watching florryworry play it on twitch right now - it looks pretty awful. merc spam worse than eu4, along with all the same bs war and peace system... hoping to see something of redeeming value here.
(also the super gamma glow map and white UI features... i can feel my retina burning away...)
Even if its "bad" at launch, I'm gonna buy it anyway
I enjoy every single Paradox game. The only exception is I didn't like Stellaris at launch, but after a year I went back and its now my 3rd most played Paradox game (behind EU4 and Victoria 2). I enjoyed CK2 as well, got almost 100 hours out of it and it was only one I felt like I personally "finished" the game.
Paradox hasn't really made a bad game for me, and the one I didn't like at launch got better over time.
(not related to the quote, but seen people on steam complaining about future DLC)
Personally. I like how they keep updating their games like an MMO would, with continuous updates instead of abandoning it for the next title. Though I know some don't like that approach since a lot of good stuff ends up locked in DLC. I like it just cause at least for EU4, there is always new content. A lot of games make a couple DLC and give up and move on to the next 60 dollar game. I'm sure paradox could have made more money re-releasing slightly different versions of EU4 like how some games re-release with just a few changes. I'd rather instead of a few changes (whether big or small), it would be DLC instead of re-releasing with a full priced newly released title. And that is what Paradox does. And for some reason there is a group of people who don't like that approach and rather keep buying new titles with only a few changes. Dunno, the latter seems more expensive as a consumer to me and makes me not want to buy a game when its mostly the same as their previous title.
And I like that a game can last for years that isn't an MMO. Like Skyrim. Imagine if it was updated with DLC for as long as EU4 has been supported. There'd be so much content and stuff to do, it would last so long (ignoring mods) compared to 3 dlc and that is it. Same with Witcher 3, eventually it just ends with no new content. Sure the 3 dlc were great, but they still end. Where as, EU4 is still fresh with content and still supported today. Can't think of many companies that have that support.
Though I do understand the other side sees it as being "forced" to use DLC, because content gets locked out without that DLC. That is a big negative side effect of that method. Personally though, I still think its worth that trade off to have a continually updated and continually supported game.