Civ III is not one of my favorites, but my best memory of Civ III is probably the game where I played a game on emperor difficulty and one AI side was neck and neck with me and we spent well over two centuries having an air war of mostly bombers. It was honestly ridiculous how closely matched we were and the war lasted until the end of the game.

My best memories of playing Civilization III?

My only memory of Civ3 was me going "ehhhh, this is too complicated" and going back to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri!

Now Civ II, that was the game! ...but I didn't play it that much after I got SMAC.

...I've been slowly trying to learn Civilization VI, only because Turtles are apparently a Thing! 😄🐢 Didn't buy Civilization VII because Turtles Weren't A Thing ☹️.

None, I didnt play it enough to form good memories.

CivII however, my favourite is playing against my dad and big brother on LAN. I was too young to grasp such a high concept game and should have been crushed. Id built a temple and a marketplace in my one city, and my brother turned up with a whole battalion of cannons and knights. I had the single warrior that you start with. My lone warrior took out his entire assault of like 15 advanced units. He was piiiiiiissed.

I dont know if I was just super lucky, or if my dad had set it up to give me a massive handicap or what, but its been about 30 years and im still chuckling typing this out.

I kept putting it on the shelf at the electronics store I worked at.

people took it off. I put it on. rinse. repeat.

I remember convincing my dad to buy me this game. I was about 9 years old and the guy running the game store told me it was really good and kind of like Age of Empires II.

After installing it, I realised that it was NOT like AoE2. I broke down in tears when I saw all the elaborate menus with complex English words and was confronted with boring TURN BASED gameplay. Who the hell has that kind of patience??

Same night I had to be dragged to bed because I couldn't stop playing hehe.

I remember playing against several computer players on a huge map. I can't remember who I was playing as. Probably either Britain or America. But I remember Gandhi approached me as an ally early on. He then pulled me into conflicts with all the other civilizations (damn, that NPC was bloodthirsty!), and together we fought and destroyed each of the other NPCs.

I over-extended myself a bit far on the last of those opponents, and he decided that was the perfect time to attack me. I knew he would at some point, since it's part of the game. But I was so angry at the timing of that betrayal.

I fended off the Indian civilization's attacks, and carefully rebuilt my resources. When I was clearly stronger than him I attacked, and hit him hard. As I ground his forces down more and more he kept pleading for a surrender. But I kept refusing.

I basically got him down to one pitifully small city that was pinned on and had no real defenses, and then played with them like a cat with a mouse. I held out on destroying them for ages, just so he could be as miserable as possible for as long as possible. Yeah, I know it was just a dumb NPC that couldn't feel anything really, but it was still very satisfying.

Just like zelda, the civ game most people prefer is the first one they played.

For me its civ 2. The advisors and building the palace and the music. Chefs kiss

This was my first entry into the series after playing Civ Rev ps3.

I loved using the infinate money/steal cities exploit before it was patched. I would spend hours letting countries built up against me, only to use that glitch to build ICBM and nuke to high heavens.

The soundtrack was great too! I loved the acient theme. I had a lor of the ost on my mp3 player.

I doubt it runs on linux. Last time I tried 15 years ago, it ran but everything was black and the mouse wouldn't capture within the game window.

I was playing this game in college like 16yrs ago. Me and a few buddies played it regularly. While studying with one of them I'm taking a break and watching him play. He's playing against the AI on one of the harder difficulty levels with Raging Barbarians on. Then he gets a warning about a barbarian camp near one of his major cities. I'm watching and was like, "Dude you should take care of that before it gets bad". "It's not a problem. I got the forces to deal with them anytime I want." He is pretty arrogant. A couple turns later they attack. I'm watching like 30 barbarians from that camp raid his city. It took 5 to break his defense and the other 25 pillaged all of his resources.

I fucking miss this game!

I still have the ~300pg instruction book for it on my shelf. Still the only game instructions I've read cover to cover.

It had a lot more detail than I'd ever seen in a game booklet before.

Great game, and the last civ game I felt like I fully understood (even if I wasn't great at it).

Oh. And I remember my automated workers paving the entire world into roads by mid game.

I'm still playing Civ 3 as of this week. Mostly a mod, CCM, now.

I can't remember civ 3 nearly as much as 2 and 4.

I remember getting the soundtrack out of the files and playing it on media player on a continues loop. I remember cleopatra becoming my nemesis constantly, and most of all, I remember the auto workers. I miss those little guys.

Rhye's and Fall of the Roman Empire mod.

Civ and Call To Power had some banging soundtracks.

I remember seeing resources on the map, hating how arbitrary they felt, and then grew to love macemen as midgame doomstacks that justified any war for iron in the early game.

Civ3 helped me understand and justify my early wars for any nation, not just the Mongols and Zulu.