Where it differs from its grand strategy siblings is in its setting (roughly, the period between the Napoleonic wars and World War 2, centred on the back half of the nineteenth century), and in its strategic focus. In a nutshell, though: Victoria 3 is one of those Paradox games where you're playing as a nation, on a great big map. To the extent where, rather than spend the whole of this post barfing out paragraph after paragraph of mechanics descriptions, I'll urge you to get it from the strategy horse's mouth, and watch what was just shown at PDXCON. As such, as joyless as it sounds, I can't really riff on the Vicky 3 thing much further than I already have - I can only really look at what I've seen of the game so far (a one hour presentation by its development team), and treat it as something new and unfamiliar.
Being more into medieval and early modern stuff, I never actually played the Victoria games, and so consequently I haven't really got any emotional investment in them. This one has caught me out a bit, I'll admit. Hence the shouts of "Vicky 3!", which have gotten more and more memeified as the odds of Victoria 3 actually getting made have dwindled.
VICTORIA 2 MEMES SERIES
And needless to say, fans of the series don't like to let Paradox forget this.
VICTORIA 2 MEMES FULL
You see, Paradox maintains a quartet of big, complex historical strategy series - Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria, and Hearts Of Iron - which each abut each others' time periods in an extremely satisfying fashion, so that players can experience a full millenium of human history in excruciating, day-by-day detail.īut while Crusader, Europa and Hearts have all had new versions in the last few years, their poor idustrial age cousin has been languishing since the release of Victoria 2 in 2010, without even any DLC since 2013. There is a running joke, every time Paradox Development Studio says it will announce a new game, and it goes like this: "Vicky 3!" That's the joke.
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