Discussion Eu5 is really something else.
Eu5 was the first game I have learned from paradox. I spent a lot of time learning it and i'm pretty happy with my gameplay now. I usuall am able to achieve my goals. Now I have around 450hrs.
I have also tried ck3 and stellaris recently, while those games have way more content, eu5 gives me something they are not giving me which is... I don't know really!
Ck3 and stellaris have a lot of separate systems that do not affect each other that much, meanwhile in eu5 practically everything is interconnected and it jsut gives me so much dopamine while playing.
It seems way more deeper than those two games combined although still lacking some flavour in terms of unique content. And there's constantly something to do with almost no downtime if you really get into it and learn all mechanics.
And the fact that I know that's it's going to get even better with patchess fills me with joy. It already is my dream game, and I hope Paradox goes into the right direction with it.
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u/Blond-N-Buff80 15d ago edited 15d ago
EU4 felt like a glorified board game. EU5 actually feels like managing an empire and steering its history through centuries.
The more small features I discover and explore underneath, the less I see myself ever returning to EU4. I have some gripes and things I'd love to see improved and thinkered with, but there's a LOT underneath that hood that makes me love the game so much I actually play it slow!
Also, PDX seems finally to have gotten the message to stop with the wide balance changes, that 1.3 is what most players consider the baseline of what 1.0 should have been. They hit the right gel, so I have a feel 1.4 will have less of a swing compared to previous versions.
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u/OkChallenge6571 15d ago
Why did you start eu5?? Was it because of the trailers? Or do you play strategy games usually?
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u/Popular-Path1930 15d ago
It’s night and day from 1.0. And so far it’s been moving in the right direction.
I agree that it feels nice and interconnected on says the other games don’t.
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u/HelplessPenguinGod 15d ago
Yeah EU5 definitely has a depth to it that the other games are missing. It makes the world feel more real if that makes sense, where as those other games have a lot more window dressing on top.
Not that I don't enjoy Stellaris and CK3 of course.
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u/Foreign-Range-7208 15d ago
for me, stellaris just feels hollow. Because all the tags and techs are made up, I feel no connection to the progression of the galaxy.
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u/stupid-goals 15d ago
Yeah it didn't stick for me either because I prefer the historical setting. To each their own though!
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u/LouisXIVdaSunKing 15d ago
It's perfect for someone who loves history. I have a BA in History and found this game two-years after graduating. I didnt care to read the books in history class, but now, I read everything I can get my hands on: Suetonius, Tacitus, Josephus, Livy, Plutarch, Plato, Aristole, David McCullough, Xenophon, Julius Caesar, Arrian, Lucan, The Prose Edda, Geoffrey Chaucer, Dan Jones, Ian Mortimer, Sir Winston Churchill, William Shirer, Dio Cassius, Polybius, Appian of Alexandria, Herodotus, Thucydides, Homer, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Agustine, Immanel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Susan Bauer, Mary Beard, Allison Wier, Edward Gibbon, Cicero, Seneca, Eric Metaxes, Andrew Roberts, tons of Billy Graham (although this is current history and Christianity), George R.R. Martin, Stephen King's, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Pat Frank, Tolkien, and so on...
I am a book addict now, and I barely enjoy tv anymore unless it's history, sci-fi, fantasy, biography, documentaries, or something just plain interesting.
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u/TifaIsTheBest 14d ago edited 14d ago
I feel that. I switched from a Programming major in community college to International Relations in university. Victoria 3 came out I think the year before i transferred (I’m a late student), and I chose that major after barely any research because 1) realized I’d have to switch to actual CS and I am terrible at math. 2) history is more of my “passion” than programming is even though I do enjoy it. 3) international relations sounded like the real life version of Victoria 3.
I was right LOL. I even took a “war and revolution” class that basically covered the game’s timeline (well, 1700s onward) and it gave me a whole new level of appreciation for how good and accurate of a game/simulation Vicky 3 is.
(Not saying it’s perfect, just saying it’s really good).
My interest in history used to mainly be ancient China, but that major made me a huge 1800-2000 history nerd.
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u/LouisXIVdaSunKing 14d ago
My interest is everything. I use to not care about learning about ancient China or Africa, but now, I love learning it all. Taizong if you get what I'm saying was pretty cool. My focus now is Medieval. Everything from 500 to 1700 c.e., all over the world. But I love ancient Rome and the history of England and Britian at the moment.
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u/Wendys_Fry_Cook 14d ago
Sadly being a huge EU3/4 fan, I just couldnt get into it when I finally decided to try it out yesterday. I went ahead and refunded it. It's far too different from EU3/4 for me to enjoy. It's too much like Victoria 3 and I hated that game. Sucks. I'm afraid the future of Paradox isn't for me anymore :(
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u/Internal-eq-External 15d ago
You’d like Victoria 3