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I loved Civ IV, but spent the majority of my last few years playing Civ V with all the mods available that totally transforms the game.
 
I started with Civ V, then got Beyond Earth and Civ III, in that order. I loved 5, Beyond Earth was decent, but seemed lacking, and 3 seemed vastly different from what I was used to, it was hard to figure out how to play so I gave up without putting much effort into it. Had I gotten into the series earlier, perhaps I would have liked three, but as things currently stand, I enjoyed 5 the most.
 
Civ 3's my favourite if you don't count Alpha Centauri. It pretty much perfected the Civ formula of the earlier games.
 
Civ 3 was awesome! I can't seem to find a way to run it on W10, however. Would apprecaite a PM if anyone knows a way

Only other one I have played is Civ5 which I didn't really give a chance. I am bad at civ :-|
 
I'm an olde-school kind of guy. I liked the first one because that's what I had. Played 2 a little and liked it. But for years I only had the first and I appreciated the relative simplicity of it compared to the changes that were added to the later games.
 
Civ V because that's the one I started with. I'm sure the previous ones are very good too, but it felt hard getting into them after being used to V.
 
Civ V because that's the one I started with. I'm sure the previous ones are very good too, but it felt hard getting into them after being used to V.
 
Civ IV. It was the first one I played, and I spent countless hours on it time and time and time again. Plus, Leonard Nimoy.
 


Well I only played Civ V and that was after it being bought for me and forced to play it. I apparently don't get it. I found it to be fairly boring. Maybe I needed to play the earlier ones to enjoy V. I tried to like it. Maybe VI improves upon V enough to get me to stay awake. Probably not, but i'm willing to give it a chance at someone else's expense.
 
Although I haven't played many CIV games, CIV5 will always be my first love. It was the first CIV game I bought and owned. My friend and I bought CIV5 right before a road trip so we played it using 2 laptops and an Ethernet cable. By myself, I fell into the trap that every CIV player has fallen into. Many of times I'd find myself seeing the sun rise as I say to myself "One more turn." Even with the hundreds of hours I've spent on this game, I've only ever finished one. I kept trying to get the perfect win and completely outdo the bots. Although I am not that great at it, CIV5 is my favorite game.
 
I've been playing Civilization since launching it from DOS on Civ 1 in 1993 or so. My friend's dad gave everyone their own floppy disk to save games on and we could play on either of their computers (the new one ran Windows 3.1 and had a CD drive!). When Civ II came out in 1996, my family finally had our own awesome computer: Pentium 100MHz upgraded to 32MB of RAM and a 1GB HDD. My Brother and I eagerly picked up a copy at Guam's computer store, Megabyte Computers, and continued the quest for world domination at our own house.

Civilization 1 will always have the greatest nostalgia for me. It also came with the mystery of ruling an empire unsure of how decisions would impact my future. I feared a REVOLUTION and thought that walls somehow helped with food (I was 8 at the time). I knew that Montezuma would have his revenge against me and respected Stalin's heavy serious music. Warlord was a challenge and so I never had to worry about levels where the AI had to cheat to win.

Civilization 2 was special because it was designed (intentionally?) to be modded. My Brother created a massive scenario with all new units where the Spaniards invaded the accurately-mapped Marianas islands from Manila and you controlled the primitive chiefs and canoes in what seemed a valiant and futile resistance (at least I never beat it).

Civilization 3 was a disappointment after Alpha Centauri. The AI was too much worse to play the game until the final expansion fixed the computer's aggressiveness. Civ 4 was amazing, making multiplayer fun, fixing combat strength, but further highlighting the problem of stacking units. Civ 5 was bold, and successful in its boldness. It fixed several major flaws of its predecessors without introducing major new ones and expanded the unique feel of each civilization. However, somewhere the game lost a little of its soul.

I never go back to Civ 4. I will never stack 100 catapults again. I never liked Civ 3. I sometimes go back to Alpha Centauri. And I don't know why I don't go back to Civ 2. But I do go back to Civ 1 from time-to-time. It's not any less fun than before. I don't find myself wishing it was more complicated because it's already perfectly balanced and sometimes simplicity is the most satisfying. That is, until I lose my Armor attacking a Phalanx. So I guess the original is my favorite.


If you want to know my favorite civilization to play as, it's the Zulus in Civ 1, Vikings in Civ 2, Morganites in Alpha Centauri, Chinese in Civ 3, Romans in Civ 4, and Random in Civ 5.
 
I'm guessing you're just not a fan of turn-based strategy. Conversely, I'm not a fan of real-time strategy.

If you don't like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Master of Orion 2, I doubt you'll like Civilization. Do you ever have dreams of conquering the world? If not, maybe you should play some other adventure (I recommend Star Control 2).

 
As a younin', the only Civ I've managed to play was Civ V, since I don't consider Alpha Centauri an actual Civ game. I recall more than a few nights that had me stuck in a "just one more turn" loop.
 
My favorite, though only narrowly, would have to be Civ V.

Once all the Expansions are added it feels like the most complete Civ with some of the best Civs to play.
 
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