Victoria 3 no war5/16/2023 ![]() You can start with a smaller country and figure out how to manage an economy. You can take the helm of the British Empire and run it into the ground if you like. And that’s also the downside, as such: This is a self-directed game, by and large. It’s really about seeing how you can get all your numbers to go in a desired direction. That is actually the key to the Victoria experience. There are still opaque stats and a lot of numbers to grapple with, but at least you have an idea for which part of the game to poke to make number go in the desired direction. After some basic orientation, it basically takes the form of…almost a “quest log” from an RPG, where it will task you with improving a building, then have “Tell Me How” and “Tell Me Why” buttons that walk you both through the reasoning for doing it and the “okay but actually which of the menus is that buried in” part of the process. There is a tutorial (yes!) that does a decent job of explaining things. It’s a weird itch to scratch, mind, and you are probably like me if you have it (a twice-divorced weirdo who will definitely be eaten by his cats) but if you do, then Victoria 3 is the best the series has ever been.įor one thing, they are actually trying to teach you how to play this instead of leaving you to cobble together an understanding based on lots of fiddling around, reading Let’s Play, and watching Youtube videos. The usual Victoria introduction is reading a Let’s Play–I suggest Texas for Victoria and this How To for Victoria II–and instead of the mind rejecting it, as most sane people would, the mind goes “This sounds like the most amazing thing I’ve ever played.” THRILL to figuring out how to educate your dirty peasants to make them…more literate dirty peasants! GASP as your landowners try to coup you! SWEAR as the church turns against you just because you’re shoving them out of government! MARVEL as Britain gets mad and steam rolls you like a…terrifying steamroller, Britain is pretty powerful given this is Peak British Empire. ![]() The Victoria series isn’t quite the unloved child of the Paradox games (those are Sengoku and March of the Eagles, the children hidden in the basement) ((I enjoyed them)), but the Victoria series is more “What if we made a massive simulation of the 1800s economy so you could corner the market on grain and machine tools?” than the usual world conquest ambitions of Paradox games. MonsterVine was supplied with Steam code for review A game for true alphas that are scared to eat a soybean or drive into a city and constantly tell everyone they are alphas (the mark, of course, of a true alpha male) and eat only meat until they get scurvy. A game with hair on its chest and a deep voice. The toe to toe slugfest of Hearts of Iron? BORING! The intrigue and drama over centuries in Crusader Kings? YAWN! The globe-sweeping ambitions of Europa Universalis? PASS! No, I play a man’s game. But I am awful even by Paradox-liker standards. I am a degenerate that likes weird strategy games and things no one else likes.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |