bro...your game reviews are too long. Maybe you should split your review and gameplay footage to separate videos. Cause I think the younger generations lack attention span. They will find it boring if a game review is too long. Try to limit a game review to 5 minutes. Gameplay is a different thing as it shows the game being played. I must comment you do have a lot of knowledge about gaming industry and give a lot of insights into a game and it's developer and so on. Good job and keep it up.

Hi. Thank you for your feedback. I used to do just that with What Is videos. But I decided to do first impressions because I wanted the game to do the talking as much as me. TB (Total Biscuit) does pretty long videos too. I put my max to 30 minutes with some exceptions.

But I think it is a good idea to perhaps also have a TLDR version or condensed version too. Definitely something I can think about. It's just whether I have the time to cut it and produce it. Thank you for your compliment and feedback.

This post has been edited by frags: Jun 20 2016, 06:34 PM

Part 8 and 9 of my Stellaris Space Cat Let's Play is up and I nearly lost. I wasn't prepared for war. So I rethought my plans and prepared my fleets to defend our borders. And then I found new friends that hated my enemy. We had a common enemy. My objective from now on is to build an alliance with these friends. Check out my videos below...

Wow, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron IV! I bought them but haven't gotten into playing them Too busy coding and blogging. =.=

How do you find them compared to say, CKII and EUIV?

Stellaris to me is perhaps the easiest Paradox game to get into. Yes it's a lot more basic. But then again... CK2 and EU4 has had a tonne of DLCs. So the base version is great but seems light on stuff. I'm just a spoilt Paradox fan, so perhaps for most people that aren't they wont feel that way... but you... will probably notice the dearth in strategy. Give it an expansion or two. It'll be golden. Dont get me wrong I still think the base game is a good foundation but it cant compare to those classics.

HoI4 and HoI in general is very different from CK2 and EU4. HOI4 is perhaps the most approachable version of the HOI games yet... but that doesn't mean it's easy to get into. To me the challenge is in understanding the concept of production and how supplies flow... logistics. I think battleplans are such an inspired inclusion, they totally by its own have turned HoI from a micromanagement nightmare, into a game of grand epic war maneuvers. Brilliant... but you need to commit to learning it a bit. Not as terrible as HoI 3... which I called in my Hoi 4 video as a' Bureaucracy Simulator'.


On another note... apparently both these games have been doing rather well for Paradox. Perhaps better than anything else they have produced.

PS: But seriously though. Do't over analyse it. I'm sure you'll enjoy them both. They are both very good games.

This post has been edited by frags: Jun 23 2016, 05:54 PM

The galaxy gets a bit smaller with many more alien civilizations surrounding me. Need to up my game. Also beginning to see the seams of Stellaris. Basically, the game needs more content mid game. It's been said before I know, but I experience it in this playthrough. So much so I was tempted to start a war just to have something exciting happen. I decided against it as it would be suicide. Probably will record my thoughts end of this week.