Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece
I have spent countless hours on this game (especially Civ 5) - it just felt so deep. It actually triggered quite some interests down the road around archeology, history, military strategy. Reading about some historic character I really often thought "ha - I know this person from Civilization" and the same game has you thinking about things like geographic choke points for someone else's navy and things like that.<p>I'm really hoping that at some point a version of Civilization will come out with a more realistic AI (I haven't really looked into this but assume that a lot more is possible now than 10 years ago given all recent advancements). To me that felt like the main thing that caused me to lose interest at some point, interaction with AI players was too scripted and a harder difficulty level just meant more units and faster progression for AI players. I never got into multiplayer, I imagine it would be way too slow to keep my attention.