Dominions 6 or 5?

[Legendskiller76]

A little question, for those who knows well dominion series, i would like to start.

Should i begin with 5 or 6? The 6 is better by far?
The patches on the 5 made him more stable and not buggued?

Thanks for all

[Sombre]

If you are ok with the price, I would strongly recommend Dominions 6. It has numerous improvements to UI, AI, mechanics over Dom5, will support the latest mods and multiplayer games, and of course simply has more content (several new nations, thousands of new units, a new magic path, an underground layer, map terraforming, etc).

In terms of stability Dominons 6 has been through a beta test, but I think it is reasonable to assume it will have more bugs than Dominions 5, being a newly released game. These bugs will very unlikely be game crashing or game ending bugs though, more likely to be minor issues that the developers will patch over the coming weeks.

Illwinter (the developer) have a very good track record of supporting and updating their games with free content (e.g. Dominions 5 had 7 new nations added after it launched, as well as new spells, heroes, and units).

If you are not sure about the price or very worried about bugs, Dominions 5 is still a fine game, but it is not likely to receive ongoing support by modders or the multiplayer community for long now that Dominions 6 has launched.

[Princess Celestia]

Dominions 6 is simply better

[spockamania]

Comes down to price and if you already have played the series. There are improvements each game, but they are at their core the same game just with large expansions each time. Is the new content worth double the price over 5? That's kinda up to you. When I was in college and money was far tighter, it'd have been _real_ hard to justify 6. Now, much less so.

[Mali Belizec]

Dominions/Coe games are only games I would buy without thinking. Those games are real gem.

If you buy even 4 it would still give you great gaming time. Dom 5 was best of all so I am looking forward playing 6 while finishing up my games (SP) in 5 (I got hooked on excellent warhammer mod).