Ya, calling one of the most popular games on steam trash is rather small minded. It may not be the type of game you like, but it's still excellent. Now, it will never reach the height of civ 3, simply becaus of Baba Yetu.
What made you start playing this game/series?
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Ya, calling one of the most popular games on steam trash is rather small minded. It may not be the type of game you like, but it's still excellent. Now, it will never reach the height of civ 3, simply becaus of Baba Yetu.
I don't remember beginning to play paradox games, I just remember that I can't turn eu4 off and the game is holding me hostage, someone please help!
Regarding Civ V - it is a good game - no question.
But the AI - the AI is just horrible, as in really really horrible - compared to Civ V EU4 gets an A+ regarding AI - and that comes from me lamenting over the bad AI and all its flaws in EU4 non stop
No!
But the AI - the AI is just horrible, as in really really horrible - compared to Civ V EU4 gets an A+ regarding AI - and that comes from me lamenting over the bad AI and all its flaws in EU4 non stop
No!
Saw my brother playing EU1 a few times probably shortly after it was released in the US (quite a bit later than the European release). At first I wasn't interested but eventually I decided to take a closer look at it and almost immediately got hooked.
EU3 was the first Paradox-developed game I played. While it was ok and I spent quite a while playing it, it was too much of a mess for me to really like it.
CK2 was what really made me a Paradox fan. After EU4 came out I was a bit disappointed that it lacked so many of the things I liked about CK2, and it took several months before I even bought it. It grew on me though, and I learned to appreciate the different style. Though I still feel CK2 is the better game, I mostly play EU4, as the former has started to feel dated. I'm afraid HOI4 would do the same for EU4, so I'm mostly avoiding the DDs.
CK2 was what really made me a Paradox fan. After EU4 came out I was a bit disappointed that it lacked so many of the things I liked about CK2, and it took several months before I even bought it. It grew on me though, and I learned to appreciate the different style. Though I still feel CK2 is the better game, I mostly play EU4, as the former has started to feel dated. I'm afraid HOI4 would do the same for EU4, so I'm mostly avoiding the DDs.
Wow, I'd not really thought of this in a very long time and it involves criminal activity. In 2001, I was in my last year of school. A friend of mine who, came from a pretty good family just decided one day that he would start stealing things from stores. One of these items was Europa Universalis. He played it for a while and kept telling me about how amazing it was. I wasn't terribly interested, so finally one day he just brought the CD in and told me to go play it. I liked it, and pretty soon everyone in a large group of friends bought it and we would have some great multiplayer matches.
Later that year I was at university and saw EU2. Bought it, and, pretty much every Paradox game since. Oh, and around this time EU1/EU2 made me question my dedication to Chemical Engineering and change my major to History. And there has been much regret in the years since.
Later that year I was at university and saw EU2. Bought it, and, pretty much every Paradox game since. Oh, and around this time EU1/EU2 made me question my dedication to Chemical Engineering and change my major to History. And there has been much regret in the years since.
I saw EU (1) in a store when I was young. Being very much into historic strategy games, I asked my father to buy it for me as a christmas present. I didn't know at the time, but EU2 was already out. My father, in confusion, bought both. I turned out to be pretty awful at it/them (I forced myself to play the older game sometimes, so the purchase wouldn't be a waste), but I loved map painting, and learning about the histories of parts of the world I until then knew nothing about. I distinctly remember having a water gun battle with some friends one time, and insisting that a casus belli mechanic be introduced into the game. I was a strange child.
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There was that moment back in the 2013, when i wanted a new strategy title to play, and as an RTS enthusiast as i was (mainly playing multiplayer C&C games), i looked for something similiar. And then i found EU4 on Steam and thought "Heck, why not? It should suffice until summer's over...". Over 3k hours since then. Also made me spend about the same amount of time reading into world history, so people would not laugh at me for knowing nothing. And now i am studying japanese, because i found japanese history to be... fascinating.
EU4 changed my life, 10/10
EU4 changed my life, 10/10
I read a review on EU2 in a local PC Games magazine (Igromania, in Russian, if anyone is interested), so I asked my parents for the game as my birthday present. But learning the game mechanics was really painful, because I was very young and inexperienced gamer without access to the internet that time. Only at the time of EU3 a finally managed to fight through all the tooltips and compose a solid understanding how the things work.
Xmas Anno Domini 2003, big supermarket, and ten-years old me left in front of a shelf with cheap PC games. And there, among absolute rubbish, some super xtreme amazing classic games series ~5€ each I found it, little plastic box with four heads in corners and giant EUROPA UNIVERSALIS II in the middle. Other side of box was even more intriguing - interactive world map that you click and paint, and dammit my favourite past-time except of playing GTA Vice City and Championship Manager 4 was re-drawing maps from history books and then playing my own little boardgame there, drawing and erasing borders with pencil and rubber, oh man the memories!
Anyway, I got the game, and good lord! I had no idea, obviously, what I was doing. Every single day I'd start new Poland game in 1492 scenario, mercilessly slay Teutonic Order and Brandenburg and try to take Silesia back from Czechs, not bothering with alliances, truce-breaking, RM-breaking, constantly at -3 stab, constantly in massive debt, but man I'd try every single day! Colorful map with changing borders, coats of arms, kings, generals, diplomacies, unit sprites, scenario editor that I could never get to work, uuuu the memories are too damn stronk and relevant to ever forget!
And also classic EU2 map translated to Polish by local distributor. Can't find high-resolution picture but look at this font. To this day I wonder how am I still not blind...
I had to part with that PC few months later and it would take another three years for me to get new one. Friend borrowed me EU2 and HoI1. Thanks to the Internet I finally learned how to play these games - not only that, thanks to magnificent Havard's EU Editing Empire I got into modding and stuff. Clausewitz games never interested me, simply enough my PC wasn't good enough to run EU3 Until 2013 when I tried it, and while I see why people enjoy it I do not. For a very long time I remained indifferent towards EU4, until last October. I got back from work, got my monies that day and apparently game with most DLCs was 75% off - offer expires in 40 minutes. That was close! Got it, and with 650 hours logged in I have to say, I have EU4 problem and no, I can't quit whenever I want.
That being said, EU2 and its remake For the Glory will remain forever my #1 favourite game ever. The same goes for Pro Evolution Soccer 5 & 6 which I've played since 2006 (PES5 on PS2 and PES6 on PC).
Amazingly enough whether it was 2003 or 2007, nobody knew what Europa Universalis was. All my friends kept complaining that it's not Total War so they won't play it. On top of that we loved PES that was in its absolute peak, and IMHO 5 & 6 remain the best football games ever created to this day.
Ten years later EU4 and CK2 are probably top 5 played strategy games on Steam, Paradox buys other companies, throws massive parties at Gamescom and has a massive playerbase and KONAMI is slowly dying, (although I wish it would die faster and let PES rest in peace at last) their longtime fans hate them for literally everything and rightfully so. Times change.
They really do.
So there ye go, #myeustory combined with little digression about how quickly things do change. If I told my friends decade ago that Paradox will be #1 strategy games company in 2015 they would laugh their asses off. Who would have thought.
Anyway, I got the game, and good lord! I had no idea, obviously, what I was doing. Every single day I'd start new Poland game in 1492 scenario, mercilessly slay Teutonic Order and Brandenburg and try to take Silesia back from Czechs, not bothering with alliances, truce-breaking, RM-breaking, constantly at -3 stab, constantly in massive debt, but man I'd try every single day! Colorful map with changing borders, coats of arms, kings, generals, diplomacies, unit sprites, scenario editor that I could never get to work, uuuu the memories are too damn stronk and relevant to ever forget!
And also classic EU2 map translated to Polish by local distributor. Can't find high-resolution picture but look at this font. To this day I wonder how am I still not blind...
I had to part with that PC few months later and it would take another three years for me to get new one. Friend borrowed me EU2 and HoI1. Thanks to the Internet I finally learned how to play these games - not only that, thanks to magnificent Havard's EU Editing Empire I got into modding and stuff. Clausewitz games never interested me, simply enough my PC wasn't good enough to run EU3
Until 2013 when I tried it, and while I see why people enjoy it I do not. For a very long time I remained indifferent towards EU4, until last October. I got back from work, got my monies that day and apparently game with most DLCs was 75% off - offer expires in 40 minutes. That was close! Got it, and with 650 hours logged in I have to say, I have EU4 problem and no, I can't quit whenever I want.That being said, EU2 and its remake For the Glory will remain forever my #1 favourite game ever. The same goes for Pro Evolution Soccer 5 & 6 which I've played since 2006 (PES5 on PS2 and PES6 on PC).
Amazingly enough whether it was 2003 or 2007, nobody knew what Europa Universalis was. All my friends kept complaining that it's not Total War so they won't play it. On top of that we loved PES that was in its absolute peak, and IMHO 5 & 6 remain the best football games ever created to this day.
Ten years later EU4 and CK2 are probably top 5 played strategy games on Steam, Paradox buys other companies, throws massive parties at Gamescom and has a massive playerbase and KONAMI is slowly dying, (although I wish it would die faster and let PES rest in peace at last) their longtime fans hate them for literally everything and rightfully so. Times change.
They really do.
So there ye go, #myeustory combined with little digression about how quickly things do change. If I told my friends decade ago that Paradox will be #1 strategy games company in 2015 they would laugh their asses off. Who would have thought.
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I played and watch a lot of Starcraft BW & 2. Registered on a forum Teamliquid and saw a thread about EU3 there. Pirated it and started playing. Like a year after it EU4 came out and I decided to buy it.
It's difficult to remember... I think that I came across some screenshots of Eu3 back in '08. I used to play a lot of TW just for the campaign, but upon discovering Eu3, I immediately played the demo and then made the decision to buy the Complete edition (at that point containing EU3, NA and IN). Swiftly became my favourite game, and I got into the others 3 series too.
CK2 is now my favourite, but I still have a soft spot for the EU games, especially 3 (though I mostly play 4 nowadays).
CK2 is now my favourite, but I still have a soft spot for the EU games, especially 3 (though I mostly play 4 nowadays).
I first played CK2. I tended to just blob a lot so I moved to the more blobby game
bought magicka. Had an account here. Forgot about it for like 2 years, got a free copy in the mail of I think eu3(might have been ck2). Pretty much hooked since then.
Thats such a cool story! That must bring back some nostalgiaXmas Anno Domini 2003, big supermarket, and ten-years old me left in front of a shelf with cheap PC games. And there, among absolute rubbish, some super xtreme amazing classic games series ~5€ each I found it, little plastic box with four heads in corners and giant EUROPA UNIVERSALIS II in the middle. Other side of box was even more intriguing - interactive world map that you click and paint, and dammit my favourite past-time except of playing GTA Vice City and Championship Manager 4 was re-drawing maps from history books and then playing my own little boardgame there, drawing and erasing borders with pencil and rubber, oh man the memories!
Anyway, I got the game, and good lord! I had no idea, obviously, what I was doing. Every single day I'd start new Poland game in 1492 scenario, mercilessly slay Teutonic Order and Brandenburg and try to take Silesia back from Czechs, not bothering with alliances, truce-breaking, RM-breaking, constantly at -3 stab, constantly in massive debt, but man I'd try every single day! Colorful map with changing borders, coats of arms, kings, generals, diplomacies, unit sprites, scenario editor that I could never get to work, uuuu the memories are too damn stronk and relevant to ever forget!
And also classic EU2 map translated to Polish by local distributor. Can't find high-resolution picture but look at this font. To this day I wonder how am I still not blind...
I had to part with that PC few months later and it would take another three years for me to get new one. Friend borrowed me EU2 and HoI1. Thanks to the Internet I finally learned how to play these games - not only that, thanks to magnificent Havard's EU Editing Empire I got into modding and stuff. Clausewitz games never interested me, simply enough my PC wasn't good enough to run EU3
That being said, EU2 and its remake For the Glory will remain forever my #1 favourite game ever. The same goes for Pro Evolution Soccer 5 & 6 which I've played since 2006 (PES5 on PS2 and PES6 on PC).
Amazingly enough whether it was 2003 or 2007, nobody knew what Europa Universalis was. All my friends kept complaining that it's not Total War so they won't play it. On top of that we loved PES that was in its absolute peak, and IMHO 5 & 6 remain the best football games ever created to this day.
Ten years later EU4 and CK2 are probably top 5 played strategy games on Steam, Paradox buys other companies, throws massive parties at Gamescom and has a massive playerbase and KONAMI is slowly dying, (although I wish it would die faster and let PES rest in peace at last) their longtime fans hate them for literally everything and rightfully so. Times change.
They really do.
So there ye go, #myeustory combined with little digression about how quickly things do change. If I told my friends decade ago that Paradox will be #1 strategy games company in 2015 they would laugh their asses off. Who would have thought.
I think it's also interesting to see how the series has changed over these 15(?) years... At one point you could only pick from a certain amount of countries, but now we have game where you can not only pick nations like Haida and Ryukyu, you can even make your own nation! It's really crazy to think about the evolution of this game
I knew the genre and the reputation because I always read Gamespot review; I played a few hours of EU3 but it was too complicated for me at that moment. I have much more difficulty nowadays to learn any new game mechanic (note to reader, that is one sign you are getting old).
I was in an oversee business trip with a lot of downtime (airport, hotel room etc), so I knew I had time to learn a new game (no wife and kids). So I bought and launch EU IV, I probably played 40h that first week and barely learn the game mechanic. Mind you, I still learn a new things here and there after 500h.
I was in an oversee business trip with a lot of downtime (airport, hotel room etc), so I knew I had time to learn a new game (no wife and kids). So I bought and launch EU IV, I probably played 40h that first week and barely learn the game mechanic. Mind you, I still learn a new things here and there after 500h.
Thats such a cool story! That must bring back some nostalgia
In original EU2 Ryukyu wasn't even a province
Not only evolve, nah, but also turn from a very small niche to leading grand strategy series. That was literally unthinkable. And now, when you put it into perspective, and compare it to other series that went exactly the opposite, duuude. Nobody would believe one day sequel to EU, heck, a sequel to CK that was filled with bugs will become players favourite. CK is funny one honestly, so buggy and terribly slow due to overload of dead characters in save files. CK 1's expansion, Deus Vult made it that game would clear active savegame by itself, when you're playing, removing all unnecessary code every single month. I did test last year or something, and CK: DV was, best case scenario, as fast as CK2. I was under impression that in fact CK2 is even faster in fact.
Given CK: DV's shortcomings average non-Paradox fan had all the right to believe CK2 would turn out to be underwhelming. Alas, that's where the golden era begun, from a sequel to funny yes, but buggy as hell game! Things like that, they get to me.
And there's still more ahead. At least I hope so.
Came here after I was tired of playing CiV. Got thousands of hours into CiV and wanted a new challenge. Immediately saw that EUIV was exactly the kind of game I always wanted to play. I watched some tutorials a couple of months ago but walked away from it because of the steep learning curve and especially because of the Real Time instead of my beloved turns. Forced myself back into it because I just had to learn to play this game. Watched some LP's from Arumba and Shen, learned the mechanics and now I'm hooked. I'm still very inexperienced, but it's also really exciting to learn more and more.
Hell, I would even like this game if I wasn't really playing but just looking at the map, watching the world evolve, beholding the chaos. As a kid I could spend hours just looking at a world map and learning the names of all the countries. That, plus the fact that I love history makes it that I was meant to play games like this.
Hell, I would even like this game if I wasn't really playing but just looking at the map, watching the world evolve, beholding the chaos. As a kid I could spend hours just looking at a world map and learning the names of all the countries. That, plus the fact that I love history makes it that I was meant to play games like this.
not sure when it was but sometime around 1999 and 2000 my mom found EU1 in a store and knowing I was interested in history she got it for either my birthday or christmas, neither of us can actually remember which one it was since my birthday is fairly close to christmas.
been playing ever since.
been playing ever since.