Yeah, Civ 2 was basically Civ with better graphics. It fixed a few of the bugs of Civ, but that's just about where the changes end (except it got rid of those stupid history questions early in the game). I still remember a couple of the bugs, one being moving a unit through a city on a railroad acted as if the city was connected by road, so it took 1/3 movement away; another was if you left auto-save on and the clock turned over from b.c. to a.d. then the game crashed or something.
But classic is something different from fun. It has to do with nostalgia. And since something can't be nostalgic until at least a few years have passed, classic I believe comes with time. When it first came out I wouldn't think of Half-life as being classic, but I sure as hell would now. I might have predicted it would be a classic, but it still wouldn't feel like a classic.
And I can predict games now that I think will be classic in a few years.
WarCraft 3 and Wolfenstein multiplayer, in a few years when something better or at least newer has come along, I will think of those games as being classic. And it's because you remember all the fun you had with them. But now I'm still having fun with them, so they aren't classic.
Etc. You get the point I think.
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