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Favorite Paradox Game?

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How is CK3 these days? I could never get into CK2 over the shot scaling but really want to try the series.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
How is CK3 these days? I could never get into CK2 over the shot scaling but really want to try the series.
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I'm pretty into it but I'll admit it's my first Paradox game and the only other one I'm really interested in is EU4. It's a bit bare on content currently if you're looking for a SUPER wide variety of playthroughs but there's more than enough there to sink ones teeth into. People like to talk about the game like there's absolutely no powerful unique decisions, but it's simply not true. For some reason tho a lot of the more interesting ones don't have achievements, like forming Austria.

The next major dlc comes out in a few weeks and it's looking like a major content overall that'll add a lot more depth to the gameplay so now's a good time to check it out
 
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MightyBiteySnake said:
I'm pretty into it but I'll admit it's my first Paradox game and the only other one I'm really interested in is EU4. It's a bit bare on content currently if you're looking for a SUPER wide variety of playthroughs but there's more than enough there to sink ones teeth into. People like to talk about the game like there's absolutely no powerful unique decisions, but it's simply not true. For some reason tho a lot of the more interesting ones don't have achievements, like forming Austria.

The next major dlc comes out in a few weeks and it's looking like a major content overall that'll add a lot more depth to the gameplay so now's a good time to check it out
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I'd recommend two if it didn't need nearly a hundred DLC to be fully playable.
do you blob or do you spread the seed of your family?
 
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God of Nothing said:
I'd recommend two if it didn't need nearly a hundred DLC to be fully playable.
do you blob or do you spread the seed of your family?
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I'd play two if it didn't require all that damn DLC! here's hoping that the new culture system differentiates 3 from 2 enough that people stop complaining. I prefer achieving a certain goal level, maintaining that, and if I want to keep playing after that, spreading my dynasty into as many kingdoms as possible. One time, on a Nuño Portugal achievement run I had my family ruling nearly all of western Africa, Sardinia, Italy, Egypt, England, Ireland and the Byzantines and was racking up an insane amount of renown/month
 
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Stellaris should be (was?) a good game. I want to like it so badly, but I just don't. The combat sucks, the planet building sucks, the AI sucks, the diplomacy sucks.

I want to take its skin and plastic surgery it onto a different game; one with an actual combat system that isn't just "highest number wins" and an economic system that isn't just "most planets wins". Sins of a Solar Empire probably deserves a sequel, maybe we can get that studio to buy the assets once Paradox 41%s itself after hiring one to many trannies.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
How is CK3 these days? I could never get into CK2 over the shot scaling but really want to try the series.
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Missing a lot of flavor compared to CK2, and the Byzantines need a serious rework, but that's to be expected considering CK2 got hundreds of dollars of DLC over a period of years. If you play CK as a character-based game rather than a state-based game, I think it's well on it's way to being better than CK2 in that regard with a few more updates and DLC.
 
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DamnWolves! said:
once Paradox 41%s itself after hiring one to many trannies.
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the only people doing any work are the stellaris guys, and those arent good.

The Hoi4 team is the biggest joke, they still havent fixed any of the game breaking exploits, they just dont care, the historic AI is pretty much on rails and they fucked that up big time and never fixed it. France on historic is just broken, the AI cant generate enough PP to up manpower or economy laws because the focus path is set so poorly that it never takes the focus to end their debuffs.
 
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Stoneheart said:
the only people doing any work are the stellaris guys, and those arent good.

The Hoi4 team is the biggest joke, they still havent fixed any of the game breaking exploits, they just dont care, the historic AI is pretty much on rails and they fucked that up big time and never fixed it. France on historic is just broken, the AI cant generate enough PP to up manpower or economy laws because the focus path is set so poorly that it never takes the focus to end their debuffs.
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Only makes me want to see just how truly trashfire Vic 3 will be.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
How is CK3 these days? I could never get into CK2 over the shot scaling but really want to try the series.
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CK3s the only paradox game I've played that was actually worth buying at release. It's a lot simpler than CK2 is but without sacrificing any of the things that made that game fun. Most of the really cool stuff in CK2 was added in over time anyway, and CK3s got its own DLC schedule (big one comes out in a few weeks I think).

It can look pretty intimidating at first glance but paradox actually did a really good job for once at explaining how all this shit works.
 
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feedtheoctopus said:
CK3s the only paradox game I've played that was actually worth buying at release. It's a lot simpler than CK2 is but without sacrificing any of the things that made that game fun. Most of the really cool stuff in CK2 was added in over time anyway, and CK3s got its own DLC schedule (big one comes out in a few weeks I think).

It can look pretty intimidating at first glance but paradox actually did a really good job for once at explaining how all this shit works.
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The first major DLC actually comes out in 2 days!
 
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Looking forward to the culture rework. The whole "look at your badass throne room" thing is just kind of cosmetic, but it'll be nice to have something to look at other than the map
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Im happy the inventory system is back and the ability to hold court to force certain events seems pretty dynamic, not to mention petitioning your liege. I think there's a lot of depth to RC that doesn't really translate well to marketing promotions
 
feedtheoctopus said:
CK3s the only paradox game I've played that was actually worth buying at release. It's a lot simpler than CK2 is but without sacrificing any of the things that made that game fun. Most of the really cool stuff in CK2 was added in over time anyway, and CK3s got its own DLC schedule (big one comes out in a few weeks I think).

It can look pretty intimidating at first glance but paradox actually did a really good job for once at explaining how all this shit works.
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I bought CK2 on release because I thought the original Crusader Kings was a fun game that just needed a bit of extra work. And that's exactly what CK2 was on release--the original Crusader Kings with most of the worst/dumbest stuff fixed and some polish on top. EU4 was decent on release too, even if it was just EU3 with a different trade system and fancier graphics.
 
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Save the Loli said:
I bought CK2 on release because I thought the original Crusader Kings was a fun game that just needed a bit of extra work. And that's exactly what CK2 was on release--the original Crusader Kings with most of the worst/dumbest stuff fixed and some polish on top. EU4 was decent on release too, even if it was just EU3 with a different trade system and fancier graphics.
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I liked CK2 but playing it at the time it felt like more then half the game was locked off for no reason. Like you could look at the rest of the map but couldn't do anything with it. Couldn't play anybody but a christian in west europe either I think.
 
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feedtheoctopus said:
I liked CK2 but playing it at the time it felt like more then half the game was locked off for no reason. Like you could look at the rest of the map but couldn't do anything with it. Couldn't play anybody but a christian in west europe either I think.
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Make sense when you realize both the ERE and Muslims in base CK2 more or less functioned as a final boss to check your map painting (along with the horde armies in the 1300s).
 
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