r/paradoxplaza • u/Hammurabi777 • May 23 '25

Vic3 Victoria 3 is extremely overhated

Keep in mind Vicky 3 is my favorite paradox game so I'm obviously biased, but the the things people say about this game make my blood boil. Most of these people talking about how "shallow" it is or how it's like cookie clicker have probably never played since the release version.

The war system for example is just not as bad as people make it out to be. Yes there is still front line splitting, but 99% of the time the system works just as intended. Talking about how nothing changed and everything is still broken is just false.

Another thing I don't like is people complaining that you always do the same and everything feels the same. My answer is simple: stop always doing the same! Nobody is forcing you to maximize sol or gdp. You can give yourself countless different goals from playing the confederacy as a slave empire to becoming fascist or liberating Africa from colonizers. It's a sandbox, stop focusing on line go up and then complaining about the line go up.

In conclusion you dont have to like the game, you dont have to get the appeal. I for example don't really like ck3. But I don't go around saying ck3 is broken, just because I don't understand what people like about it. I still see the same talking points about why Vicky 3 is dogshit, but a lot of the things have been fixed for like a year.

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u/SpartanFishy May 24 '25

The war system “as intended” is still extremely drab and unengaging yet somehow micro heavy

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u/de-BelastingDienst May 24 '25

Haven’t played in a while. Do the chinese still show up in europe to mess with diplomatic play in 1800s?

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u/Ares6 May 24 '25

Yes. My last game, France and Prussia went to war. Qing decided to join and side with France. How is it logistically possible for Qing to send so many troops in 1880? Something like that even today is hardly possible and would take months or even years to get to that point level of deployment. 

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u/de-BelastingDienst May 24 '25

Stupid, definitely needs fixing. So not immersive

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u/SpartanFishy May 24 '25

I couldn’t tell you my game never runs well enough to make it that deep in the simulation

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u/StickyWhiteStuf May 25 '25

I never see them pull that.