[PC] Europa Universalis 3

Unfortunately, yes, I've played this. Fortunately, however, I've been able to control myself so far and not spend 25 hours a day playing, so I could actually do my assignments. From what I've seen so far though, Paradox really improved since the last of their game I played (that would be Doomsday). For one, the game worked out of the box.

The game itself is great too. I don't have time to write a whole essay, but I love the national ideas and the fact you can now hire explorers and conquistadors instead of having to wait for them to show up.

"Deus Vult!" is fun. In EU2, there always was a point where I was just looking for a reason to beat the everliving crap out of some heathens, but just couldn't get a Casus Belli, and didn't want the stability hit. Neighbors aren't a problem, I'm bad at this whole diplomacy thing, so my reputation is always down the drain and my neighbors have a tendency to declare wars on me, solving the whole problem of "how do I declare war on them?". Well, that's how it was in EU2 anyway. My best EU2 game was in the Grand Campaign with France when I got rid of the English, pretty much miraculously, and managed to take Flanders (a CoT) and a few other provinces from a badly damaged Burgundy. At some point, a newly united Spain declared war on me and I also managed to beat them up, and take a shitload of their provinces. Then their government fell, and I reduced Spain to a couple of islands and their capitol. In your face, Louis XIV! Of course, my reputation was pretty much "We are hated throughout the entire world!" by then. Oh well. I think that by the end of that game all of Europe was mine, and my colonial empire was bigger than the British Empire at its height. Napoleon would have been proud.

Jam it back in, in the dark.