Hey Sup Forums you have any experiences with these games?
I really never touch into video games but they seem like they're of my interest.
I guess I'm a little put off how intimidating EU4's interface looks same goes to CivilizationV so I kinda feel like ill be too autistic to understand the video games and a little too busy to figure them out.
or forget both and just get Mount & Blade with Napolean DLC
Jeremiah Wilson
Where is the appeal of playing video games, dont you guys feel like wasting countless hours on that stuff?
Adrian Sanders
Get civ v complete pack. You'll need about 10 hours to figure everything out if you're not a retard and can read. It's really like a board game, but on steroids.
Dylan Carter
Check out CKII aswell. Easally the greatest game I've played.
Jack Johnson
That's my point satan. I have merely any time anymore to just play video games but I thought why not play educateful games? win win.
Joseph Rodriguez
Europa Universalis 3 was the best game I've ever played.
Took one look at EUIV and hated it.
Benjamin Moore
>Mount & Blade
Muh nigga. With Fire and Sword is pretty fuggin good too.
Christian Howard
Get EU4, Mountain Blade, CKII, and maybe HOI3. Civ 5 is boring and easy.
Easton Richardson
Says Satan posting on a Laotian needlepoint forum.
Jonathan James
Play Rust.
Henry Ward
EU4 is shit. Go ask /gsg/ about all the ways. Civ V is alright, although it feels like a board game and the AI can't deal with 1UPT to save its life.
Wyatt Walker
>Napoleon I like the sound of that, is it online FPS?
Parker Cox
Easily* lol. Just woke up.
Grayson Jackson
Civ V is trash. Get Civ IV if you must.
Alexander Lee
Its the fucking bomb, but no one ever plays it.
Joshua Russell
What do you do in your free time then?
Benjamin Stewart
You want redpill get Age of Empires 2 with the African DLC so you can reenact the invasion of Sweden with Vikings against the Malians/Ethiopians
Maybe this time you will win
Nathan Walker
>Civ v >inimidating
how fucking casual are u
Adrian Torres
CIV is fucking fun and is a good experience for pol guys stfu fagget
IMO Civ - boring EUIV AMAZING WITH EXPANSIONS, lots of mods too. Can form different kingdoms, reform empires. Manifest your destiny. So good. It's very indept with tons of mechanics you have to learn to be decent at this game.
It's expensive with expansions so imo wait for sale unless ur a richfag
Tyler Young
Guess I'm nobody then :^)
Seriously though, M&B got me through two deployments and sparked my interest in medieval warfare. Fantastically fun games.
>I'm fucking diamonds for Bannerlord too
Jace Torres
idgaf ppl have to start somewhere, sven is new remember
Ian Foster
Civilization is like a board game, it's fun but it's so fucking basic it's almost a kid game.
EU4 is another animal, absolutely amazing, just like other Paradox grand strategies. It took me couple tries to "get it", but once it clicked i just spent hundreds of hours playing different historical nations. I'd suggest watching some tutorials and gameplays online to help you learn it (i recommend Quill18, he talks a lot, i learned almost everything about the game from him).
Enjoy user.
Jeremiah Green
just get vicky 2
James Sanders
Empire: Total War is superdeeduper fun. It gets my seal of approval for its huge amounts of killing brown people for their land.
Justin Foster
>Civ game bad game
well it is played by almost all of my friends list which is like 13 people kek but I mean the numbers tell you something...
Jayden Brown
alright honestly ill admit its fun the first couple of times, but its a huge time sink and doesnt really have too much strategy involved. And it especially lacks historical accuracy which is why it doesnt really do it for me.
Jose Gonzalez
EU IV is quite good, but I'd recommend you get it with all of the expansions as the base game is not nearly as good, also look into some good mods.
I'd also recommend Victoria 2 (again with expansions+HPM mod) by Paradox as well-it's EU4 but in 19th century
Angel Ross
>it's popular therefore it's good Just like the popular vote, eh?
Oliver Anderson
>it's EU4 but in 19th century That's an enormous insult to V2.
Colton Lewis
>EU4 Felt like a completely pointless waste of time to me every time I tried a Paradox game.
Ian Jackson
how could anyone forget Liquor Factory 2
Carson Cooper
Just try it, it's not redpilled or advanced but it's literally pol the game
Yeah, Paradox games are really hit or miss with people. They usually have massive learning curves and are very open ended. If you're looking for a "do X to win" game, you're better off looking elsewhere.
Noah Scott
Cooking, pastry, reading, Cycling (but its fkn winter)
Also shitpost whenever its possible
Nolan Rodriguez
feels that way when you get really good at the game too, playing Eu3 for the first time felt so immersive and exciting but now playing EU4 just feels cold and calculating.
Charles Williams
press f to pay respects for my wallet
(spoiler) somthing tells me I'm abondoning half of this list forever forgoten in my Steam library while I crave like 1 or 2 of them (spoiler/)
Also thoughts on total war games?
If I can quench my thirst by exterminating filthy brown saracens than I would be a happy boy.
Parker Hernandez
I was turned-off from all Paradox games after I saw a screenshot of one of their devs being an asshole
Mount & Blade is definitely good
Jace Campbell
once you learn the basics, EUIV is actually pretty simple and you spend a lot of time just waiting for time to pass in game for shit to happen
euIV you can get some of the major dlc or just pirate the dlc and get it to work on steam supposedly
you can pirate both but having the steam workshop is nice
Jaxson Hall
You might want to wait until Christmas day before buying that, since there's likely going to be a sale on that day.
Hudson Scott
People usually say Empire is one of the worst if not the worst Total War. HOWEVER and said that, It's the only one I have 100% more than once and I really like it.
Bentley Bailey
Yes and only play rhodoks, forget about the nord and swadian scum
Jeremiah Jackson
Someone pls buy me eu4 , i'm a poor serb :/
Xavier Foster
CIV is awesome I play that shit for days at a time.
Blake Miller
Honestly between running a business and dealing with shit, the only time my brain shuts down is when I play games.
Michael Flores
>too autistic to understand the video games No friend. You must be autistic to understand these video games. Any game made by paradox is meant for Sup Forums It distracts you from the pain of being a man. Tyler Durden was right, it is best to focus on the pain, confront it. Best not to play video games
Zachary Murphy
Both games are fine. EU4 is much harder to learn. Fuck, now I have the urge to find a good line battle clan again. This. YES. pic related Just pirate it until you figure out what you like, man.
Angel Mitchell
hey youre gonna really regret buying those paradox games without the dlc.
Angel Lopez
This is a good idea
Carson Hernandez
I like complex games, but it's like EU has the wrong kind of complexity for me.
For example I enjoyed Dwarf Fortress,Dominions 4 and Aurora 4X, but EU just felt too abstract.
Nolan Price
just torrent it then
Cameron Watson
autismolords will tell you that eu4 is piss easy but if you have no experience with grand strategy it will take a long time to learn it.
Aiden Taylor
Where is the appeal of leafpostig, dont you guys feel like wasting countless hours on that stuff?
Jaxson Butler
buy hearts of iron 3 and get the blackice mod for it
Cooper Clark
>Empire You have made a mistake, get Napoopan instead.
Robert Reyes
would you say you prefer game with micromanagement?
Isaac Watson
I've already experienced the pinnacle of Steam games, or at least the best games that my third world toaster can handle (Dominions 4, Tales of Maj'Eyal, Terraria, Dawn of War series, Age of Empires 2 HD, and DOTA 2)
Not planning to buy much during this current holiday sale
Anthony Ross
Do not listen to this man, Civ 5 is fun but Civ 4 is still the best civilization simulator
Julian Cruz
Find early version of Civilization V with broken nuclear Ghandi
Civ 5 is easy and addictive, fun with friends. Not a great political simulator though, it's pretty much a board game.
Europa, on the other hand, is long, grueling, complex and epic. If you have a short attention span though, you may lose interest. I personally can never get into Grand Strategies because they don't keep and hold my attention, and I ultimately get bored.
I recommend you get a Total War game as well if you can afford it. The grand strategy aspects are simple enough for you to understand, but realistic enough to actually allow you to partake in actual political simulation. But the best part of any TW game are the battles, allowing you to control armies, zoom right up to the battle, taking into account terrain, weather, morale and ammo.
Personally, the battles in TW are a true test of the mind. Executing strategies in the real time, being capable of assessing all variables and being able to use simple wits is great fun. Makes you feel like a Napoleon, Washington or Alexander.
Benjamin Anderson
get victoria 2 pleb
Kevin Hernandez
The problem with CIV V is that it puts being a board game above being historical. Your leader/national you pick is only relevant to your unique traits and buildings. The world starts off empty and you have to fill it up by creating cities. You care more about accumulating your "victory points", be that a science win, or cultural. Religion is just another currency, and has no impact on the game besides getting a few bonus traits/buildings, can be completely ignored, and usually snowballs for whoever made the first one. Military is slightly different in that you buils units instead of buildings, and can get great bonuses from conquering, but it's really hard to fully eliminate every other player, because usually the AI are too shit at finishing off other players, or other human players don't bother because they'll fall behind in science and lose late game.
Paradox games like EU4, Heart of Iron IV, CK2, are all different in that you aren't playing a random board game, you're playing an actual historical country from that time period. Instead of playing as Gandhi for 6000 years, your character will age and die, and must be replaced by your offspring. You can be an emperor, or just a simple vassal under a king. Your board isn't a hex-grid cluster fuck, but an actual, real map. Every inch of the map is already controlled by kingdoms like the Ottoman Empire or the Holy Roman Empire, or simple tribal counties. Religion can make or break you. Winning new land isn't done simply by attacking people (sans religious wars), but by playing local politics and acquiring the "right" to control that land, be it by marriage or fake claims to it. Your religion defines whose your friends (or neutral), and who are your enemies.
CIV is a lot easier to get into, and I would probably recommend it if you're completely new, but it's very shallow when it comes to history. Paradox games are great for history buffs, but require almost literal autism to enjoy the mechanical gameplay.
Josiah Sanders
700 hour civ 5 fag here
GET IT
Robert Bell
Its all pretty much the same, civ 5 has a mod to make it like civ 4 but better.