It felt like they wanted to make it easier for people to get into, but they really just made the whole thing seem limited in scope while still being as slowly paced as ever, really making the entire game way more monotonous and laborious.
Maybe it was just me, but the amount of ways to actually play the game and win seem to be limited compared to the older games. Not only are there less systems at work, but the ones that are a work just seem trivial. I'm not an enormous Civ guy or anything, and I still felt like they stripped out a lot of the complexity that made the older games good. I am no expert, but V really felt boring to me.
