Dev diariesĪll developer diaries about Victoria III (base game). In this panel from PDXCON, Game Director Martin Anward and Lead Game Designer Mikael Andersson have a chat about the Design Pillars upon which Victoria 3 is being built.
Accumulate prestige and the respect of your rivals as you build an industrial giant at home or an empire abroad. Increase your economic and military strength at the expense of rivals. Employ threats, military prowess and bluffs to persuade enemies to back down in conflicts. Use your diplomatic wiles to weave a tangled global web of pacts, relations, alliances, and rivalries to secure your diplomatic position on the world stage. Balance employing available labor force with the needs for new types of workers. Secure vital goods to fuel your advanced economy and control the fate of empires. Import cheap raw materials to cover your basic needs while finding new markets for your finished goods. Expand your industry to take advantage of lucrative goods, taxing the profits to improve national prosperity. Research transformative new technology or ideas to improve your national situation. Reform your government and constitution to take advantage of new social innovations, or preserve the stability of your nation by holding fast to tradition in the face of revolutionaries. Detailed population groups with their own economic needs and political desires. Agrarian or Industrial, Traditional or Radical, Peaceful or Expansionist. Lead dozens of world nations from 1836-1936. It's in an awkward position, aged, but still on point with many features. If Victoria II were designed like CK2 and the later games, I'd see the game constantly getting improved and added upon, but it's not. Clauswitz is it and they're only going to improve it, not replace it. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I can see where they're coming from.Īlso, they're not swapping engines any time soon. But the base mechanics are still sound and it's difficult to justify a sequel. Sure, we're not designers here, but with a game so large, it's hard to see large improvements. Everything is just a minor tweak, a few bug fixes, etc. However, that's a bit old and it might have changed.įinally, IIRC, they don't have enough big stuff to require a sequel. Not that we don't try to enlighten them to it's glory, that is.Īfter that, the last I heard they're missing a major point person, a driving force behind the game. I bet a large majority of Paradox game players haven't even heard of Victoria II. I hope you don't mind!įirst of all, the voices calling for Victoria III are probably a vocal minority, so don't think there's a large mass of people clamoring for it. Long story short, posting this here so I can have something to re-direct people to when they ask about it, ahaha. None of this is innately good or bad but every time I see one of these threads, people either act as if VIII will descend from heaven wrapped in garments of light, or is out to personally kill and cannibalise their best friend or something. 
There will be many new rules and gameplay mechanics, some efficient, others - less so, and many will be locked behind DLC. Don't worry, VI, I still love you.īut it'll also be more streamlined, with some powers largely mechanically inert.
These, along with a generally burgeoning interest in the era, will make VIII more of a commercial and critical success than either of its predecessors. It'll be a very good game, very tightly-produced, with many 'quality of life' and convenience improvements that make VII - hard to play, to put it lightly. I do think they'll release a VIII, I'd say within five years. I would be willing to put down money that there are more people that've booted up HoI III and nope'd out of the tutorial than have even installed Victoria II.Īnd now, they are more sensitive than ever to return on investment they can't just produce VIII because they want to. If you look at 'popular' opinion, you're seeing a very flawed and misinformed picture. Well, it's because when you love or hate something, you're more likely to comment on it but the actual people willing to comment on a thing are a minority in the first place, so. Have you ever wondered why there are only loud-mouthed mouthbreathers and fawning sycophants in the review section of game_string_here? This isn't a bash on you, but remember that we're very vocal - but a very vocal minority.
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