Worth It In 2022? Europa Universalis 4 HONEST REVIEW & Beginner's GUIDE 

Haha same!

You can kind of do that yourself. Boot up total war to simulate important battles in your campaign and then use console commands to make the result of the total war battle happen in EU4

@@paradoxexpress6976 It isn’t the same. It’s hard to expand to exactly the same extent, and have the same battles. I would easily pay 60 dollars (plus 300 worth of expansion over 10 years) for a Total War/EU combination.

ISP Actually got sponsored by a game that does that

No PC could handle such power

I second this. i am actually comming from ck3 myself, have played both stellaris and hoi4 but ck3 is the game that has taught me the paradox formula. been wanting to try both victoria 2 and eu4 but as victoria3 is only a month away i decided to go for this.

@@Fightsome64 I tried EU4 first and was overwhelmed, then when CK3 came out, the formula really clicked and I got it. Now all the other titles are much easier to grasp. Waiting for Vicky 3, have it preordered and ready to go.

The game is on sale on steam right now. should i invest in eu4 and its whole dlc? is this worth it or should i wait for the next eu5 version.

Thank you so much, Heza! Glad to hear it :D

Hear hear :)

ive played CK2 , Hoi, victoria and the only things i liked about Europa universali is the sabaton music i really dont get that game help me understand why its good

@@theboxer3158 It's the country focus and era for me. You have a technological era that has a nice development from melee focus to canno. You shape the world. You can colonize peacefully as Portugal playing the trade and power play with vassals and subjects. Similar to Spain. You can marry your way to victory through the totality of Austria. You can become a revolutionary empire like France. You can dominate the seas as England shaping their path towards Great Britain in the way you wish. Will you stop the blob of the Ottomans, or will you risk expansion to the north and north east knowing they are lurking? And some times the most random things happen. Where popular Duchies disappear, absorbed by others. Will the Polish Commonwealth exist, or will Russia expand put west. Can you form the HRE as a nation and not just a collection of vassals, or will you destroy it, bringing the newly formed Protestant Reformation to the top. Man that's like 10% of it lol

@@chocolaterain5097 thats a whole lot of nothing

@@theboxer3158 Okay brother God bless you on your journey.

Thank you so much, Zein :) I agree with you - it IS hard to learn, and it took me many hours of playing and watching RU-vid videos back in 2013 before I knew how to properly play, and that’s not even mentioning any of the newly added features! I will say though that if you take the leap and invest the time, there’s a game here that I feel is so much more giving and enjoyable than any other paradox game or indeed any other strategy game. But I do understand that the climb is incredibly steep, and wouldn’t put it past anyone to skip it - just like I’m having an incredibly hard time to learn the ins and outs of HOI4s battle and unit/division systems and other mechanics.

@@AndysTake , you're right. I am coming to terms with playing it. Perhaps another aspect worth considering as the barrier to entry is the player's preference for nations. I have always played through out Paradox games Germany, Prussia, Aachen, Köln, Bremen, Oldenburg, Finland, Turku. My reasons are the familiarity with the history and culture of those places. Increasingly I'm opening up to play Poland, Croatia, Rome (revive SPQR), Iraq, Cornwall. But not all of those nations, kingdoms or states have an easy difficulty level throughout the titles. On the other hand I can't relate much to easier nations to play. Some games that comes to mind that do this really well: Age of Wonders III, Age of Wonders Planet fall, Rome 2 DEI Rise of the Republic, and King Arthur Role Playing Wargame. Curious which countries do you play in HoI4? Maybe I spent so many hours playing HoI, playing since 2007 that I have become familiar to the series, and blind to the learning curve the series may have for new players. HoI3 was pretty tough in comparison. You should try the Black Ice mod. Off-topic to this video. Worth checking out. Maybe it gives you ideas for HoI4 twitter.com/hoi_game/status/1355199429016514562

Feels easier to start learning Japanese then this game...

Hoi4 is considerably harder to learn than EU4. Apart from trade and estates (which are pretty easy despite looking so intimidating), the rest just comes down to playing.

That’s awesome, Messo! Thanks for watching, I’m sure you’ll love it! :D

So what are your opinion now?

@@user-vr8qd4hk6y It's better to buy key on online shops, because it's much cheaper.

Definitely worth playing, but I may be biased

Lol I completely forgot about this comment. I actually ended up buying victoria 2 after this instead cause the sale ended. I loved vic2 and played it for a while. Just a few days ago I decided to get back into strategy games and bought eu4, so its really strange timing that someone suddenly responded to this lol.

Thank you so much!! :D awesome, which pieces were you missing? :)

I highly recommend it! It’s absolutely fantastic, will just take some time to learn ;)

Happy to hear it, Konstantin ❤️

Thank you so much! And good luck to you :)

Thanks, Medjay, it’s a truly great game you need to play! The modding scene is also phenomenal!

@@AndysTake I need to learn the tutorials....but now that I have the dlcs, does this mean the tutorials are outdated at this point? Because it has been my dream goal to have a crack at this game for sure - tried but always failed!

Thank you! :) damn HOI will be difficult hahaha

How is it 6 months later? Im thinking of buying it soon too. Im just curious if you think it was worth it

@@efaq370 yeah i like it I've played as quite a few countries now, the learning curve is difficult though (lots of things to manage) use youtube vids to help you understand

@@yux.tn.3641 okay thank you

@@efaq370 play as countries that you are familiar with 👍

@@yux.tn.3641 Yea i will but it when its on sale and probably start of as the Ottomans since i know alot about them

So you're saying it plays a lot like reality then?

Nice! I remember playing the extended timeline a looong time ago, but there’s so many more institutions to think about haha, kinda gets outa hand at some point. Or, where does the tech stop? Haven’t tried either Anbennar or Lord of Universalis!

@@AndysTake Lord of Universalis is a new mod based (like the name says) on LOTR and Anbennar is a fun mod to play, I play(/make content) it now, and I enjoy it a lot. I surely remomment both of them. Lord of Universalis is not done yet and some things doesn't work yet since it has 1 mian dev and like 2-3 poeple help the develpment.

@@thisisgamelord2421 Sounds awesome! How does it compare to the LOTR mod in CK3?

@@AndysTake I don't know, I don't have CK3

@@thisisgamelord2421 Haha fair enough!

Have you actually played any games? That statement makes no sense. I have 500 hours in this game over years and it's great, but I've spent ridiculous amounts of time in MMORPGs, FPS and MOBA's, more so than a strategy game.

Just gotta start, you know? I say jump into it! :)

You should subscibe for 5 dollar per month

They do have a DLC subscription now though I believe ;)

IMO, 300 GBP is a lot yes, but still worth it. AAA games are easily 60 GBP now, so you get 5 AAA games worth of money for the bundle, and there is A LOT more than 5x AAA game content available. I always get mad at people complaining about the price, which are often the same people that spent 60 bucks on a new AAA title with 20-30 hours of content and call it great. But then complain about spending 5x as much money on a game they can get 10-50x the amount of content out of.

Hey, yuhyuh! Good question! As of right now, HOI4 is definitely the most fleshed out of the two, but it’s also just so much more complicated and can be boring (a lot of waiting). CK3 has a great foundation with a bit less content, but has a lot to offer, is a great foundation for the future, and has some truly amazing mods. I’d consider CK3 first honestly :)

@@AndysTake sounds good, ck3 it is! Thanks Andy!

@@yuhyuh5674 My pleasure, let me know what you think of it once you’ve had a chance to play it! :D

Hahaha ONLY 8 years?!

Exactly, my dude, exactly. Well said!

Worked well on my 1440p screen!

I'm sorry! There's just so much lol, but I think I got my point across. I love this game.

Oh you’re so welcome, love you too, my friend! :)

Thank you, Omar! I’m currently playing on a gaming laptop, RTX 3070, 16GB RAM, and AMD Ryzen 5800x or something haha

YEEESSSS!!! :D

@@AndysTake Plus MEIOU mod - YEEEEESSSSSS!

@@josthobic9860 YEEEEEEEEESSSSS

All of them

Personally I’d say CK3 and Stellaris are the easiest, followed by EU, then Imperator: Rome, then CK2, and then HOI 4 is the hardest.

@@AndysTake Ok BTW which Paradox Game do you think is most similar to Total War.. I think its EU IV .. Do you agree ?

I like AoE 1-3, but felt like 4 was underwhelming.. I made a review if you wanna know more :)

You’re sure that’s not the one for CK3?

@@AndysTake yes it is much clunkeyer and you have to enter in your results, but it is very fun. crusaderbalde is much faster and is slick enough to be part of crusader kings 3

Weird, only Napoleon and medieval but no Empire?

Even more info that noone asked for: Civ V > Civ VI imo, since an upgrade in graphical fidelity means nothing if you abandon the original art style and make fun of the subjects of the game by portraying them like some Illumination studios villain. I'm sure the gameplay is fine, but I'll take the gorgeous art, soothing narration, stunning map and and realisticly prroportioned character models of the 5th game any day of the week.

Are there any good mods that expand Ottoman Empire mechanics?

@@MedjayofFaiyum Propably no

I agree :)

Nah, that is the good thing...I get bored if game has nothing to explore in means of detail and strange and new game mechanics.

I linked it as a banner in the video, but thank you ;)

@@AndysTake And you dont make any effort to let the viewers know that? Its common rule to have links in the description, so the fact idk that its kinda a big problem, hopefully will be fixed.

They did same thing to the Ottoman empire, my comment on the video; "this game is made very shallow about the ottoman empire. A system like the hre should have been built for the Ottoman Empire. For example, The situation of the provinces in the Ottoman Empire was differen from other empires, some states only paid taxes and did not participate in wars(like egypt) while others both paid taxes and participated in wars(like Balkans and anatolian states). Also, there are no events in game like tax collectors taking power in the provinces later on and decentralization got higher and higher after the 1700s until 19th century. Of course, there should also be a pasha system. In the Ottoman Empire, each pasha had his own palace and men, and he had his own strategy. Even later, these pashas formed their own armies and gave them to the sultan when necessary. In addition, while the sultan had absolute authority in the beginning, but after the 1600s, the sultan would choose the grand vizier, and all power would belong to the grand vizier and other factions(Ulema Janissary and Harem traders and non muslims had no influence on the government). Kind of like a constitutional monarchy. The people were not allowed to join the army, there was only a centralized army and a semi-feudal army. Sometimes they would have fights and palace coups."

@@SeFa590 Yes they should have really made each nation more unique.

Try MEIOU mod....

Agreed

Nah, in vanilla game I become world leader with one nation in Indonesia...its not easy, but not impossible either.

Its reality for this time period my friend

It was 100% true, but it have changed, to the point it's rather overdone in the opposite direction. I guess you haven't played for a longer time.

the main thing is, there shouldn't be world dominance at all, IRL "world dominance" didn't really happen until the Victorian era the game should make it a lot harder to even have a global empire in the first place

Would disagree! Why don’t you think it’s worth it?

I'm talking about the price of dlc because without that the game is bland. Yet they overcharged and have too many dlcs. The sims effect.

@@bombyouup62 Take advantage of DLC sales and bundle sales. You have a chance now during winter sales. You also don't need all the DLCs, there's only a few "important" ones, like Art of War. There's lists out there showing what are the best DLC.

@@bombyouup62 do like me have the game free( epic game) and rise the blag flag🏴‍☠️