Post your best Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Quotes
>Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
>- CEO Nwabudike Morgan "The Ethics of Greed"
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Every single quote in this game is diamond and puts to shame all of the main civ quotes to shame. If I had to choose I'd have to go with:
"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"
Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"
Organic Superlube? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it though, it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.
I think that's how it went off memory.
With the current state of the game industry this makes me wonder: how come this game could have a fully diverse cast of characters that come from many ethnicities with realistic ideologies, character strengths and weaknesses, without coming off as being pointlessly pandering? And all this at a time when the SJW pandering was utterly inexistant?
Because back then Sid Meier was actually making the games with his name on it. He worked on the game and made sure top quality musicians, artists and writers worked on it.
Now it's day and night the irons clang, and like poor galley slaves
We toil and toil, and when we die, must fill dishonored graves
But some dark night, when everything is silent in the town
I'll shoot those tyrants one and all, I'll gun the flogger down
I'll give the land a little shock, remember what I say,
And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay.
Because it was incredibly well-written, everything made sense, and the stakes felt high because of both those things.
It was helped as well by the fact that people back in the day tended to actually play the games they were talking about; ethnicity and nationality in SMAC rapidly become irrelevant as post-humanity takes over, and (this is very important) EVERYONE becomes post-human. The struggle becomes the same and the last thing left to fight about is ideas.
Because in the endgame what you're trying to do is preserve a mindset in order to stave off extinction, not biological extinction, but conceptual extinction. Because THAT, above all else, is what matters to EVERYONE.
What ideas survive and how far do you go to ensure they survive tomorrow? A hundred years from now? Until the end of time?
And that is why the aliens were shit inclusions in the expansion pack.
As the Americans learn so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
The once chained people who's leader's at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality. But the free nation gradually constricting it's grip on public discourse has begun it's rapid slide into despotism.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master"
the last part i actually do have memorized, but that shit hits hard even today.
Because the race or gender of the characters is not the primary focus - their thoughts and ideas are.
Judging people based not on their skin colour or genitalia? Holy fuck we were barbarians back in the 90's.
>race or gender of the characters is not the primary focus - their thoughts and ideas are.
Why is that such a hard concept to grasp to modern game designers?
Thoughts and ideas are haaard.
>Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought.