I loved civ 2 and civ 4, and thus I was really excited about civ 5. It failed to deliver but, part of me emotionally tried to cover up the faults when I played it. I didn't want to hate it, I wanted to love the game, but simply it was just not fun.

I may need to retry the game just making cities that overlap (something that really irks me, I am ocd, I want cities to have an opportune resources and when they grow up and become strong they will utilize ever tile of play.)