Why can't I enjoy the "one more turn" post-game?

[Mojotronica]

I win the game via Space Race and the world is still an interesting place. here is a chance to enjoy a slow, leisurely conquest of all the other civs using modern weapons of war.

Yet when I fire up the game I find it hard to stay focused on that, I start thinking about launching a new game and trying again.

I just finished a nice game as the Dutch. I never went to war and so there are four Civs to deal with still. All I have to think about is defeating them militarily -- fun! But all I can think about is playing again as Louis XIV France.

 

[Ramesses]

It's because you won and there's nothing left for you to strive for. An avid SimCity player may want to play a single game forever, but for the rest of us, when there's no more room to expand physically, culturally, or technologically, there's no point in continuing.

 

[Chiyochan]

Civ lacks any sort of feedback you get from being creative, most of it is just a means to an end, one more turn is fail because its a sandbox without any sand in it to play with.

 

[Endure]

Your already in a pretty dominant position. A war with Joao might prove interesting for a little while till you get the upper hand, but the rest of the world you'd likely just crush.

It's hard to stay interested in a game like that when you've already won.

 

[Shackel]

I don't know.... It's like that message at the bottom just saps your fun away.

I've played a game, and I waited and built up my empire, made each city super perfect, and was preparing for war and all of the sudden.... "CEILING MAHN has won a Time Victory"!

"Oh, well it's alright, I'll just keep playing..." I thought, then I realized that it wasn't even HALF as fun.... So I went to WorldBuilder, saved the scenario, and played it again.

For some reason, it was still fun. @_@

(I wanted to play as The Southern Empire(Next War Advanced?), a war battered nation recovering from an extremely destructive war with America, but I didn't get to since my computer got a virus a bit later and I had to system recover. T_T)