Amusing to see people bashing each other, who's right and who's wrong. It's even funnier then playing the game itself. Anyway, don't know if it's my age but i just cannot enjoy CIV 5.
I've been around since CIV 1, Civ 2 is still the "best" for me and CIV 3 i played the most, while CIV 4 just couldn't convince me, i disliked the graphics ; it gave me a cluttered feel of where everything was; it looked messy to me and a little kiddy graphical. Sort of, can't say it properly, my english isn't good enough.
What i do know is that i am fed up with the stupid AI mechanics and after more then 10 years nothing has changed; the AI is just as stupid as back then, the only difference is the game looks prettier and there are some "cosmetic" changes.
Now, you can add all kind of goovy stuff, like city-states or whatever. As long as they can't or won't improve the game (battle) mechanics it will be a huge disappointed to me, and i think alot of others. Dunno about the others, but i am looking for improvements. Not the "improvements" they give us now, but improvements that matter. Improvements that makes the game really challenging.
But no, all we get is more of the same. And to make matters worse; it becomes more obvious with the 1 UPT rule. Player and PC-player both have less units now, making it much more noticable how stupid the AI is in warfare.
The "AI" handicap isn't a handicap at all; it just gives the AI player a unfair advantage, just to disquise the game flaws. While it sound valid, it also "handicaps" the player to deal with it.
WAR seems the answer, on higher difficulty. WAR, since that's the "weakest" part of the AI.
It's weak in diplo too, but that ain't so vissible.
But maybe i am too old for this. Fact is i cannot enjoy the game anymore. Not that i can't win; i can. It's the way to do it, that fails to enjoy me. And then, my friends; it's game over to me.
But it ain't CIV 5 alone. The Latest TW: Empire didn't deliver either. When you are capable to destroy and conquer France within 20 turns with the UP (Holland), the developers have made some serious faults. Things like these, ruin my lust for gaming. Being sold as a "semi-real history" Warfare SIM, these things should not happen.
And no, i am not interested in "Exploits" or other creative ideas to "bypass" the invalid game mechanics. To me, that's not much else then a plain Cheat. And where is the fun in that ?
Sling-shot tactics for example, very creative, but i can't imagine that this was intended to do so.
It's just another example how flawed the game mechancis are. Civ 2 i liked the most, maybe because that's the only one with FUN in it, with those silly advisors.
I laughed my ass of back then. Just like a nuke game of which i can't remember the name of; Great Fun was that. It's another way to mask the AI stupidy, and i like it.
Blanket of Doom showes exactly what i was afraid of, when i first heared of the 1 UPT rule. The map totally covered with Units, as far as the eye can see. What a crap.