Its mostly bad, but my alt history brain needs an outlet
It’s most boring of flag PDX games. Their strenght was always the long term prolonged games when you could do anything, like conquer entire world as Cherokee or something like that. HoI is nothing like this.
But map color go VROOOOM
Yeah, no other PDX game have so fast map colouring. Fun fact: blobbing always cause incredible butthurt among the PDX forum crowd except HoI where the game is way too short to have any after conquest problems, and surprisingly Imperator Rome, where 2/3rds of interesting start positions is blocked by huge default blobs that will annihilate you.
The hoi4 community is absolute cancer, but the game is fine imo. It’s enjoyable in a healthy way, but the moment you start considering yourself a “hoi4 player” it’s over, much like for people who identify as “redditors”.
when it comes to mods, it can be fun if you don’t take it seriously. Yeah, most people who make these are completely politically and historically illiterate (communist mussolini because he was a socialist for like 15 minutes goes brrrr), but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a fun playthrough.
Yeah, the TL;DR is that the game and its mods are nice. Just don’t approach it thinking it is anything more than a game.
