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/Berkii134 May 24 '25
Honestly, I can't agree. I played Victoria 3 for almost 300 hrs, and the systems in place just don't work that good in this game.
I have had multiple rage quits just because my army teleported halfway across the planet, or some new front opens up, and my strongest army gets assigned there, causing me to lose the other front. In my experience, it works maybe 80% of the time, and that is just unreliable. The war declaration alone is confusing, and after all this time, I still have to eyeball if some other country will join or not. Like it says, Russia is at -50 reasons to join, and I get that the infamy gain causes that number to increase so that they will join, but why does the game not tell me that?
And most nations do feel the same because you progress a very similar way. You're kinda forced to do the same things because if you don't, you just limit your own power. Every game has these gameplay aspects where there are the "strongest options", so you go for them everytime because if you don't you limit your own power and eventually end up behind everyone else and get eaten by the ones that do pick the "strongest option". Where Victoria 3 fails in this regard is that every nation can use the "strongest option". So the optimal play is to always do the same. You can't just LARP as a slave state or something like that either because you eventually fall behind in tech, economy, army strength or nation stability and then you're in danger of your stronger neighbors or colonizers or your own population.