So.... my first Paradox game....

[ponchovy]

Will I be impressed or disappointed? You decide while I decide whether or not to refund my preorder.

[The Former]

This is impossible to answer accurately. Even a friend would have trouble, let alone strangers who don't know your tastes. If you're after what the game is offering, you should be impressed, most likely. I think it'll do a great job of delivering on what it plans to. But if you happen to be expecting something other than they're giving, you'll be disappointed.

I know such an answer sounds trite, but it really is the truest answer one can give.

[GeeBee]

Why not try victoria 2 and see if you like that. The gameplay will be similar

[Akvavit]

Do you have an interest 19th century economics and teaching people how to read?

[Nats]

Just give me all your money and I will show you how to spend it ....

[Ratio decidendi]

Try Vicky 2 first.

[FREE MMR]

Wait a year before you buy this, paradox will release a barebones game, as always.

[Cyberblonde]

Originally posted by GeeBee:

Why not try victoria 2 and see if you like that. The gameplay will be similar

bad idea. vic 2 looks like someone took a ♥♥♥♥ on your monitor.

[Donut Steel]

How excited are you when you open Microsoft Excel?

[GeeBee]

Originally posted by Thunderchrome:

Originally posted by GeeBee:

Why not try victoria 2 and see if you like that. The gameplay will be similar

bad idea. vic 2 looks like someone took a ♥♥♥♥ on your monitor.

Graphics are not great but for a game like this, gameplay is the most important thing and at the end of the day, Vic 3 is going to play very similar to Vic 2.

[Gutt3rSnipe]

Probably disappointed if i'm being honest. Paradox is known for their bare bone glitch filled new releases.

[easytarget]

Judging from the games you've played listed on your profile page my suggestion would be run don't walk for the nearest exit.

[MarVerine]

Originally posted by ponchovy:

Will I be impressed or disappointed? You decide while I decide whether or not to refund my preorder.

If this is your first paradox game then you better play uk first and learn the finer mechanics with prussia next before you can actually play any other nation. This way you ought to get the hang of it fast. Good luck and have fun!

[Tanuvein]

You might be better off getting EU4 or something, especially if they do another Humble Bundle sale where you get all the DLC for 20 dollars. Likely it will take a while for this game to be stable and, basing it on their other games (including the one I just recommended), its reasonable to expect some issues and bugs will never be fixed. It seems the systems in EU4 are a bit more integrated, but they both seem to operate on similar principals - immense width with shallow layers of depth. EU4 simply has the most width in that aspect. It's quite fun to play without war depending on how you approach it and who you play. War, sadly, is always a weak aspect of Paradox games, despite its importance, efficiency and effects. I would wait a while at least. I got CK3 on the promise of the DLCs, and I deactivated their 'big' expansion because it was more of an annoyance than anything, with some aspects like the court proper decreasing the fun of the core gameplay. Victoria 3 one only has one gameplay DLC and expansion on the books, the other two being media related, so it may update even slower than CK3 which, based on player numbers, was not quick enough to have the same level of retention their previous games did (excluding Imperator Rome).

I hope the game succeeds so I can buy it in a year or two when I think it is in a more suitable condition, but given the relative lack of national identity, flavor and physical presence, you'd be just as well suited playing other trade focused games for a while. Some people who have played it compared it in a positive sense to Factorio, which is more of a management game, but the Anno games are well suited to a trade focus that seems to have better built in limitations.

[AlienWired]

All I can say is, there's a lot of information to gleen and trying to separate what you think might be a bug that is a game mechanic actually, might be the biggest problem.

[Karpatenhund]

Originally posted by FREE MMR:

Wait a year before you buy this, paradox will release a barebones game, as always.

so why are u here ?