[zyxley]

I still haven't really been able to make the jump from Civ 5 to Civ:BE. BE's civ and tech choices somehow manage to feel painfully samey and confusingly unorganized all at the same time.

[vkou]

Civ 5 polished most of the core Civ mechanics (With only a few regressions).

Civ:BE is an unfocused mess.

[mattzito]

I weirdly haven't even tried BE. It's like I'm worried I'm going to break the spell.

[cableshaft]

I was super excited for it, but I couldn't get into the future tech tree.

It was hard to determine what tech to reasearch and if I needed "whatever" what tech to research, since I didn't have any historical reference to draw from.

Also one of the new victory conditions was difficult to keep track of and kept sneaking up on me multiple times.

[morgante]

I got a good 40 hours of play out of BE, but I'm back to 5 now. It essentially felt like a big scenario rather than a whole new game.

Ultimately, the dynamics of playing historical civilizations offers a lot more diversity and interest than a single sci-fi game.