So are we going to burn this guy at the stake or not?
you cant speak ill of the gods and go unpunished, unacceptable.
you cant speak ill of the gods and go unpunished, unacceptable.
So are we going to burn this guy at the stake or not?
you cant speak ill of the gods and go unpunished, unacceptable.
Why do most Paradox moderators have copy and paste beliefs in a friendly community that can take a joke?Sorry guys no violence talk against another member even in jest please.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion provided they express it in a polite fashion.
Please see rule 2 before making posts like this.Why do most Paradox moderators have copy and paste beliefs in a friendly community that can take a joke?
we're lazy
Laziness is one of the musician's virtues. The other two are stealing and lying!we're lazy
Had we been discussing the older titles then I'd agree, but if you look at CK2 and HoI4 then you can see each title starts branching out of the "same" interface type they all shared as some point (due to shared engine). So the claim is valid on the surface, but only partially - as I've said, later titles prove this claim wrong - and it falls flat when we compare what each title is supposed to deliver. In fact, save for EU series, I think all the other games are branching out well enough to not consider them being "all the same", despite similarities.I think your seeing what you want to see. He says "they all seem the same." Than he goes on to list what he considers the same "Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron".
The only thing that gets copy and pasted is the fact that your on earth in every game...
Let me tell you a story.
I have been a hardcore Total War player for about 10 years. Only in the last 1 year, I played Crusader Kings II for the first time and I realised I had been in the wrong series and causing myself a lot of pain and frustration.
Since then over the next 12 months I ended up throwing away my all TW games in the trash, literally, and switched to Paradox.
I consider myself a good CK2 player now, not expert but competent in all areas of the game.
When I started playing EUIV I jumped right in, thinking it would be fine after getting good at CK2, but I was totally lost and within 10 minutes I had no idea what I was doing.
One of the big differences between Total War games and Paradox games (among other things): Total War games have a very different look and feel to them with totally different graphical models and mechanics.
But this is only on the surface. After a while, you realise that it is the same pathetic shallow ahistorical joke as all the other Total War games. They just reskinned all the models with the exact same silly gameplay.
Total War has the graphics of history, but Paradox games have the gameplay of history.
With Paradox games, they superfically have a similar look and feel to them and when you look at the map of a new game you think you understand what is going on.
But this is an illusion. The games are not just a bit different but radically different in their mechanics and you are in an alien world once you get stuck into gameplay.
This is because the way war and politics worked in those eras was so different for many historical reasons - in other words, it makes sense.
For example I haven't played HOI3 but I'm watching Let's Plays on YouTube and after many hours watching I still have no idea what's going on most of the time, there's too much foreign complexity.
So.... basically you couldn't be more wrong.
Q.E.D.
You're not watching a lot of information - DDs, press articles - about HoI4, are you? HoI4 appears to go into the same vein of being vastly different, just like CK2.No point in purchasing essentially the same game with upgraded graphics and slight tweaks here and there, which I would imagine is what we will get with HOI 4.
You should have seen the old ones.They all seem the same. Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron,...etc...
Nothing that I would consider a great leap from HOI 2, 3, or even AOD.You're not watching a lot of information - DDs, press articles - about HoI4, are you? HoI4 appears to go into the same vein of being vastly different, just like CK2.