Paradox Interactive games

[mythmonster2]

I have recently discovered something. If you screw up history bad enough (Bad is an, Luxembourg annexes Germany then creates the DDR; Switzerland enters war against Italy; Japan, Persia, and Poland form alliance for no particular reason; and make France and Britain release all their colonies, you can make your game crash!
(Continuing on with this game, the Axis now composes of Romania and Switzerland. I have no idea what happened. Oh, and the Soviets got annexed by Finland. This save-and-play-as-another-nation has great fun options. Alas, I accidentally overwrote that save file, so no pics.)

 

[Tee Kay]

The game once crashed after I managed to coup Japan as the USA (first attempt, no cheats), form an alliance with democratic Japan, and declared war on the UK.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Started playing Crusader Kings again a couple of days ago, and it never fails to surprise me:

1) The king of Sweden(my ex-liege, I'm the duke of Östergötland and Holstein) is Catalan
2) My current ruler's son had a love affair with his sister
3) Kingdom of León somehow managed to beat Muslims in Spain :O
4) Somehow the principality of Kiev has changed into the tribe of Kiev, pagans rule
5) For the first time I saw Germany unify itself again after a long and bloody civil war
6) Objective of the second crusade was to liberate Alexandria: Scotland declared war on Egypt, Egypt conquered almost all of Scotland while Scotland conquered almost all of Egypt, then all major powers of Europe(England, France, Denmark) + many smaller kingdoms and duchies gangbanged Egypt. Result: Egypt was left with only one province, though there is still the sheikdom of Gwent in Wales...

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Hearts of Iron 3 demo is apparently released tonight:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=415752

I'd squee, but the Hearts of Iron 2 demo nearly put me off buying the game

 

[Serutan]

I think I'm laying off HoI3 until at least the first patch - Between bugs and wanting to get some feel for the real differences in gameplay, there's no need to rush.

 

[ComradeDavo]

I can't decide...I quite want a physcial copy of the game (HOI3) but that's not out to the 14th and I can buy and download it this friday and then have mon-wed completely free next weke to play it (booked a week off as i'm away that weekend). AHHHHHHH DESCIONSS!!!!!!!!!

 

[Maniacal]

I'm going to wait until it's all been released.

EDIT: Holy crap! I'm getting almost 1 mbps download speed for the demo!

 

[mythmonster2]

I'm just downloading the demo to see if it'll just reject my computer and not even let me try playing it like EU 3 did.

 

[Maniacal]

Holy bloody . .. .. .. . the map is huge. Pretty much half of it is covered in rain and clouds too xD

Ocean regions are much smaller. My only complaint so far is the very dark dull colours used, especially when fully zoomed out.

It's very impressive.

The demo is similar to EUIII's, you can play as Germany, France, Great Britain, and Poland. It starts at the invasion of Poland.

There are over 1100 victory points/locations. Also in the dipo menu unaligend natinos drift towards an alignment (Axis, Allies, Comintern). However this is a bit funny too, the USA is drifting towards the Comintern.

Moscow is named Moskva apparently. The VC points are irritatingly very Eurocentric again, American cities including Washington and New York are worth ONE VC EACH WTH! I would have thought those two would actually be worth more than one. And Halifax is not a VC point O_o

EDIT:

Moving units around and the new interface will take some getting sued too, everything seems a bit, oversized. It's like the progression of how Microsoft has made windows look, the buttons in Xp and then Vista got larger, softer/rounder/bubblier, not ensecaraly a bad thing, but it doesn't always look as nice. Production is mostly the same except for land units, they still have the same units (and a few of them, the same pictures) but you can build divisions that have multiple units in them, brigades no lnoger seem to be attached either.

EDIT: In order to tel la unit to support an attack, etc you need to hold ctrl then right click.

 

[mythmonster2]

I was kinda sad when I saw Corpus Christi on the Mexican border, Houston where Corpus should be, and San Antonio on the Mexican border as well. Otherwise, its a nice game and I can't wait for the full release.

 

[carmen510]

HoI3 Demo download went awry for me, and it took 20~ minutes. I'm downloading it AGAIN from a different source.

Not impressing me so far.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Still can't decide....download from gamersgate on friday or wait an extra week to get a physical copy?! Argh!

I know they are releasing a patch on release day as well to sort out a couple issues.

 

[carmen510]

I found this awesome video about the HoI3 Release on the Paradox Forums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_0Rv4O4cU

 

[ComradeDavo]

I found this awesome video about the HoI3 Release on the Paradox Forums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_0Rv4O4cU

Ah yeah i've seen that, pretty good!

 

[RedRalph]

Its running very slowly on a lot of computers. I'm going to wait and hear what the reports are about the first patch to see whether to buy it or not.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Its running very slowly on a lot of computers. I'm going to wait and hear what the reports are about the first patch to see whether to buy it or not.

I saw you posting on the Paradox forum. I'm Parabola on there, I rarely post though.

I wouldnm't worry too much about the demo, I know they've improved since then and the day 1 patch is mean to fix alot of things.

 

[Rub'Rum]

My only complaint so far is the very dark dull colours used, especially when fully zoomed out.

Honestly, the screenshots and the bland look of the game pretty much put me off buying it. And I do play other Paradox games, but there is only so much gray brown I can take. I don't fuss about graphics usually, I still play old games all the time. But I do not like the general gray brown trend of so many games. PS3's catalog is 50% gray-brown first person shooters that don't get me going at all.

 

[Maniacal]

I'm sure there will soon be a graphics pack that will lighten it up, but it is a bit off putting. Still, you really should try the demo.

 

[RedRalph]

I saw you posting on the Paradox forum. I'm Parabola on there, I rarely post though.

I wouldnm't worry too much about the demo, I know they've improved since then and the day 1 patch is mean to fix alot of things.

Yeah, Johan has said the release patch will optimise performance a lot. I will get the game eventually, but I might hold off until the first few patches. the demo keeps crashing on my PC.

I'll keep an eye out for you there

Frankly, I'm more excited about the speculation of a possible Vicky 2

 

[Rossiya]

Frankly, I'm more excited about the speculation of a possible Vicky 2

Where have you seen this speculation?