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Ya man, reddit's stock is up 261% in a year but it's done for 11.

I fail to see the problem with it's downfall lol

15:45 you can lower taxes to change that but that would mean that you have to engage with the mechanics of the game so whatever I guess.

v2 is trash

you can change the settings and make the ai more aggressive

Looks good and Fun! REally Tranquil!

If anyone wants to see a more in-depth view of the British faction or any of the other factions feel free to let me know and ill do a video on it, a better video lol.

I counted 64239 "Give up"s

How do you play this version

You yelling "give up" while they stare up at you painfully bleeding to death in the dirt lmao.

Tsk. Brave stand is the only fun mode, comon maaaaaan just slay out

wtf is this title? you got isms?

Lol an arena with cards and just that? No way mate

best game of 2025? Absolutely not.

It's ok, if you just spam the half sword mechanic you basically win every fight.

Still dont get it how the controls work , is it VR ? It look to clanky.

u must have missed Exanima? They had this game engine since 2019 or something.

Nice video :)

I can agree, I played as Portugal, France became communist! Something happened! Red Scare!…then France became a normal republic again, no other revolutions, while I was an Autocracy which should be prime for a people’s revolution… France looking to vassal me? Increased military spending and I became a great power brah Sure I colonised Africa, make a colonial regime? Sure! Scramble for Africa! Oh they’re in revolt every two seconds and can’t keep stable, no point in that. Even any resource you can’t get, you can just make a trade route, if you’re losing money just downsize construction centres and raise taxes Game just has no point to it, I’ve never left a game going ah I achieved all my goals. I’m just on full speed waiting for something to happen. It looks amazing the graphics are great but that’s it

You do realize the AI actually gets more active depending on what you do? The game is far from perfect and the warfare system isn't the best. It seems you just seem to whine about the game not being your taste. You are probably a eu4 or hoi4 fan who likes the constant warfare.

Agreed sir, incredibly boring, no reward or depth.

Tbh a lot of "Victoria 3 is very stinky guys this game sucks!11!!!1" type videos boil down to the same criticisms and the same old "wow guys game people don't like is bad" type mentality. Will I say Victoria 3 is a Good game? not really. But it isn't a bad game. It's kinda like HOI4 in the sense that "if you don't like this playstyle then don't play the game". Like in HOI4 if you don't like doing just managing troops then there is basically nothing else to the game. Even though it is a game with not much depth with 1 good mechanic I still spent 1,900 hours of my life playing it. Victoria 3 is much of the same just reversed. It's economy is fun to manage and has... A diplomacy system which is better than HOI4's lack of any real diplomacy whatsoever outside of flavored content (Focus trees and maybe the occasional decision) and the improve relations button. This isn't in defense of Victoria 3's "warfare" which devolves into a worse version of HOI4's battleplans. What I'm trying to get at here is that HOI4 and VIC3 are based in the same sort of simplification paradox games have gone through where they make 1 good mechanic and ignore the rest of what makes a grand strategy "grand". You're not going to act like HOI4 doesn't suffer from the lack of any economy whatsoever. The fact a country like Luxembourg could afford to field a couple hundred thousand troops and have no upkeep cost whatsoever is unrealistic. And without any interesting mechanics outside of it's warfare, Mods such as MD and TNO and up as Boring focus tree simulators rather than potentially great mods. Also want to mention something another person already pointed out and that's how VIC2's warfare also sucked ass which I fully agree with. It was way too hard to actually get a grasp on for me as a new player and I couldn't even really ignore it as whenever I played Belgium I'd just randomly be invaded by someone and just lose everything. kinda made me give up on the game even though the economy was extremely fun to engage with. AGAIN not a defense of VIC3's warfare it's still just not fun. It's just I'd rather not really have to learn some glorified EU4 warfare than to have to in my economic simulator. That's just my opinion on the whole thing really. People are free to not like a game but it gets real tiring when people just criticize one game for it's lack of depth but then turn around and praise another. This is also more of a rant on how HOI4 sucks as a grand strategy rather than "WOW VIC3 IS ACTUALLY THE BEST GAME EVER!!!1!!" because it isn't. I just wish there was more content on how it could be fixed rather than pointing out the obvious. But also how HOI4 IS ACTUALLY NOT THAT GOOD IT'S A GOOD GAME JUST NOT A GOOD GRAND STRATEGY. Also if you could make any future videos shorter and overall easier to understand specifically why you don't like it that would be nice (Not a jab at you dw). I'm just gonna cut it off right here as there aint no way I'm righting a full on essay on VIC3 and HOI4 of all things.

Victoria 3 is not a good game but the music is banging you heathen 😂

"scholars are divided on the latter half of Andrew Jackson's presidency. In August of 1836 he used extraordinary powers to raise taxes, then lower taxes, then defunded the entire military, then increased federal employee's wages by 100%. Consumption taxes were placed on a seemingly random set of industrial goods, sweeteners were banned in Kentucky but no where else. Most perplexing of all, Jackson ordered the state-sponsored construction of more than 600 furniture factories in Indiana, which were estimated to take 117 years to complete. Notable is the fact that Indiana had less than 600 thousand people at the time. Despite his strange behavior, neither the US representative branch nor the public seemed to be at odds with Jackson's strange decisions and extraordinary overreach of federal power."

agree 100% but the primary problem imo is just that paradox AI is braindead bad at the game, and even worse, its completely docile. AI can't think more than 1 month ahead.

I agree vicky 3 is really bad but the worst part is that it will always be heavily flawed because its uses marxist theory which for a video game isnt inherently bad but its makes the left-wing economic policies objectively better (even ignoring that the game is a liberalizing simulator) and it makes the pops systems dumb, example pops being discriminated against will on mass vote or support the parties discriminating them

Down voting for burping. Dude, just have basic respect for your audience.

Never understood the new war system. If they wanted to disincentivize blobbing and to push the player to make diplomatic/economic moves to grow more powerful they should have fleshed the non war mechanics out so much more while also recognizing that sometimes there will be war (WWI for example!). Feels like the game doesn't want a war system at all, but has to have it, and so they punish the player with a terrible implementation.

I still see vic 3 as a massive cash grab

politically and economically, victoria has by far the most options among the paradox games. btw i feel like you didn't play this game for a long time cause you were talking a lot of trash. If you say you don't like this game from a personal view ok. But you can't just claim that a game with a lot of fans is bad or say"the fact that this game was released is absolutely ridiculous."

Unless they make war fun, i dont see any point in building the economy. Also ui is awful, too many tabs, icons are too big which makes you scroll too much cuz all needed info dont fit in 1 window

chore simulator is a great description. its a map game that has almost entirely automated the mapgame part of itself leaving the player nothing to do but click on the map where number is highest to build the best building. thats not even to mention the ridiculous idea of the state building and operating every single building, why exactly was production methods ever a thing for the player to decide? commie bullshit if you wanna know the truth of it.

okay.. im 3 minutes in and thats what i will address you are saying prussia should be the main country or something.. and that its involved in scramble for africa. My guy.. germany or prussia in general never really had any substantial colonies, your argument with scramble for africa isn't great here, for that france and UK are the main ones. The big thing you do really is just unite the various small german countries into big one, thats your whole gameplay, its not any "main" then you said that theres nothing to do. Theres a lot to do, you just refuse to interact with the game. Its not a war game first of all, i dont mind it having a worse battle system than other pdx games, i enjoy the economic simulation very much, managing minorities, unrest, trade, standards of living, colonies, etc. This is not hoi4 or ck3. Each pdx game focuses on a certain aspect, ck3 on roleplay and character, eu4 on warfare, colonialism, painting, etc, hoi4 strictly just war, supply, logistics, and vic 3 focuses on the economy, trade and capitalist revolution also the music? really? the music is fine. I guess you prefer sabaton in hoi4 but guess what i dont maybe im younger generation, but i tried playing vic2 in the past and just couldnt get over the bad UI and never got into it. Meanwhile vic3 is way better designed also one of the main pros is that you can play a eu4 game then convert it to vic3, its a great campaign

I agree broadly that Vic 3 has a severe lack of depth which seems to be a general issue with new PDX games

I'll admit Victoria III has a lot of flaws, but for some reason I keep playing the game. It's just satisfying to watch green number go up, and your Country prosper even if it's really not that hard to do

Victoria 3 is made by people who didn't undesrtand what Vic2 was because ai probably beat them 2-3 times when they were first playing it. So they removed war system and put Dungeond and Dragons-esq basic economic system and now huffs it as "more complex" even tho it's not.

1:12 why are you criticizing the music?

"Victoria 2 was" dude it's still there

I get what you're saying, but PDX games are games first and simulations second. You can argue over how fun Victoria 3 is as a game, but arguing one of their games is bad because it's not realistic is kind of silly when - say - realistic start conditions for Germany in HoI4 would have them lose almost every time.

First of all, vic2 army system sucked ass. Maybe until 1870 it was ok, but after thet point it was atrocious. Especially when you mobilised. The amount of troops to micro manage and then you just throw them into the grinder anyway is just stupid. I am not saying vic3 army system is waaaay better but it certainly fixes big issues with vic2 army systems. It sure needs time to even out the edges and have the player more say in it. Second, I agree that vic3 has kind of a boring playstyle. Besides initiating wars, your doings don't feel impactful at all. Oh i founded super Germany and the HRE as a follow up. Did it change anything in the world? Nope. China exploded. Ok. No change. Communist take over Britain. Still nothing. There is a gigantic war in Europe. Arms prices are going up. Yeah thats it. Counterpoint to your part: The AI is too aggressive, unless its the player. Vic2 had an infamy system that was quite restricting. Getting over 25 infamy was basically a death call. Going for one annexation of a country or trying to conquer 2 provinces came close to the max. And it ticks down extremely slow. Vic3? Oh, get up to 100 infamy, no problem. You want to vassalize all of mexico? Go for it! Conquer half of Africa? It will take more than 10 years, but no problem. The tick rate is insane. And the AI abuses it hardcore. GB is constantly declaring wars in my games. Why? Because they are number 1 by a lot and have endless puppets. And their Economy can easily hold for a very very long war. I did like the "appearances" of certain political change and groups way more in vic2. I mean, you can't get socialism, unless you research it in vic3...like what? Your people only know what socialism or communism is, after YOU research it? Not someone else? Imagine the russians never having a revolution, because they were too behind in tech to have socialism or communism. Or germany never getting the tech for the N-Party to be able to form. What is this?

So in the first minute you’re talking about how prussia are such an important nation in the victorian era and you start naming things Prussia do. They form the north german federation, they fight the franco-Prussian war, they form the german empire. Then you criticise that you can play prussia, leave the game on, do nothing and nothing will happen like a war being declared on you despite prussia being such an important nation. I have to be missing something because surely there is no way you picked a country that initiated multiple conflicts conflicts, formed a new nation, and then complained that, when you (playing as the country that historically starts a bunch of thing) start nothing, nothing happens? I’ll be honest it’s a terrible criticism to make because even that AI will try to form Germany and declare war on Austria/France. I’m struggling to see what point you thought you were making

01:00 If you don't do anything, nothing will happen. I don't see why that is weird? Its not like the Franco-Prussian war just happened out of nowhere, the same with all the other events you mentioned.

Agree with the title. Ive got 100 hours grinding this game to learn it, and I honestly think it might be one of the worst games I have ever played for more than 5 minutes

My man is literally complaining that Vic3 is "Chore Simulator", but loves Vic2 aka "Excel Spreadsheet Simulator". Im not Vic3's biggest fanboy by any stretch, but Ive played Vic2 and all its expansions and Ive played Vic3 and all its DLC so far, and I just cant see any logic behind hating 3 but loving 2. Its gotta be more of an issue of nostalgia more than anything objective.

Awesome! I really never played it because of the phases.

I cannot play campain with this map?

yo fix your intro volume ass hat... thanks for the review tho

Wespe in our Land stands for the Wasp. Hope its helpfull :)

thanks