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Favorite Paradox Game?

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I have CK2 and EU4. I have Vicky 2, but I never really managed to get into it. I should try it at some point, I suppose. EU4 is my favorite of the bunch, I just prefer the era. CK2 is definitely fun, though.

Next month, the next DLC for EU4 drops, then the month after is Stellaris, then after that is Hearts of Iron. Paradox games all summer.

My favorite game of EU4 of recent memory has to be the Prussia one where I was at war with every major European power save Russia at one point. Prussian Ideas too stronk though.
 
Massively addicted to EU3. The hardest I've broken history is probably my Byzantium campaign where I stretched from the west coast of Africa to China's border.
 
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In a Crusader Kings II game as Wales, I somehow managed to become king of France, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Emperor of Britain, king of Jerusalem, and Emperor of a Empire I created myself which I named "The Celtic Empire" using that DLC where you can make new Empires.

Also, this one time I saw the AI turn the Abbasid Caliphate (Charlemange start, btw) into a Tengri-Turkish empire via inheritance.
 
I mostly play Hearts of Iron 2. If I could figure out how to mod in custom nations, I would try carving out borders for CWCville and Deagle Nation.
 
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I often play Darkest Hour, CK2, Victoria 2. The mods are the saving graces of Paradox games though, Victoria 2 has a few mods that fix or alleviate some glaring issues, Crusader Kings 2 has Elder Scrolls, Game of Thrones, and Warhammer mods as well as that original space based one. Darkest Hour has too many mods that I can't remember them all.

Only issue I have with Paradox though is the nickle and dime DLC, and their increasingly ass-holish forum practices and forcing Swedish shit on everyone there.
 
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I am terribly addicted to CK2's A Song of Ice and Fire mod, to the point where I've logged more hours in that than in vanilla.
 
I like CK2 and EUIV. Unfortunately CK2 is too unstable for me to play it much these days. Used to like HOI but they lost me big time with HOI 3. Sometimes play Vicky but usually just once or twice a year. Zero interest in Stellaris.
 
Dudeofteenage said:
I like CK2 and EUIV. Unfortunately CK2 is too unstable for me to play it much these days. Used to like HOI but they lost me big time with HOI 3. Sometimes play Vicky but usually just once or twice a year. Zero interest in Stellaris.
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Victoria II (if we're talking about that one) is good with mods, a lot of the fans are mad at Paradox about it since Vicky II came around the point that Paradox started going for a more profit oriented business model over quality. So Victoria was dumped because it wasn't one of their flagship games while they gave all the attention to Crusader Kings II, the EU series, DLC, and fixing HOI3.
 
Both Victoria games are on sale. Should I just skip to the second one?
 
King n Yellow said:
Victoria II (if we're talking about that one) is good with mods
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Oh yeah I like it and all, I just don't come back to it as often as EU and CK.

I think you're wrong to look at Paradox as ignoring quality in favour of commercial success. CK2 was commercially successful partly because it was - at the time - amazingly bug-free for a Paradox release.
 
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Dudeofteenage said:
Oh yeah I like it and all, I just don't come back to it as often as EU and CK.

I think you're wrong to look at Paradox as ignoring quality in favour of commercial success. CK2 was commercially successful partly because it was - at the time - amazingly bug-free for a Paradox release.
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They also really hammered hard on the RPG elements versus it being another really-pretty-but-basically-a-spreadsheet grand strategy game. And the Game of Thrones mod is crazy popular - lots of people picked it up for that.
 
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They also really hammered hard on the RPG elements versus it being another really-pretty-but-basically-a-spreadsheet grand strategy game. And the Game of Thrones mod is crazy popular - lots of people picked it up for that.
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The best mod of all time still has to go to Darkest Hour's (And DH is already a commercial mod for HOI2 that besides refining the ww2 experience also added a decent ww1) Kaiserreich mod, which is a alt history in which germany won ww1. However while most "What if Germany won ww1" alt histories are wank fests about Mein-Schleiffen-Plan-Master-Race, this one took the more beleiveable route of Germany never resuming the Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, resulting in America never entering the war, and a slow, grinding war that lasted al the way to 1919, leaving Europe in far worse shape than even the actual WW1, with much the sort of sentiment that wracked post ww1 Germany instead doing so in France and the UK. So it's got all sorts of knockon effects, all of which roughly make sense, except America, which the devs admitted it's alt history was more about finding something to keep an American player busy instead of twiddling their thumbs for 6+ years and selling guns to the UK, as is the case in normal WW2. But all in all it's an amazing mod, and has a ton of branching possibilities that make sure the Second Great War can play out different every time.

Other things that happened in the alt history involve Austria Hungary seperating due to internal fractures, the Ottomans still being essentially on life support, the Whites winning the Russian Civil War, and my favorite, Italy still being a fucking garbage ally that can't fight its way out of a paper bag.
 
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I've been playing CK2 and EU4 for years. Done shit like colonized California as Burma and conquered Europe as West African pagans.

Once you're addicted to Grand Strat's complexity regular games just don't do it for you anymore.

If anyone ever wants to do some multiplayer, send me a message.
 
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Italy still being a fucking garbage ally that can't fight its way out of a paper bag.
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It's a fluke that in unmodded HoI2, they can annex Ethiopia, which shouldn't have happened. Then after that, they go back to sucking.
 
I still remember observing a CK2 game where Norse Khazars ruled the Byzantine Empire for some 200 years, before Sweden reformed the Norse faith and they converted to kebab :c
 
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Flustercuck said:
I still remember observing a CK2 game where Norse Khazars ruled the Byzantine Empire for some 200 years, before Sweden reformed the Norse faith and they converted to kebab :c
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I got bored with "OMG I made Muslim Scotland LOLOLOL" threads about 3 months after CK2 was released. It's trivially easy to create all kinds of bizarre ahistorical empires and stops being interesting quite quickly. Ditto people banging their characters' daughters.
 
Dudeofteenage said:
I got bored with "OMG I made Muslim Scotland LOLOLOL" threads about 3 months after CK2 was released. It's trivially easy to create all kinds of bizarre ahistorical empires and stops being interesting quite quickly. Ditto people banging their characters' daughters.
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It's all about how many daughters you can bang though.
And if you're a Zoroastrian, you can bang their daughters, get them pregnant, then bang their granddaughters.
 
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Dudeofteenage said:
I got bored with "OMG I made Muslim Scotland LOLOLOL" threads about 3 months after CK2 was released. It's trivially easy to create all kinds of bizarre ahistorical empires and stops being interesting quite quickly. Ditto people banging their characters' daughters.
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I'm the same - I find it much more entertaining to stay within historical plausibility (even if it's really thin plausibility, like the Byzzies throwing back the Turks.)
 
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