New Civilization game currently at a 51% rating on Steam
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Wide play definitely becomes tedious, especially from a colonizing perspective.
If you don't continually pump out Settlers to claim every last square of the map, your AI opponents definitely will.
But most of the cities and territory you claim in the latter 2/3 of the game are irrelevant to your actual victory because it is so resource-intensive to make newer cities productive enough to matter.
For me, this reality alone tends to limit me to the smallest map types (the other is hardware performance) so that the race to colonize every last inch ends quicker.