I'm playing PEASANT REPUBLIC FLORENCE trying to spread PEASANT IMPERIALISM (I own all of Tuscany from the Papal States up to Lucca) and I've been prestigemaxxing the ENTIRE GAME just so that I can ask the HRE to make me a Duchy
well guess what? there's been no Holy Roman Emperor for like 20 fucking years now! like literally since the start of the dang game! ahhhh!
Maybe it's too early in the morning, but this is the first time I've seen a
game and gone "nah, that's too much bullshit for me to keep track of."
I know you can get too old for the shooty shooty bang zoom kind of games, but am I now too old for spreadsheet games? I spent probably hundreds of hours in 3 and 4 and yet have 0 interest in checking out 5. What is happening to me?
same, I haven't tried any of the newer games; breeder kings 3, communitoria 3 or blobropa colonialis 5.
i love slow and intricate single player sim/strategy games but every time i've tried to play one "game" of paradox I haven't been able to "finish" (make it to the end of the timeline) before they release some expansion that makes old saves unplayable.
i've tried to play eu4 many many times and tried to get little sugar islands in the caribbean or tried to make an asian country survive against the western devils and just can't make it to the 1700s
I enjoyed stellaris but I tried a game of theirs similar to this complexity (Vicky 3 I think?), had my brain rotated with the tutorial's complexity, and noped out.
Maybe if I'd been drawn to spreadsheet games like this when I was younger I'd have more patience, but nope, ain't nobody got time for this.