Crusader Kings 2.0 Review You can Not Afford Family Edition by SsethTzeentach | First Time Reaction

[@rinslittlesheepling1652]

10/10. For random curious people: orcs and others are from the mod based on Warcraft setting.

[@hakairyu1]

Luckily, ck2’s dlc goes on 75% discounts fairly often. And the base game is free now.

[@cathulionetharn5139]

also technically you can pay a monthly subscription for all dlc, then if the game isn't for you (or worth the price) stop paying

[@nurgleschosen8145]

I've also discovered pirating the game is a 100% discount. Im too poor for this shit.

[@vaspeter2600]

@@cathulionetharn5139 I have a fair few hundred hours in this game and I had no clue that was a thing. Huh, neat.

[@dragonstory15]

@@vaspeter2600 its a fairly new thing i think. arround the time ck3 came out.

[@Moorhuehnchen]

@@nurgleschosen8145 not suprised a worshipper of the arch enemy is recommending pirating. Be a good loyalist and just annex a heretic's steam account.

[@wolfieinu]

"I wanted to play the game until I saw how much DLC you need to make it minimally functional" Welcome to the wonderful world of Paradox Interactive

[@astrotecn]

Just buy the base game and pirate the thousands of dlcs like any sane being Seriously you can buy a cobsole with the monry youd use for ck2 plus all dlcs

[@ryokiritani4187]

@@astrotecn you don't have to spend a dime the base game is free

[@astrotecn]

@@ryokiritani4187 yeah the base game is also garbage, i have played it.

[@JustinJurazick]

@@astrotecn G2A my guy

[@astrotecn]

@@JustinJurazick Doesnt excuse the >make absolute bare minimum game and update it with dlcs adding basic functionality over 2 years to milk people out of their money I sincerely have no shame to say i buy the base game and pirate the dlcs.

[@ericmarley7060]

"In another game, I played as the Polish, because I enjoy being abused..."

[@metetural9140]

Kaiser Heinrich IV of the Holy Roman Empire goes brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@DarkysLPs]

*screams in kurwa*

[@huntardhc2286]

sums up the past 200 years pretty well tbf :D

[@pirig-gal]

@@huntardhc2286 I was gonna write some "wElL aCkTuAlLy" comment, but you're right. Excluding some brief periods of calm, you get right about 200 years, counting from 1795...

[@Domura]

"This is all going to get cut out, it doesn't even exist." Looks like editing is pretty hard, huh.

[@user-eu2mg8lw2t]

Isn't that the joke?

[@CraftMine1000]

I loled when that happened xD

[@Volthoom]

Crusader Kings, especially with mods, can be an absolute acid trip. Also, Kelsey seems to be vibing with Sseth's style pretty well, would like to see her react to more of his stuff (as long as you stay away from Evenicle review, that shit is traumatizing).

[@rookwall8697]

The Honey Select review would like to have a word with you

[@Rytonic69]

I keep forgetting that one and reupping the trauma when I accidentally rewatch it

[@saidag]

Kelsey should react to some of SsethTzeenTach's more infamous vids, i.e the Space Station 13, Caves of Qud, Dwarf fortress and Rimworld

[@androgenius_alisa]

They did ss13 and df already

[@razer666L]

Ah, but they haven't watched Sseth's review of _Evenicle_ yet. :P

[@Ephemeral_Inspiration]

@@androgenius_alisa True, but different people give different reactions

[@superchroma]

or the T-Series video...

[@mildtemper]

"it doesn't exist, this never happened" nice

[@Cursed_Crystal]

I loved how that shock changed into smile once sseth said that they didn't had to eat people as black death missed Poland

[@NeoMicy]

I think CK2 is still for free (the base version). Btw Orcs only come with mods!

[@MidnightSt]

"This is like civ if all bets were off" More like Civ but you play The Sims with your civ rulers, and whoever made it was taking crack three times a day.

[@privatecookie29]

Michael and Zack should react to this one too

[@crackedhammer4612]

When I played ck2 I remember one of characters dying under mysterious circumstances and then I played his son, who had a confirmed kill under his profile. I was killed by my own son and then Played him

[@ryokiritani4187]

The first time i played ck3 i played as a tribal chief from the north-east who was a fucking beast in combat and was so healthy he lived well into 120-130 years. Once, one of his kids smacked him with a snowball, sadly, my character was a berserker, so he turned the kid to pieces right there and there

[@templarkiller2926]

I remember one of my first runs I was playing as some random Danish count, with ambitions to become king, and I managed it, but that character wasn't the interesting one, the interesting one is his grandson who reformed the faith, become head of the religion, had the highest martial and dueling skill of anyone on earth, and led viking conquests into chinese held Jerusalem and ultimately put his son on the chinese throne while he ruled over nearly all of europe, also he married his daughter. That man lived to like 80 but he made the most of those years.

[@ZKP314]

@@ryokiritani4187 Was he named Ivan by any chance?

[@Pixx2266]

I love these reactions from Kelsey because they are genuine. You can tell she's into videogames and not just pretending for views. You go girl!

[@yari4046]

the orcs are from a warcraft based mod for the game

[@DanielNetSet]

13:40 "My queen was like a bakery, because, she was getting bred..." his world-play is 10/10!!!

[@B3rten]

"This didn't happen." It totally happened.

[@schw4rzbi3r]

i would recommend watching a Long Game Short instead of a full playthrough (those take a long time). "Arumba the Murderer" or something like that maybe

[@themanhimself4796]

Dude you guys have totally got to see some of Ymfah's videos, like "Skyrim no walking"

[@Volthoom]

Skyrim no walking is a masterpiece. A true work of art.

[@HaggardHobo]

The base game is free and I believe there is a sale on DLC to Right now.

[@TheSp0kesman]

“Zeen-tach” *Disgruntled Chaos noises*

[@Vulgarth1]

Gotta say, I really enjoy the range of people who do these reactions. Everyone's fun to watch!

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

Kelsey should react to sseth's rimworld review next! or starsector or endless space 2 Btw, CK3 is out n has all the basic stuff for cheap

[@MeOw4L]

This girl seems genuinly like a fun person ngl

[@nerdiboy5128]

No there are no orcs (though you could probably mod the game to add them). The game is about you starting a noble dynasty... and basically trying (and often failing) to keep it from falling apart after a few years. Your lineage will be graded once the last living heir has died or you've been stripped of all your land and titles. The game has an absurd tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, and is presented in a mostly historical accurate manner (except the Sunset Invasion DLC, wherein the Aztecs have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and have attempted to conquer Medieval Europe; this DLC has mixed opinions in the community, with most disliking the improbable and frankly surreal shift from other DLCs, which try to maintain a semblance of reality, essentially 'jumping the shark' or 'straining the willing suspension of disbelief').

[@galaxymaster]

It’s so special that she said “ I love that” when there was “crusade on jerusalem “ on the screen

[@setonix9151]

Ah yes Crusader Kings : The game that you can massacre your whole family and offer it to satan

[@Cpt_Birch]

Kelsey is by far the best reactor in this series, she has so much eneergy and notices the subtle details in the video.

[@i7887]

She missed that all the non human characters were from WoW

[@hunter2516]

You guys should react to Seth's review of Starsector

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

You don't "play" a Paradox game. You endure it.

[@m.a.c5701]

You guys should have someone react to the Templin Institute’s Stellaris Invicta

[@helegur]

Happy 4th! Appreciate you guys.

[@mohaa556]

If you want to see how crazy this game can get I recommend a little series called: Things Crusader King Says or the subreddit r/ShitCrusaderKingsSay

[@the-dark-yutyrannus8984]

can you react to "DOOM Eternal Review | Alpha Male Gaming | Amogus Edition" by Max0r?

[@LotusGamesNYap]

Bumping once more

[@dominikmagnus]

I reeealy wish that they don't stop the video at the credits and tell their closing thoughts, while the credits are rolling. Sseth usually does something interesting with his credits, be it memes, music or both.

[@PeterDivine]

I remember this one story about this guy who was hosting a tournament in CK2, but hit a bug in that the tournament wouldn't end. He was forced to either sacrifice a noble or risk a peasant revolt, repeatedly. Eventually he started running out of nobles, so he started invading other territories to "recruit" their nobles before immediately using them for the tournament. He went through _several_ different crusades and got denounced as Satan by the Pope, all to fuel the bloodthirst of the Eternal Tournament he was hosting.

[@dustinharris8656]

Please do Morrowind by SsethTzeentach. It's my favorite game of all time.

[@CChissel]

Too bad it aged quite awfully, but I’ve yet to try to play it with mods. I spent two weeks of playing to beat it when I was a kid, and felt pretty accomplished when I did. It is a great game. I just wish Skyrim had been a bit morrowindy as far as quests and world building.

[@Asrashas]

@@CChissel I personally still don't understand why people say TES3 aged badly. Though I understand that I'm probably not the usual clientele of the modern gaming landscape anymore. As I've had much more fun with CDDA, DF, SS13 and consorts than with pretty much any commercial game in the last seven or eight years. Though there's been a couple good ones as well. Slay the spire, was pretty good. Back to TES3. The mechanics are derived from the P&P sources/inspirations, and still work great if you understand that. All that's missing would be dynamic miss and dodge animations. And those are not even really done in modern real-time action games. In those games just every hit that visually connects mechanically connects. Which I find pretty lazy and boring, honestly. Since it takes away character customization options. Though I can somewhat understand if people say they don't like the somewhat chance-based combat in a game that at first glance does not reveal such a nature. In terms of visual prowess the game aged about as bad as any other game from its time. The visual design still stands out to this day, though. Now, people might be tempted to just chalk that all up to me having rose tinted glasses and nostalgia goggles. And to that I can only say that I first played the game about ten years ago, give or take. And back then I didn't really get too much into it, and probably did not even play it for 30h. It's just in the recent years that I really started getting into it. And I play vanilla (except for a mod I made to put some more furniture into a house I use). Well, ok. I guess I play vanilla-ish, since I use OpenMW instead of the original engine. But that does not alter gameplay. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Blog post end.

[@astrotecn]

@@CChissel i believe there is a skyrim mod that emulates it, never played it though.

[@Ultraelectromagnetic]

CK2 is wild. When I first played it I tried to do the tutorial to learn how to play but then the first objective the game hits you with is "plot to murder your brother so you can inherit his kingdom" lmao

[@ms_scribbles]

No, it actually IS a historical game. He just happened to have a Warcraft mod on because this game has a bajillion mods you can play with. If you play Vanilla CK2, the game spans the centuries between 769 to 1453 (which is the year the game ends, mainly because they have another game series that goes through the years after that, Europa Universalis). And, if you play Vanilla, the devs were pretty good at researching the history of those times in many different parts of the world. (Well, mainly Eurasia and Africa. The "new world" hasn't been discovered yet.)

[@ryokiritani4187]

Is Universalis any good? As in, same level of insanity as ck2?

[@ThomasVanhala]

In several games I end up with the horse Glitterhof in my council.

[@loungekiller]

More people should react to this specific video. Loved the girl, but more people need to see this. Crusader Kings is one of the best games I've played.

[@sheepingtonthepolitesheep8786]

THis is my new favorite video

[@icyatlasartworks]

I know you guys said you were going to edit out that part, but I'm kind of glad you didn't, because even if it is a bit of a slip-up, it's good to know that you guys genuinely care about quality and aren't just one-shotting these for the sake of quantity.

[@troythompson1768]

The fantasy stuff was mods. The unmodded game is more rooted in history (unless certain DLCs, like, say, Sunset Invasion, are active), although it has some weird stuff going on, like how the game developers apparently decided that Isabella II of Jerusalem's son should be counted as the son of Isabella of England, even though, in real life, their common husband married Isabella of England after Isabella II of Jerusalem died of childbed fever in giving life to said child in the first place...

[@troythompson1768]

Also, you don't actually need to buy anything for CK 2 anymore. Base game is now free, and you can now rent all DLCs in one bundle for a very modest (I think it's $5) monthly subscription fee.

[@Luredreier]

The base game is free now, just get it. Then look through some of the DLC guides to see what you want to add to the game. Personally I'd take way of life for the flavor it adds and if you want to play someone not available in the base game I'd pick the DLC making that character available. The culture, religion, start date etc in question. There's of course s ton of feature you can add with DLCs but few are 100% essential.

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

ck2 is a great game and might be my favorite game of all time. Ck3 is nice and all, but cannot quite compare to ck2 imo, however I actaully recommend ck3 as a starting point of getting in paradox games. It has a tutorial, which is actually useful and it is quite a bit more forgiving and easy compared to ck2. However at the moment it does not come close to all the crazy shit that goes down in ck2. ps: in ck2 you can do almost everything by right-clicking character portraits. Dont use the convoluted ui when you can avoid it.

[@newromanianmappernrm4420]

Seeing how much you liked CK2, if I were to suggest any series to watch either on here or on your own, I'd say OPB's stuff is very good to showcase the game, especially it's mods, alongside Roll1d20 games (I think he changed his name to Mr. Streamer but eh), both of which have some very fun series. If I were to suggest any specifically, I'd suggest OPB's "Go West, Young Turk" and his "Messalian Madness" series, and I'd suggest Mr. Streamer's "Normal Man" and really any of his AGOT (A game of Thrones) series. In terms of stand-alone videos, I think AlzaboHD would be best both for Ck2 and CK3, especially his horses-only run which took the concept to it's absolute limits if you will.

[@Adam-km2vf]

If watching a let's play for CKII interests you, a group of KZbinrs made a succession series, as soon as the player died, they transferred the save file to the next to play as the heir. I think it was Arumba, it's been a while.

[@GodOfPlague]

I saw kikoskia play it, it was a great game. I'll look up arumba.

[@Yewtewba]

9:18 "Vidi, vici, veni": I saw, I conquered, I came

[@loungekiller]

You could also react to one of TommyKay's playthroughs, as he got some epic random events (invincibility, spawn of Satan etc.)

[@floridaball4896]

Believe me it's far more fun than the play CK2 then to watch someone play it

[@casslane3932]

i remember i once played the witcher mod and payed as skeliga i managed to centralise my rule and raid everyone then i died and my son took over he had great stats but was leading a satanic cult and also liked eating people after awhile it seemed i got more life span from eating captives i took from raids and became immortal and started having demon hunters trying to murder me but i could use a magic knife to make my children die from fatal wounds instead of me so i had children only for extra lives and continued raiding and eating my victim. my rule got so depraved my people tried to rebel but i could easily put these down and then i just got bored and left the story.

[@93matarl]

it is a history simulators but u can use mods to have things like orcs

[@nagashtheundyingking4404]

She needs to see space station

[@Luredreier]

4:07 The orcs where from a mod. It *is* historical if you stick to vanilla. Well, sort of...

[@joecarter1486]

You only need about 12 games. You can get it at a good price frequently. The modding options that comes along give you the value of multiple games anyway.

[@Zino027]

This game is so much fun. Recommend it to everyone. I learned a lot about history there. It is relativly realistic.

[@Peter-Oak]

I think you can get the CK2 Imperial collection (the whole thing) for like 30$ on G2A.

[@oldgreggsmadmemes4431]

I love Crusader Kings 2 very fun game

[@androgenius_alisa]

Also, just for general education. Paradox doesn't check with their server how you obtained dlc data... You get me...

[@madcrusader123]

I can just say it's a very good game. I bought it for around 200 euros and I have never regretted it.

[@WallNutBreaker524]

13:17 This is Vaushs favorite game. 😂

[@GamingMasterAnthony]

The orcs and orb people are mods for ck2

[@jaygrindbigdoor6067]

Sseth kenshi pplease react to that please

[@Christian_Bagger]

I’ve 2000+ hours in CK2… no regrets!

[@chopmopjeter18]

Speaking as someone who's purchased pretty much all of these DLCs over the years since high school(four or six years!), I can safely recommend just pirating the damn thing. As to where you get a good pirated copy, those who know, know.Luckily, if you have patience and still want to support the developers, simply wait for a sale where they bring the whole DLC collection down by a good 50 to 75 percent off.

[@EyebrowsGaming]

Plot twist: CK2 is free on Steam.

[@wiktorszymczak4760]

welcome in ck2 where no child is to inbreed to feed it to my horse huband.

[@PZMaTTy]

4:05 Yes it's historical but mods exists hahaha

[@tekary5285]

Someone should react to HLVRAI (Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware). It's bunch of friends role-playing in Half-Life 1 and giving it completely new story. It's quite long but it's really funny and well made even though it's all improvised!

[@Rizal96able]

She'll be happy to know CK 3 is a history simulator. Well...more or less. My playthrough slightly went off-course when I married off my ruler's daughter to King Alfred the Great, committing suicide immediately after, assassinate him and then take over the entire continent in a bloody crusade.

[@CripticX]

Horse king is base game I think also if you want to watch some let's plays of ck2 I recommend Long games short channel that edits them in a fun way.

[@Pedrojerico]

The game's on sale right now

[@RinrinFran]

You guys are on a roll eh?

[@OutdatedLeon]

Chicago React team, please. Hear me out. If she wants to play this game, buy her Crusader King 3. The U.I is much easier to get into and when she really wants to get into the whole chaotic experience, and if she's got the cash, then get Crusader King 2.

[@JoaoPedro-wb8dy]

Wanted to give a suggestion, watch welyn, he makes gameplay videos and I don't play most of the games that he does on his channel but I still have a pretty easy time understating everything, all his videos have little stories too

[@juhannusruusu]

you should react to stalker review, also made by him. it's mad funny

[@morbid1.]

you know that you live in old city if it's shows up on CK maps...

[@leontrotsky9563]

Don't worry about the price. They recently released Crusader Kings 3 and it has a lot more in the base game than CK2. It's overall better for new players too. Still no horse kings tho

[@moltenironphoenix215]

Was the mention of flavor text a reference to magic the gathering?

[@KarizenMagi]

Good news, it is now free The DLC however is not.

[@Tedger]

Also..there is ck3 .. with less dlc as it was released last year

[@Vendrix86]

can you guys start separating reactors into different playlists please?

[@serkan978]

4:00 those are mods

[@ruttedmammal4255]

Map gamers have escaped are corner of the internet.

[@harryfarrar1540]

What's all the talking in the background for?

[@larrygarry1393]

hey hey people...

[@marg0tten]

good reaction from a single person to a complex video

[@MrPoc100]

nah the orc and all the beast are mod

[@lancethewisp1097]

1:04 this will all get cut out in phase anyway

[@HateMachinist]

Game-development these days are mostly about pushing out a half-baked buggy mess on time, and then patch the game towards a playable state as it goes along. Paradoxs approach is that they make something plain, listen to community feedback, and add something more based on that. Usually in the form of a DLC. For those familiar with the process, its far better than it sounds.

[@HeartlessAlchemyst]

You gotta do Kenshi review from Sseth

[@LotusGamesNYap]

Day 11 I think? DOOM Eternal Review Alpha Male Gaming Amogus Edition reaction. No story time today >:V

[@jpeake13]

So the orcs and other shenanigans are from mods, probably to make the images less repetitive. Probably.

[@CRYMORE101]

I'll host the game, you can join and play with the dlc as long as the host has it

[@Concalious]

id watch you again lol

[@arsmariastarlight3567]

Starsector review next plz

[@tragarfullaw5912]

Civ with Sims mods lol

[@neoxperson7858]

glad they cut the part during the intro out. would be super annoying to watch. 10/10 editing