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Been playing Civ since Civ 1. Unfortunately, 6 was a bit of a miss in my opinion. Civ 5 is still as addictive as nicotine.
by mayank 6y ago
Been playing Civ since Civ 1. Unfortunately, 6 was a bit of a miss in my opinion. Civ 5 is still as addictive as nicotine.
- iphone_elegance 6y agoIt's weird I loved 3 and 4, hated 5 and enjoy 6 a lot I think it has a lot to do with expectations/current trends
- qzw 6y agoI’ve never played any Civ game. Can you elaborate?
- pintxo 6y agoIt is turn based. Each turn taking anything from seconds (early in the game, knowing only the immediate surroundings of the single city, with zero known opponents) to multiple minutes (late in the game, having a complete planet as play area and >100 opponent cities). But in aggregate it's terribly easy to play for hours on end, often into the next morning.
- qzw 6y agoI was asking more specifically why Civ 6 was worse than its predecessors, but I appreciate your answering. I see that there are now many comments detailing the shortcomings of 6.
- rocketpastsix 6y agosomething about the graphics has continually rubbed me wrong about Civ 6. It sounds weird but I can't get into it. Civ 5? I will play that all day long.
- damidekronik 6y agoSame for me, the graphic of Civ 6 always felt sluggish, at least now I can get more people to try it with me. On another side, the multiplayer in Civ 5 was always broken, the saves didn't load, someone getting dropped almost always meant 2+ turns lost for them. Hopefull this one doesn't suffer from this any more.
- qppo 6y agoIt's the cartoon proportions applied to everything.
- kcarter80 6y agoCiv 6 is deeper and better balanced than anything before it. What is your specific complaint?
- Tomte 6y agoI played a little bit, but what really made the beginning hard for me was that Barbarians suddenly "get away" from you. In V and earlier, a Barbarian came, your warrior killed him, fine. In VI the Barbarian is faster than you, so it gets out of sight quick, and from then on you get one wave of Barbarians after another. Also, I didn't understand the mechanics of the new religion system, but I think I got it on a basic level at least by now. In some ways, I like VI (the district system can be infuriating, but is basically a good idea), I like the graphics, as well, but I never got "into" it as I did with V.
- jldugger 6y agoIndeed, early game is hard because barbarians spawn repeatedly and out tech you. They only spawn from camps, so once you expand your area of influence it's less a problem but you need some way of dealing with spearmen early to really clear them out. The way it the barbarians work though is somewhat clever: they send out scouts, and it seems like until their scout spots your city they won't spawn attackers. So you're incentivized to harass their scouts early on at least, but it's not really explained in any fashion beyond perhaps a visual ding. After that the AI is so bad that you've basically won once the barbs are no longer threatening. I got back into civ 6 last month after a two year break and had forgotten this dynamic and kept starting over when the barbs felt overwhelming and killed a slinger or captured a cheeky unprotected settler.
- qppo 6y agoThe barb mechanic would be cool if it weren't for the fact that it's nigh impossible to catch the scouts due to movement and terrain mechanics.
- JakeTheAndroid 6y agoBarbs don't have a speed bonus AFAIK, but the terrain impacts movement significantly. So, if they are 'getting away from you' it's not because their barbs, it's because their unit has more movement and isn't moving through trees, or over hills/rivers.
- mobilefriendly 6y agoOpposite for me, I like Civ 6 far better than 5. Give 6 another run with some of the popular mods.
- Alupis 6y agoUsually with Civ, don't play it until the second expansion is released. That's when it's stable and improved enough to be a great game.