What is Your Favourite Mainline Civ Game?

[Albertan Civfanatic]

Please select which of the mainline Civ games are your favourite. Describe what you like about that particular game and what you didn't like.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

For me, the thing that makes Civ 5 my favourite game is its elegance and class. The UI, art style and music had a lot to do with this.

 

[gdr_willter]

Hey, I want multiple votes

 

[Siptah]

Overall it‘s civ 2 and 3 that I liked most. However, I can hardly play them anymore. I think 5 is my favorite of the mainline games if I would start a game today and thus voted for that. If CTP 2 would have been an option, I probably would have chosen that one.

 

[Zaarin]

Surprised to see Civ5 doing so well. At launch, the game was miserable, and Beach's expansions made it playable but still the weakest entry in the franchise IMO (or neck-and-neck for last place with Civ3 at any rate). Then again, aesthetics are important to me, and aside from their gameplay problems Civ3 and Civ5 also share the common trait of being sinfully ugly.

At any rate, I voted for Civ6. There are many things I think Civ4 did better, and there are a lot of ideas from Civ4 I like...but Civ4 is not enjoyable to play anymore. I tried a couple years ago; I found it miserable.

 

[Biologist]

Civ 5 is the one I've spent the most time in by far. I have over 1300 hours in it and a lot of that is time spent with various mods and custom civs. While I miss a few features from 6 like the natural disasters, and I think the Golden/Heroic age mechanic is a bit more interesting, overall 5 feels like a more finely tuned experience. 6 is kind of all over the place like they couldn't quite decide what direction to focus on when evolving from 5. The World Congress in particular feels powerful and useful in 5 and like a vaguely helpful lottery in 6. I'm interested to see how 7 will handle large-scale political maneuvers in the late game.

 

[Uberfrog]

On the one hand, I have the fondest recollections of Civ 4. On the other hand, I have never seriously returned to a previous edition after the next instalment released.

I think Civ 4 is the better game, but apart from a few short games, all my hours in Civ since 2016 have been in Civ 6.

I hope the pattern repeats once Civ 7 is released!

 

[Gen.Washington]

5, it still looks the best imo. I also think Civ 4 purists are antiques living off of nostalgia.

 

[ombak]

I have good memories of 4, 5 and 6. Before that, well, I remember playing those, but not as clearly, I don't have the strongest memory.

At any rate, between the last 3, although I enjoyed all of them, I also find it tough to play the older ones. I always enjoyed 6, but especially so after the first expansion, so it's my current favorite.

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

Probably 1. 5 is my least favourite, but I never played 3.

I don't think any of them are as good as some people claim.

 

[theadder]

Surprised to see Civ5 doing so well. At launch, the game was miserable, and Beach's expansions made it playable but still the weakest entry in the franchise IMO (or neck-and-neck for last place with Civ3 at any rate). Then again, aesthetics are important to me, and aside from their gameplay problems Civ3 and Civ5 also share the common trait of being sinfully ugly.

At any rate, I voted for Civ6. There are many things I think Civ4 did better, and there are a lot of ideas from Civ4 I like...but Civ4 is not enjoyable to play anymore. I tried a couple years ago; I found it miserable.

I think that a lot of people picked up playing the series with Civ V and that’s the cause of the popularity.

 

[Zaarin]

I think that a lot of people picked up playing the series with Civ V and that’s the cause the popularity.

You're right; Civ5 was definitely the "breakout" game in the franchise, so to speak.

 

[theadder]

You're right; Civ5 was definitely the "breakout" game in the franchise, so to speak.

I think that it’s similarly the source of a lot of the criticism of Civ VI being “cartoony” or “cartoonish,” when the reality is that the Civ VI art style is much closer to the art style for the rest of the series than Civ V was.

Civ V was the aberration, and people who arrived new to the series with Civ V got used to something that was actually the exception. Civ was never presented as particularly realistic or “gritty.”

 

[Zaarin]

Oh, good, it's not just me who feels that way.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

5 is like well aged wine. I'm liking the art and aesthetics for 7 as well, so far....

 

[AriochIV]

I wish I had Steam stats on how many hours I'd played in Civ4 so that I could compare it to the others. Alas.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

Civ 5 is the one I've spent the most time in by far. I have over 1300 hours in it and a lot of that is time spent with various mods and custom civs. While I miss a few features from 6 like the natural disasters, and I think the Golden/Heroic age mechanic is a bit more interesting, overall 5 feels like a more finely tuned experience. 6 is kind of all over the place like they couldn't quite decide what direction to focus on when evolving from 5. The World Congress in particular feels powerful and useful in 5 and like a vaguely helpful lottery in 6. I'm interested to see how 7 will handle large-scale political maneuvers in the late game.

I agree 100% with you about the World Congress in Civ 5 To me, the WC in 6 felt redundant and clunky.

 

[gdr_willter]

In this moment, the most interesting part for me is this: each Civ fan has their favorite Civ title, but the guys who want to figure out what is the most beloved title is the Civ 5 mains.
(Not only about OP, I watched the similiar circumstances in Korean Civ community)

Is this because their abused heart from the early days of 5 which was under attacks from previous fans saying "this is not even a Civ game"?

 

[Alexander's Hetaroi]

I might be biased because that's the game that I started with, but I voted for Civ 6. That being said I have played Civ 5 but I just don't like it as much. I've since bought Civ 4, which also came with expansions and Colonization all in one, but I haven't gotten around to start playing it yet. Too many other things I'm doing right now to start a game.

 

[GrayingGamer]

Started with Civ 1 in junior high. Wish I had hours-played metrics going all the way back.