Can we have a Veeky Forums approved game thread?

Don't the "old gods" dlc basically shit on all pagans outside of Scandinavia?

I heard Verdun was extremely accurate. Mount & Blade is apparently good too.

Otherwise there's Paradox games for the autism, and Assassin's Creed for the map.

Old Gods lets you play Norse, Tengrist (Central Asian), Slavic, Baltic, Finnish, West African, and Aztec paganism. Only Norse, Tengrist, and Aztec paganism have any special bonuses or events with Slavic, Baltic, and Finnish paganism being basically the same thing and West African paganism being a literally why religion (It has like no bonuses what so ever).

Aka only meme pagans ((sorry)) gets something?

Being a Norse country in Old Gods is very over powered. Also makes the game easy mode for getting money (just raid). But it is fun to capture your vassals and sacrifice them to the old gods and clam their money and land.

Basically. Paradox is a Scandinavian company, Vikings are popular, it's easy to see why.

In their defense, there's not a whole lot about Baltic, Slavic, and Finnish Paganism that can really be turned into ingame things (Norse Pagans can move boats through rivers for example, something other religions cannot do, Aztecs can sacrifice people, Tengrists have a special feast), and West African Paganism is just a copout because the entirety of sub-sahara is just a shitty copout.

Verdun is a good game if you have a cooperative team. It's a lot like Red Orchestra with slower guns. Everyone fights for the machine gun classes without caring about the other jobs it has (call in artillery & being spawn point). I played right when it came out as completed and there were lots of low pop servers. But it might be better now it's been a long time since I played it.

the best

is it any good?

It's not even out yet

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Pike and Shot: Campaigns is pretty good imo.

this is $0.50 on steam right now, is it worth a chinaman's salary?

WHY DID THEY FUCK UP ARMORED FIGHTING? IT WAS SO GOOD OTHER THAN THAT. FUCK.

As a consolefag, Red Dead Redemption

Captures the waning of the Wild West very well
Plus the game itself is one of ghe best open worlds I've ever played

muh negro

it's the only game I still play

[spoiler]
I'm a ps4shitter[/spoiler]

"maybe crusader kings 2"

lmao is this some new /gsg/ meme? That CK is bad? It's far more enjoyable than alcohol factory simulator.

I played HOI 1 and 2 and EU3, with some mods to those, and they are great.
I don't think Paradox made any bad game of those, maybe exept HOI4 but time will tell if it's true.
Currently I'm playing EU3 mod Divide Et Impera what make it more historically acurate (with more countries, changed provinces and more events and decisions) and harder with stuff more nuanced economy and stuff punishing blobbing. It even have EU4 version too.

Well besides the setting, without mods it hardly feels "historical" besides the starting point. It then devolves in to random blobbing and le funny events for most parts.

I still enjoy it.

Yes, but sadly there's little to read or learn in CK2. in v2 you have all the little interesting things to read from events, tech about philosophy, industrial inventions, commerce etc, and you get to develop the nation from a shithole to an industrial powerhouse. It's so fucking satisfying.

I would say that EU4 averages to more historic or believable outcomes, so it is better. If you want to read historical events and stuff, you should play... How it was named? For The Glory.

I've played a lot of both and I feel like EU4 is superior, some people really hate the mana system though.

All I've seen is that there are separate army lists for each nation for every few years and I came a little.
What can sell me for the $20 price tag right now?

Vicky 2 with POP Demand Mod. Its really fun being a japan and ruining china.

Isn't PDM the one with astronauts and shit?

Civilization, first of the name, gave the taste for history to many children with its encyclopedia.

>Isn't PDM the one with astronauts and shit?

Approved by me

EU2/For the Glory with AGCEEP mod is the ultimate historical experience of any video game, it's chock full of so many historical events with such detail (yet still preserving options for alternate history and dynamic player actions) that you feel like a ruler desperately trying to keep your country together as you guide it through wars, reforms, and infrastructure projects.

What dyou think of their japanese title, Sengoku Jidai?

yea it's fun, some of the user made things are good. I just wish ottoman light cav spam was reduced and my gendarmes would actually beat something. swiss pikemen give me a boner

Mount and Blade with the 1257 mod

Can't wait for BannerLord.

>liquor and bureaucrat simulator

Please no

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Crusader Kings 2
1000 hours in and not bored. Currently playing the Game of Thrones mod and loving it. (with sub-mods)

>those options
Where's the middle ground of "Do your duty but don't mock his faith."

Thats Victoria Ultimate, PDM is the one with Horse factories

Rome 2 Emperor Edition is a legitimately good game

Last time I looked sword cuts just made sparks and bounced off plate, but that was ages ago. Don't tell me that you can cut through plate now

HoI4 is actually pretty good outside of peace treaties. It improves upon HoI3 in a lot of ways such as the supply system/supply manufacturing. Combat is comparable and the new battle plans make a lot of what made HoI3 tedious not so much. The AI is smarter in some respects and dumber in others. For example, the AI actually does naval invasions now. I mean successful ones. On the other hand, AI France has a modifier to not attack into Germany. It's definitely going to surpass HoI3 once it gets a few DLC and an HPM style balance mod, but idk how long it will take.

There are other ways to deal with him. You could ransom him to his lord or just let him go. Both of those options send him back to his home country.

>not executing a captured Christian in the great blot to the glory of the Gods
I bet you raid undefended farmsteads for cheese instead of looting the Latins' temples and their golden trinkets

There is no greater Veeky Forums game than Wrath of the Gods

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> Don't the "old gods" dlc basically shit on all pagans outside of Scandinavia?
Yes.

> In their defense, there's not a whole lot about Baltic, Slavic, and Finnish Paganism that can really be turned into ingame things (Norse Pagans can move boats through rivers for example, something other religions cannot do,
Historically speaking, it was Slavic tribes that were infamous for their river trade and armies on boats. Swedish historians simply pretend that they all were VIKINGS (Greater Sweden was a thing before WWII).

At least they are no longer claiming Scandinvia is Atlantis.

THE DAY IS OURS

>tfw you realize you've spent 3 weeks doing nothing but play RTW

Is it decently balanced on a strategical level? HOI III needed a lot of nerfing and buffing to make France weak enough, Germany strong enough, and the SU durable enough to get a game to last into 1942, but those are very inelegant solutions.

For any HoI4 players, Hearts of Panzers has been released.

moddb.com/mods/hearts-of-panzers

Why would you play such a bad game

I've been playing this naval management game called Rule the Waves. It's very similar to the paradox games except you play as your country's navy minister. One part of the game has you managing, designing, and building warships and the other part of the game is playing out sea battles against rival countries. I'm having great fun playing but the only problem I had with the game is that it has a real steep price tag

Disgusting

How does everyone feel about HOI3 with the black ice mod?

Ci:V

HASTATI
youtube.com/watch?v=HmM_rlnYnmw

I enjoy the other TWs but i've put in a ridiculous amount of time in Rome over the years.

[spoiler]I like Carthage more than Rome though[/spoiler]

I don't hold up Civ as historically accurate, but is certainly fun for Veeky Forums-interested people.

>Little to learn
>Names, Cultures, Geography, feudal systems, religions, dynasties, and even literal links to wikipedia articles for important persons

I think it's worth mentioning that even if historical games often don't have too much to read in themselves, they're valuable in putting a seed of interest in the player.

Like i played a lot of Age of Empires back in the day and while i didn't learn a lot of facts from the actual game, i ended up reading up on a lot of the related history separately.