Civ V - does the game ever play out differently?

[Windigo]

Yup.  A few times.  When I do, I usually play an aggressive civ like Germany or Japan and I just steamroll the world by the late medieval era.

The few times I've tried to be reasonably aggro early on to secure a continent, everyone declares me to be a hostile warmonger and I get repeatedly denounced and everyone declares war.  I don't think I've ever seen a game where the AI civs behave in an even remotely rational manner in the late stages.  They all just turn hostile and flip out no matter what you do.

crabs in a bucket mentality eh?

[Gusington]

I have won one game of Civ V by building the spaceship...can't remember the difficulty or even the civ I used, it was a while back.

[Nefaro]

^I love the heartwarming details of a Civ game.  Although, both Bison and SDR sound more aggressive than I ever am.

I never start a war.  I like to turtle and build up peacefully.  That's why the late game war vs. everyone gets on my nerves.

Too bad there's no AI aggressiveness setting, in the options.

I often like to just build up econ-tech-wise in grand strategy games, too.