You could have brought the units back a few turns earlier and declared war earlier while they were still accumulating units. Nevertheless I would've given up just like you. The AI isn't very bright, and giving power to the unbright always leads to frustrations.

Merci pour la vidéo. Really good ending!

good content - funny quick, catchy - subscribed!

moja ulubiona,,

You just earned yourself another subscriber mate. I can't wait to see what else you have to share!

I agree with Husky that Civ IV is better than 5. There are so many gay things about Civ 5 that maybe some people like. The penalizing of the player for trying to build an empire. The focus on the importance of the Olympics as unlimited resource sink. The difficulty of conquering city states. The designer discouraging roads because "they're ugly". Well anyways it's in the past now and time heals all wounds. Civ VI is even more popular than V on steam. IV is almost pre Steam. I like the idea of Civ 8 being modular. Just update the graphics and let people play their favorite rule set from Civ history.

"It's *Curtains* for you, John!!"

Epic Video!

I think you made a mistake in your opening that has really closed a lot of people’s minds. Civ 5 is a lot of people’s favorite Civ and placing it last made myself and many others quite defensive. I nearly clicked off of the video immediately. I like what you have to say about Civ 7 and your ideas for how it could succeed and fail, I think in most regards you are quite right, especially regarding UI. But unfortunately after the stumbling block of an intro most people have already decided that you are wrong. Sorry.

Seriously enjoying all your content - keep it up!

Fun video, I enjoyed watching it! Thanks for the story. ... Sorry but I have to say it, it's Curtin and not Curtain.

I'm back to playing civ 5 because civ 6 ai is terrible. I still hate civ looking like a phone game. Civ 7 has nice sketch art in the cut scenes but go with Disney animation leader art.

Sorry, but I had to have a chuckle over this one. Just been playing my first attempt at AUS. And finished the pyramids about 30 mins ago. Timing😂😂😂

This is why we play on settler sometimes

Well what you said at the start is true, the series already survived 5, Beyond Earth, and 6. Surely yet another mediocre dud wouldn't sink them.

I appreciate this vid and the redemption attempts to show how feasible the set up was from the get go

How are you?

the game isn't even out yet ya silly

This is very good. It's not always about winning. Most civ youtubers just post how awesome a win they achieve, but it's good to see tough challenges and failed games too. Very interesting.

Have been playing every Civ game since Civ II. (Even though i am older than you i never got to play the original Civilization) The inability to get the earlier wonders at high difficulty levels is what keeps me at the medium levels. With all the things i have learned from quite a few Civ streamers i´m quite sure i could be deity AI. Probably. Would i like to find out if i actually could - maybe someday. For now i like to have fun...

love it please post more you're like the only entertaining civ yter other than herson and civlifer

just play china if you want to build the pyramids, all other countries pale when it comes to early wonder rushes

You might look into the mod "Late Game AI". It lessens AI early bonuses and ramps it up every era. Makes early wonders more reasonable while making the late game even more challenging than Deity.

Guess I'll add my Deity wins from my Civ V to my CV now.

Civ 5 at the bottom ? Opinion rejected lol Civ 6 IS the bottom, that game is ass, 5 is so much better and less "gameified" with bad game mechanics that make no sense, it's annoying and convoluted in the most boring and unsatisfying way possible.

good points. subscribed.

I like most of this, I hope the Civ Team is taking notes

I think a lot of people think civ 5 may be the best, while you have it at the bottom. Of course, it all depends on your personal preferences.

Thank you sir

This was so good

Nice

If they were that smart they would have just kept playing a good game like Civ Rev.

this is a great vid, i agree with your point of view on a lot of it, thank you for the vid 🙏

Civ 7 looks like it will suck

Thank you for this. I was a young adult when I played Civ 1, and played and loved each additional entry in entry in the series on release. You articulated many of the concerns I have about 7, and I am just not confident on how much I will enjoy it day one. That being said, I will buy and play it on day one as always, and trust the devs to fix what isn't fun and iterate until it is also a "just one more turn" classic alongside all the others. Fingers crossed they won't let me down.

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Civ 4 & 5 are the weakest games in the series! Civ 3 is my favorite!

I looked at my hall of fame. Hmmm...

They just won’t update on building expansion aside from update higher but not outward. Civ 5 almost did, civ6 did but the building only limited on the tile that surround the city. While this one, it’s more a district than what need for house or building spread out and road too tho it would be more spaces.

I've played only civ 5 rip offs and civ 6, and in my opinion, the ripoffs were better. Then again, it was open source so i could find hundreds of mods. Edit: also im excited for civ 7

Man, this is legit inspiring. I'm kind of at a crossroads in my life, and it's a good reminder that your interests are yours - and that they're valuable, even if other people can't necessarily see it.

104, 7. What could that mean?

Beautiful. Thanks for making this video.

some similar experiences but I loved Civ 5 and didn't like VI as much. Only missing 2 or 3 achievements on Civ5 on Steam. Hope they will hit with VII, again

My hall of fame randomly resets every once and a while

What a great inspirational video.

6:52 why German

Thanks, for sharing this heart warming story. Who knows, maybe I even knew you from civfanatics @EmotionalHuskysCivStories, I knew more than one passionate Civ4 Canadians. :) I can only say that Civilization had me anchored as well. I just do everything else better if I allow myself to indulge into games, and especially Civ. And I can't say that I struggled getting recognized or getting money but I did struggle getting any motivation without also getting some joy from games, mostly Civ. Earning a right to play has made me go successfully through a bit sooner than expected fatherhood, going through university, being a good engineer, losing a father, being a lead and being an entrepreneur. Whenever, I refrained from gaming due to number of responsibilities and that being a "right" thing to do by some normal world standards, stress and bad mood would kick in. Whenever I started gaming again, I would flourish. Funny thing is that I have spent much more time on games than on all of those things combined (except my family). If there was no transferable skill from Civ, I would have been much less successful, for sure and I should have failed at everything by the effort I put. In my opinion, the biggest advantage and that Civ basically trains you to do is the ability to go in that Civ-like bird-view perspective, look at stuff through environment, resources, sequence and time and just focus on doing things with greatest impact from the random position you are in. I think that I am extremely trained in being extremely efficient/impactful and have unintentionally spent 24 years training efficiency (and I am mid thirties) while having a lot of fun. Due to that I think I start with a lot of experience in all I try to do. It is a cheat code IRL.

Oh man, this was a divisive video, huh? Well I thought you made some good points.

Humankind is better though