Abzocke! so ein spiel für 50 Euro ist eine Katastrophe 99% vom spiel geht es darum nicht die wirtschaft zu crashen und das wars ich wollte eine rückerstatung kriegen aber man hat mir gesagt das maximum ist 2 spielstunden wer solche spiele spielt und kennt weiß das man mehr zeit braucht um strategie spiele zu beurteilen man kann nichtmal seine eigene armee steuern und man muss in jeder ecke aufpassen das nichts falsch läuft entäuschung!

2 years later still feels like EARLY ACCESS
- Empty
- about zero replayabliity
- late game laggy
- 100$ for this

Imperator Rome part 2.
Great ponetial will not be relead due to bad managers AGAIN.

When you will fire them all already?

I am a long time Paradox Interactive and Grand Strategy fan, and I've spent 1000+ hours on EU4 and HOI4. Victoria 3 was a game that I've been looking forward to playing ever since it was teased, due to it being entirely unique to any other games, with its unrivaled economic and population system. And I've thoroughly enjoyed playing this game, tolerating all its ugly flaws

However, today's incident was the last straw. I've been playing Joseon for the past few days, attaining Great Power Status just by playing tall. Then there was a small update to the game, and suddenly I could no longer play any of my Joseon saves without immediately crashing after loading in, as they were all from a previous version. This happened far too many times to count, to other saves of mine.

Of course, the other glaring flaws of the game have been repeated by many other players endlessly - its warfare system (where armies would teleport across the world, and enemies would have a free landing despite having a garrison there, or a random 'encircled' enemy army would be uncontested and occupy your major cities, etc.).

I've always stayed loyal to Victoria 3 and kept on playing, but there are just too many flaws for any prolonged enjoyment. It's a just unfortunate...

This game rules. All other Paradox games should be folded into Victoria 3. Give me this economic simulation in Hearts of Iron IV. Give it to me in Europa Universalis IV and Stellaris. Hell, give it to me in Crusader Kings III. I liked it when it launched and it's only gotten better. If your simulation game doesn't have a pop-based economic simulation, what the ♥♥♥♥ are you doing with your life?

Oh how wrong I was.

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Let me first start out by stating the following:
Yes , I am aware that paradox games require time understand (sometimes even comprehend)
Yes , I am willing to devote time to this and am willing to fail in order to learn from my mistakes
Yes , I gave VIC 3 a fair chance.

Now, the first set of problems:
I have no idea what I am doing. Now I hear you thinking: But you stated- SHUSH . I have no idea what I am doing, and it is not because I did not try. Jumping into the game I was kinda expecting that things would not go smoothly, but I wanted to learn as much as possible as quick as possible. Simply put, I couldn't. VIC is like a spiderweb of variables; everything is attached to everything else, and everything changes everything else. And I wouldn't mind that if it wasn't for the fact that you don't know where the hell everything is connected to.

For instance: Radicalism!
The pain and suffering I have had to try and understand, let alone "fix" radicalism. Every single game:

1. I boot up
   
2. Try something new to slow down Radicalism
   
3. Faill for some reason (Never have a clue what that reason is, it just fails)
   
4. Have civil war or threats of civil war every second
   
5. Quit

Now I understand that the game is rather complex, and so is the economy. I have doven into 4 different guides and there is still much to learn! This is a good thing, that means the skill ceiling is high, and knowing more rewards better... BUT
This whole time, I have tried my very best to become better, to change something, to learn from.. ANYTHING. But it doesn't matter. SOL collapses everywhere in my country and the run will be ruined (again)

The point I am trying to make here, there is no problem in having to learn, adapt, and become better in a game. But this game just has too much going on which affects too many things. I am still very bad at Stellaris, but at least when I fail at something I can go "Oh, damn. I should have prepared better for that.", or "Next time, I will research this first so I can grow faster". Learning grants rewards. I can see myself getting better. I can learn from my mistakes.
And in VIC? Forget about it. The only thing I have truly learned in the 43 hours of gameplay is 1.5 hours of guides... Is well nothing . Everything I learned from guides was nearly impossible to properly use in-game.

I am skipping the army nonsense, it is trash. But it is doable, and one of the only things I have seen myself learn from mistakes.

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In conclusion:
The game has a lot of potential, but it just feels like it is all over the place and WAY too punishing for anything you do incorrectly. There is no problem with punishing the player when they do something incorrectly (it allows them to learn from their mistakes). But giving me a full-on civil war where the enemy has a 3:1 army ratio Because of a reason I can't understand.. Then the game becomes a pain to play, not a learning experience.
All in all, maybe Paradox will fix this eventually. But right now, only dive in once you have memorized the entire VIC 3 Wikipedia. Because you won't last otherwise

I wouldnt recomment the game. Its boring

I just can't get enough of this game and I love the fact that Paradox is keep making it better and better with new content.
Some would argue that this was an incomplete game when it was originally released and I can somewhat relate to that, since I've been playing it since day one, but that nevers stopped me to enjoy it despite its many flaws.
I rather let others do a comprehensive review, I just would like to highlight that myself being a grand strategy fan, in this game I found the society and economy building the most intriguing, so I believe if you are searching for one grand strategy that is less about military but shines on society and economic simulation then I would recommend this to you.

I've played over 500 hours and I CANNOT get past the warfare system. How TF did my army magically appear thousand miles away? IDK, maybe paradox does. C'm the f*** on.

give back my armies pls

this game makes me happy