Civ Vii - who's getting what

[Cameront9]

Civ VI is the only one I've played, and I'm definitely satisfied for now. I haven't even gotten the DLC. Civ seems like the kind of game that you pick the version you like and stick with it for a long, long time. I would guess that VII will pick up after a while.

 

[Plutonius]

Civ VI is the only one I've played, and I'm definitely satisfied for now. I haven't even gotten the DLC. Civ seems like the kind of game that you pick the version you like and stick with it for a long, long time. I would guess that VII will pick up after a while.

Steam periodically has sales on the DLC. Civ 6 DLC "The Gathering Storm" can be fun with the environmental disasters that can occur (i.e. a landlocked city is now surrounded by water and lowland areas are flooded).

 

[maflynn]

For anyone interested Steam is having their big summer sale
Civ VII is now $60.00
Civ VI is now $3.00
Civ V is not 7.49

 

[n8mac]

I went back to Civ 5 and actually like it more than 6. It does occasionally crash on 15.5 though.

 

[Plutonius]

For anyone interested Steam is having their big summer sale
Civ VII is now $60.00
Civ VI is now $3.00
Civ V is not 7.49

Civ 7 seems to be doing very poorly on Steam.

 

[maflynn]

for me it goes past the point of being 'fun game' to being a micromanagement grind

That will scare me away. one of the things that drove me away from Cities:Skylines 2, is that you have to manage to much minutia - that game has other issues, but one of my turn offs was the minutia. I don't. think I'd like VI if I had to play one way and manage much of the small stuff

 

[avro707]

I enjoyed Civilization 1 for MS-Dos all those years back, but cannot really enjoy the newer ones.

 

[Plutonius]

That will scare me away. one of the things that drove me away from Cities:Skylines 2, is that you have to manage to much minutia - that game has other issues, but one of my turn offs was the minutia. I don't. think I'd like VI if I had to play one way and manage much of the small stuff

As in all games of these types, the closer you get to the end, the longer the turns are (more cities / units to control).

In my opinion, both Civ 5 and Civ 6 are similar in micromanagement (just in different ways).

 

[Falhófnir]

That will scare me away. one of the things that drove me away from Cities:Skylines 2, is that you have to manage to much minutia - that game has other issues, but one of my turn offs was the minutia. I don't. think I'd like VI if I had to play one way and manage much of the small stuff

Yeah I think destacking cities across multiple tiles in particular was quite a bad move for the franchise (at least in my case) now instead of city management just being choosing what you want to build next from a list, you've got to think several steps ahead about what space you'll need, and if you construct this here now, you won't be able to have that later, unless you want to rip this up, etc. Plus the housing, appeal, disasters, climate change and loyalty mechanics on top just gets too much when you consider you'll be doing it on like a dozen cities. I'm sure it's technically a much better game if you do want more of the city building aspect in there (and I guess plenty of people do looking at the huge player base) but it's not really what I want from a civ game.

 

[Varmann]

I have played all of them since Civ 2. Every single one has met a lot resistance in the beginning due changes and/or balance and bugs. Usually Civ gets balanced and polished game flow in a year or so after release. But then again we all have our special favorites (thinking about Alpha Centauri, and sighs deep)