start, since Soren immediately went with his "those games take so many months to end" (mine was "it won't start before some months" but I didn't speak very clearly). Anyway in the end I told them to drop 'us' a line someday if they're interested. HAHAHA.
Geeky photo of those sigs tomorrow, when the batteries are on the road again. [mischief] |
And they are in London on Friday when I am back in London working again...
[meli] |
Nice, krys. :)
I doubt they'll come to the Netherlands... http://www.straland.com/images/smilies/undecided.gif |
They're affraid of us after ditching the dutch in Civ4.
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You know the dutch are planned for an xp, right [:p]
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Geeky stuff...
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/up..._civilized.JPG 33.44*KB Chapter 1, "In the beginning...", well in the beginning there was Sid (above), then Soren (below), and then it is rather confused, even the creationists are confused. [mischief] Additional bits of info, thanks to the French folks for writing that down too : - The SDK is still expected early next year. - Sid takes the whole responsability ("It's my fault" :D (Civ1)) for the 'spearman vs tank' syndrom, which should have been lowered again since Civ3. - They're helpless about all the technical problems appearing in various configurations, they're working on it and they rely on the publisher. - There will be a new online system (maybe within the PitBoss ?) where players will have to take their turn according to a certain schedule, otherwise the AI takes care of the turn. Needless to say that I'm not interested by this system, that's the whole point of being at CDZ. [grouphug] I also did some quick chitchat with a guy from the BAT team, but he wasn't really involved in that game... [groucho] Too bad. Here is the url for the topic at Civfr.com, the home of the BAT team, there are a few pics of that : http://www.civfr.com/forums/index.ph...opic=8801&st=0. Unfortunately, the ones taking many pics were memebers of the staff. |
ah non. La langue dans l'url est trés difficile.
BTW K-man, what are you discussing there? I only understood le half of le text :D[:p] For the rest of us, note the cool kissy kissy Firefox smiley that Jacktherabbit has [lol] Pretty standard stuff to be signing - if he signs all manuals that way. Unless he thinks you are a barbarian Krys [lol] |
I more or so summed up what it was discussed in that thread in my 2nd post. The rest is some chitchat about people of that forum and stuff...
I think what I got was pretty standard indeed (another one got "Hi I'm Sid and I'm a Civ4 junkie" which will remind you of that CivAnon teaser (check the thread at CFC, in the Civ4 general discussion forum)). Anyway I hope it is standard, because even if I don't look as fine as the old dude on the left, I hope I didn't look like a barb. [mischief] Even if S-man was a tramp (?) of some kind... |
How cool! Did they speak French or it was in English?
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Tomorrow they're schedulded in London. Meli, are you going ? If so, ask them to play in the multiplayer demogame, and if they reply they were asked about this by a funny dude in Paris, tell them you know me ! [thumbsup] |
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