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Civ II was my first and I am very fond of it BUT for Civ IV is king for me. I cannot conceive of the thousands of hours I have poured into Civ IV sitting on my couch with my old (worlds hottest) laptop that was trying to burn holes in my legs... Good times!

As for the others I never played Civ I, couldn't stand Civ III and Civ V is ok but just felt so slow and lumbering. I get the feeling that after playing Civ II for what seemed like forever I was adverse to change in Civ III.

I - never played
II - Great
III - Hated
IV - My Favourite
V - meh
VI - ??? Looking good?

Also a shout out to Call to Power II
 
I have played all the Civ Games - but have no favorite. They all ate up many hours of my time. I cant wait to get into the newest installment and see if I could rule the world all over agian.

Thanks
 
Time to buck the trend with Alpha Centauri! While it's a spinoff game, it introduced a ton of really satisfying game mechanics that the main Civilization series has never been able to match. While the sci-fi theme opened up a lot of creative possibilities that just couldn't work in a historical game like Civilization, it always disappointed me when going back to Civilization that those things were missing.

If I had to choose a Civilization game though, it would have to be 5. No matter what the previous games offered, they were all inevitably ruined by the Stack of Death(tm). That and the change to hex tiles are the two most important improvements that have been made in the entire series and easily worth a bit of simplification in other game mechanics.
 
I love civilisation ii as it was the first strategy game that genuinely got me playing for hours. The process of expanding and managing the cities was time consuming but very rewarding.
 
Civilization V, easily! I had the most fun playing Civ V both single player and with others. It's easy to pick up yet difficult to master. Plus, anyone with a bit of historian in them would appreciate all the dialogue and factorials included in the game.
 
Civ V. I came late to the party but I loved it. A friend lend it to me on steam i played a couple hours and it was ok, but a few months later he bought all of the DLCs and idk what it was but i liked so much mores that time and started to play it like crazy since
 
I've actually never played or bought any Civilization games 🙁. I've read many good articles within the pages of PC Gamer and Maximum PC (when they review 1 or 2 games each month) about the series though. Just kinda prefer the games I'm used to playing, I guess. No other reason really. Would be a nice and different challenge to try one of the series' games if given the opportunity :)

 
I have only played Civ V, but I can say that i really loved it, have tons of hours of it in steam, its my favorite because basically it was my first game of its type that i have played, what i liked most of it was the community! I spent so much time playing mods created by the players and would really love to experience that in Civ VI too! since I can already see how the people will create new policies and civics, new leaders for the civilizations that are already made and much more!
 
The only Civilization game I played was the fourth one. I enjoyed it a lot, but unfortunately I lost it. I'd really like to play the new one and see if I'll still like game like that
 
So hard to pick a favourite, II, III and IV all gave me a much needed escape from hard times in my life, but I'd probably say Civ III just because that's probably the one I have the fondest memories of and also I believe that was the first time culture/cultural victories were introduced to the series. It seems almost an afterthought now, but at the time it really added a whole new level of depth and strategy to the gameplay.

I remember doing a game with the Chinese on that particular iteration of the title. It was a Huge continents map I believe, but I started isolated on some tiny little island. I spent a fair bit of that time building an army and after the first two-thousand years or so finally made contact with the outside world. I remember you could transfer ground units from one naval vessel to another without the receiving naval unit losing its turn (a little exploity perhaps), so I strung a bunch of triremes across the ocean (via Great Lighthouse wonder, I think) and shipped my whole invading force double-quick onto the English coast. I let them keep their last city :evil:

I also had a couple of cities on another continent that Ghandi of all people invaded and seized. I sent a force over and, rather than keeping his captured cities, razed half of India. He had a continent spanning empire so it took some time, but fun all the same! 😉

Unfortunately, my computer borked up sometime after that, but I'd probably say China are my fave civ based on that game alone.

Sorry to ramble, but it's fun to reminisce!
 
-I have only played two Civ Revolution and Civ V. I enjoyed V the best though.

-I almost always play as England due to the fact I enjoy domination of the seas during the game.
 
Unfortantly, I only currently own Civ V, so I can't really comment on the differences and similarities between the games. (although IV had execlennt theme music).

So, as for my favorite Civ; that would probably have to be Egypt. In terms of mechanics, it would be because of the awesome production bounus to building wonders, even if it felt kinda like I was cheating at times. In addition to this ancient egypt (and its history) fascinates me.
 
Well usually even the Gleam.io site tells whoever checks who's the winner so.. I don't know, maybe they haven't extracted yet? But it'd be kinda late :/
 


you got one more day till the winner, going on this started the 17th and 14 days is two weeks that puts the winners at the 31st.
 


Then back to praying to my lord and savior Gaben, hallowed be thy games.
 


Meh, for me I like civ games, and ill play it into the ground within a few days or weeks, as in several hundred hours, and wait for patches and mods to spice it up a bit, possibly an expansion, but apparently this one is good enough to go from the get go for the first time. would definitely tide me over till my friend gets back and we hit empire of kunark hard.
 
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