Quote Originally Posted by Mortal Kombat View Post
I'd love to say that i'm waiting for it with baited breath, but sadly i'd be lying. I think Civ 3 is by far away the best Civ game, 4 is ok but it just feels far too short, too easy and just doesn't seem to have the epicness of Civ3.
What do you think it was about Civ 4 that makes you say that? I have to admit that my experience with Civ 3 was minimal, so I can't make a decent comparison.

Many say that Civ 2 was the pinnacle of the civilization games, but I honestly felt that Civ 4 was definitely a step forward.

As for Civ 1, the most remarkable thing was that it could be ran off a single 3.5" floppy disk. That's only 1.44 MB. Granted, the graphics were far less impressive, but it was still an incredibly engrossing game.

It is more then likely that Civ 5 will be more like 4 then 3, but I guess its early days yet so hopefully I may be proven wrong.
In terms of pacing alone, I have seen in multiple places that they are taking inspiration from Civ Revolutions. Now that's not to say they are also dumbing down the game to that extent. You have to admit that there was some tedium in the end game, even if you were using your governors to control city production, so it might not be such an awful thing to cut down on that.