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DigitalCamera posted...

alot of good points here, but I gotta come in and defend V lol! Now VI does do many things right, but I still think V exceeds in some very key areas. First off is art design. I think V just looks better and has a better overall aesthetic. VI looks good, but it's much more...cartoony. V feels like a video game when I'm playing, VI feels like I'm playing a board game digitally. Which, isn't bad, I just prefer the style of V. Also the spy system. I don't think either handle it particularly well, but at least with V I can just have my spy protect my capitol. In VI you have like 6 options for every city to protect and it just feels like...pointless. Both suck with the spy systems but V I feel sucks less lol.

And lastely are the cities themselves. In V every city you build is important and strategic, as you go tall not wide (at least in order to be successful...most of the time). In VI you just spread like a plague, but then with the district system you need advance knowledge of what each tile does and what each improvement will do to each tile and what wonder will fit where in order to get maximum efficiency from your cities. Which can add more strategic options, but once you learn the district system in VI, there's really only a few options on what you want to build and where.

I've put hours into both and think both are great games tho. Many hundreds of hours between the two!:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/4/AAUMC0AAEFma.jpg

I mean, you don't really need to defend Civ V from me. I kind of have also sunk a couple of hours into it. :V

That said, what you are talking about are reasons to like Civ V over VI, but not really reasons that I would call "things that make it better." Art direction is a turn off for some, but as shown with stuff like Final Fantasy IX you cannot discount a game just because you dislike the visuals. Similarly while I can completely understand why you dislike the spy change, the reality is that for most people that will serve as mostly a small footnote in their disliking VI versus V and really isn't going to come into play when talking about a person trying to get into Civ in the first place. As for Tall versus Wide... I feel like PotatoMcWhiskey has given enough videos on that sort of topic for me to say pretty definitively: yes there is a somewhat optimal way to play the game, just like how there was in Civ V, but that does not mean that you cannot beat every difficulty doing practically whatever meme nonsense you can come up with. Wide is certainly better in VI, but you can very much go Tall and beat anything. Similarly, I don't view this as something that is particularly damning for a new player as they will have no actual context for either and really doesn't apply to TC's needs.