One of the best strategy games’ DLC is half price right now
www.pcgamesn.com
If you love a good grand strategy game, then you should grab Crusader Kings 2 and its DLC on GOG quickly as the base game is free and its DLC is 50% off.
    • tal@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Also, note that CK2, like many Paradox games, has a lot of DLC, and if you get that, you’re going to be paying a pretty penny.

      • CoderKat@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I haven’t played CK2 yet, but if its DLC is like Stellaris or Cities: Skylines, it’s arguably usually worth it. Very expensive when you add it all up and not all DLC is worth it (e.g., the race packs of Stellaris aren’t really that interesting), but for how much play time you’ll get out of the game, it’s pretty great. I regularly think about how often I want to go back to Stellaris lol. Part of the reason I haven’t tried CK2 yet is because I’m pretty confident that I’ll love it and be sucked in for weeks.

        • tal@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I mean, I’m not saying that the game is bad or not worth the money, but the announcement just says, unqualified, “free”, and I just want to make it clear that there are some strings that come with that to people who may not be familiar with the way Paradox sells their games.

  • hazelnot@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Huh? Didn’t they make CK2 free years ago? The article says it’s just the base game too, so I’m really confused.

    • gunnervi@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Some of them are. IMO the best are Way of Life, Holy Fury, Conclave, and Old Gods. If you want to play some who isn’t a Christian King, such as a Christian merchant or pagan/hindu/muslim king, you’ll need to get the expansion for that. Respectively, those are The Republic, The Old Gods or Holy Fury (either will unlock Pagans), Rajas of India, and Sword of Islam. That being said, if you like playing a Christian, Sons of Abraham is worth picking up. Finally, if you’re the type of person who really likes optimizing these sort of games, then you’ll probably want Legacy of Rome, which adds retinues, customizable standing armies that let a skilled player solve the combat system to punch way above their weight

    • Schlock@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Worth pointing out that for all paradox grand strategy games the dlcs are shared during a multiplayer session. So if you play MP only the host needs to own them.

    • Repulsa@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think you would have to really like it to justify the cost of that. Saying that, people spend more on FIFA players or whatever so maybe it’s a steal?

  • thirdorbital@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I never could get into Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis. I generally love grand strategy and play a ton of things like Civilization but for some reason Paradox’s maze of menus and mechanics never seems to click for me.

    • dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      ck isn’t so much grand strategy to me as it is a game of thrones simulator. The game is WAY less fun if you try to play it optimally. Trying to generate a mad syphilitic king who married his horse and is trying to become the leader of a black magic cult is WAY more interesting.

      • hagelslager@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, most of my time I’ve been trying to spawn the child of Satan. (Monks & Mystics expansion)