![]() ![]() ![]() Crusader Kings 3 left me so dumbfounded I teamed up with my brother (who was as confused as I was), and we spent an entire evening together trying to figure out the basic mechanics. Let me find my way, even if that means scrambling around in the dark and screaming into the void. I see it as an extra level of difficulty, like how I tried to destroy a thresher maw in Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition with only a hand cannon pistol. Include pop-ups that I can read, or let me go totally off-grid and click it off the screen with barely a glance. Give me a choice to follow or ignore the tutorial. I’ve never been a fan of hand-holding games with tutorials that take up 30 minutes of gameplay. I discovered Paradox Interactive and its library of strategy games so complicated I’d soon find myself shouting at the screen, “Why won’t you work!” “What’s happening?!” and questioning my level of intelligence. It became less of a challenge in Civilization 6, and frustrated with the lacklustre NPC AI I fell down the strategy game rabbit hole on Steam. Civ 4 and 5 were high points for the franchise for me. I was a fan of the Civili z ation series for years. READ MORE: Creative Assembly on the past, present and future of ‘Total War: Warhammer 3’. ![]() These games have been built to be overly complicated – a fact I find incredibly frustrating, but it also makes me love playing them even more. However much love I have for these games, every time I log in and load them up, I feel like i’m on a knife edge, not sure if i’ll end up rage quitting, uninstalling forever or lobbing my laptop across the room. Now, my Steam library is bursting with games like Stellaris, Europa Universalis 4 and Surviving Mars. Or I was attempting to conquer those pesky Gauls in Total War: Rome. Since the millennium, I’ve been destroying my mates methodically constructed towns in Sim City 3000. Strategy games have always been a favourite of mine. ![]()
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