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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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my morning jackass posted:

I'm wanting to play a WWII based strategy game and some people here mentioned HoI isn't very good. I haven't really played any similar titles and I have read it's pretty involved so would there be something similar anyone here would suggest?

Even turn based combat stuff would be okay.

paradox hoi isnt great but the fan expansion commercial hoi thing Darkest Hour is... acceptable

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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dont buy hoi3 unless like you like being mad

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Distant WOrlds: is it good?

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Disco Infiva posted:

Magna Mundi for EU3 had something similar.

world stage, released at last

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Victoria 2 is good and someday I'm gonna get those texans

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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at the date posted:

Victoria II is on sale. For someone who loves CK2 and EU4 to death, would Vicky be worth the time and effort to learn?

it doesnt have cool characters like ck2 does if thats what youre after

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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even as stupid as it is vicky is still better than hearts of iron

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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infamy system still sucks though

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i was wondering why mexico could field so many more soldiers than me

turns out i forgot you have to mobilize your troops

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i'm going to play hoi3 today

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i didn't after all

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i hope stellaris is better than distant worlds but it probably won't be

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Is ROT3K 13 good? They are localizing it apparently!

e: Looked at the steam page reviews. Welp

No. You can still get rotk11 on gamersgate though I think which is much better

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Fungah! posted:

i think about tht insane homo who tried callng me out for saying that ftl isn't real and lol sometims

e in the games thread

more like ftw

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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hoi3's tutorials were written as if hitler was giving them to you and yet he never tells you to kill all the jews, i thought paradox was about historical accuracy

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Larry Parrish posted:

Those were so unfunny it hurt

They were almost as bad as actually playing hoi3

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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why would that even be a thing it doesnt even make sense

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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I sure hope our scientists invent the concept of property soon --a person in the 1600s

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i hope hoi4 requires tech before you can fabricate claims

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Jackie D posted:

I'm going to pre-order Stellaris

did you ever actually play the game your av is from



fuckin rulers of nations

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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also holy poo poo it's amazing how much worse hoi3 is than hoi2 was

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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Knuc U Kinte posted:

I'm gonna get a mouse and see how well my laptop can run eu4...let's do this, mapbros.

theres some flat map no water mods to boost performance for you though they disable ironman if you use em. i dont kno if theyv been kept up to date though

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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fun fact the people who created AGEOD are also the ones who created the EU board game

thats why paradox kept publishing their stuff even though it was bad and sold poorly

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i wish i liked eu4 more but i really don't like the whole admin/diplo/military points thing. it's annoying.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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I can't wait for hoi4 its gonna own

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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colonization and the tech tree are both really badly handled in vicky 2

like, some parts of north america won't be colonized until halfway through the period because you haven't discovered the technology of "oppress natives really super good" and technology is tied to years

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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more significantly though is it's not as fun to play v2 as a small country since so much of the game's mechanics are based on who the powers are.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i preordered stellaris today

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i liked events....

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

darkest hour for me

im hoping hoi4 recaptures how good darkest hour is b/c that game is so loving good

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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The Real Foogla posted:

isn't that the whole purpose of paradox mapgames? like in V2 everything can be influenced by "ok but what will the brits do next", or how in EU4 you have to always fear the big blue blob

forced US immigration is basically the environment, or the infrastructure, to your funhaving
In EU4 you can play a weak country and still, if you do it right, reach America. In Vicky 2 if you're a weak country you're literally not allowed to do a bunch of the basic game mechanics.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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To me Vicky 2 is like Pride of Nations: interesting in concept, but a nightmare to play

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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In Training posted:

I'm gonna blow my loving lid if that DLC I bought two days is 2 dollars right now.

get a refund for it and buy it again

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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i loving hope stellaris is good, but if not at least we've got hoi4 coming up the next month

corn in the bible fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Apr 25, 2016

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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if you've never played a mapgame then eu4 is an excellent choice. i have some problems with it to be sure but it's super accessible and absolutely has the best designed UI so it's great for people who are new to paradox stuff

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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eventually after playing eu4 for a while maybe you'll think you wanna do more stuff with the leaders and people in your country and you'll pick up ck2, or you'll wanna do a bunch of war stuff and kill hitler so you'll buy a hearts of iron game, or you'll get crippling ocd and buy victoria 2

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corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

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In Training posted:

what do you even do in multiplayer mapgame. just all play the game at the same time

yeah, everyone is a different country

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