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Nothing as realistic as Paradox Games.

Also my CKII ruler is a horse and the son of Satan. 😉

Don't you just love reforming the Roman Empire as Mussolini and kicking Hitler into the North Sea?

There's an alternate reality where political correctness is still the domain of fundamentalist Christians, and The Verge is questioning why anyone would allow Satanic imagery in their game so "pointlessly".

Don't forget the rampant incest.

Wake me when we get gas chamber expansion pack

Auschwitz Simulator 2019

CK2 > HOI4

Based and Karlingpilled

Maybe I’ll agree when I figure out how CK2 works, but for now I’ll enjoy all the shitposts

CK2 is ez tho

In game tutorial is pretty good now

But how many DLCs do I need before it's playable

None technically, the base game is decent and works fine. But the DLC does add a LOT of stuff and I personally can’t imagine playing without it.

The Royal Collection on Steam is only gameplay expansions. It’s $200 rn but I think it was $100 during the most recent sale? If you wanna cut the costs you can skip the India one (unless if you like India a lot) and you definitely don’t need the Aztec invasion one

First spend a week studying the wikipedia article on the British Peerage system and then you can start thinking about reading the pre-tutorial manual.

You have expelled the Jews from r/Drama

This but unironically

Vicky II > CKII

There will never be a Vicky III

Vic2 > CK2

Let's you violently repress political radicals and racial minorities while building the chaddest empire in the world, or alternatively build a centrist utopia in the Americas for all the people to stream to.

One interesting strategy, for example, is to direct immigration (should you be recieve enough) to areas with rebellious cultures. The immigrants will slowly outnumber the natives and then assimilate to your proper culture destroying the native homeland.

If they weren't intelligent life they deserved it. You can tell they aren't intelligent because of what they believe.

HoI4 is literally the worst game they've published. Maybe it's improved since launch but it was literally a game that broke if you tried to go down non-historical routes or you completed objectives outside of the correct order.

You've never played vanilla HoI3 and Vicky2 I guess.

Vanilla Vicky 2 was a trainwreck, but launch HoI3 was something else. Shit performance and the whole game just could not stop breaking.

I actually like Victoria II without expansions better than with it; too easy to get a Casus Belli.

I didn't play original HoI3.

I'm used to Paradox games being broken on launch, but they usually had good gameplay. EU4 was easy to break on launch and the gameplay could get stale as you learned to abuse it, but you could get a lot of playtime before that point.

Hoi4 literally just felt like you couldn't do anything. Everything took forever to do and the system was built around events happening in a certain order.

The appeal of Victoria II is that you felt pressure to follow history because there was a natural pressure to do certain things. So you do the sensible thing in your first runs and go where the tides take you, just trying to be stronger and better than the real nations. But you have the freedom to do a lot of alternate-history stuff.

If alternate-history is too hard, or the game too rigid and predictable, then the appeal goes away. It should simulate would could have happened, to a ridiculous degree. And WWII in particular has a lot of "what would have happened if...?" moments.

EU4 has them all beat

Can we use modern science to revive Hitler and gas anyone who serious posts on the internet?

I’ll need to wait and see what Man the Guns plays like when the DLC arrives on Feb. 28.

Was gamergate for nothing?

The South will rise again. . . In a 2019 optional content expansion by a Sweidsh game developer

I think the fact that we had a civil war, and 50% of american voters voted in an open white nationalist, and (insert all the structural racism in the USA, wealth inequality, countless instances of direct racial bias and bigotry, etc), the idea that a confederate american state could rise and participate in global affairs isn’t far fetched for an alternate history game that wants real ideological / economic threads to inform the events in the game. the problematic part is not the inclusion of a revived, politically significant, openly racist and fascist (sorry to anyone who don’t know this, but the rise of so-called "populism" you see on the right is a rise of fascism, read a book) confederacy in WW2, but rather the prospect of individual players identifying with the confederacy and what such play indicates and consists in. is it okay to role play as lynching thugs? it’s a deep question, honestly. contextualized properly, one can do interesting things with it. other art forms employ genuine antiheroes (like tony soprano, who is, simply, a psychopath) and do good things (criticize capitalism, and the emotional/intellectual dissociation involved with immoral behavior both localized and structural/systemic). what does "I’M the character" do to change it? in a book, we’re often in the person’s mind. their thoughts replace ours in a focused narrative. is that alright? will i become a psychopath if i read such media? i don’t know. i think it merits discussion, but the statement the guy made sounds fine to me. are they cashing in on the rise of the alt-right and open white supremacy in america? i don’t know. do we want to allow role playing games and alternate reality media? that one, i’m pretty comfortable with yes. we need to do deeper, broader, better things to eliminate white supremacists than make sure they can’t role play as the confederacy joining WW2.

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sorry to anyone who don’t know this, but the rise of so-called "populism" you see on the right is a rise of fascism, read a book

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This guy has unironically convinced me to buy an expansion pack for a game I dislike and never play when I could be spending it on EU4 expansions.

This mad about a video game

Over the years Polygon has pretty much driven away all of their audience that isn't comprised of complete and utter woketards. It's like Resetera in that way.

Paradox won't even acknowledge genocide, yet lets you play as the Confederates.

Who would have thought Swedes would act so mayo?

I think implying Trotsky would have started a civil war had Papa Stalin not purged 90% of his officers already proved their mayoness beyond doubt.

HOI4 sucks fat cocks play Darkest Hour

its dumbed down trash for retards

u r big gay

paradox paypig

That's... really cutting accurate. Touche

This but unironically.

I mean, if you play as the German Reich and DON’T kill Hitler to bring back the Kaiser, you’re the problem.

Hearts of Iron 4 is one of the most complex games I’ve ever played.

I’m just waiting for him to discover that you can genocide species by turning them into food and eating them in Stellaris.

Imagine thinking HoI4 is complex.

Imagine thinking Fuhrer Mana is part of a deep simulation.

From what I have gathered, polygon journalists only spend as much time reviewing the game as it takes to find everything P R O B L E M A T I C and not bother actually playing it

Personally, I’m not sure what to think about this. Germany and Japan participated in WWII. The CSA didn’t, and while fans have been modding them into the game on their own for years, the official inclusion is deeply unsettling

Literally against it because she feels icky about it

Alright

I was fine with gassing all the jews and burying an icepick in Trotsky's head, but Byzaboo: USA Edition is a step too far

This is the supernova take we've all been waiting for.

polygon should go the way of kotaku. prove me wrong

HOI4 is one of the most complex games I’ve ever played

Stopped reading right there

He only plays the sims and minecraft give him a break you bigot.

A game about a country that killed 6 million Jews

Polygon: Yawn

Alt history nonsense

Polygon: This is deeply unsettling something about America being racist today. Etc.

This is going to make me look gay because im expressing knowledge about a videogayme but the author doesnt even acknowledge that this is the second time paradox has had the CSA in WW2.

In hoi2's expansion they were fully playable.

In a daring bit of counterfactual history, Paradox will allow players to revive the Confederate States of America, commonly known as the Confederacy, and lead them into war against Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.

Will they let you save Anne Frank?

Based

Seems pretty likely that they will put that easter egg in. But then they'd probably make getting it extremely difficult like the kaiserfu HRE resurrection.

imagine being this mad over a video game

Imagine thing hoi 4 as most complex game ever done. Sure it more complex then stellaris and eu4. But that's kind it.

Imagine thinking hoi4 is more complex than eu4.

How about be split argument, bothj of them are for gaymers= so who cares?

Nothing more reddit than reeeing over Confederate shit and using "soyboy" unironically in current year.