Europa Universalis V: Official Announcement Trailer

Huh, they actually went with the meme.
- Men leaving a metaphorical trail is different to me from painting the map. They was showed a journey, an individual not an empire.
  
  "painting with the sharp reds of revolution"
  "never before has the canvas stretched so far"
  yeah no
- this unironically makes me wonder if there are any games with the gameplay being just painting a wall, especially since I know there is that House Flipper game
  
  Isn't Powerwash Simulator kinda that, just in reverse?

I'm stoked! I watched a gameplay review by someone I trust, and they were super excited, so I'm genuinely excited as well.
The one thing that worries me is they weren't allowed to show anything after 1500 or so. This could be because the game isn't fleshed out after that time, or that they want players to experience it themselves. I really hope it's the latter.
Regardless, it looks like a fresh take on the EU franchise. I'm sure there will be ways to cheese the new game, but it looks like they fundamentally changes a lot of the systems that used to be abused.
I'm probably not getting it day 1, but I might get it close to release. I usually wait for the first DLC before jumping in for Paradox games, but this might be an exception.
Edit: Here's the landing page, which shows specific dates for behind the scenes stuff:
2025-05-15 Behind The Scenes #1The Early Days
2025-05-22 Behind The Scenes #2Building The Game
2025-05-29 Behind The Scenes #3The Grandest of GSG's
2025-06-05 Behind The Scenes #4The Nitty Gritty
2025-06-12 Behind The Scenes #5The Music
So I'm guessing we're going to see a release around the end of that, so mid-June?
- Was it Laith's video? I just finished watching it and he said that it will be a great game if they fix all the bugs. Asking paradox to release a game that isn't buggy is pretty scary. But it does look like an amazing game and not just a stripped down version of the game that came before it (like vic 2/3 and ck 2/3)
  
  Florry worry.
  Laith was in the announcement video, so I wanted another perspective. In typical florryworry fashion, he looked at it from the perspective of min/maxing, and he was pretty excited about the variety of options available.

I am so excited for this, finding this post made my day.

Good moment to ask how is Victoria 3

Hey look! It's DLC Seller 5! Can't wait to buy more DLC.
- With their more recent games they have gotten less bad with their dlc, the base games seem a lot more feature rich (I could easily play stellaris, vic 3 and ck3 without feeling like I am missing parts of the game. With eu4, the dlc seem necessary). They will definitely release too much dlc, but it probably (hopefully) won't be required like in eu4
  
  Roads to Power DLC is so WHAT THE FUCK completely different game.

Oh, guess I don't have to worry about catching up on all the dlc I've missed!

Please don't fuck it up Please don't fuck it up Please don't fuck it up Please don't fuck it up Please don't fuck it up Please don't fuck it up _{they're gonna fuck it up}
Although so far I haven't heard many negative things, from journalists or youtubers. But I also didn't hear many negative things about civ7 before launch...

I saw some videos. I don't want to have to spend the first one hundred years slowly dying while fending off the plague.
Also apparently you can't no CB in the hre. What is life even?