Best Paradox games for starters?
Best Paradox games for starters?
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CK2
This, it’s a great game and it’s easy to have fun even if you’re shit at it.
isn't this kinda the opposite? I would say stellaris
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CK3 is actually better for beginners
CK2 has a thousand different mechanics going on at the same time
2 is fine. just play ireland. 3 is for the retarded and has worse mechanics.
>ACK2
FTFY
Forgot to add, I've only played Civ V, I have like 1k on it and I had heard of Paradox games a lot so I might as well try them.
Adding to this, are the DLCs necessary or you're fine with just the base game?
eu4 for making any country big
hoi4 for combat
stellaris for exploration
havent tried the others, eu4 is most fun imo
>eu4
>pee Poo poor
>goy poor
Kys brown normal fag
EU2
Best music, best gameplay, teaches you European history because it's event driven rather than a sandbox.
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What do you think of Imperator: Rome? Everyone says it's shit but I've been having the most fun out of it.
It's shit.
Why?
Because it is. Take my word for it.
you know how people tend to say that paradox games are always shit on release and that there's like 2 exceptions to that rule?
imperator was not one of those exceptions and it didn't get very much support at all
so it stayed shit
Don't give this greedy ass company any of your money, pirate CK2 and maybe battletech
I got their game by buying keys for less than $5 in total, DLCs included. Gotta love humble bundle.
CK3 is the most accessible to new players.
the 2 easiest ones are ck3 and stellaris (idc what anyone says, i understood stellaris under 20 hours while it took me around 60 to fully grasp what the fuck i was doing in ck2)
ck3 you play as a ruler of a county/duchy/kingdom/empire, your goal is generally "do whatever", if you want to just rp then you can just rp with your character, if you want to conquer everything around you then you can, it's basically a game of thrones simulator with none of the magic (except for the rare event here and there)
realistically, i'd get used to ck3 and then jump to ck2, ck2 just has a lot more content than ck3, and considering the dev time between dlcs i'm gonna guess it's gonna stay that way for a long time, so learn basics through 3, jump to 2 once you're bored of 3
stellaris is closer to a civ game but in real time, as in it's a 4x game rather than a map painter. you conquer systems, build planets up, produce ships, etc. stellaris is more of a map painter than ck, the main goal is, ideally, to conquer. there's a bunch of stuff you can do to achieve that goal tho.
if you don't mind bashing your head against a wall for like 60 hours before everything finally starts to click and you have a full grasp of what the fuck is going on/what you're doing then just skip straight to ck2 and don't leave. start as ireland for a good first time experience.
some people would argue eu4 but eu4 has a massive problem where the game just has too many fucking features at this point that i, generally, tell newcomers to not get into it because they'll very likely give up before having a grasp of basic mechanics. not that it's a super deep game, it isn't, every mechanic is rather simple, there's just too many mechanics to keep track of for new players.
Why not learn a 4x or an actual war game instead of awful overpriced goyslop, advertiser-kun?
Not OP, but what would you recommend? I really like Gary Grigsby's War in the East and also Rome: Total War with the Europa Barbarorum mod.
>learn a 4x
Like what? Aurora4x? Goyslop 4x you people usually recommend is toddler tier in terms of strategic depth.
CK3 or Stellaris. CK3 is more along the lines of a typical paradox grand strategy minus the dlc bloat while Stellaris is more along the lines of a 4X grand strategy hybrid but has an unholy amount of dlc that the game feels incomplete without.
AI will cheat no matter what hence their games are only enjoyable with around 20-32+ males in their own respective teamspeak channels decided by their continent and general location. but then on the other hand you have 30 autists screaming into the mic and at least 5 of them are going to start to masturbate mid-game. in other words pick your poison
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I like Field of Glory Empires personally.
Thanks! Field of Glory Empires looks very good. I'll try it out seeing that it's from the same devs for Gary Grigsby's.
>same devs for Gary Grigsby's.
That's just the publisher, but gl just the same.
That game is meh. I like that they made a dlc for ancient Persia though that’s pretty cool, but even then it’s not that fun. It’s good for a handful of play throughs; every country plays exactly the same and building buildings is random
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Play a real game bro
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Stellaris is literally the only good Paradox game.
CK 2 is good as well
Why
It's fun to sacrifice people to Satan for demonic power while conquering Europe
autosaves don't overwrite each other and the save files are like 3 gb each, just a heads up to turn it off or delete them
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ck3 or stellaris.
take yer swing. both games are kino despite what non vidya playing Ganker anons would tell you
>CK3
>Kino
CK3 isn't nearly as bad as a lot of Anons say, in fact it has great bones but theirs a huge lack of content and DLC takes forever to come out. Shit even when it does come out its underwhelming as fuck
CK2 is only hard if you're playing with all dlc installed for your first playthrough. Play vanilla for your first 3-4 playthroughs then start with the dlc you find most interesting then after 100 hours start with the dlc that looks gay as fuck. You can't just hop into a game and expect to learn everything first go around, this isn't civilization
>ctrl-f
>magicka nowhere
come on people
People don't normally think of "funny magic game" when talking about Paradox games
>Play Stellaris as exploration focused "Starfleet"
>Spawn next door to Driven Assimilator
>Expand in other direction
>Trip over system with ungodly amounts of minerals
>Start mining
>Swarms of space creatures spew out of the rocks
>My cute little fleet can't even threaten them