I used to play a lot of strategy games, mainly historical or space themed. While surfing the forums of a niche space 4x, I read a comment about a fella who didn't like the game and was going to wait for "Stellaris". I immediately started looking for it. I liked it, then moved on to Eu4 and others.
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My assistant debate coach was not the hardest working guy in the world: he spent most of the time on his computer doing anything not debate related. I was intrigued with a game on his screen at one point, involving some medieval strategy game. Looked into it, quite liked it, but then forgot about it. Couple months later looked it up again, found it had a WW2 counterpart called, "Hearts of Iron 3"....
And so went thousands of hours of my life.
And so went thousands of hours of my life.
I used to play a lot of wargames via email, one day my opponent on The Russian Campaign brought up this game where you had to coordinate the time of your attacks, including paradrops timing and all kind of logistic nightmares (HoI2), I gave it a look and fell down the rabbit hole.
Two days after I downloaded steam I was looking through the strategy category and I discovered the gaming company that has to this very day occupied most of my free time. The first game I bought was Supreme Commander 2 which I didn't really enjoy as compared to the next game I bought...
I'm incredibly happy with the fact I found that game randomly and decided to purchase it having never really played a Grand Strategy Game before I was completely lost and confused. I decided a week later to buy Victoria I & II, and then I bought EU III and all the DLC. So basically I've become a strategy game junkie and it's all the fault of Paradox for making the best games I've ever played. I've played over 2200+ hours of their titles, of which I regret none. I'm confident that Paradox has eaten more of my wallet and time than any other game company, although Paradox is by far my favorite company in the gaming industry.
TL;DR: I decided randomly around when I was fourteen two days after getting Steam "oh hey this hearts of iron game looks pretty cool..." and then decided a week later, "oh they made another game called victoria 2 I wonder what that's like.."
I'm incredibly happy with the fact I found that game randomly and decided to purchase it having never really played a Grand Strategy Game before I was completely lost and confused. I decided a week later to buy Victoria I & II, and then I bought EU III and all the DLC. So basically I've become a strategy game junkie and it's all the fault of Paradox for making the best games I've ever played. I've played over 2200+ hours of their titles, of which I regret none. I'm confident that Paradox has eaten more of my wallet and time than any other game company, although Paradox is by far my favorite company in the gaming industry.
TL;DR: I decided randomly around when I was fourteen two days after getting Steam "oh hey this hearts of iron game looks pretty cool..." and then decided a week later, "oh they made another game called victoria 2 I wonder what that's like.."
Longtime strategy boardgame and CIv fan. And then somehow found out about EUI. How exactly, can't remember. But since I've been on the forum since 2001, it must have been around then... Then played pretty much everything since.
Knights of honor. Pirate edition, I was a kid back then 
got me hooked in the long run though.
got me hooked in the long run though.
Dont remember really well how I found paradox games but I remember I was amazed by HoI 2 around 10 years ago then I got into Darkest Hour, EU4 and so on till I`ve played the most important titles .
My introduction came when I was in Swedish high school. Have always been into strategy games and recieved a free copy of EU2 from an issue of PC Gamer. I was blown away, both by the complexity and sheer inaccessability of it, but also the potential for endless scenarios.
HoI3 got me into PDX games.
I was literally in the mood for, "I want to learn a complicated game." HoI3 was on steam at the time, had great reviews, was cheap, and looked confusing as hell. So i got it, put my mind to learning it and I ended up loving it. Snagged CK2 on sale due to glowing reviews and it was by the same studio that made HoI3. Fell in love with it too, been addicted to PDX games ever since.
I was literally in the mood for, "I want to learn a complicated game." HoI3 was on steam at the time, had great reviews, was cheap, and looked confusing as hell. So i got it, put my mind to learning it and I ended up loving it. Snagged CK2 on sale due to glowing reviews and it was by the same studio that made HoI3. Fell in love with it too, been addicted to PDX games ever since.
Skyrim led me to Mount and Blade, and I think that because I had that game in my library Steam recommended CK2 to me. I bought the game on impulse, knowing nothing about it, and haven't looked back since.
I started with the Total War series. Two of my friends had gotten CK2 and they always seemed to be having fun. I refused to get it because of the massively growing DLC list but I finally got some extra money and cracked so I finally bought it. Then I expanded out from there.
I didn't like how Eurocentric Civilization and Total War are, so I left and got into Europa Universalis 3.
I haven't played a Total War game since Shogun 1, and PDS games make me unable to enjoy the Civ games. Last I played was Civ4. Even Age of Empires isn't as fun as it used to be. Microsoft should sue PDS for loss of revenue.
I was a Sid Meier's fan. A friend mentioned Stellaris and I was immediately hooked. After read the forums and introducing my nephew to HoI series. I'm now a fan of the company. Great Job!
I used to play total war games, I loved Empire for the large map and scope and went looking for something similar and better on steam, found Victoria 2.
I was looking through a PC Gamer back in the summer of 2003. Saw an article or review about Victoria 1. Me and my friend thought it looked interesting, so we got it!
I hade played Svea Rike 2 so when I heard about Svea Rike 3 it was a nobrainer to buy it.
Then followed EU, EU2 and HOI.
And here we are 17 years later...
(Svea Rike 2 was developed by Target Games that after a reconstruction kind of became Paradox.)
Then followed EU, EU2 and HOI.
And here we are 17 years later...
(Svea Rike 2 was developed by Target Games that after a reconstruction kind of became Paradox.)
When I was 12 or so I received my first real computer games in the form of Civilization 3 and Civ City Rome, they were bundled together or something, I also received a copy of EU:Rome which unfortunately at the time did not work on my old desktop computer. Fast forward two year or so and I got my first laptop and the first computer I had used that ran Windows 7, and I immediately installed and fell in love with EU:Rome. At the time nothing was more satisfying than uniting the Gallic Tribes and crushing Rome under my heel.
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I only got into Paradox (PDS) games because I started working for PDS..
Funny fact: 2 years before I started at PDS, I said "I would never want to work at Paradox, as they don't create games I ever would play" - Talk about getting smacked in the face with the glory that is the grand strategy games we are developing to the point that I work with our games all day, only to go home and boot up one of our games and play to relax =)
Funny fact: 2 years before I started at PDS, I said "I would never want to work at Paradox, as they don't create games I ever would play" - Talk about getting smacked in the face with the glory that is the grand strategy games we are developing to the point that I work with our games all day, only to go home and boot up one of our games and play to relax =)