Europa Universalis V just got a huge trailer showcasing how the game will work. The series has accompanied PC gamers for years now, and this fifth installment is truly epic. Sometimes the only thing one needs to do to make a franchise good is merely repeating what worked before and adding some small yet impactful twists that makes the experience feel new. Oftentimes however, developers seem to fail doing so because they go overboard with changes that nobody requested, when you look at Pokémon for example, you realize the entire game has ceased to exist, the identity died with Sword and Shield.
Europa Universalis V is more of the same
This is a good thing because people often tend to gravitate to whatever is familiar, and if you wanna get someone into the series they should come into a series that is stable. Many cases and examples we have in the video game industry of game series that tried to shift genres only to receive some major backlash that either made them lose a lot of money or made them broke altogether. Consistency is a key to success yet new ideas aren’t being developed for new IPs, new IPs are risky, so people often put mechanics that make no sense in popular games to justify the mechanic.
Europa Universalis V cuts with that perception, and keeps things the same as the previous games, by adding some more twists like new mechanics to the population system. Players love exploiting systems like this and oftentimes the best moments in strategy games come from the fact that exploits can happen, like in early Civilization titles where you can overflow the peace-fullness variable to create some weird situations such as Gandhi threatening to release nuclear bombs and end the world. Europa Universalis V can be purchased on Steam right now.
