I'm looking forward to HOI IV don't get me wrong but I'd be more interested in a cold war game. I'm more of an empire builder than a warmonger I guess.
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That wouldn't work as you think it would. Basically what would happen is world war 1 would break out, and one side would win. after that the rest of the game would either be you controlling everything or another small war versus the usa and then you controlling everything. WW2 and CW would be impossible to simulate.
As long as they make a game that is better than Supreme Ruler Cold War... i would be ecstatic. That game is awful and beyond buggy.
HOI2 Doomsday wasn't the worst game in the world. Sure it wasn't the deepest game in the world either. It's too early to say whether HOI4 will get a much better "timeline extension" with cold war mechanics.
A contact of mine has confirmed it isn't HOI4 as that was already announced, so we can rule that out.
Johan once said PDS would never do a WW1 game (if I remember the quote correctly) so I'm putting it as highly unlikely.
That leaves....."Easter Bunny Egg Laying Simulator EXTREME"
Cold War era game would be quite boring IMO. Just 2 superpowers, no decisive wars, because of MAD and the difficult to simulate service economy.
Think Victoria 2 but in a post WW2 setting. I really really wanted it...
Wait, are you saying there were no wars between 1946 and 1991? Nevermind that a Cold War sim would probably focus on espionage and intrigue rather than fist-in-face fights like the other Clautzwitz games, there are plenty of decisive wars to play through. Just the Americans have a laundry list of wars - Korea, Vietnamn, craploads of conflicts in South America... the Russians also have their own fair share, plus plenty of military crackdowns to keep themselves occupied.
Clautzwitz doesn't have to be a "declare war, get 100% warscore, annex" engine. Wars don't have to mean dramatic shifts in territory. What if the US winning vietnamn reversed the "domino effect" in southeast Asia, which lead to China and Russia responding by mending the sino-soviet split out of fear of the encroachment of the west into "core" communist territory... the possible mechanics and scenarios are endless.
somebody obviously fell asleep during history class... or was not paying attention.
Cold war > WWI
I'd really like to see a HoI IV DLC that expands into the cold war ( It of course has to add quite a bunch of things ).
aside from the steaming crap that is Supreme Ruler Cold War... is there any note cold war era grand strategy game?
Is there any plan to use HOI4 improvements (and build upon them) to make a respectable cold war era game in the future... instead of basically having to deal with a sub std product.
Is there any plan to use HOI4 improvements (and build upon them) to make a respectable cold war era game in the future... instead of basically having to deal with a sub std product.
Before the cancellation of EvW I would have told you that there will soon be a cold war game that will be really good and the best cold war game out there (which is not too difficult with the only competition being supreme ruler cold war). It is not probable that HoI4 will get a cold war DLC because the times were just so different, a cold war game needs mechanics which are not needed in WW2, the same is true the opposite way as well. But it is highly probable that Paradox will use ideas from HoI4 if they were to make a cold war game in the future which I think will happen just not yet, probably before 2020.
But EvW was by all accounts done. Its just that the game "didnt meet a certain criteria". This mysterious criteria is what killed it. So if its physically not possible to make a cold war game as some say, what was wrong with EvW?
Forget they were late, mis management or anything else. The game was done, they even out a date out for it so it was 99% complete. So it must be possible.
Forget they were late, mis management or anything else. The game was done, they even out a date out for it so it was 99% complete. So it must be possible.
Yes! A new grand strategy finally!
So far i would not hope to have a cold war DLC for HoI IV, because so far HoI IV seems super simplified streamlined for new gamers who have not attended history classes. While WW2 maybe works on that kind of engine, Cold War game would not. Cold War requires very complex game, complex diplomacy etc. etc. One does not simply make Cold War game simple.
I rather hope for mix of Victoria/Hearts of Iron or Modern World game right now.
And WW1 game would be interesting to release this year 2014, because WW1 started 1914 so this year it is exactly 100 years since.
Yeah, it really was possible. Come on, we didn´t even get a reason for the cancellation of EvW...
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