I like Civ V personally. I like the hexagons and I like the one-unit-per-tile instead of death stacks, even though the AI isn’t great at using it without community patches. I also like its visuals the most.
It also has the beloved fan mod Vox Populi, if you want to get into all that.
4 is a fan favorite but has a grid instead of hexes, so it plays a bit different. I’m also partial to 3 since that’s where I started. Each era has its own lovable jank.
Bear in mind that districts weren’t a thing until 6, so that pretty radically changes how you plan and build cities.
Civ V is in that sweet spot between not being VI/VII and not quite showing it’s age yet. It’s got some great mods like the LotR stuff and Faerun. IMO for fantasy 4x, Warlock II with the Renaissance overhaul mod is best though.
Are you playing the base game or with expansions? I never really managed to get into TS4 for some reason and I wonder how much it had to do with having only the vanilla version and how much with simply preferring the older titles. I should really give it another shot someday.
Yeah, I tried it vanilla during the weird middle ground where it got some improvements but was still lacking in many aspects - I’m pretty sure it got more updates since then. Do you think the base game is good enough to try on its own or are there any expansions/kits that you’d say are not necessarily required but at least strongly recommended?
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I like Civ V personally. I like the hexagons and I like the one-unit-per-tile instead of death stacks, even though the AI isn’t great at using it without community patches. I also like its visuals the most.
It also has the beloved fan mod Vox Populi, if you want to get into all that.
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4 is a fan favorite but has a grid instead of hexes, so it plays a bit different. I’m also partial to 3 since that’s where I started. Each era has its own lovable jank.
Bear in mind that districts weren’t a thing until 6, so that pretty radically changes how you plan and build cities.
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Civ V is in that sweet spot between not being VI/VII and not quite showing it’s age yet. It’s got some great mods like the LotR stuff and Faerun. IMO for fantasy 4x, Warlock II with the Renaissance overhaul mod is best though.
Which Sims are you going with, the original or one of the later ones?
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Are you playing the base game or with expansions? I never really managed to get into TS4 for some reason and I wonder how much it had to do with having only the vanilla version and how much with simply preferring the older titles. I should really give it another shot someday.
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Yeah, I tried it vanilla during the weird middle ground where it got some improvements but was still lacking in many aspects - I’m pretty sure it got more updates since then. Do you think the base game is good enough to try on its own or are there any expansions/kits that you’d say are not necessarily required but at least strongly recommended?
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Thanks for the recommendations! I’ll keep them in mind if I end up sticking with the game in the future.