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Democracy is all about the lil' cute bow tie Fascism has that military drip Communism has everyone's favorite hammer and sickle symbol as a little pin on their suit And you know your playthrough is particularly special if Daniel makes a guest appearance in your army or navy
I remember when they added the ability to drag the production lines up and down and were just like “haha yeah we just added some quality of life improvement”
Love when WWII breaks down and it turns back into ancient warfare where single armies would just have to march 1000 miles through enemy territories on their own.
Are you trying to say it’s unrealistic and ahistorical that the Dominican Republic could boost the fascist ideology of Mongolia to entice them to recreate the Mongol Empire?
To be honest, it was a little weird for just any minor country (like Bhutan) to stage a coup in a country as major as USSR (which had the NKVD) or USA (which had the FBI). I remember playing with that and just cringed every time it worked. The new Spy system is also legitimately amazing, you can literally bend countries to your knees without a single war, consistently root out resistance during wars, and build intelligence networks in areas you are going to attack... Now that I have La Resistance, I will never go back to that barebones intelligence system.
oh god I remember when the AI would literally snake through your country. remember vividly playing the USSR and looking back to my country to find that it had lines of pink everywhere from where about 4 UK divisions had just snaked around everywhere.
Hey It's MDB! The hardest working man on TH-cam! I didn't know you kept up with ISP's series of suffering. Love your CK2/CK3 campaigns, they're what taught me how to play!
... I remember all this Damn. The only thing i still miss is the different shade of color between core lands and occupied lands in wars. I quite liked that
On the brightside, you only have Panama left in Central America, on the down side, Panama is followed by Paraguay and Peru. And of course pesky Venezuela just has to hold out to the end of the alphabet. Almost forgot about Uruguay, comes right before Venezuela too
You can come back to older version, you can disable DLC and everything is different, the only thing that will never betray you is the Italian Focus tree.
I miss that old Japan tree lol. It was so broken how you can rush the Strike the USA focus and instantly get all their factories. If I remember correctly too you could also rush the kamikaze and it was devastating
Me: *hasn’t played a game in like 4-5 years; doesn’t even really play games at all* Also me: *still loyal to the person who got me into the game in the first place*
Seeing as there are still several So American nations to go, maybe you could play a current build HoI4 without DLCs as a contrast. Anyway, thanks for the commitment to this ridiculous endeavor.
00:19 dont worry isorrow, for the darkness in my soul that formed from staring at maps for a third of my life prevents me from having any positive emotion
If i remember correctly the multiple capitals was actually the victory point system that got carried over from hoi3. Before we got the much better version we have now.
"It's crazy how much it's changed over time" Correction: It's crazy how much content they leave out on release to be added over the next decade at $10-60 a pop.
I love how ISP is talking about how features like more navy customization and espionage weren't a thing back then as if they're not still unavailable without DLCs
I'm so glad that when I got this game 2 years ago I bought it with Together for Victory for my first tentative playthroughs. I can't imagine I would have stuck with it in 1.0.
@@herrwest9835 the best part it does t even bother me, I've come to terms with it lmao. Also the mods carry the game dont know if its the same with eu4.
F, it really do be like that sometimes. Paradox games are soooo expensive. A lot of them with all DLCs included are hundreds of dollars! Sometimes I wonder if I was right to buy as many as I have, but videos like this remind me how bad vanilla Paradox games can be…
Honestly I can only remember the game at launch more fondly than how it ended up. Some of the quality of life features were pretty nice, like the factories, but as I didn't feel inclined to get the DLC the game seemed to take a hit with each one until I eventually just didn't feel like playing anymore. I particularly remember Man the Guns making me never want to touch naval things (or any nation involved with them) with a 10 foot pole ever again.
At first i was confused about the soviet moving capital to warsaw or having two capitals at the end, but then I rememberd, taht in the old times capital woulnd change untill peace deal, so that second star in USSR is just a capital of that fasist rebelion, and the warsaw was still capital of poland
IT'S "AN IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE" NOT A WTF ISORROW CMON MAN I EXPECTED BETTER Edit: i see you fixed it well done, you might have won the battle but you won't win the war
I've only realised this now but ISP gained over 68k subs and within 5 months of hitting 600k back in August which is just mind blowing to see that finally a hoi4 channel is blowing up
I remember in that version you could boost party popularity in China as PRC and territory would occasionally flip to you. I had a fun campaign back then just letting China fight Japan alone and occasionally getting the perfect state to flip to me to meme the hell out of China and Japan
I love how el generico has a different suit depending on the ideology but like it’s still the same guy. It’s the brown suit that makes him fascist
The suit makes the man
Democracy is all about the lil' cute bow tie
Fascism has that military drip
Communism has everyone's favorite hammer and sickle symbol as a little pin on their suit
And you know your playthrough is particularly special if Daniel makes a guest appearance in your army or navy
The different drips of man
Which suit should I wear today then?
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I remember when they added the ability to drag the production lines up and down and were just like “haha yeah we just added some quality of life improvement”
@Limar Tara 7 ¿
@@emilesoenen8783 bot. Don't engage
@@massabuckbreakingenthusias5903 must...... encircle..... the bot..
@@nmdvalkyrie2862 My general, the bot has been encircled, must we engage with thy enemy?
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Let them starve
Love when WWII breaks down and it turns back into ancient warfare where single armies would just have to march 1000 miles through enemy territories on their own.
Xenophon would be proud!
Having one generic portrait for more than one leader in HOI4 is the equivalent of having schizophrenia.
The leader just changes his suit and blam he's a whole different person part of a whole different ideology
Fun fact: it’s against Costa Rica’s constitution for it to have an army
That was signed in 1948 tho, so it still makes sense for it to have one in hoi4
“Spectator Game” Where going back in time not only when HOI4 was released but when Drew only uploaded spectator HOI4 games
Before the dark days, before reddit and the green hair.
Omg yes
I actually loved drews HOI4 content, I don't really get into his newer stuff that I've seen on his channel
@@datingzonej8851 What?
I miss paintbrush boy
Note: if you don't have the "la resistance" DLC, you can still boost and coup like that.
Yeah I was confused when he made it out to be old.
Are you trying to say it’s unrealistic and ahistorical that the Dominican Republic could boost the fascist ideology of Mongolia to entice them to recreate the Mongol Empire?
It's one of the main reasons I don't buy that particular DLC
To be honest, it was a little weird for just any minor country (like Bhutan) to stage a coup in a country as major as USSR (which had the NKVD) or USA (which had the FBI).
I remember playing with that and just cringed every time it worked. The new Spy system is also legitimately amazing, you can literally bend countries to your knees without a single war, consistently root out resistance during wars, and build intelligence networks in areas you are going to attack...
Now that I have La Resistance, I will never go back to that barebones intelligence system.
@@MalevolentSpirit234 That's all cool and all but nothing beats El Salvador causing a civil war in Germany
oh god I remember when the AI would literally snake through your country. remember vividly playing the USSR and looking back to my country to find that it had lines of pink everywhere from where about 4 UK divisions had just snaked around everywhere.
I thought the AI was done with this, but I played a game a few days ago and China snaked all the way to Moscow haha
For all of you kids who don't remember the back color scheme of the old game, consider yourselves blessed.
@@beautyzone9275 feel free to use me as a dislike button
@@DespotMaximovic thank you, good sir
@@DespotMaximovic thank you for your service comrade
@@DespotMaximovic thanks king
Edit: sage in all fields
@@DespotMaximovic i salute you
Dude, I wish El Generico was in charge of all of South America! I get it though, he's busy running that orphanage in Mexico.
oh el generico the true ruler of the world lmao
Hey It's MDB! The hardest working man on TH-cam!
I didn't know you kept up with ISP's series of suffering. Love your CK2/CK3 campaigns, they're what taught me how to play!
@@Akwardave Thanks! And yeah, ISP's stuff is fun!
@@stormyaudio9969 Indeed I am the rightful world leader.
you have great taste in yters
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I remember all this
Damn. The only thing i still miss is the different shade of color between core lands and occupied lands in wars. I quite liked that
Yeah I don’t know why they ever changed that
I like it how communist Finland was named just as "Red Finland"
Or like communist russia army was named just as "red army"
Or like fascist supporters in uk were named just as "blackshirts"
That was the name for communist finland during the civil war...
Imagine booting up the brand new Hearts Of Iron game in 2016 and immediately starting as Nicaragua.
I mean a lot of Nicaraguans probably did that. The few that played the game that is
Im impressed with how they got a unique leader for the Russian Empire tho
Ah yes 1.0 the land of gamebreaking bugs
@@datingzonej8851 Yoongi: "Butter"?
That trolling the Devs about Italy's Focus Tree is pretty hilarious.
On the brightside, you only have Panama left in Central America, on the down side, Panama is followed by Paraguay and Peru. And of course pesky Venezuela just has to hold out to the end of the alphabet.
Almost forgot about Uruguay, comes right before Venezuela too
Has there ever been a Z to A series yet?
@@beautyzone9275 Is that yes or...?
@@ninjafahita It is one of those amazing bots youtube can't deal with. But don't you dare to use the f-word in a comment or it will be deleted...
EU4 Z2A
The suffering continues
@@BlaudracheLP ck2/ck3 every county independent a2z2a
i mean i'm doing it in my free time but i dont have anythign to upload them
I'll be honest I havent played much hoi since 2019 so this is exactly how I remember the game
I had the same thing
I swear to god Mengukuo is one province bigger (the top left one is Mongolia now I swear) and it's driving me crazy
checked on the newest version, it's still the same
Communist China is bigger.
You are correct
oh no another spectator based game, he is turning into drew
Drew is fucking watching reddit the whole time.
Honestly really miss old drew wish he'd do another asmr video
You can come back to older version, you can disable DLC and everything is different, the only thing that will never betray you is the Italian Focus tree.
I miss that old Japan tree lol. It was so broken how you can rush the Strike the USA focus and instantly get all their factories. If I remember correctly too you could also rush the kamikaze and it was devastating
You can still early war the US by justifying tho
Daily petition for ISP to play Huey Long's Paraguay in Kaiserredux
The bots have won, we can only watch as they end life as we know it.
Fun fact: Nicaragua was the first nation I played in HOI4, in this exact version.
Kill me
Mine was turkey:
Also kill me pls
unironically me too on both counts, absolute pain
Ahh yes I remember it from history, when a couple French divisions landed in Gibraltar and marched all the way to the Benelux!
This is how I originally played the game; and I never played it again, then someone bought me the game a week ago; now I suffer with no dlc.
Pirate the dlc
Me too, I've already bougth CK2 so I have the rigth to pirate all pdx games rigth?
@@TheEmolano When it comes to companies as scummy and shit as paradox, I'd say you dont only have the right, but a moral obligation to do so.
@@WelcomeToDERPLAND how was current hoi4 compared to before
The dlc is like 5$
The chaotic energy, it's just perfect!!!
Yes
@@datingzonej8851 no one cares
@@randomguy869 it's a bot
Remember that Slovakia is a starting nation in the 1939 scenario
That's why I prefer 1939 scenario to 1936 scenario.
He's got to to get back at Mountain General for all of his jabs at ISP.
Me: *hasn’t played a game in like 4-5 years; doesn’t even really play games at all*
Also me: *still loyal to the person who got me into the game in the first place*
As someone who didn’t have DLCs for a few years until this winter steam sale this hurts…
Too many of the same focus tree
The allied spaggett into Belgium was trying to reach iSorrowproductions irl, so he would stop this madness, but it failed, like Hoi4 AI always will.
ISP is ghost of HOI4 past,present, and future all in one
I kinda missed how occupied territories were highlighted. Just a small little detail I missed. Everything else here just didn’t age well.
Ya I miss that too
I thought I was going crazy on if that had existed or not
Seeing as there are still several So American nations to go, maybe you could play a current build HoI4 without DLCs as a contrast. Anyway, thanks for the commitment to this ridiculous endeavor.
i love how he made one of the tags for this video #help
00:19 dont worry isorrow, for the darkness in my soul that formed from staring at maps for a third of my life prevents me from having any positive emotion
I remember them adding the current air system and was like I want the old one back.
Looking at it now makes me realise how dumb I was
I like how they added the historically accurate lack of any Costa Rican military to the game before they added the game to the game
If i remember correctly the multiple capitals was actually the victory point system that got carried over from hoi3. Before we got the much better version we have now.
The reason why Italy is doing so well is because they have the current brand spanking... wait
That's some cursed Napoleonic march from Spain to France near the end
Ck3 all counts, dukes, kings, and emperors A-Z
CK3 is still too new. Better go for EU4
"New Year, old game"
Isorrowproductions, since 2016
New Year, Old pain, Boys.
Back im the day, when you could supply units anywhere and you didn't have those stupid modifiers in the spanish civil war.
ISP: "Gravy Babies"
Me: :)
ISP: *makes a dad joke* "Don't laugh"
Sorry daddy, i laughed
OHH 😳
"It's crazy how much it's changed over time"
Correction: It's crazy how much content they leave out on release to be added over the next decade at $10-60 a pop.
Thanks!
me when ISP makes a bad joke: -_-
me when ISP says don't laugh : 😂
The 2022 Leg of the A2Z Tour has begun!
Austria-Hungary? No my friend it's Bosnia-Hungary
I love how ISP is talking about how features like more navy customization and espionage weren't a thing back then as if they're not still unavailable without DLCs
Your content just makes me happier because you dont play it cause of your friends you just genuinely like it the game
He's gone drew. Completely. We lost him.
I'm so glad that when I got this game 2 years ago I bought it with Together for Victory for my first tentative playthroughs. I can't imagine I would have stuck with it in 1.0.
You can just hear ISP trying to stop exploding.
@@datingzonej8851 do you smell smoke?
Remeber that part of WWll when sweden tried to reclaim swedish pomerania
surprised you didn't take a look at that old Italy focus tree
He did 4:28
oo more a 2 z, also happy new year isp
The real challenge is fighting the depression along the way
i wanted to see what country was doing that crazy snaking from iberia to belgium
Gravy man is back
Oh God, ISP is becoming Drew
That moment you play basic hoiv cause you cant afford dlc 💀
Same but with eu4
Pirate the dlcs
@@herrwest9835 the best part it does t even bother me, I've come to terms with it lmao.
Also the mods carry the game dont know if its the same with eu4.
@@David-bh7hs unfortunately Im to dumb for it hahaha
F, it really do be like that sometimes. Paradox games are soooo expensive. A lot of them with all DLCs included are hundreds of dollars! Sometimes I wonder if I was right to buy as many as I have, but videos like this remind me how bad vanilla Paradox games can be…
The death Congo line hasn't gone away
God the fucking Death Conga Line. Magnificent
Lmao, I didnt realise how cursed the old HoI4 was
12:37 well, this was the Trucking to Moscow days of HOI4 AI.
that 10 mile gap is almost as far as alex the ramblers hair line
hahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha i’m so funny
the thing I like about old hoi4 map that you can see occupied lands by brighter color
Hoi1 time
Yeah he went crazy
I’m a simple man, I see ISP, I click
Reminds me of the good old days when a guy called mr. Bacon (or similiar) typed this comment on every single isp video.
With each year the upper cut that is 1.0 becomes stronger
Fool. Chairman Mao was always like that. Perfection does not change.
Honestly I can only remember the game at launch more fondly than how it ended up. Some of the quality of life features were pretty nice, like the factories, but as I didn't feel inclined to get the DLC the game seemed to take a hit with each one until I eventually just didn't feel like playing anymore. I particularly remember Man the Guns making me never want to touch naval things (or any nation involved with them) with a 10 foot pole ever again.
Intro : "Hewwo" isp bottom confirmed femboy no scope 360 gravy baby
THIS THIS is the content I was CRAVING
How to make a communist flag in early hoi4 1. grab the old flag 2. slap a hammer sickle on it 3. no further steps required.
11:35 thats not their capital, it's because it was Poland's capital, and they still tecnhically exist. You can see it in Switzerland as well.
I still don't understand why this version had a portrait for Brazil but no portrait of Mr. Hope (Lord Linlithgow)
three spectator esque games in a row he really is becoming the new drew drunil
this dude playing 1.0 and i still dont have researchable doctrines
At first i was confused about the soviet moving capital to warsaw or having two capitals at the end, but then I rememberd, taht in the old times capital woulnd change untill peace deal, so that second star in USSR is just a capital of that fasist rebelion, and the warsaw was still capital of poland
When you said "Don't Laugh" i laughed. hold on brb people are at my door.
IT'S "AN IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE" NOT A WTF ISORROW CMON MAN I EXPECTED BETTER
Edit: i see you fixed it well done, you might have won the battle but you won't win the war
HE DID IT! HE CALLED ME A GRAVY BABY!
The boost popularity and staging coups is still like that if you don't have DLC
I've only realised this now but ISP gained over 68k subs and within 5 months of hitting 600k back in August which is just mind blowing to see that finally a hoi4 channel is blowing up
Dankus xould be proud of this amount of snaking.
Aw, how nostalgic man...
Researches for doctrines...
that French line reminds me on how i tried to fight before realizing i could just draw arrows
La resistance actually remove the "stage a coup" and "boost party pop."
I person don't play with La Resistance a lot, unless I'm playing it for the focus trees.
I remember in that version you could boost party popularity in China as PRC and territory would occasionally flip to you. I had a fun campaign back then just letting China fight Japan alone and occasionally getting the perfect state to flip to me to meme the hell out of China and Japan
A impossible challenge says the literal English guy
I mean it’s no yellow Prussia but god damn early hoi4 was an abomination.
Can't wait for the epic Norway game