[chc]

The idea that Civilization makes you, personally, a tyrannical psychopath is not worth discussing. There are vaguely related topics like the one you bring up here that might have some conversational value, but the comment with the downvotes is attributing a positively insane level of mind control to video games.

[fallingfrog]

No, of course, it doesn't.. in fact Civ 5 is my favorite game at the moment, and I hope I'm not a psycho! I interpreted the post to be saying that it makes you play the role of a psychopathic ruler. I mean, I've used nukes on my enemies in Civ. And I guess the other question is, does it pass on the values of.. well I would say imperialism, but it goes back a lot farther than that. The patriarchy, maybe?