I played a bunch of Civ 1, but the newer ones are just too complicated for me. Like, at some point I tried Civ V (with the expansion pack) and there's just so much _stuff_. World Congress? Civics? Great Missionaries? How am I supposed to fit all of this together into a coherent strategy? I ended up mostly doing random stuff with many of the mechanics, which made the thing eventually not much fun, and I don't think I ended up completing a single game.