I think I didn’t put too much time into Civ V, I had to go back to the IGN video review to remember that indeed military victory was the only realistic way to go. The culture approach was messed up. And the advisors suggestions made sense until late game where all bets are off. However, playing Civ IV I noticed that there are less units than I thought.

Civilization IV, I’ll be long dead by the time everyone realizes what a terrible idea was to change a square grid for a honeycomb and to remove unit stacking.