You really do need to get into the mindset of the faggot atheist redditor to understand why EU4 is so popular. These people have never heard of strategy games in their lifes that wasn't stuff like Civilization 5, they were completely alien to them. And they can't enjoy these games because they consider them boring. They want a game that isn't necessarily smart or deep or immersive, but that appears to be to appeal to their surface-level taste. Because these people live for that mindless self-validation. They don't actually understand what makes for good games or good strategy, nor have they ever picked a book about history. They want to pretend they do so and circlejerk themselves, that's what matters. EU4 is just perfect for its demographic: these same college-age self-important Bernouts who "fucking love history". The entire foundation of the game is built upon the dichotomy between "silly events and fun stuff" and "this is actually historical and realistic bro". This pseudo-intellectual "this game is alt-history but can still be interesting and challenging" bullshit that EU4 shits out in almost every campaign is what appeals to it's audience. The game doesn't actually have the tact to even begin to offer an interesting presentation and discussion of any historical event, so it spouts these random rng events. Nevermind the embarrassing, forced "references", or how the story is non-existent and only comes up when the devs want to remind you that this is historical strategy, or how the entire game is a series of different forgettable campaigns with just enough incompatible historical references to trick kids into thinking they are smart for acknowledging them, or how the nations have somehow been reduced to even more obnoxious stereotypes than before, none of these things matter. What matters is that it appeals to the millenial redditor audience, and that's what's selling Europa Universalis 4.
You really do need to get into the mindset of the faggot atheist redditor to understand why EU4 is so popular...
tl;dr didn't read, mod the fucking game and stop playing vanilla
Bullshit
>too long didn't read didn't read
There's no point in modding, even AGEOD has a better engine than paradox now. Paradox is the bethesda of grand strategy. You are just polishing a turd.
Name on single good AGEOD game, you can't
FoG empires, the first game in their new engine :^)
fpbp
What's ageod and fog
Truth hurts eh?
Field of glory
Tick tock /gsg/, gunna have to learn to play a real strategy game soon
What's ageod
Paradox's executioner
oh wait is that that shitty game that's so far just a globe you can spin around?
>gets acquired by paradox because they are mega jews trying to destroy all competition and actively harm the genre
>steals paradox's entire french branch and bails
>spends the next couple of years doggedly making hyper autism games in the shittiest engine imaginable and supporting small time devs like byzantine
>eventually builds up enough of a base to emerge again just as paradox is shitting the bed
AGEOD was always based. I hope they emerge victorious.
>6.7/10
Dead on arrival
No? Is someone paying you to post this stupid shit? It's a straight up better version of imperator.
What im seeing here is that they made commercially univable games and had to be bailed out but syphoned some money and have now started the process yet again
Can't wait for the bankruptcy in 5 years
It has 4 reviews. It's literally just salty paradox employees. (And it still is higher rate than imperaror which is at 4.6 lol)
>commercially univable
Cringe.
Then why is it reviewed like shit by every website I see?
>i-its paradox employees reviewing it I swear
worst cope I've seen in years
you can start off to make the best game you want but if it never makes it out of the pre-alpha stage because you're bankrupt what you end up with is 1/20th of a shit game
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You don't go to metacritic for wargames. Regular game journalists are too stupid to play them. Go check wargamer.com or something, I guarantee you haven't heard of 90% of what's out there.
FoG Empires is a 100% done fully fleshed out game that needs no DLC and runs like a dream.
But why
Why does the gsg genre cause so much butthurt it has such dedicated shitposters? It's amazing.
>why is it reviewed like shit
It has better reviews than imperator
Painting the map is fun.
Holy shit what levels of denial have I stumbled into?
And is it a fun game?
Just open a map of Europe up in gimp
the paracuck fears the complete game on release
Look up "Alex Grandi" on the /qa/ archive.
I'm serious.
>implying I don't do that as well
Lmao
>don't read reviews on regular websites go to my obscure shill aite
Yeah, I like it a lot. It has actual non-retarded mechanics like punishing blobbing and culture/trade mattering. It's nice that 90% of the game isn't absent mindedly destroying everything as a death blob. Most of the provinces of Rome ran at a deficit, it's bullshit that paradox cannot understand this fact and make into a fun game.
Why does Sweden own Finnmark?
I didn ask for a comparison to Imperator I asked if it stands on its own
>obscure
It's the biggest pc wargaming site. This is like choosing kotaku over codex for rpg reviews.
I started reading this expecting it to be a cringe pasta but it's actually spot on. My one complaint is that I genuinely don't think Paradox are doing it in a concerted attempt to pander, they're not that smart. Rather, the developers themselves fit this exact stereotype.
There's no reason to weep for them, though. They had a golden run of form in HoI3->Vicky2->CK2, everything they made before and after was trash. I've been replaying EU3 recently and been surprised at how many of EU4's problems it still has (though I would still say that EU3 is, on balance, the better of the two).
You know you haven't grown up when you still worship g*rmany