I Played Japan in Victoria 3 and All I Got Was Pain 

College actually hard carrying the Vic 3 scene

Playing Japan in any other game: 😄 Playing Japan in Vic3: 😔

I swear there must be a hidden variable that randomly selects an AI Great Power every time the player declares they're wanting to go to war, and forces them to oppose the player no matter how nonsensical, as some form of "balancing".

The diplomacy in this game is absolutely scuffed. The great powers involve themselves in wars they have literally no interest or stake in on the other side of the world for no reason.

Man Vicky 3 was barebones even for a paradox game so little in terms of flavour events and cool decisions

I look forward to buying this game in a year when it actually works!

Holy fuck, I thought they fixed the worst issues, but this just looks like pure suffering. Still enjoyable video; kinda like public torture

You are one of the only youtubers worthy of eating food while watching you like I legit save your videos till I have food

College, your videos are one of the reasons I still am interested in Vicky 3. Keep up the amazing work and carry this games fans on your shoulders.

Watching this video and the newest Bokoen really makes me feel like he is still salty about London being held by 200 men for over a week

Honestly I’m glad they added the quick country switching to the game because sometimes having france attack belgium in the fifteenth war for wallonia and flanders just gets tiring. I swear one more war against the french and they might actually fall apart (I was kinda lying, it was 4 wars in 10 years or sth like that, I think even less). Playing germany in vic 3 (the patch I’m playing which is this one at least) is quite literally just the equivalent of babysitting a very spoiled little child.

Wiz deserves a medal. He managed to make a worse war system than Stellaris

I played Japan this week a bunch, restarted three times theorizing how to get the economy off the ground fast in this patch. What I figured out is that you should focus on the construction loop first, iron, coal, tooling and steel and increase the amount of construction. Try to not go into the red, destroy construction sectors if necessary. Don’t bother doing the Meiji restoration early. You can do the civil war cheese if you want but emperor Ninko is bad and you can do most of what you need as shogunate anyway. Then Japan has this specific issue with its standard of living where the entire supply chain is messed up for groceries, acquire sugar, glass grain etc so the people can have alcohol and food, this should greatly increase standard of living. Abuse the economy of scale modifier. You should definitely be set by 1890 or so for your economy to boom massively, you’ll easily stomp Russia and you will not have the frustrations seen in this video.

To retake the treaty port you need to use a take treaty port wargoal on Russia. Why? PDX hasnt unlocked game testing in the tech tree yet. There is no other explanation for vic3.

I think Wiz wants to make it harder to players to get everything they wanted in wars by forcing them out eventually

I'm so mad that they botched this game so much, all they had to do was improve vic 2 but instead they just went a completely different direction, getting rid of lots of good things from vic 2 and then adding a bunch of things that are worse than vic 2. frustrating.

I love your Victoria 3 videos!

Literally why is Victoria 3 like this lol

Imagine ruling Japan 🇯🇵 during/after ww2 when you realise that you are losing 150 years of conquests in a single peace deal.

It’s infuriating how badly pdx dropped the ball with Vicky 3

"I can't take these treaty ports back" The Province they are in is not only IN THE LIST to conquer state. but the territory LIGHTS UP when you scroll over it. But yeah its dumb its not considered a Reconquest since they took it off you.

My Japan run is going incredibly well right now, even without the cheese strays like play again British and backing down to get your market open, corn laws is also kind of gamey with how broken it is

Petition to Paradox: add "give treaty port back" as a war goal in new update of game

Russo-Japanese War in 1904: decisive victory for Japan over Russia Paradox: I'm going to pretend I didn't see that

This game would be so fun if there was a war feature

love your videos tbh you should probably try to make a victoria 3 mod since your hoi4 mod is just flat out better than vanilla!

all I get from this video is that vicky 3 war is still bullshit and way worse than vicky 2, even when vicky 2 doesn't have a frontline system it's better than not being able to micro at all

Pulling the control of armies from the players honest to god is one of the dumbest ideas I could ever think to do. If AI was good enough for it, I wouldnt mind, but it never is.

This is scarily historical

Tbf when I played Japan, it was a nightmare, I was fed up with the bs of the game and started tag switching to France to pay off my debt, pure 100% suffering in the current game state

Not to worry College, maybe you can play with your friends next time and they’ll help you expand as a nation :))

Watching this video almost made the game seem fun, but then I remembered you probably cut out 90% of the gameplay that was just clicking on 'the expand building' button

Not the first time you had trouble on Japan ;)

This entire video felt like College was talking through gritted teeth And honestly? I get it

Love your Vic 3 content

My dude suffering for Vicky 3's sins so we don't have to. Blessed.

french nah we like taiwon drops japan british: i see you beat up germany and france no longer your besty.... lets make a friendship group!

super cool video as always, would love to see you play ck3!

This game is so close to being good, like one solid update on military and diplomacy and it would be so perfect.

Ah yes i rememeber the battle of antietam took half a year to finish. And when the british took back their colonies from the USA by just occupying D.C not anything else for a month. And who can forget that time when one african unit equipt with spears woon against a French naval invasion equipt with cannons muskets and opium.

Thanks college for reminding me why I'm not playing this game anymore and why I still hate to have bought it.

Yeah, I've found it best to try just playing tall as a nation that is either: a. part of a large market (like the British Empire or Qing Market) b. has a huge population to support a domestic market (Japan is great for this) Attempt to avoid war at all costs, because the system is confusing and broken. Engage in minimal colonialism unless you are going to integrate the state (like Hokkaido for Japan), or if it has essential resources (like oil) because it tends to tank your standard of living, GDP and Literacy, and requires a ton of investment and suppression. Better to just use free trade to import in most scenarios. Finally, realise that if you are a part of a foreign market, particularly if you are a subject, any war will tank your economy, even if you are not personally at war (learnt that the hard way as the Ionian islands when Britain went to war and all of a sudden, my trade route was blockaded, for some reason my market access dropped, and we went into a death spiral of debt). Basically, the war system needs a total overhaul (this is easily the worst issue for me, so I just avoid war), and there are a lot of other issues with the game. That said, I still enjoy the game, but its about a 6/10 right now.

I bought vic3 without knowing anything about it, saw the new warfare mechanics and never played it since... I BEG that they bring back the mechanic from vic2 cuz the new one is just awful imo...

nice thumbnail

You played vic 3 that’s why

50 seconds in, liked and subbed for epic college moment

My first 2 Japan games went pretty bad but once you learn what to do, man, does Japan dominate

Great vid, I enjoyed watching you suffer🙃 Could you also show the great power ranking/closing statistics at the end of your videos?

Lore of I Played Japan in Victoria 3 and All I Got Was Pain momentum 100

Guys its close, no1 has made a fun toned vic3 vid in a while, even cuckoen folded, maybe paradox ai will finally pick the 2nd braincell tech, they've only been doing the useless 10% output for 10% upkeep ones that are straight up bad (the stellaris refrence)

Finally u uploaded

can't believe the game was released in this state.... I hate this gaming industry

Hey college, what happened to the cold war iron curtain video?

I want to like this game, but its just so boring right now I cant even bother. Maybe it will be a good game in like 8 years after 3000 dollars worth of DLC comes out

I did subscribe because of this video😂

Kieran the shoddoddydoddy says hello x we should play

You could just play a better game like um......🙃 modded Vic 2 and you won't suffer such problems.

Yeaaah, Japan just isn't fun at all. I feel like the Meiji restoration would be so much better if there were more events relating to it. Causing the shogunate to revolt is really the only fun way to get it going at a decent time. After I tried Japan, I immediately played the Ottomans so I could suffer *while* having fun.

Now try it with Vicky 2 and do a comparison

Amazing video, unfortunately no amount of quality content will fix that lazy auto-chess war system. Guess I'll wait a few years for DLC to fix it. And it really seems like quality just wins, which may be true irl, still debatable. If you sink millions into arms industry, professionalism, doctrine, technology. You'd think your tall quality Japanese army would be able to idk kill rebels? I wish Paradox had competition but they don't.

I understand I keeled playing Korea till I became the strongest and I got a game where I got 2b eco at the end of the game

There's something wrong with diplomacy in this game

There seems to be a bug where naval invasions don't get proper support until you reassign the navy to escort convoys, hence the lack of invasion support.

Hey I know this guy from Highschool

First of all respect for playing till the end, also quite good editing and good commentary. Poor gameplay though, your understanding of interest groups economy etc is kind of primal as far as I can tell. Long battles and so on are pretty shit though, but the right updates probably only happen if content creators start playing actually well. If you want to learn the game I would highly reccomend gerneralist gaming.

Nice Vid!

Yep, I'm not buying vic 3 for another few years

Bro only had 140m gdp as Japan in 1927…

you should pay more attention to infamy if you have high infamy everyone will hate you even if you previously had good relations with them that's why France sided with Korea I think

Hi I love your videos and can you maybe play old world blues the fallout nv mode for hoi4 please 🙏

you should of taken Rome and made it Shinto smh

latino music for Japan game match failed

It really sucks because this game can be pretty fun to play but it’s handicapped by the painfully subpar war system and nonsensical diplomacy. Forcing “diplomatic plays” to go to war is just awful, especially when AI decides it’s time to screw the player over again and join a war against you because you had the audacity to subjugate an island with 3K people on it

AHHHHH

Paradox really sucks at quality control and logic.

Vic 3 has good and bad parts. Combat and warfare is probably its worst part tho.

Japan

Well you do approach this game from the "wrong" point of view. It's supposed to be about economy, not painting the map with wars. In 1927 at the end of the video you had the economy of an 1880 Japan.

I dunno know why you are all Struggling so much. I didn't even have to go through a revolution, just a mega-doom loop of unending law change times.... Though majority of the Pacific was colonized by me lol... Though that is one of the core plays as Japan. You must colonize majority of Pacific before the Europeon's come. Get the southern New zealand before britain and there you have a good amount of raw resource deposits. After that I just commenced on the MEGA WAR for the Indonesian states where I vassalized about 90% of Indonesia (excluding DEIC). And after that I got a colony starting in Africa to get those street resources. Also starting your fleet after getting the colonies is the best strategy. If you did not beat an EU nation already, you can attack spain when they are in an war with another EU country by attacking Philiphines. With your fleet between the Indo-sea routes blocking the Spanish you can sorta (spawn kill) spanish ships enough times to exhaust them and getting recognized as a power. Though by the time I got 800K GDP Austria-Hungary has 2m GDP. So who am I to judge.

game is so boring lmfao

Remove the "Japan in" from the title and it would still make sense.

Skill issue

If you can’t play don’t do let’s play

Just play vic1 much better than this

This game looks so bad man

Man you just can't play :) guys, stop bullshiting. The Japan is strong you just need to know how to play. I get to the 1b without even "open market" trick.

Spain is better

I tried playing Japan once It was a whale of a time