>>269939
HoI4 is stupidly easy to play to learn, but it's just reddit memes like CK3 now so I'd never suggest it to someone who didn't play it before PDX ruined it. The otder HoI games are autism incarnate, you have to learn orders of battle and logistics and the game's controls don't even make sense.
For example:
>Chile (a country who was not involved in WW2 and has been irrelevant beyond helicopter memes since the 50s): can make "native uprisings" across the entire western hemisphere to make puppets out of every nation there (including the US and Canada) via getting Pinochet (who was an army captain at the time) as Sapa Inca (Inca Emperor), and gets a +50% attack bonus to every nation with tank divisions against majors (ie the US) if on core territory (all of the Americas)
>Japan (a key member of the Tripartite Pact who was so strong of an opponent the strongest nation on Earth had to split the atom to put it down): Can't do Pearl Harbor (isn't modeled in the game at all), and has to choose between 2 historical things in the naval tree, between building the Yamato or having more air sorties
There's no easy way in for the rest of PDX's library anymore, they're either clunky and 15 years old or full of reddit memes that ruin the experience (and cost $300+ in dlc).
>>269949
The problem is the lack of games that are
worth playing anymore, everything is either live service slop, has a bunch of security issues via anticheat
or is made by people that I morally despise (and have said they don't want my money due to this). I wish Jagex weren't retards.
>>269976
>cuffs ass pic
This does bad things to me