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Paradox announces EU3: Heir to the Throne, Victoria 2, and For the Glory
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Damn. All three sound kind of interesting. EU3 with CK-like dynasties could be awesome. Or even if it's not quite that in depth it would still add something, I like that aspect of CK but find the time period the EU series covers to be far more interesting. I loved and hated aspects of Victoria, the sequel sounds like it will fix a lot of the things I hated about it. I'm not sure I completely understand what For the Glory is, some kind of fan project based on the AGCEEP where Paradox is helping to add more modibility, modern graphical resolutions, and other stuff. I love the AGCEEP so I'll keep an eye on this one for sure. |
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08-19-2009, 11:14 AM | #2 |
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Ooooh EU3 is by far my favorite Paradox game.. so I'm excited about this!
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08-19-2009, 12:01 PM | #3 |
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Cue the CK fans raging....
Victoria was a mess but I'd love to see that done right. An interesting time period we don't see much on. That EU3 expansion sounds great. I might have to finally pick up EU3 and dive into that. Heard great things about the expansions for that but never got around to it. The EU2 thing is odd, but it costing them next to nothing so what the hell. Not interested in it though. |
08-19-2009, 02:03 PM | #4 |
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EU3 - Spheres of influence - a fantastic addition if done right. The most annoying part of EU is when every little podunk country is colonizing haphazardly and becoming impossible to annex.
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08-19-2009, 02:21 PM | #5 |
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What? They release a sequel to Vicky and not CK?!
That said, Vicky 2 sounds intriguing and the EU3 expansion might convince me to blow the dust off of EU3.
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I dunno if you ever played the mod before, but the Mega Super Duper Mod, Magna Mundi, is releasing their latest version on 10/2. It's reason enough to dust off EU3. |
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I still play a weekly multiplayer EU3 game with Barkeep and love the game.. but I never have gotten into Magna Mundi. Sure it makes things more challenging, but in a very non-fun way for me. Everything just feels too scripted and not enough free will in it. I'm hoping the expansion doesn't go in that direction as it would be a disappointment for me. |
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08-19-2009, 03:49 PM | #8 |
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HOORAY Vicky2! Give it some time with the VIP folks and it will be fantastic.
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08-19-2009, 03:50 PM | #9 |
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These sound cool. I haven't played anything since EU1. I'm not sure if I'll have the time to invest in these (and I really didn't for EU1 for that matter) but it sounds tempting.
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08-19-2009, 07:25 PM | #10 |
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Well, the EU game sounds good. Not a big fan of Wicky and still pinning for CK2. But I can't help but wonder if CK 2 is around the corner
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09-29-2009, 06:36 AM | #11 | |
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First Dev Diary entry for Heir to the Throne:
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09-29-2009, 08:06 AM | #12 |
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Man I love EU/CK and happily consider the new expansion and For the Glory.
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Heir to the Throne - Dev Diary 2 - Paradox Interactive Forums
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cool idea - long overdue. now we'll see if they can implement it right. if so it could literally make the game.
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10-08-2009, 01:22 AM | #15 |
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The box art for Victoria II has upset some of the Euros on the Paradox forums because it's too focused on war and/or trying hard to appeal to Americans with the Confederate flag on there. I think it looks pretty cool though. And a scenario where the British intervene against a CSA that does very well in the game could be fun (or intervention on the CSA's side could be fun too). Anyway box art with an old woman looking at a pie chart or a ledger might not move too many units. I'm really looking forward to hearing more about the game, there hasn't been a developer's diary or anything yet though.
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That looks devastatingly awesome.
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10-08-2009, 04:59 PM | #17 |
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YES! I am very excited about Vicky 2. I really loved the original. Can't wait for this to come out.
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There was an alt-history series of books put out a few years back that had the premise of an attempted British intervention because of the Trent Affair and the sudden death of Victoria's husband (supposedly he had a hand in quelling the issue in real life). The Brits attempted to aid the South by reinforcing through the Gulf, but wound up firing on CS forces after coming ashore. British hubris decided it made no difference, thereby re-uniting the North and South against the common invader, though the two nations remained technically separate until after the British were beaten back. |
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10-13-2009, 11:12 AM | #19 | |
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This should appeal to some of the CK fans that only borderline like EU3. (I'm the opposite, I love EU3 far more than CK myself)
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Hmm. Interesting.
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12-11-2009, 09:38 AM | #21 |
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They have a demo up for the new expansion pack that is coming out next week for EU3:
Heir to the Throne - DEMO - Paradox Interactive Forums I've been completely swamped this month, so no time to try it out myself. The expansion pack looks just short of incredible though, so I'm likely buying it for myself for Christmas with hopes things slow down for me to play it some next month |
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DLing the new expansion now....
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Why are the Great Plains, upper section, wasteland and uncolonizable? There is nothing uncolonizable about South Dakota or Montana. I figured with the loss of Perm. Terra Incog. we would have a mor esensible map, but I see that may not be the case
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12-20-2009, 04:31 PM | #24 |
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Seems like the removal of PTI is just a marketting bulletpoint that has no affect on gameplay.
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This is what it sounds like to me as well. Supposedly there are some events that can make impassable terrain passable in some way, but I have no idea what those are or how they work in HTTT |
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As far as I care, the only place on the world that should be PTI is Antarica, and then the rest should have various negatives to colonizing, sending tropps there, etc. Massive attrition for trying the Sahara or disease for those entering the deep African jungle, etc.
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Wonder if those provinces are open to being modded. If so, it shouldn't be too hard to put those things in. I haven't tried modding any of these games, but I'll try to dig into the scripts to see what I can find. |
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True, but they are really, really big. If that was their intent, they could have shrunk em
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The "Whole World Mod" removes all PTI aside from the poles and replaces it with real provinces. It also expands the game to 1920 and adds some other stuff, but I think it doesn't complicate the game too much if you only want to use it for PTI removal.
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I guess I need to figure out how to play this game so that i can get the most out of the demo and see if i like it...
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