I bought this a few years ago. I suck at it. My empires fell because of the most devastating enemy in the game UNEMPLOYMENT. The game is definitely far from the Babylon 5 simulator I was hoping for. But I think I will follow your advice and go in without the DLC that came with the game. I only have the first three but with the information overload that the game hits you with at the beginning I think it could be a great idea.

ive been on the fence about this game since i played the demo. was excited for it when it was first announced cuz i loved gladius so much. but part of the charm of gladius for me was the all out war all the time aspect. So when i saw they threw in diplomacy and stuff i just was no longer interested. Also the fact theres new specific resources yuo need for various units threw me off. But after watching this perhaps im just griping about not so important things and ill give this a go. very well done review.

Can’t you get yuffie in the forests before Junon in the og though?

Your voice is very soothing. This is an amazing video. Thank you for making it. I have this game in my library and LOVE CK 3, so I think I'll give it a go. I'm just a tad intimidated by the busy UI. There's so much to look at and I have no idea what it all means. I guess there's only one way to learn.

That’s my favorite Final Fantasy game

Bought it yesterday. The starter edition. So may people around me are always pushing me in the direction of it and while I'm a big sci Fi fan I'm still hesitant to start my first match. The video got me chills though. It's not what I usually play but the roleplaying opportunities here are really fascinating albeit predictable for me. I will try to make the word ah excuse me the universe a better place just to be eaten by my neighbors. Thanks for this it's always nice to see the communities of games like this! Much love

I’ve got myself into a pickle in one of my games, I haven’t played in awhile and loaded back into my most recent game and found myself at war with everyone and in a massive disadvantage navy wise, I control half the map and have a very good navy but I’m alone, the other empires have conquered each other and set up and coalitions and puppets with everyone that’s left. I’ve fought multiple wars with them cracking hundreds of planets and ending the war with tiny gains and massive damage done to them but they just keep coming, honestly if I could have someone take this save from me and end it I would love to see what people would do with it. My navy is around 1.1 million strong mostly big strong heavy hitting ships and theirs consist of smaller strike craft, they also outnumber me by a solid million fleet power but I can usually some how win the war

Paradox grand strategy games are nothing more than glorified MS Paint and Excel spreadsheet simulators masquerading as deep, complex experiences. They lure players in with the promise of historical intrigue and grand decision-making, but beneath the surface, they’re little more than tedious number-crunching exercises wrapped in a clunky UI. Superficial Complexity Masquerading as Depth Paradox games give the illusion of intricate mechanics, but most of their so-called depth boils down to stacking modifiers, staring at spreadsheets, and clicking through endless menus. Whether it’s Hearts of Iron IV, Europa Universalis IV, or Crusader Kings III, the gameplay loop consists of moving sliders, waiting for arbitrary numbers to tick up, and occasionally clicking a pop-up event that barely affects the broader game state. User Interface From Hell The UI in these games looks like someone vomited Excel sheets all over the screen. The sheer amount of menus, submenus, and microscopic tooltips is overwhelming-not because they convey meaningful information, but because Paradox is too lazy to streamline anything. Instead of presenting complex mechanics in an intuitive way, they slap on walls of text and expect players to "just learn it." AI That’s Dumber Than a Rock For all the so-called "strategy" involved, the AI is borderline non-functional. Whether it’s failing to mount a competent military campaign, managing its economy into the ground, or engaging in utterly nonsensical diplomacy, the AI is nothing more than an obstacle between the player and their inevitable world conquest. It’s not "deep strategy" when you’re just exploiting a predictable, brain-dead opponent. DLC Scams and Feature Stripping Paradox is infamous for shipping half-finished games and then carving out core mechanics to sell as overpriced DLC. Every game launches as a glorified beta, and if you want basic features like a functioning economy or playable nations, you better open your wallet. A full Paradox game experience can cost upwards of $300+-a textbook example of exploitative, piecemeal game design. Conclusion: A False Sense of Accomplishment Ultimately, Paradox grand strategy games aren’t about strategy at all. They’re about mindlessly watching numbers go up while convincing yourself you’re some kind of military genius or historical mastermind. In reality, it’s nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet simulator, where all the so-called "complexity" is just convoluted UI and artificial busywork. If you enjoy micromanaging nonsense while pretending it’s deep gameplay, then Paradox has you covered.

I once played a campaign, where I'd just claimed all of the available systems I planned to, and had colonized a decent amount of worlds. Well, it turned out that on one of my earliest colonies there were already some underground aliens who were not too happy about me inhabiting their world, and soon enough they rebelled against me and forcibly took the planet while I was away on a war in the east. So after the situation calmed down a notch, I was coming to liberate my planet. But as it happens a war also broke out in the west, leading to the loss of my food basket, which I had to give up to the attacker. The situation was poor, with me warring in the east and having lost an early colony. There was no food. My people were starving, the economy was in ruins, the fight for my very existence was on the edge of a precipice. But that's when I had a thought. My species had lived as pacifists, egalitarians, as a people ready to embrace peace upon the galaxy. But the galaxy around me was not returning the peaceful embrace. So a small adjustment to our values had to be made. You see, there was a recently liberated planet, now mostly inhabited by these rebellious rock-dwellers, a nuisance that almost cost me everything. The planet barely had any farmable land... But it did have an organic, unwanted species. The people rejoiced as they gorged themselves with the rebellious underground scum. Eating the xenos was in fact more productive food-wise than my greatest former farm planet ever had been. With our bellies full and hostile neighbours galore, we turned to forge worlds and military might, ending the latter half of the campaign on a distinctly different note from the one we started with. We offered peace, only to face war on every front. So we forswore peace, and the galaxy was better off after we were done. Hopefully someone found my story mildly entertaining. It's one of many out there, written out on a random comment on some stellaris video on a whim.

Day 14 of asking for a shout out

If you're going to do a remake, am all for changing things a bit.

u got potential

18+😏

Why would they base it of the Netflix show? The hype for the show is way gone

No one cares about stellaris* There, fixed it for you. Also the only people who will watch this are the 7 stellaris fans that don’t like civilisation games.

Jesus Asobi...shut up and take my money

lol, i just bought this game for €0,69. Thanks for the video.

I got my email!

I like your jumper

Dragon ball

I've played this game about a dozen times and I've never had the ability to build megastructures. How do I unlock them? The game always ends before I can get my tech tree to unlock them. Should I focus on one particular type of research?

Day 13 of asking for a shout out

Guess what? Maybe actually play a game or I dunno actually have your own opinion instead of parroting bullshit viewpoints from people who don't even understand the games plot or themes. Which is acceptance of that we cannot change by the way. Rook is MEANT to be their most romantic protagonist, romantic in the sense that Rook idealizes the world and what it can be at every turn. But yeah congrats on understanding jack shit and whiny boo hoo where's my racism and slavery?!?

I moved from TcG live to pocket Ptcgo was the goat, live doesn't hold a candle

Yeah no tcg live is buns bud

Looked boring to me for the first 5 minutes.

Too hard to make decks on live❤

Move on? Live was there way before Pocket

Should you put out a video of the other week. She was unhappy about the lack of Engagement in regards to the game and her videos. When people comment she wants him to comment about the game, what she is doing or what they are doing in Skyrim. She is a gamer after all

Your amazing Aoife! I miss you. I haven't seen you since Eurogamer. I hope you're doing fantastic. Be safe out there. Keep killin it. 🍻

Last I checked you can’t play the main one on phone and only on tablet

You’re welcome. What did I do? Also pocket is better I got too much on my mind to be playing tcg live

Stellaris is a wonderful successful accident by Paradox. A sci fi with no real direction or theme that had nothing going for it and has turned into a great game lol

I actually didn’t like Heisenberg he was the worst lord in my opinion and i didn’t like the voice that’s what made me immediately not like his character

See, the thing is that I don't care about playing the card, I just want to open a pack once a day without spending money and a digital pack scratches that hitch for me

I tried Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, and other space games. There's just something about this game that makes it worth coming back to. Also, I find it weird that this video released almost immediately as I come back to stellaris lol

I’ve played this since I was about 13/14 years old I’d imagine, and just turned 21. The best part is, I loved the game then. I love the game now. The additional content doesn’t change how good the game is, some I’d argue actually impact it negatively. But it does add to the diversity of each play through, and keeps me coming back for more.

In my last play through I was surrounded by my own custom empires, and all happened to be annihilators in one way or the other. Xenophobic purifiers, integrators, devouring swarms, planet eaters. We had our home system almost annihilated, survived, and after about 220 years of constant war for survival and beating each empire individually, we stole a Dyson sphere during the khanate from an advanced empire. Achieved utopian abundance, became custodian, skip ahead another 100 years and we’ve declared the imperium and ended all war and slavery. All on Ironman, too. Most intense game I’ve played in a long time.

galactic HOI4

old world over either civ 5 and 6 orders, undo are too clean to play without

Old wolrd is a masterpiece! Orders is my favorite mechanic but one simple thing i appreciate is the undo button. Any other 4x i play and missclick or forget something and have to just accept it, old world has a simple undo button.

Original TCG live is the best

Did you make this short before last night's stream or did you just have a massive change of heart again?

Day 11 of asking for a shout out

I enjoyed the FFX romance too much... I'm a gooey jelly (I would watch a romance between two slimes)

I spend in this game more than few hundred hours speeding on last 5 years, I never had same experience from another run. For me this is RPG but instead of controlling player character, you need to manage and create own story for whole civilization.

FFX...good times!.... I wonder if anyone remembers the web that Squaresoft put out before releasing the game in America? You could listen to the main characters' voices and look at the renders, it was mind-blowing for a 13-year-old boy (especially with the internet being so expensive and slow). That's the first and last time I was so hyped for a game launch.

Sins of a solar empire 2 has way better combat. But stelaris has way better systems i wish the 2 would merge

It is still an awesome game, the developing funished but that does not mean we cant enjoy it...and i dont think anno 117 will be better than 1800

Hey i think i have seen this guy on ign