>>2045678
>games from the 2000s are now considered ancient history
>everything I don’t like is trannies/Reddit because my vocabulary is deficient
Is this the final form of the zoomer?
EU3 was trash, and was a downgrade in every aspect other than graphics. I doubt that you even played it, and I am absolutely certain that you never played EU2. EU2 had a soundtrack with actual sovl, it was the last game to feature real historical music and the tracks changed as you went through the ages. EU3 onwards had bleh modern soundtracks created for the game. EU3 had the random coring-over-time which felt bad, you spent half the game spamming merchants, and waiting for things like magistrates to refresh just to do things was terrible. Dealing with pirates and microing ships to patrol your coasts was extremely annoying. The AI always did unrealistic and gamey shit that killed immersion like seeing Bohemia or fucking Castile snaking across Ukraine every game. IMO, best thing about EU2 was mods like AGCEEP that used heavy railroading by events for guardrails to keep the AI following anything even close to a historical path. It still allowed the player to steer the game in a somewhat sandbox fashion, but the game didn’t immediately divorce from reality within 10 years of the start date. AI has always been the weakest part of Paradox games, and modern nu-Paradox have leaned into boring player blobbing world conquest power fantasies. There’s little left once the verisimilitude and the resemblance of real history is gone.

Back | Go to board

Board:

/vst/

Thread:

EU3 is still the best game Paradox made.