Can You Go Back To Previous Civ Titles?

[Albertan Civfanatic]

As the title of this thread suggests, how many of you can actually go back to older Civ titles and play deep, immersive playthroughs? My all time favourite Civ game is 5, but I find it so challenging to go back and play it after having spent over 2000 hours on 6. The game is still beautiful, it's just that I have to play the most recent game. It does seem silly to operate this way, but that's just the way I feel when I start up, or rather attempt to start up, a new game of 5.
Is anyone else in this boat?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Nah, once a new civ comes out, I can't go back to older iterations.

 

[AD1730]

Yes. I never grew to like Civ 6. So, I regularly go back to Civ 4 and Civ 5.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

Yes. I never grew to like Civ 6. So, I regularly go back to Civ 4 and Civ 5.

I have to respect that. 6 was initially a VERY hard pill for me to swallow, due to its cartoony graphics and overly managerial style and feel of gameplay. By 2018 though, I came to love that game.

 

[Haig]

I find it impossible too. I havent even touched a civ game for months as I am so hyped for VII.

Where is this realm of Alberta may I ask?

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

I find it impossible too. I havent even touched a civ game for months as I am so hyped for VII.

Where is this realm of Alberta may I ask?

It's a province in Western Canada.

 

[Oberst Kraft]

After many hours of Civ 6, I tried to go back to Civ 5, but I realized that my habits had changed and I had forgotten a lot, so no.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

To me, the most annoying feature of 6 was that you constantly had to spam out cities. Why? Because the AI did. Ok, fair enough but why monkey see monkey do? Because of all the districts and adjacency bonuses from districts the AI would get/cheat on. Hence, you HAD to spam out cities too. That explains why I am presently playing as Ghandi in 5 in order to get some playing tall revenge for all those years of playing wide.

 

[AriochIV]

Nah, once a new civ comes out, I can't go back to older iterations.

Same. I have usually squeezed all the juice out of the previous iteration by the time the next one comes out.

 

[Zaarin]

I tried during a lull in Civ6's dev cycle. I never liked Civ5 in the first place so I didn't get very far before I uninstalled it. I gave Civ4 a couple tries (including that space mod that came with BTS, if memory serves), but while it was an admirable game in its day it just hasn't aged well. I didn't finish a game in that, either. I love Civ6, but I've drunk it to the lees and am unlikely to return to it once Civ7 is out.

 

[tedhebert]

Nah, once a new civ comes out, I can't go back to older iterations.

Same. I have usually squeezed all the juice out of the previous iteration by the time the next one comes out.

Same for me... after 3000H+ on V and 3800H+ on VI, I'm more than ready to move on

 

[thecrazyscot]

I can always go back to Civ2, the best title - I see every version since then as essentially iterating on the same core ideas though, so the current version usually represents the freshest implementation and there's little reason to revisit the intervening releases.

 

[Sprenk]

I can always go back to Civ2, the best title - I see every version since then as essentially iterating on the same core ideas though, so the current version usually represents the freshest implementation and there's little reason to revisit the intervening releases.

I loved Civ 2 as well, but had basically mastered it after a month--thanks to my wife. She saw me playing it, decided to start her own game--and independently invented the REX strategy which breaks the game--on her first playthrough. She still reminds me of the way my face looked when I looked at her screen and saw the mini-map most covered with her white Celtic dots

 

[Patine]

I haven't fully left Civ2.

 

[CaesarCS]

I still play Civ III all the time. I also, maybe once a year, load up Civ2 WW2 scenario that came with the game and play that. I absolutely love that scenario.

 

[ColorZ]

Yes, dip back into 4 and 5 from time to time. Thinking of loading up 3 soon since the changes in 7 have turned me off from buying it.

 

[Gen.Washington]

I’m burnt out on 6, been burnt out for years. I can still play 5 and I feel like I’ll keep playing it semi-regularly when I have an itch to play a classic “stand the test of time” civ game.

 

[ombak]

I still play some old NES games. I can replay some RPGs I'm fond of, particularly Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, though those are harder to stick with to the end. Old civs are even harder to finish, though I do sometimes go back and play out the early game. I don't think I've completed a game of 5 since getting 6.

 

[Serenia]

I stuck with Civ 5 for 9 years while my PC was running Windows 7. I initially only played it once or twice to win the game.

Then I got bored so I jigged the settings to turn off all the wars, battles, barbarians, diplomacy and so on, and all I had to do was explore the maps.

Because the one thing Civ 5 was good at was the Maps!! I love maps and so every new game was a new map for me.

So For most of those 9 years (2010 - 2019) I would start a new game, explore until all of the map was complete and then close the game and start over again with a new Map.

My son hated that I was doing this, He liked to finish the game no matter how many times he played it.

So for the most part on Civ 5 I never actually played to win or complete a game. Mostly because by the time you got the 1700s, the time turns were done in 20 year, 10 year and 5 year increments which just made the game long and boring.

I usually had the whole map open before the game got to the 2 and 1 year increments.

If Civ 7 has 3 different ages, then this may be a much more interesting game to play. I can't wait.

I was forced to change from Win 7 to Win 10 at the end of 2019 and since I hated Civ 6, I have not played any Civ Game for the last 5 years!!

 

[Rajendran_P]

I opined that Civ 7 may be the greatest of all previous Civilization series, based on the gameplay we have seen.