Not dumbed down, just missing an awful lot of stuff

[Auncien]

"An engineer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Perhaps Civilization VI could be a painted block of wood with a happy face on it (paint will come in the first expansion, happy face could be DLC).

 

[Bridog7]

I have problems sometimes. It freezes. Also i like how religion is gone. but the one thing that gets to me the most is Montezuma doesn't smile when he's mad . I would give it 9.2/10 not 10/10 because monetezuma doesn't smile when he's mad

 

[Ricci]

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It pretty much was not. Nothing in civ3 except needless micromanagement and "flavor" things were lost. A couple things were changed, maybe for the worse (siege units) but not removed or lost.
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As a side note Earth, siege in civIII was a micromanagment cow, and of course AI would almost never make good use of it in a proper manner. Siege in cIV ended up being very criticized, and for a good reason. It started in vanilla with a good 25% chance to retreat giving it a substantial surviving chance in a battle, problem was they were too powerful (due to this and other issues), well I don't need to comment this further on to you, or many other posters here for the matter. I sincerely believe the nerf took a wrong approach at that precise moment (afterward they took the combat line promotions, etc, etc, etc); maybe more promotions to reduce collateral given to the bombarded units, or less collateral all together, or..