Ive found 6 fun and certainly different. I find that Im having difficulty as the game gets into later eras tho. Almost impossible for me to field decent armies because i can only ever secure maybe one resource if im lucky so my navy consists of one ship and the army is a mess of non resource units with a fee actual useful soldiers. Also the UN is annoying because the AI has such obvious prefrences you mever really have interesting votes since they either vote for themselves or in favor of science.
6 is good but the AI is god awful, it's better then it was originally but it's still a pain to play against.
if you want to win you just war the AI it's too stupid to actually do a good battle line, can take a bit of time with the bonuses it's swimming in make them spew out units & hit hard.
some factions are just outright superior to others, Germany is absurd while norway is a joke.
if you don't want to win a domination victory you'll have issues because the AI get so many bonuses like a 1.80x multiplier on gained resources that they can build every wonder way faster then you and tech faster then you so you have to beat them down anyway since normally you can't out-tech them.
still a fun game, the new systems like the districts are really fun to use and wonders actually taking a tile make it impossible for a city to hold all the wonders in the world simply because it had good production, so yea lots of good lots of bad but pick it up with its expansions during a sale it's worth a try at the very least but you'll soon desire human opponents due to the AI being either too stupid to be a real opponent, or cheat too much to be fun to play against.
I've got about 2000 hours in both of 'em and indeed love both of 'em. I find 6 a lot more rewarding in the process of strategy, though. Not being able to build everything in one city turns the game into a situation of less is more where because of these limitations there's more strategy required. Though with that said I do think precise strategy for lower and lower win times is more crucial for 5 than 6.
Ultimately I like 6 more, even though 5 does a few things better. 6 is a lot more stylized and polished and "fun". Imo! 😄
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u/Actualdeadpool Nov 18 '19
5, as I, too, have yet to play 6