I've completely finished my first game in more than a year (never finished one on R&F). I bought GS three days ago, and i've completed my game with the Inca's yesterday. I think i now completed games with Trajan, Barbarossa, Roosevelt, Qin Shi Huang, Gitarja and Pachacuti. Next in line would be Gilgamesh, but i'm saving Gilgamesh for a deity run. I know need to find a proper civ for level 5 difficulty which i enjoy.
I hated the mapmaking of continents so far, because the new continents seem to be fractal maps... which is not the ideal map to test out loyalty mechanics better. I also played mostly on a map with almost no mountains (with the Inca's), which made that game in particular seem lacking cause i couldn't explore specific mechanics i wanted to do with the Inca's (oh well that difficulty i chose was to low anyways). They've completely changed the mapmaking. I'll see what i do next. I have a hard time making choices.
I want to play Freleanor (finally a good and attractive leader for France) and maybe Mali, Sweden and Maori for this expansion. I skip the others for now (Canada, Hungary, Engleanor, Phoenicia and Ottomans). From the second expansion, i want to play Mapuche, Netherlands, the Cree and maybe Korea. From the DLC's, i want to play Persia, Nubia and Poland. And from the starter civs, i want to play Aztecs, Sumer, Japan, Russia and maybe Pericles. And if i have played these, i'll start on some other civs. I might do some civs again i've played in the past also (but lack some achievements from them and to have a better grip on them on harder difficulties, but not now yet). And there are still some other civs that interest me, just less than those now.
I also need achievements for fractal, archipelago map, deity victory, religious victory and huge map, so i need the right civ to play on these settings (Netherlands / Japan or maybe Spain for fractal, Maori for archipelago) (weird i've played with Indonesia and those didn't pop up... and lol apparently it was island plates). I'll play on a huge map with the Aztecs. And religious victory seems a good fit for Poland probably (i guess, otherwise, i'll just do one with Spain or India).