Is this game better than Civ 6?

[Bear Malice]

I loved Civ 5, but would love to experience something more. Is Beyond Earth better than Civ 6? The reason I ask is because I've heard a lot of negative things about 6, and don't know if they improved on Beyond Earth since it's last release.

[Vargas78]

I only saw Civ 6 once round a friends and wasn't overly impressed but my friend likes it. But one thing we have to mention is that Beyond Earths expansion, Rising Tide gives it some much needed extra features and in my opinion makes it a decent game. Wheter or not it's actually better than Civ 6 I don't know. From what i can tell, Civ 6 has about as many supporters as it does detractors.

[Ryika]

Hard to compare. Both games are bad in their own way, and both games are good in their own way.

If you're fine with something that's very close to Civ 5, but with a space theme, and can look over a lack in strategical depth, then Beyond Earth is a good choice. If you want a remixed version of Civ 5, that builds on some of its strengths but brings its own problems (it's more of a board game than an immersive experience), then Civ 6 is a good choice.

Civ 6 of course has the bonus of continued development, both in terms of official content, as well as an active modding scene. Beyond Earth is done and won't improve in the future, there are some cool mods, but its modding community is dead as well.

Both games aren't considered to be gems by the majority of players, but still pretty good playable in my opinion.

[Bear Malice]

Thanks guys I really appreciate the advice, but I decided to wait until they improve Civ 6, and just keep playing Civ 5 for the moment.

[Elucidus]

Good choice

[Twin]

Yes! Best civillization ever maded.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by Bear Malice:

Thanks guys I really appreciate the advice, but I decided to wait until they improve Civ 6, and just keep playing Civ 5 for the moment.

Same LOL

[Ghost]

I perfer civ v tbh.

[Flishster]

I prefer Civ V over both BE and Civ VI, but I find BE more enjoyable than VI. BE still feels like an experience, even if very similar to V (and with the Codex mod it becomes its own thing) while I find Civ VI to be just micromanagement simulator 2016 for the most part. Not bad, but the management you have to do really detaches you from the game, unlike Civ V and BE.

[Tanya Degurechaff]

with the rising tide dlc, definitly. without it? probs not.

[ssi-guy]

With all games in their current state: Civ 5 > Civ BE:Rising Tide > Civ 6. But I think with time and expansions Civ 6 will improve and possibly eclipse both.

[Fņŏŕď]

Originally posted by Bear Malice:

I loved Civ 5, but would love to experience something more. Is Beyond Earth better than Civ 6? The reason I ask is because I've heard a lot of negative things about 6, and don't know if they improved on Beyond Earth since it's last release.

Lol. Even civ 6 is better than this crap. BE is a reskin of Civ V with the AI personalities turned off.

[Nightshade878]

I honestly have found this one to be more enjoyeable than both V and VI, especially when modded, and still consider it to be Firaxis magnum opus. Don't get me wrong, VI has some interesting mechanics and V has a bit more tactical depth, but neither of them feel like as much of an experience as this one does, and both V and VI feel washed out thematically after a while.

[McRib]

Hard to say both games have some good and bad thing.

Civ 6:

Positive:
- Different AIs: Spain (and Gandhi) are sending priest at you. But some another like germanys are for example are very productive focus and build that and stay away from religion. If you play against Aztec... prepare for war he will soon start a war with you that for sure ;). If you play against Gandhi you can be sure some another AI will start a war with you and ask Ganhdi to help him against you. Even if you peaceful it doesnt matter gandhi follow every AI into war. Even against another AI. (poor Gandhi every Civ game he is a running gang)
P.s NEVER let have Gandhi get there hand on nuke! In civ 6 there is a reason why he is called Nuke Gandhi ^^
- Different new mechanics make EVERY game different because wonders need to be place in spefic location and give bonus depent on the surrounding it make every city different. That apply to districes and wonders.
- Wonders are not OP. There sometimes good and nice to have but not gamebreaking.
- Many different mechanices are working well together and the card system is very adaptive.

Bad:
- Stupid AI (if you play 40 or more hours you know there problems)
- Religion. You get OVERRUN by 20-30 Priest in every game (!). You cant kill them you cant deal with them and there blocking every path. Totaly out of control. I really dont understand how this system got past the quality control. Just not fun.... and no way to turn it off.
- Bugs all over the place. MOST of them are still in the game even after 1 year like city stay undersieg for ever after a peacetreaty is sign (special condition are meet to run into this bug but it impossible to fix it except to give away the city and than retake it by force).
- DLC Fraktion are to powerful most of the time.


Beyond:

Positive:
- Easy to understand and to play. Not so complicated like another Civs.
- New setting looks cool
- Water citys (addon) that can move
- new tatical layer because of the satelites

Bad:
- Aliens are sometimes drive you crazy (really) seem like they read the guide "how to be a good gurilla army"
- flat in many ways (compare to civ 6) you build one city after the another the same way
- AI way of dealing with you is starting war. Build troops and attack you. If you repell them there want peace again. That all there can do. And building so much crap in there city that you dont want to take them... (really?!)
- The maps are very simlar to each another (same setups)

[UR ESTROGEN DEALER]

Civ 6 is absolutely horrible and so is this game, but when comparing how horrible one is over the other Civ 6 will always be more horrendous.

In my own opinion, at this point in time Civilization is a dead series thats hanging around, because of its namesake and nostalgia (think Red Alert 3, Command&Conquer 4.) Nowadays, it's almost like Civilization is the 4x equivalent to Call of Duty; they don't do anything new, each game is more bland than the last with more&more features stripped and delegated to DLC.

At the end of the day, there are dozens of other 4x games, that do what Civilization created 20+ years ago, much better than the modern Civilization games could ever hope to do; although, you'll have to sacrifice the shiny graphics for a good game.

[Venusaisha]

Civilization games after Civilization IV seem to die and idle on map making in which Civilization IV(world builder) had best in. Best Thing i like about Civilization V is indians bring out and vikings and some others. I think Civilization VI is more a carttoon version of "who says politics are boring" but has some goods in other areas. Beyond earth is nice thou seems missing alot stuff of a True Alpha Centauri remake.