Grand Strategy Crusader Kings III

[Kazuki]

I got 500 hours in CK2 and never seen that event .

Perhaps i'm wrongly said on that, the way CK2 and CK3 handled it is different.

In my CK2 game the incest is way too happen on my game without the event like screenshot above.

 

[Avarize]

In CK2 incest didn't really happen outside zoroastrians unless you wanted it and worked for it. Seduction overall was just too easy though.

 

[Hace El Oso]

Incredibly distant cousins at that. The Church's rules against consanguinity were extremely strict, miles more than modern law. But of course, if you spend a couple centuries marrying between just a few prominent families and your own distant family branches, then that shit adds up over time.

Church rules are still strict, or were until recently. I had a girlfriend who’s aunt and uncle were first cousins(aristocrats marrying to keep clan holdings together) and had to get special dispensation from the Archbishop to marry.

 

[Catacombs]

I got 500 hours in CK2 and never seen that event .

Maybe you weren't... trying hard enough.

 

[thesecret1]

Church rules are still strict, or were until recently. I had a girlfriend who’s aunt and uncle were first cousins(aristocrats marrying to keep clan holdings together) and had to get special dispensation from the Archbishop to marry.

They are strict but no longer really all that important. Who cares if you break Church's rules nowadays? And the Church will happily give out a dispensation if you ask for it. Back then, they often actually wouldn't let you (just look at Henry VIII and his attempts to get divorced – got flipped the bird by the pope, and he was a damn king). Just bad luck, sonny, pray away the incestous lust with some hail marys and find someone not related to you. If you didn't obey, you didn't get married, and that was a really big deal from both a social and legal perspective.

 

[mondblut]

Back then, they often actually wouldn't let you (just look at Henry VIII and his attempts to get divorced – got flipped the bird by the pope, and he was a damn king). Just bad luck, sonny, pray away the incestous lust with some hail marys and find someone not related to you. If you didn't obey, you didn't get married, and that was a really big deal from both a social and legal perspective.

Or flip the pope in return and startup your own church. Worked wonders for the Vatican, huh?

 

[thesecret1]

Or flip the pope in return and startup your own church. Worked wonders for the Vatican, huh?

Such is the way of the world. Still, the inbreeding meme is inaccurate, fueled by people thinking the aristocracy actually married close relatives. The idea that a royal found his offspring fucking and decided to join in is like something from a fetish fanfiction or something.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[LizardWizard]

First 9 songs of OST. Pretty good imo aside from the Banquet

 

[Zariusz]

First 9 songs of OST. Pretty good imo aside from the Banquet

At 19:00 starts new In taberna. I like CK2 version more, but still that is not my favourite version of this song
This is

 

[Zariusz]

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Kem0sabe]

This shit should have come out today, to play over the weekend, now I'm forced to play this WL3 shit while I wait for Tuesday...

 

[thesecret1]

This shit should have come out today, to play over the weekend, now I'm forced to play this WL3 shit while I wait for Tuesday...

It probably won't be much to look at anyway on release.

 

[Catacombs]

I'm forced to play this WL3 shit

And you paid full price for it?

 

[Kem0sabe]

And you paid full price for it?

Gamepass.

 

[Agame]

This shit should have come out today, to play over the weekend, now I'm forced to play this WL3 shit while I wait for Tuesday...

It probably won't be much to look at anyway on release.

Well if you really want to have fun check out the "influencer" coverage on YT, a bunch of retards larping. I guess some kind of Paradox promotion? I just about hurled my monitor out the window.

 

[zaper]

And you paid full price for it?

Gamepass.

I often sound like a shill, but Gamepass for PC has a really good value, at least in my country. It's around $3 here IIRC, and you get tons of good games on release. We just got Wasteland 3 and now we'll be getting CK3.

As the owner of a PS4 who's been getting shitty games from PS PLUS month after month for a long time (and that has to deal with overpriced releases), Gamepass alone is what would make me buy an Xbox next-gen.

 

[Hellion]

You can actually create world states in which everyone is gay.

There's also a "gender equality" option with "Default", "Equal" or "Inverted" as choices.

 

[Avarize]

So it's a simulation for coastal America? Could be useful in modelling the societal collapse of the Bay area for example.

 

[MajorMace]

I still can't understand why anyone would want to play a medieval game but at the condition that it's all gay.

I can't wrap my head around that. Are we living the most absurd era of the time of man ? How ironic considering all the rational thinking and machinery at our disposal.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

IGN review:

 

[Heroic Liberator]

And a link to the written Kotaku review.

TL;DR of the review using its own words: "I would recommend Crusader Kings III to Crusader Kings II fans, obviously. But also to Civilization and Total War fans. To people who play The Sims. Or visual novels. Or Bioware RPGS. That’s testament to how wild and untamed this game’s scope it, but also how successful it is in delivering on the promise of wrapping it all up into a single cohesive offering."

 

[Heroic Liberator]

And the Rock Paper Shotgun written review.

TL;DR - "I like it a lot. I think there are some awkwardnesses still to be ironed out, but they’re offset by a strong suite of new ideas. I saw what might have resolved into the edges of CK3’s potential a little earlier than I wanted to, in a game of such colossal scope. But I also saw a much stronger starting point for growth than CK2 represented in 2012. It’s less overwrought than its predecessor, and certainly less mentally draining to play. But this felt more like the result of smart design choices than oversimplification. Tonally, it’s in just the same, marvellously dark spot. All in all, and as boring as it is to say, I think Crusader Kings 3 is a lot like Crusader Kings 2, but newer and tidier. And I’m very content with that indeed."

 

[MajorMace]

I also saw a much stronger starting point for growth than CK2 represented in 2012.

Yeah, my issue with paradox latest releases is that they still haven't delivered, starting with EU4.

Paradox games are the perfect illustration of why release-day-ponctual-reviews are pretty much obsolete too.