I've started growing weary of the franchise and still play 5 if I play at all. It's very eurocentric, believes in Great Man, and believes in End of History nonsense. It has warped multiple generations' understanding of history as something deterministic. Like Native Americans didn't have cars because they never researched animal husbandry so that's why they got wiped out by the technologically superior Spanish.
There's no implementation of food cultivation outside of European style farming. There's no alternate tech trees for not having certain resources. Hint: if there aren't any sources of iron near you, you're not discovering steel. If there are no horses, you're not discovering horseback riding. The list goes on and on.
This doesn't even get into how it applies government and law. It's still "Pick good guy form of government to make people happy and authoritarian evil gobermint to build military units faster."
I've started growing weary of the franchise and still play 5 if I play at all. It's very eurocentric, believes in Great Man, and believes in End of History nonsense. It has warped multiple generations' understanding of history as something deterministic. Like Native Americans didn't have cars because they never researched animal husbandry so that's why they got wiped out by the technologically superior Spanish.
There's no implementation of food cultivation outside of European style farming. There's no alternate tech trees for not having certain resources. Hint: if there aren't any sources of iron near you, you're not discovering steel. If there are no horses, you're not discovering horseback riding. The list goes on and on.
This doesn't even get into how it applies government and law. It's still "Pick good guy form of government to make people happy and authoritarian evil gobermint to build military units faster."