Recent reviews by Butt

genuinely the best city sim i've played

umazing

I like this expansion. The free update fixes a LOT of QoL issues, and the power blocs are really fun. The foreign investment stuff is REALLY good, it's about time. I can actually make other countries produce enough goods for me to trade with!

Also, the great game is genuinely very fun.

made the game 1000x better and i already liked the game a lot so :+1:

Line go up = good, line go down = bad. Game is fun. Must make line go up.

this game makes you a horrible horrible person who commits war crimes

don't forget to install the slavery mod

10/10

this game lets you do some weird and fun ♥♥♥♥

This is a good fighting game. It's a lot of fun. You get to fight as DBZ characters AND the mechanics are good. What more do you need?

this game is really fun but also can suck your soul away be careful

play with mods

I enjoy this game a lot. I love these 4x games that paradox does, and I don't understand where all the hate for this is coming from. This is probably one of the most well executed initial releases in terms of features that paradox has ever done.

First, the flaws:

There are some glaring faults regarding quality of life and the way information is surfaced to the player. Some examples:
- Information regarding the culture of your pops is cumbersome to get to, when it's literally one of the most important metrics in the game.
- There is missing flavour like trade routes spawning units or even being painted on the map.
- The fact you have to build roads one tile at a time seems like a huge oversight to me.

There is again a huge reliance on mana, which doesn't bother me that much but i wish it felt more controlled. Being able to 'buy' mana makes it better, but also feels really weird.

There is very little interesting stuff to do in peacetime.

The Good:

The map is beautiful. I don't need to keep it on political all the time now.

They're also releasing a lot of fixes to the complaints i made in the first patch. Patching is paradox's way, and it's how we ended up with these amazing games in the first place.

Fighting feels really fun. Trade is really fun. The way conquest and civil wars work is really fun. This game is really fun. You get to pretend to be Rome! Or Carthage! Or some random tribe! It's amazing!

The character system has a lot of potential. In fact, the whole game has a lot of potential. It feels like it's lacking things because it is, but unlike what the community would have you believe, this is not just so they can sell it piecewise. Building this stuff takes time, and money. Yes, Paradox has a really odd DLC model in my opinion. I prefer the Ck2 model over the EU4 one, that's for sure. But we've seen games like EU4 and Stellaris change entirely over the course of their run, become better and more fun.

Expecting Imperator to be as polished on release as EU4 is now after years of active development is a very weird stance to take. Give it some time, don't buy it until it's patched to fix your problems if you're worried - but keep checking back to see if it's in a usable state.

And here's a solution to preordering problems: do not preorder your games.