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Paradox?

• distortionfield 3y ago
  This was gonna be my answer. Paradox has been putting out solid sim games for a while and they’ve only been getting better.
  • jcranmer 3y ago
    My sense is that, for example, the reception of EU4 expansions has generally ranged from lukewarm to absolutely terrible over the past few years, so I'm not sure "they've only been getting better."
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• noirbot 3y ago
  Yea, it feels like you move into that smaller studio zone. Paradox, Firaxis, even something like Supergiant. Places that have ups and downs, but generally make a specific sort of thing, get paid for it, and move on to the next thing.
• philwelch 3y ago
  Paradox (the studio) has been going downhill recently. Of the games they’ve released since 2016, Imperator: Rome struggled at launch and has since been completely abandoned and Victoria 3 was a massive disappointment. That leaves Crusader Kings 3, which is good but still lacks a lot of stuff from Crusader Kings 2. Paradox (the publisher) has had a couple of rough launches recently too. I was really looking forward to Cities: Skylines 2 except it launched with absolutely unplayable performance issues. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Infinite is little more than a half baked reskin of Stellaris. Paradox is also one of the worst offenders when it comes to DLC. Actually buying the full version of any single Paradox game could cost upwards of a hundred dollars. That was fine when the base version of the game at release time was already good but recently that’s not consistently the case.