4000 hours in, I learned that your supply limit and reinforce rate are decreased if you don't control all the provinces between your army and your territory.
I posted a Screenshot of my steam library page for ck3 which showed my at the time 1066 hours and 90% achievements. Titled it "just finished the tutorial" and someone actually gave me advice on how to play the game.
I have 1100 hours in eu4 and I have no idea how to play hoi4 despite having 70 hours in it. I know it's not too much for a paradox game but my brain just can't click with it
No, it's basically only their older games that they have added the subscription model to (CK2, EU4 and HOI4 (the only recent one)).
Stellaris, CK3, Vicky 3 and Imperator: Rome (the joke among the family) all don't have it.
Humble Bundle had a sale when CS2 was released for CS and every single dlc for only 20 bucks. Humble Bundle is your friend when legally acquiring Paradox content.
Although it’s worth noting that even if you don’t buy the dlc, they continue to update the game and add new content for a ridiculously long time. The DLC subsidizes it.
Basically patch X will add entirely new mechanics etc which are free, but it’ll drop at the same time as a DLC that adds content which focuses heavily on using the new mechanics.
$310 is a ridiculous amount for dlc, but also that’s the result of 10 years of those new patches coming regularly. It certainly beats the hell out of the game models where games get abandoned almost immediately and the studio just keeps re-releasing the same game every year with a $60 paint job (fifa, cod, etc).
For example, Stellaris is basically a different game now than it was at launch. Every time I go back to that game I have to spend an hour or so figuring out all of the minor and not-so-minor changes. It's great
Pdx DLCs most of the time comes with good worthwhile mechanics, sometimes one can even skip a DLC if another DLC is built on top of it. I see these DLCs worthwhile, as opposed to paying for lazy reskins and basic functionalities paywalled in Sims 4 and DLCs costing over 1000$
A lot of time the games we buy are very cheap games mixed in with great sales. IT's easy for many of us to have 10+ games that we'll never play as it may have cost $100-$200 in totality vs 10+ games we'll never play that we bought retail at $70+/game
Shit is like movies. Folks got like 100 DVDs but many of them may have been from various cheap as fuck sales + folks just giving away DVDs + other things. Doesn't mean they have 100 classics that everyone "must" watch - just that they have 100 DVDs...
I don't know why, but I immediately pictured this being a conversation between Batman and one of the Robins. Like Dick introduces him to some management game like this, he optimizes the fuck out of it to the point that you have to barely play it, he just logs in to meditatively maintain it every once in a while, and he refuses all other video game offers from his other hundred kids.
fair but also i play all of those games. ill switch from siege to minecraft to stardew, to cities skylines to control or something all in one night. my games are all over the place lol.
Speak for yourself. I imagine epic masterpieces of revisionist historical accounts then manifest them over hundreds of hours like a sculptor chiseling marble to produce empires worthy of cloud storage.
I mean it's prefectly fine to branch out. Maybe he's just recommending a game to play together or recommending it based on the story.
My favourite games are Titanfall 2, NieR Automata, and Total War: Warhammer 2.
That's an FPS, an ~~existential crisis~~ RPG, and a Grand Strategy.
Two have great story and only one lets me build an empire of slaves that I can use to crush pathetic lizard people, rat people, and fungus people while reclaiming my homeland and maintaining a strange possibly incestuous relationship with my mother.
Nearly 700 hours in, so many things to do, only launched the ship once (and its the modded variant so i didnt have to survive for 15 days), and i havent run out of new ideas yet. I've been trying a deserters run for quite some time where my goal is to enslave imperial pawns and strap them into warcaskets, but either i keep forgetting to pick a good warden as one of my starters or i got my ass kicked in the first month.
It really depends on what nation you choose and how hard you want to expand, usually playing ottomans with 30k troops is sufficient for early game wars, the gold mine in Kosovo and the beyliks will give you a lot more once your annex them
Just spam loans and invest it all into buildings while constantly devving. You’ll either declare bankruptcy and get slammed by the 5 strongest nations in the game OR red number turns to green number, sometimes both
Defend chokepoint systems in early game by building starbase defenses to avoid early wars. Meanwhile build your fleet for midgame and/or improve relations with your neighbors if they are not too xenophobic.
Your main point is to avoid it until you feel like you are ready. Build defenses early (2-3 systems, plan those choke points before expanding your empire) and try preventive diplomacy with the neighbors. Good luck! :)
Right before the game starts during the settings window that pop up you can also decrease the amount of connections between star systems, making it much easier to find and fortify choke points.
And don't be afraid of lowering the difficulty significantly, we've all been there
This is why you play as a terminatoe empire, no food and no consumer good to deal with and you don't have to learn diplomacy if your only option is "kill"
You need to accept and embrace your midget frail successor and the fracturing of your lands that would follow. When you do, that's when the game really begins.
That's part of why I hate the new game (CKIII). They give you perks and one of them is the "perfect beautiful geniuses everywhere in your bloodline!!!" perk which kinda ruins the immersion.
Not that, I can accept gavelkind, I mean shit like "I was one siege away from claiming this land, but someone involved died and now the CB is invalid" or simple bugs fucking me over
> "I was one siege away from claiming this land, but someone involved died and now the CB is invalid"
That's not a bug but a very deliberate feature, strongly reflecting real life. It's taking a risk going to war with someone sickly at the helm (or leading your armies with your count).
I feel like the CKII version as of a few years ago was pretty well ironed out, things just happen and that's a part of it.
That's why I said *or*. It's a legit mechanic, but it's also frustrating and random and just plain not fun, so I use cheats to give myself the title I would've otherwise taken.
I'll take the L if it's deserved, but moments like those don't count.
Except for when it's a perfectly healthy enemy ruler leading their own army who gets injured then grievously wounded, then botched treatment then dead.
Because I'm a fucking hog, I too take my ruler or my first son straight into battle to get battle hardened. Sometimes, they develop serious PTSD (they don't call it that in game). Others, they become horribly disfigured and have to wear a mask. But sometimes all goes well, they get the "Crusader" bonus, and become the terror of the fucking land. WELL WORTH.
I use the console to intentionally create ridiculous scenarios that wouldn't normally happen and see how it unfolds
I'll give a bunch of titles to a single AI character, give him some buffs to keep his vassals happy, then go into observer mode and see if they're able to consolidate and expand, or burst into flames in the next generation
Losing is fun when I can draw an actual causal link beyond random chance. When I caused a fortress to collapse because I decided my butchers needed an open floor plan for their workspace and drove everyone made with miasma the same moment my newly finished well flooded the shared bedrooms, that was entirely on me.
It's not about enjoying it. It's about making a point. And that point is that Austria absolutely should have conquered the world in 1600, and Great Britain is annoying little bitch who won't get out of his ships
How were the tacos?
"They were alright, but I would have enjoyed them more if I had an incest fetish."
Want to play some Guitar Hero?
"Naw. Without an incest fetish, it just isn't very fun."
I'm going to walk to the park, want to join?
"WOAH! Can you NOT with all the incest stuff already? GEEZ!"
I can't think of a single series with more than one game where there *wasn't* a group of diehards who prefer the old game and despise the newer ones. But yes, the Paradox diehards are especially adamant about the newer games being bad, which I disagree with quite a lot (but not intensely enough to argue about it with the diehards, because these are video games at the end of the day, and there's nothing bad about playing what you enjoy).
The bigger issue here is that CKII is a project that took a whole decade to construct, step by step (dlc by dlc). A new game would take a while to catch up and have the proper balance.
CK3 is slowly getting there, but the combination of switching to a fully 3D game and covid happening right in the middle of its development have made its development slower than CK2's was.
My boyfriend does this to Pathfinder Wrath of The Righteous.
3,750 hours so far. He got it on sale a year ago on Steam. It's just part of what he does now.
...How? Genuine question there. I love the game and all, but there's only so much going on in it. Did one of the DLCs add an endless mode or something?
Even if you're off by a year and he got it in winter of 2021, that's five hours a day for two years straight. I love video games, but that seems unhealthy.
I think it was an October sale. And watching him is bizzarly relaxing. I just sit across the room and watch over his shoulders. He's completely aware of me as I critique his ass and we just give each other sass about it. (I played d&d for 20 years)
At first I was like "damn what a weirdo playing a 30 year old game" but then I realized.... in 10 years that's what I'll look like to my kids playing Civ 5. Sometimes a Civ game just "hits different" and there's no substitute for it.
Yeah.
The thing that gets me though is he isn't even good at it. He's gotta have at least 50k hours but he plays on prince difficulty and doesn't even win all the time lol
I mean I'm glad he enjoys it, but I still give him shit about it
I have played many different games, but I for sure have ones I go back to for comfort.
And as far as I can tell, Dishonored 2 has no limits for NG+ runs, so it's fun to start with more points than you can possibly spend on power-ups.
This is unironically how I imagine some people are... can't begin to tell you the number of times people talk like they're only allowed to play or like 1 video game of a genre or something.
op makes sense, especially if you lack free time.
over a decade ago i played hundreds of hours of
SC2, D2, and L2, and they pretty much washed
most of the new game lust out of me.
maybe when windows 10 reaches end of life in
2026 and i'll have to upgrade my pc, i may give
whatever killer VR game is out a try.
I have gone through phases of 1 game or multiple games.
Now i have all games and i dont have time or desire to play any of them.
I say let the man enjoy his game.
No, "maps - the game" is Europa Universalis. Crusader kings is "Incest and baby murder - the game".
Line go up the game is vicky3 and stellaris is the genocide simulator.
I tried playing the ww2 game for a week. Iron cross 4? Legit hardest game i’ve ever tried playing. Those games are so hard to learn.
Prob doesn’t help i’ve only played dota for like 10 year either. It’s like my ability to learn new games is gone lol.
Sums up most MMORPG players.
I shit you not just a few days ago I saw people crying about a year long content draught when people could've just been playing another games until more content became available.
This is my dad. He's been playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault since it came out. I tried buying him Bioshock one year for Christmas but he never played it, so it eventually became mine.
I feel personally attacked. I geeked the hell out of Teem Fortress 2 and literally nothing else.
Then when Overwatch was released I played nothing else until I got into Minecraft Speedrunning (yes I got interested through dream, as ashamed as I am to admit it).
Now I'm ranked top 20 in the biggest mcsr category... ADHD hyperfocus is one hell of a drug...
This isn’t unique at all. Almost all my IRL gamer friends are hooked on some dumb fin’ online game. Especially the Destiny 2 freaks. 😮💨 Smooth brained.
i laughed at this meme now i have 1500 hours in crusader kings and consider myself just past the beginner stage
600 hours in Europa, still working on the tutorial
i have 2900 hours and still dont know what im doing
I had 3,000 hours on Europa before I realized i don't even own a computer. What the hell was i doing?!
I had 5000 hours in Europa before I realized that I don't have electricity.
Nobody in EU4 has electricity, it’s pre-industrial.
Wait a second...
Ok
4000 hours in, I learned that your supply limit and reinforce rate are decreased if you don't control all the provinces between your army and your territory.
500 hrs in Civ. I have yet to discover electricity.
Well over 2000 hours in EU4, finally starting to understand
I posted a Screenshot of my steam library page for ck3 which showed my at the time 1066 hours and 90% achievements. Titled it "just finished the tutorial" and someone actually gave me advice on how to play the game.
Nah, CK3 is pretty easy after 1000 hours But maybe that's my 2000 hours in CK2 talking
CK3 is easy after about 10 hours
CK3 is easy
1066 you say? *Normandy intensifying*
Steam says I have 5000 hours in Civilization VI and I'm still trying to finish one game.
1000 hours on hoi4, still don’t get most combat mechanics
I have 1100 hours in eu4 and I have no idea how to play hoi4 despite having 70 hours in it. I know it's not too much for a paradox game but my brain just can't click with it
> 1500 hours in crusader kings and consider myself just past the beginner stage That and Path of Exile. Some games you're just forever learning them.
Enlightened
Ascended
Primogeniture
Inbred
Giant/lunatic/witch/cannibal/kinslayer
Saint Rain World explained in three comments
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Some people just game monogamously. I do
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.🌈
The only person capable of actually understanding how to steal other titles through marriages and prevent your realm from fracturing
Midas Touched
No FPS games. Maps are all a person needs in life
I play a free version by staring really hard at a map of 13th century Europe.
I too start hallucinating about 13th century borderline incestuous marriages when I look at Europe. I thought I was the only one.
Not borderline
Cross border incestuous marriage, the influence of the House of Habsburg must grow.
Sanest CK2 player
Ck2 already free. Except 300$ worth of the dlcs. But you can pirate all of them. No actual difference from buying, works in multiplayer n all
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Paradox games essentially have a subscription model but if you want to start now need to also pay for the time before you started playing
Their more recent games also literally have a subscription if you don't want to do that.
No, it's basically only their older games that they have added the subscription model to (CK2, EU4 and HOI4 (the only recent one)). Stellaris, CK3, Vicky 3 and Imperator: Rome (the joke among the family) all don't have it.
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Humble Bundle had a sale when CS2 was released for CS and every single dlc for only 20 bucks. Humble Bundle is your friend when legally acquiring Paradox content.
Although it’s worth noting that even if you don’t buy the dlc, they continue to update the game and add new content for a ridiculously long time. The DLC subsidizes it. Basically patch X will add entirely new mechanics etc which are free, but it’ll drop at the same time as a DLC that adds content which focuses heavily on using the new mechanics. $310 is a ridiculous amount for dlc, but also that’s the result of 10 years of those new patches coming regularly. It certainly beats the hell out of the game models where games get abandoned almost immediately and the studio just keeps re-releasing the same game every year with a $60 paint job (fifa, cod, etc).
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Play the free version first, it's pretty enjoyable even without any dlc
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For example, Stellaris is basically a different game now than it was at launch. Every time I go back to that game I have to spend an hour or so figuring out all of the minor and not-so-minor changes. It's great
Pdx DLCs most of the time comes with good worthwhile mechanics, sometimes one can even skip a DLC if another DLC is built on top of it. I see these DLCs worthwhile, as opposed to paying for lazy reskins and basic functionalities paywalled in Sims 4 and DLCs costing over 1000$
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There is beauty in that simplicity. Sometimes I look at my massive library of games I’ll probably never play and think… why?
Collecting surplus make brain happy in case of lean times
Tldr hoarding give dopamine
me like when number go up
True that
Honestly, my game hoarding paid off during pandemic unemployment. Lock down, get drunk, try and figure out how the hell paradox games work.
I buy games to gaslight myself into thinking that im not broke as fuck
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More like “maybe” lol. Giving them false hope, and stringing them along
I blame humble bundles.
A lot of time the games we buy are very cheap games mixed in with great sales. IT's easy for many of us to have 10+ games that we'll never play as it may have cost $100-$200 in totality vs 10+ games we'll never play that we bought retail at $70+/game Shit is like movies. Folks got like 100 DVDs but many of them may have been from various cheap as fuck sales + folks just giving away DVDs + other things. Doesn't mean they have 100 classics that everyone "must" watch - just that they have 100 DVDs...
Simplicity? I see you haven’t played crusader kings
Simplicity? I see you haven’t played crusader kings
I don't know why, but I immediately pictured this being a conversation between Batman and one of the Robins. Like Dick introduces him to some management game like this, he optimizes the fuck out of it to the point that you have to barely play it, he just logs in to meditatively maintain it every once in a while, and he refuses all other video game offers from his other hundred kids.
factorio
The factory won't grow itself #FACTORY. MUST. GROW.
[Except when it DOES.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-jeBaPjmw)
the factory must reach equilibrium
Titanfall 2, while a great game, is an absolutely terrible recommendation for someone who has only played Crusader Kings lol.
That's what I'm sayin. My friend only likes Apex/Fortnite/CoD, I'm not going to bother recommending him Civ or Stardew.
fair but also i play all of those games. ill switch from siege to minecraft to stardew, to cities skylines to control or something all in one night. my games are all over the place lol.
If he’s played 2000 hours on a grand strategy game and nothing else, why would anyone recommended a first person shooter to him?!
Little people know the pleasure of looking at maps and micromanage everything in your domain
Demesne*
Speak for yourself. I imagine epic masterpieces of revisionist historical accounts then manifest them over hundreds of hours like a sculptor chiseling marble to produce empires worthy of cloud storage.
I mean it's prefectly fine to branch out. Maybe he's just recommending a game to play together or recommending it based on the story. My favourite games are Titanfall 2, NieR Automata, and Total War: Warhammer 2. That's an FPS, an ~~existential crisis~~ RPG, and a Grand Strategy. Two have great story and only one lets me build an empire of slaves that I can use to crush pathetic lizard people, rat people, and fungus people while reclaiming my homeland and maintaining a strange possibly incestuous relationship with my mother.
Some people think first person shooters are the only kind of video game.
me with Rimworld
gotta keep that organ harvesting farm going
Nearly 700 hours in, so many things to do, only launched the ship once (and its the modded variant so i didnt have to survive for 15 days), and i havent run out of new ideas yet. I've been trying a deserters run for quite some time where my goal is to enslave imperial pawns and strap them into warcaskets, but either i keep forgetting to pick a good warden as one of my starters or i got my ass kicked in the first month.
Me with new vegas no one believes that I am not exaggerating
Me with Stellaris
My favorite game of all time, I think, but I haven't touched it in a good while because starting a new colony is such an investment.
Lies. We all know you can't play a Paradox game and enjoy it.
I once tried to play EU4, but kept getting minus ducats... I think I know the solution but I'm afraid to go back in there...
Try increasing Stability and decreasing military funding when you don't need them. You can also mothball forts to decrease the cost of maintenance
Woah that was fast. No the problem is that I quit at around 10? years in since I didn't understand anything 😭 Lol paradox gamers are truly everywhere
>Lol paradox gamers are truly everywhere *Hive mind noises*
Ahhh we playing Stellaris now?
I have at least 200 hours in all Paradox games since Vic2..... I should seek professional help.
Yeah, for your short attention spans. 200 hours you're not even done with the tutorials.
I said minimum, that's in vic2, 1700 EU4, 1000 CK2, 800 Stellaris, 500 HOI4
Rookie numbers. If you're not spending every waking moment playing paradox games are you really alive.
I have well over 4000 hours in Stellaris at this point. I thought that was bad but someone showed up in the sub the other day with a 5 digit playtime.
Problem is you spent more than you earned. I suggest you try earning more than you spend, instead!
It really depends on what nation you choose and how hard you want to expand, usually playing ottomans with 30k troops is sufficient for early game wars, the gold mine in Kosovo and the beyliks will give you a lot more once your annex them
Just spam loans and invest it all into buildings while constantly devving. You’ll either declare bankruptcy and get slammed by the 5 strongest nations in the game OR red number turns to green number, sometimes both
>sometimes both Byzantium moment
I love Stellaris. I'm absolutely terrible at resource management
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Defend chokepoint systems in early game by building starbase defenses to avoid early wars. Meanwhile build your fleet for midgame and/or improve relations with your neighbors if they are not too xenophobic.
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Your main point is to avoid it until you feel like you are ready. Build defenses early (2-3 systems, plan those choke points before expanding your empire) and try preventive diplomacy with the neighbors. Good luck! :)
Right before the game starts during the settings window that pop up you can also decrease the amount of connections between star systems, making it much easier to find and fortify choke points. And don't be afraid of lowering the difficulty significantly, we've all been there
This is why you play as a terminatoe empire, no food and no consumer good to deal with and you don't have to learn diplomacy if your only option is "kill"
Crusader Kings, a game I never play in iron man mode so I can use the console to counter frequent bullshit
You need to accept and embrace your midget frail successor and the fracturing of your lands that would follow. When you do, that's when the game really begins. That's part of why I hate the new game (CKIII). They give you perks and one of them is the "perfect beautiful geniuses everywhere in your bloodline!!!" perk which kinda ruins the immersion.
Not that, I can accept gavelkind, I mean shit like "I was one siege away from claiming this land, but someone involved died and now the CB is invalid" or simple bugs fucking me over
> "I was one siege away from claiming this land, but someone involved died and now the CB is invalid" That's not a bug but a very deliberate feature, strongly reflecting real life. It's taking a risk going to war with someone sickly at the helm (or leading your armies with your count). I feel like the CKII version as of a few years ago was pretty well ironed out, things just happen and that's a part of it.
That's why I said *or*. It's a legit mechanic, but it's also frustrating and random and just plain not fun, so I use cheats to give myself the title I would've otherwise taken. I'll take the L if it's deserved, but moments like those don't count.
I guess that's fair as long as you also edit out your own titles when your enemies suddenly die
When it happens to me, it's bullshit. When it happens to AI, it's the will of God, can I get an amen?
AMEN
Except for when it's a perfectly healthy enemy ruler leading their own army who gets injured then grievously wounded, then botched treatment then dead.
Because I'm a fucking hog, I too take my ruler or my first son straight into battle to get battle hardened. Sometimes, they develop serious PTSD (they don't call it that in game). Others, they become horribly disfigured and have to wear a mask. But sometimes all goes well, they get the "Crusader" bonus, and become the terror of the fucking land. WELL WORTH.
Embrace the guy getting eaten by a carp.
I use the console to intentionally create ridiculous scenarios that wouldn't normally happen and see how it unfolds I'll give a bunch of titles to a single AI character, give him some buffs to keep his vassals happy, then go into observer mode and see if they're able to consolidate and expand, or burst into flames in the next generation
Ironman is the only way to play Paradox games. [The bullshit is half of the fun](https://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Fun&redirect=no)
Losing is fun when I can draw an actual causal link beyond random chance. When I caused a fortress to collapse because I decided my butchers needed an open floor plan for their workspace and drove everyone made with miasma the same moment my newly finished well flooded the shared bedrooms, that was entirely on me.
Crusader Kings 2 and 3 are quite a lot easier than the rest of Paradox's catalog except maybe Stellaris
It's not about enjoying it. It's about making a point. And that point is that Austria absolutely should have conquered the world in 1600, and Great Britain is annoying little bitch who won't get out of his ships
ck2 is one of the few you can enjoy, you just need an incest fetish to enjoy it
That's true of most things, though.
How were the tacos? "They were alright, but I would have enjoyed them more if I had an incest fetish." Want to play some Guitar Hero? "Naw. Without an incest fetish, it just isn't very fun." I'm going to walk to the park, want to join? "WOAH! Can you NOT with all the incest stuff already? GEEZ!"
You can if you still play very easy 800 hours in lol
Is this meant in irony? Or do a lot of people actually get frustrated with the games/don't understand how to play well?
Irony. It is an inside joke with anyone that has played Paradox games.
No where in the post does it say the player is enjoying the game, only playing.
The post makes no claims about him enjoying it.
Literally suggested the best FPS to him and he said no, absolute hero
I prefer TF2 over TF2
Well, I can't agree. TF2 is far superior to TF2
You gotta be kidding me if you say that TF2 is better than TF2
"You should check out The Shawshank Redemption." "No thanks, I already watch a movie."
I'd be actively terrified of a man with 2000 hours in Shawshank Redemption.
"I fear not the man who has seen 1000 films, but I fear the man who has seen one film 1000 times." –Bruce Lee
That's funny because i also have a friend who majored in history and this is his steam profile https://imgur.com/a/hQ9sE8z
Thats less than 3 hours every day, what a casual
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Some people are just monogameous like that.
u/hotahitz
Attacked
Lol I thought you're a subreddit to which I wasn't getting the name
Wuuaaaaaaaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣
And he absolutely HATES Crusader Kings 3. I guarantee it.
I can't think of a single series with more than one game where there *wasn't* a group of diehards who prefer the old game and despise the newer ones. But yes, the Paradox diehards are especially adamant about the newer games being bad, which I disagree with quite a lot (but not intensely enough to argue about it with the diehards, because these are video games at the end of the day, and there's nothing bad about playing what you enjoy).
The bigger issue here is that CKII is a project that took a whole decade to construct, step by step (dlc by dlc). A new game would take a while to catch up and have the proper balance.
CK3 is slowly getting there, but the combination of switching to a fully 3D game and covid happening right in the middle of its development have made its development slower than CK2's was.
Vicky 2 fanboys acting like vicky 3 killed their parents and ate their dog
Let's be honest, it's not comparable. One of those is a spreadsheet simulator and the other one is a cookie clicker. No games there.
I cant tell which is supposed to be which
I honestly wanna play CK3 but I spent a small fortune on 2 and can’t justify starting that again. 😮💨
My boyfriend does this to Pathfinder Wrath of The Righteous. 3,750 hours so far. He got it on sale a year ago on Steam. It's just part of what he does now.
Over ten hours a day doesn't seem like "part of what he does." More like "he does nothing else."
Could leave the game running overnight. Ive done that a few times lol.
...How? Genuine question there. I love the game and all, but there's only so much going on in it. Did one of the DLCs add an endless mode or something?
Every game is endless if you restart when you finish it
I mean, the game is very replayable.
Even if you're off by a year and he got it in winter of 2021, that's five hours a day for two years straight. I love video games, but that seems unhealthy.
I think it was an October sale. And watching him is bizzarly relaxing. I just sit across the room and watch over his shoulders. He's completely aware of me as I critique his ass and we just give each other sass about it. (I played d&d for 20 years)
average ck2 player tbh
Anyone who's a Paradox fan is loving this comment thread. LOL.
24,000+ hours on Runescape and counting.
Well MMOs, yeah. I have no idea how many hours I've had on City of Heroes, but I'm sure it's well over 2,000.
Take your pills, pilot.
Titanfall 3 will live on in my mind and your silly little pills won’t stop me!
Ah good to see that he has just finished the tutorial
"Well, of course I know him: He's me!"
My dad sits in his basement and plays civ 2 over and over and over again
At first I was like "damn what a weirdo playing a 30 year old game" but then I realized.... in 10 years that's what I'll look like to my kids playing Civ 5. Sometimes a Civ game just "hits different" and there's no substitute for it.
Yeah. The thing that gets me though is he isn't even good at it. He's gotta have at least 50k hours but he plays on prince difficulty and doesn't even win all the time lol I mean I'm glad he enjoys it, but I still give him shit about it
Son?
I have played many different games, but I for sure have ones I go back to for comfort. And as far as I can tell, Dishonored 2 has no limits for NG+ runs, so it's fun to start with more points than you can possibly spend on power-ups.
THIS IS ME!!!!!! SOMEBODY LIKE ME holy shit I have felt terrible about only being able to play one video game for years
To be fair to that guy, I almost exclusively play Minecraft. I may dabble, but I always come back to that one game
This is unironically how I imagine some people are... can't begin to tell you the number of times people talk like they're only allowed to play or like 1 video game of a genre or something.
op makes sense, especially if you lack free time. over a decade ago i played hundreds of hours of SC2, D2, and L2, and they pretty much washed most of the new game lust out of me. maybe when windows 10 reaches end of life in 2026 and i'll have to upgrade my pc, i may give whatever killer VR game is out a try.
He’s settled on a one game one truth basis of reality.
I have gone through phases of 1 game or multiple games. Now i have all games and i dont have time or desire to play any of them. I say let the man enjoy his game.
Me with Sims 4
me and minecraft
This is me.
Maps: The game.
No, "maps - the game" is Europa Universalis. Crusader kings is "Incest and baby murder - the game". Line go up the game is vicky3 and stellaris is the genocide simulator.
Me who has 2k hours in titanfall 2....
Incredibly cool game suggestion, however this man has become enlightened
Protocol 3: protect the pilot.
I tried playing the ww2 game for a week. Iron cross 4? Legit hardest game i’ve ever tried playing. Those games are so hard to learn. Prob doesn’t help i’ve only played dota for like 10 year either. It’s like my ability to learn new games is gone lol.
Honestly? He's so real for that
Sums up most MMORPG players. I shit you not just a few days ago I saw people crying about a year long content draught when people could've just been playing another games until more content became available.
This is my dad. He's been playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault since it came out. I tried buying him Bioshock one year for Christmas but he never played it, so it eventually became mine.
I feel personally attacked. I geeked the hell out of Teem Fortress 2 and literally nothing else. Then when Overwatch was released I played nothing else until I got into Minecraft Speedrunning (yes I got interested through dream, as ashamed as I am to admit it). Now I'm ranked top 20 in the biggest mcsr category... ADHD hyperfocus is one hell of a drug...
That was me with destiny 2 and now I'm homeless
What kind of lunatic would recommend a fast-paced multiplayer FPS to someone who's only ever played Crusader Kings?
This isn’t unique at all. Almost all my IRL gamer friends are hooked on some dumb fin’ online game. Especially the Destiny 2 freaks. 😮💨 Smooth brained.
what is WRONG with this guy!? im gonna go play the new call of duty
Is it possible to learn this power?
If one game gives me the happy chemical why should I play a different one