Quoting: JuliusAnd the back-paddle buttons are probably the most useless part of the Steam controller anyways...

Quoting: chrMy personal opinion of the game:

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On the one hand I love the game. I enjoy the process of playing the game a lot. I also like that a lot of geography and some history rubs off on me.

But for me personally I enjoy the simulation aspect a lot and the frequent railroading is sometimes annoying. Even if I change the initial conditions (for example by using the console commands or by importing a CK2 save) the game tends to still play out too much in the same way despite my efforts. Renaissance has to spawn in Europe, all trade flows to Europe, some of the strongest nations in the game have unavoidable bonuses (age bonuses). I guess all of these complaints can be addressed by modding, but I would counter-argue that that is a high barrier. I'd like if a more sandbox-y version would be easier to achieve.

My second gripe with the game is the conflict between my values and the game's aesthetics. When I think about what some of the most enjoyable activities in the game (for me anyway) actually depict, I'm kind of horrified - cultural and religious purges, forcing my vision of the world on others through military might, scheming to destroy anyone else standing in my way. Also this game is largely about inter-country conflicts of arbitrary ambitions with a heavy side of colonialism. Both of which are again quite horrific to me. To be fair, I feel that simulations of horrible things do not invalidate my enjoyment of the game as long as it remains extremely clear where I stand in regards to those topics.

Thirdly I feel that it is kind of (unintentionally) grotesque imitation of the lovable, extremely diverse, awesome, made of chance and coincidence, thing - that is the history of the world. Rich computer simulations still remain woefully limited in the face of the colorful real thing. It really makes the rules for the world from a really western European perspective. So much of the richness gets lost in the process. Those parts that I value the most. To give a very random, but solid (I feel) example: I heard that Inca not only lacked money, but also any kind of market economy - central planning ran a highly successful empire that was destroyed by chance. And meso-Americans were puzzled why Europeans cared so much for that shiny metal that is only useful for making trinkets and jewelry (gold). But in the game everyone everywhere buys and sells with gold.
In regards to this issue of mine, I completely understand the devs. Practical limitations to the degree of simulation. But I'm not saying this is one of the three reasons why this game is bad and you shouldn't play it. It is why I, despite loving and enjoying the game a lot, don't enjoy playing it.

Quoting: ZlopezFor me Steam Play is a way to play games with friends, who are still using Windows. Most of the games they are playing either didn't worked on Linux (before Proton) or the cross platform multiplayer is not working (I'm looking at Total War titles here, although the port made by Feral is running awesome). There is not much to be done about cross platform issues, but at least for other games we have Steam Play :-)

Thanks to Steam Play I also played few games I would otherwise skip, only because they are not available on Linux.

Quoting: DragunovIt's probably because things like paid randomized loot-boxes are considered gambling, and gambling is heavily regulated in the United States. I'm not sure about other countries.

I actually haven't played this game yet, mostly because I don't particularly like Soccer. If it goes free to play I will definitely give it a try though.

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Quoting: dubigrasuI think the future gaming will be predominantly like this, and local stored games will be a thing of the past.
I think we're dinosaurs and we don't know it yet.

Well, that's more or less my point. There doesn't seem to be a compelling use-case for game streaming, so the question remains, why would it succeed? Literally everyone goes "It will replace traditional gaming!", yet nobody could ever explain to me why people would even prefer it over locally installed games. It's pretty much like a few years back a lot of people went "VR will take over gaming!!!", which made me giggle in a similar way, because I failed to understand why it would become anything but the niche product it actually became.