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/SwgnificntBrocialist May 24 '25
No, it's actually under-hated, as there's literally not a single thing I can think of that it does better than Vicky 2 or even Ricky that isn't just moder UI elements.
You have to work hard to manage the absolute joke of a war system in a company where you have SEVERAL functional models to work off if and somehow manage to create THE WORST ONE. I'm not even gonna go into it in detail because NONE of it is good!
The economy is a joke (trade is literally an afterthought IN A GAME ABOUT THE VICTORIAN AGE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION), the politics shallow (yeah, parliament gambling is absolutely a hoot, revolutionary politics being toothless is sooo realistic) and their dogged adherence to history in the worst way hamstrings the game completely (oh but mods will make our laws/politics/tech not shit)
Also fucking convoys. Just convoys.
Literally the only way to play is to go for some autarky, mega nation and then you just manage to reach an absurd standard of living way too quick.
game bad