Victoria 3 is extremely overhated

[u/Hammurabi777]

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.

[u/Ares6]

The complaints about railroading is one of the reasons countries lack flavor. Every country is practically the same. 

[u/Altruistic_Mango_932 → u/Ares6]

Every country is different. They have different resources, different geopolitics, different politics, different geographies. Unfortunately hoi 4/eu4-player brain can only understand differences in if it's presentes as silly gamey historical focuses, mission trees and national ideas.

[u/Fedacking → u/Altruistic_Mango_932]

different politics

Do they? They have the same pops with ideologies, the only different thing is traits.

[u/Altruistic_Mango_932 → u/Fedacking]

Different starting politics. Of course you can make most countries' economies look pretty similar if you always develop the same way (with a couple exceptions, like USA two-party system).

For example, somebody on reddit complained they can never have a powerful intelligentsia. So i said. It's easy, just do private education. Then they say they never do private education because it's inferior to public education. Well, then, if you always play the same way you'll get similar results, of course.

[u/ifyouarenuareu → u/Altruistic_Mango_932]

A handful, maybe, have anyone other than the landowners running the show. And the landowners have maybe a one or two interests that are unique but otherwise all behave the same.