Due to its agent-focused gameplay, where each little person in the world’s desires and actions are being simulated and acted out constantly, it is regularly pulling a player’s focus across wide spans of space in microscopic detail.
Crusader Kings 3 offers a playable map that extends across a significant portion of Asia, a large chunk of Africa, and all of Europe. I have to admit that my first thoughts about playing this game on console was an absolute, unvarnished skepticism that this would be a good use of anyone’s time.
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It is perhaps surprising that Crusader Kings 3, the newest entry in the series that launched on Windows PC in 2020, is coming to consoles - PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X - on March 29. It’s complicated and baroque, with dozens of fiddly subsystems, and takes hours to learn. These grand strategy role-playing games task players with guiding a dynasty of rulers down through the ages through diplomacy, statecraft, the manipulation of the weird legal system of the Middle Ages, and a little bit of backstabbing and intrigue. It seems Paradox was so concerned with attracting their shiny new console audience, that they didn’t stop to consider whether they even needed to.The Crusader Kings games are titans of PC gaming. Though the game plays much smoother on consoles than I thought it would and it makes nice use of the next-gen hardware features, the sheer lack of content means I’m very unlikely to choose this over the PC version. This means you cannot change the text to a readable size for your flatscreen TV, which leaves the game barely playable for larger screens or bigger rooms. Multiple sections have been needlessly reorganized into new locations making it very difficult to find the menu you’re looking for and even though 99% of the game is text, there are absolutely no customization settings. Though Paradox have added radial dials for several of the menus in an attempt to streamline the gameplay experience, others are left to clutter up the screen endlessly. On the surface, the UI seems no different from the PC version. However, this pales in comparison to my biggest issue with this port – the user interface. Now, there are fewer opportunities for creative play as I have no control over the composition of my character, which has really discouraged me from spending more time with the console version. I enjoyed role-playing all different kinds of characters and watching their offspring’s genetic evolution over the generations. A key element of my gameplay revolved around creating weird and wonderful people in the Ruler Designer. The character search tool has vanished and there is no character creator to be seen, which for me is a fatal flaw that cannot be recovered from. This misunderstanding of their audience means that the console versions are missing several features that I considered to be fundamental to the game. While their core fanbase will always be more concerned with historical accuracy, border gore, and map painting, the rest of us prefer playstyles focusing on the role-play and character aspects of the game. It seems to me that Paradox has an outdated view of their players. This means you have no access to the new Royal Court and if you were hoping to dress your ruler in the latest fashions from the Abbasid Court, you’d better cough up the extra money for the Royal Edition. In true Paradox fashion, the console version is the most basic missing most of the DLCs, although it does seem like the content from the Northern Lords pack has been integrated into the base game. Since I have the nasty habit of pausing time every time I need to concentrate, this was a welcome addition for me. It’s not all bad though, as the new touchpad timing controls make controlling your gameplay speed easier than ever before. It feels clunky and unintuitive so it takes a long time to memorize, important information isn’t easily accessible so decisions are much harder to make, and maneuvering between windows requires a doctorate. Although the all-new gamepad support system was designed from the ground up, it sadly falls pretty flat. Unfortunately, a menu-focused game like Crusader Kings 3 doesn’t lend itself well to the handheld control scheme used by consoles.
This makes managing the mental health of your character much more of a challenge as there’s simply no way to determine how stressed they are at any given moment, despite how often the numerical values come into play. As of yet, I’m still unable to find its new location so I have to presume it’s either gone or hiding from me personally.
Though the reactive stress mechanics are great, Paradox has made the strange choice to remove the stress meter from its usual position in the bottom left corner.
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