I have a confession to make. I'm not proud of it, but it just happened. It just happened. I have not been faithful to the beta for the past 24 hours due to Paradox's release of CK2: Legacy of Rome, and other miscellaneous DLC (thank you GamersGate for Blue Coins. You have my loyalty because my loyalty gets rewarded!).
OH MY G-D! It is amazing! EU1 got me hooked on Byzantine and Orthodox history, but this is just too much! I've had a blast with the new combat mechanics, retinues, factions, Orthodox patriarchs - I said this with Sword of Islam as well; I didn't think they could make this game any more addicting. But they have.
Right now I'm playing as Abyssinia, trying some sort of crazy Orthodox overthrow of the Fatimids. Any other crusaders/jihadis out there? Anyone else finding it hard to go to sleep at night and go to work in the morning ?
CK2 is an absolutely fantastic gaming experience. For me, CK2 is the only game that really feels like what a RPG experience should be all about. If only Skyrim had such wonderful, character-based interactions.
I purchased the Legacy of Rome DLC too and like that changes it brings. Well worth the measly few bucks.
The first CK was one of my all-time favorites. I liked the second one but I've been waiting not only for this expansion but for a few patches to go in afterward. Are things stable and balanced or no?
The game is one of my all times favorites. I haven't picked up legacy of Rome, but I will soon enough.
I couldn't get into CK. Then again, I was trying to play Ryazan, and they have no-one in their court. How do you get more people in your court?
You can go to the intrigue and add people, I think nobles cost money and priest cost piety. Also, if you wait people tend to show up to your court for free after awhile. You can also invite people from other lands to your court, but not terrible effective often.
One option is under Ambitions. You can get some people for gold, but the clerically minded require piety.
Another, less expensive path is to look for people who like you, and invite them to your court. Your realm is a good place to start looking, especially if court relations with one of your dukes or counts is low.
Also, consider finding people who have claims on lands near yours. They may join your court, in the hopes that you will press those claims--but be sure the claims in question are of a lower rank than your own, and that you first make the ruler wannabe a count or bishop. If you fight for someone else's claim and they're of equal or greater rank than yours, they won't end up as your vassal. This also applies if they aren't given a landed title in your realm, first. I typically look for a very good religious type, line him up for the next available bishopric, and when he gets the title, consider going after his claim.
Is that the original, or CK2, 'cuz I'm talking CK - Complete, which was way cheaper than CK2.
I'll admit it, I'll happily buy any expansion to CK2 that Paradox cares to produce, at any price they ask. Oops, did I say that out loud? I hope they aren't reading this forum, or else I'll be helpless to buy $70 DLC that lets me name my character's pets.
I'm absolutely in love with the game. I think I'll arrange a betrothal to it. I hear it has HUGE... tracts of land!
Ooh, well then, you just have to wait around, if cabinet post go unseated, eventually you will gain people to use.
So can anyone sell me on CK2 over CK? Because CK isn't doing it for me, but I love EU, and I love the IDEA of managing a court and going from being a count up to being a Duke to being a King, but it isn't evident that I won't just end up having 4 daughters, dying, and that's game over.
CK2 is easily the greatest strategy game ever made, in my honest opinion. But I ain't a salesman, I'm sure you can find sites and reviews that do the job better than I could.
Next time it's on sale, then, I'll probably end up with the complete pack.
Honestly, it's more enlightening to hear someone who actually plays the game tell me why it's great, rather than a reviewer who is playing it for money telling me. Also, you're more likely to know about all the little quirks that bug you that a reviewer may have missed.
The new expansion lets you castrate people. Doesn't that alone sell you on the game?
I'm not big into the whole 'castration scene' if you know what I mean.
Speaking as someone who really wanted to get into the Europa Universalis series, but found it a little too daunting, I can't recommend this game enough. The UI can be overwhelming at first, but I found after I watched some 'Let's Play' vids on youtube, and had a few playthroughs myself, I learned the ropes pretty quickly.
The game is truly massive in terms of content and re-playability even without any DLC. Definitely going to buy the latest expansion!
Europa Universalis isn't that daunting... CK seemed like it was a much bigger hurdle.
Thanks for the info, though. The problem with replayability in this epic series is that I rarely have time for a single playthrough. Playing EU2 for 400 years worth of history is replayable, but I keep replaying the same first hundred years...
I've played CK2 hundreds of hours and have never played a game lasting longer than 230 years. I've usually accomplished what I set out to do and think of something else to try by then and start a new game.
Sounds long, but good.
I once tried to script EU2 so that I could play France. I would build up France and then the events would split France into all it's vassals, break the vassalage, and start a war of independence against me. But it didn't work. Bah.
I always like a good Welsh game, that's one of the few ways to come up from nothing, and hasn't changed much from CK1.
Next to last time I played CK2 I was trying to unite Spain as Aragon (or whatever) but the religious declare war mechanics broke at some point and Christians wouldn't join my side but all the Muslims would join the enemy so... things didn't work out well.
Last time I played the game I was going for a pagan win, which I know is impossible but I wanted to try... anyway it turns out you can't form Finland with the guy I picked, can't remember exactly why - he was Finnish. And again, the religious declare war mechanics were kinda gimping me.
I hope they have more issues fixed than they had, but the way it usually works is the DLC breaks a bunch of things.
So, again, can anyone speak to whether there is a lot of bugginess still or not?
Maybe I'll just try a Welsh game in CK.
I enjoy a good Irish game. In my last campaign I started off with a single county and now I have all of Ireland under my control, 2/3rds of England, 3 or 4 counties in France (Thank you marriage) and 6 or so counties in Spain.
Everyone loves an Irish game.
So ... CK2 ... is there a demo to try it out? I couldn't get into EU1, is CK2 something I would enjoy?
It's something that takes some time to learn. I watched a walkthrough/let's play to learn the mechanics. The game is awful if you don't have a mastery of the basic mechanics.
Would you enjoy CK 2? I have no idea. But all the praising here is true. Its simply the BEST combination of strategy and roleplaying (i don´t mean fantasy roleplaying. Something like in FE, which is also very cool and well done in FE).
I didn´t know that Legacy is out. Have to buy it... ^^
EDIT/
Is it really only 4.99€ ?
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