Grand Strategy Crusader Kings III

[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.

 

[fantadomat]

I see that someone played a bit starstable...too.

 

[Avarize]

Game journos liking it makes me more pessimistic.

 

[fantadomat]

Sooo it is dumbed down so much that even game journos could get it.....sad.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Game journos liking it makes me more pessimistic.

Only thing that it proves is that Paradox has money to pay 'em off for a good rating. IGN and the like haven't done honest journalism for a long time.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

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

It's not all gay, but mostly gay. You could play as hetero minority and try to lynch as many fags as possible. Fight against state enforced homosexuality

 

[Hellion]

Even in the mail they sent me to provide the review code, they stated that "certain media and paid promotions are exempt from the official embargo conditions". They don't really hide the fact that they paid certain people to promote the game.

It's genuinely good, though. I'll upload an english translation of my review later.

 

[thesecret1]

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.

It's because Paradox is obsessed with content bloat rather than fixing its mechanics or adding actual, worthwhile content. Instead of adding flavour that would make playing Ireland different from playing fucking Russia, they just add India, and have it play much the same as Germany. Instead of fixing their braindead AI, they add the devil child chain. To this day, years after release of that DLC, merchant republics suffer from gamebreaking bugs that make them near unplayable for a prolonged amount of time, and Paradox knows about it – I even found the fucking issue tickets for some of them – yet they happily ignore it in favour of adding more bloat.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

PC Gamer written review.

TL;DR - "Crusader Kings 3 is always in motion, always jumping to new stories, so it never lets you get too settled. But it also never ventures far out of its comfort zone. Paradox hasn't taken it in a different direction or made changes that will elicit any gasps. The stuff that made Crusader Kings 2 so enduring has been pushed to the front even more, while some of the bloat that accumulated over the better part of a decade has been chipped away. It's a very sensible sequel."

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Dev stream finale:

 

[Fedora Master]

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.

It's Paradox themselves. The woke message of "normalising homosexuality" outweighs any gameplay or historicity concerns.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

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.

It's Paradox themselves. The woke message of "normalising homosexuality" outweighs any gameplay or historicity concerns.

It's an optional rule, turned off by default, which disables iron man achievements, so yeah nah. It's clearly pandering, but it does not negatively impact the game in any way.

 

[Fedora Master]

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.

It's Paradox themselves. The woke message of "normalising homosexuality" outweighs any gameplay or historicity concerns.

It's an optional rule, turned off by default, which disables iron man achievements, so yeah nah. It's clearly pandering, but it does not negatively impact the game in any way.

We will see how they handle the trait in the real game soon enough. I doubt it'll have any noticeable repercussions for being openly gay.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

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.

It's Paradox themselves. The woke message of "normalising homosexuality" outweighs any gameplay or historicity concerns.

It's an optional rule, turned off by default, which disables iron man achievements, so yeah nah. It's clearly pandering, but it does not negatively impact the game in any way.

We will see how they handle the trait in the real game soon enough. I doubt it'll have any noticeable repercussions for being openly gay.

It's tied to the religious system. Depending on one's faith, homosexuality can be either criminalized, shunned or kosher.

 

[Preben]

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.

For the same reason why people played CK2 to castrate the Caliph, blind Charlemagne or to Deus Vult all the way to India..

For shit and giggles. It's a video game.

 

[Fedora Master]

Theocratic Gay Ethnostate of the Kongolese Jews, here I come!

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Theocratic Gay Ethnostate of the Kongolese Jews, here I come!

Don't forget Polish asexual ethnostate ruled by Król warpig, religious head of the Inczel faith.

 

[Hellion]

You can't play as a Theocracy or Republic at launch, sadly.

PS. English review is up: https://ragequit.gr/reviews/item/crusader-kings-iii-english-review/

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Also, VG24/7 review.

TL;DR - "All in, Crusader Kings 3 is my Game of the Year so far. If you’re looking for a new strategy title with some RPG flair that will suck you in for 500 hours or more during this endless lockdown, then it should be on your wishlist already."

English review is up: https://ragequit.gr/reviews/item/crusader-kings-iii-english-review/

Will read it right now.

By the way, in case you are allowed, could you post screenshots of all the religious doctrines available in the game?

 

[Average Manatee]

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.

For the same reason why people played CK2 to castrate the Caliph, blind Charlemagne or to Deus Vult all the way to India..

For shit and giggles. It's a video game.

There's a difference between a game goal and completely redefining the whole game through a setup option.

It'd be like if there was a "kill all the muslims lolol xd" option in the settings that banned those religions from existing and turned the middle east into a wasteland. You're supposed to need to work to accomplish that.

 

[Mortmal]

Gamepass is the most well spent 1 euro in my life i think. By the time the major dlc come out the game will be discounted.

 

[Hellion]

By the way, in case you are allowed, could you post screenshots of all the religious doctrines available in the game?

There's a lot of them, so posting screenshots of all their individual descriptions would take forever, but here are their titles at least.

Each religion can have up to 3 Tenets, then as you can see you can specify their Main, Marriage, Crime and Clergy Doctrines.