I.

Love.

Civ.

Next to TF2, it's probably the game that has stolen most of my life away (Starcraft and Diablo 2 might be close thirds and fourths). Specifically Civ IV, which is my favorite, but I've played all of them, except for Revolutions. Revolutions is based off of Colonization, right? So I've TECHNICALLY played that, too.

But fo realz, Civ IV is my favorite. It's just the best balanced and most fun to me, and the wide variety of mods keeps the fun going for a looooong ass time. I can't tell you how long I've spent playing the Fall From Heaven II fantasy mod. A long fucking time.

After IV, my favorites go as follows: II, then V, then III, then I. II was the first one I ever played, and I remember when I first discovered it I was like "This looks kinda cool" and I spent so much time playing that game I could not go to sleep, my mind was too stimulated and awake. I would close my eyes and all I could think of was that game. I still play II occasionally over IV, it's nice to go back to the past.

Man, we should all play some online games of Civ in here sometime

Yeah I also play Freeciv on occasion, but it seems more... broken. Like, with the AI that is. I dunno, they seem to cheat more and it puts me off from the game.

Also I suck at the games despite how much I play them, so I usually play, like, difficulty 3 out of 8 or so.

I could never get Freeciv to work with multiplayer when I was younger so I was like "FUCK IT GOING BACK TO THE OTHERS". Civ 4 has an online lobby, and I use that often. Hell I played with a friend last night, actually. I chose random everything, noble difficulty. Not doing so great as the Ethiopians, but my friend Jenisha is doing far worse . She was like "There's gold near Matt's area, let me go build a city near it to steal it". This worked until I got Stonehenge. Ethiopians are apparently all about culture, and I quickly swarmed over Los Angeles and culturally stole it. She was kinda pissed at that, and to be honest, it was a complete accident. I was content to let her have the gold.