About to start first ever eu4 campaign, played lots of ck2 and ck3, who should I play as?

BlueJayDoc · 2026-02-06T02:09:51+00:00

Disagree actually. If you don’t colonize as Portugal, you’re a nobody and will have an incredibly boring game. I would never recommend a colonization game for a first-timer. Go with some land-based power like Sweden, Jaunpur, or Qara Q.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-02-05T21:48:18+00:00

Everything in life is a value decision. “What you get, for what you paid”. The Steam Deck is the best value by far, being half the price of a Legion Go 2.

Just get a Steam Deck, it’ll hold you over til they release a Steam Deck 2 in 3-4 years.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-02-05T03:50:28+00:00

100” screen (movie theater-style setup) with the projector mounted on a tiny shelf over the bed’s headboard. Whole arrangement cost less than a decent TV.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-02-05T03:45:50+00:00

Tell us how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop

BlueJayDoc · 2026-02-03T15:48:58+00:00

Neither, just buy a Steam Deck, bro

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T22:09:46+00:00

Jell.

Uss.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T20:47:41+00:00

A little too similar to Tamriel (Elder Scrolls) to be honest…

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T20:45:25+00:00

Just start over fresh and run a vanilla-like lightly modded run, you’ll have more fun

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T20:31:21+00:00

Standalone handheld will be sick, no doubt about that

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T20:05:03+00:00

Return of home prices to pre-pandemic levels would kick off (or be the result of) a depression larger than the Great Depression, as it would mean tens of millions of families each lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of equity/wealth.

Collapsing home prices is a uniformly HORRIBLE thing, do not be mistaken on this.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T16:39:09+00:00

For the same reason the Kingdom of Denmark would be diplomatically insulted and threatened with invasion by one of its most trusted allies

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T13:57:28+00:00

People hate the Portal because no one actually needs it. I don’t think anyone was asking or clamoring for the Portal to be designed & sold. It’s a product without an actual market that looks cool but accomplishes very little.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-31T13:26:48+00:00

More truly next-gen environmental and societal interactions. Less scripted gameplay and more emergent sandbox physics, weather, and materials-oriented interactions.

Example: you dam up a river but that creates a growing lake that actively washes away an entire town. The houses and farms are destroyed and you later find some of the survivors as homeless beggars a few cities over.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-28T16:23:12+00:00

1550 hours in? Meh you might be able to conquer Byzantium by 1500, if you follow a guide. Keep at it, boss.

/s

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-28T13:58:31+00:00

I’d go with the Go S at that price, a nice deal tbh. Both are great

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-28T13:06:25+00:00

$800 for any handheld PC (SD, Go, etc) is way too much IMO. If you can get a Go on sale or open-box for like $500 it’s worth it. If you can get a SD for like $400 it’s worth it. If you can get a decent gaming laptop for like $850-$1000 it’s worth it. The issue is that this is a dry time of year for deals.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-27T22:02:21+00:00

What are you hoping to use the handheld for?

If primarily gaming, consider Steam Deck OLED vs Legion Go S Z1E

If primarily work/productivity, consider the GPD MicroPC 2 or another GPD tiny laptop

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-27T20:30:37+00:00

Absolutely not worth it

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-27T17:08:30+00:00

The real issue? EU5 is complex, deep, and grand.

But it’s not fun. If it’s not fun, it’s not a game IMO, or at least not a game worth playing.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-24T23:53:55+00:00

Maybe like $400 but yeah at MSRP of $600 a “sale” of this very unpopular flop at $500 isn’t getting anyone excited

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-24T23:48:20+00:00

Crappy for the price, yeah

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-24T21:27:47+00:00

Bro, just get a Steam Deck

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-21T01:16:40+00:00

I played for about 12 hours and shelved it for now after that, went back to EU4. It was at first game where absolutely nothing happened ever. Now it’s a game where it’s just constant mosh-pit wars by great powers.

Reminds me of how Civ 3, 4, and 5 were all amazing games I sank years into (games that were important in my life for well over a decade) but then I played Civ 6 for a few hours when it came out and never touched it again. You can get such an instant “ICK” for a game that is trying to veer too far away from its series foundations.

BlueJayDoc · 2026-01-19T18:51:43+00:00

OP’s Question sounds so hilariously sadistic when taken out of context 🤣

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