By best do you mean as in best for a new player because it was dumbed down so much?
***Sid Meier's Civilization VII***
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By best do you mean as in best for a new player because it was dumbed down so much?
6 (with a few mods and all the DLC) presents a lot of information upfront, making it a very easy 4X game to see a path from start to finish. It was a lot of fun in that regard but also lacks some surprise, an old mate of mine used to hate the last 1/3rd of the game because you could see you won and there wasn't much joy in playing it out for him, which a few thousand hours in I can see.
An hour into 7 and I can see I haven't scratched the surface of how it play, which is nice, it needs more time and attention to really enjoy the empire you build.
On past Civs, in multiplayer, on Marathon, on the largest map sizes, our matches would last months
Can't speak to the latest version, but in older Civs, if you started in the morning after breakfast you could finish by bedtime.
Turning off the high resolution UI (or whatever its called in the options) helps a bit, still a crap UI but makes it a bit more tolerable
Feels like a very streamlined / dumbed down for console 4 X game. The UI is clunky and uninformative. Combat is slow and tedious ; on one hand it's great you have army commanders acting as generals to "round up" the troops and move them en masse, but the commander himself moves at a snail's pace across the map. Will need to play more to experience what transitioning from age to age feels like. Not convinced by the devs decision to make the player choose a leader which often has zero connection to the civilisations you play throughout the game ... feels jarring to me.