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[bryanfran36]

The Blue Sky is gone; the Yellow Sky will rise

In this year of jiazhi, there will be prosperity under Heaven.

 

[giodan]

It's one of the reasons why CA abandoning the game stings so much. Because frankly? Three Kingdoms is a good game.

Not without its flaws sure but it's just a solid game overall.

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I think that is why. I mean the DLC was really bad no? I bet some boss said that to spend more money after that wolud be a waste.

 

[Leviticusrex]

I think that is why. I mean the DLC was really bad no? I bet some boss said that to spend more money after that wolud be a waste.

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I believe Tw3k was a project that was a victim of all of that stupid behind the scenes bullshit with the Hyenas project.

 

[ShogunTrooper]

I think that is why. I mean the DLC was really bad no? I bet some boss said that to spend more money after that wolud be a waste.

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Eight Princes is apparently considered by many players to be a waste of money, since it adds nothing, and is, as far as I understood it from a cursory reading on things at least, Chinese history isn't my strongsuit, pretty much about the death of a short-lived Dynasty, and the beginning of what is essentially a dark age (in the sense of "things are bad" not "we don't have records") for Imperial China, rather than the decline of one Imperial Dynasty and the rise of a new one in the base game, on top of adding nothing new in terms of units, as they still use the same roster as the base game, while being about a bunch of new characters nobody really cares about.

Unlike, say, Caesar In Gaul and Empire Divided, where the former, even though it doesn't add any new units, or at least none that aren't just a color swap and added to other factions like the Roman Auxiliaries, it offers a unique experience with new mechanics centered around, well, Caesar's campaign in Gaul and his rivalry with Vercingetorix, being situated entirely within Gaul, while the latter shows Rome right at the beginning of its decline in the Crisis of the Third Century, with all new unit rosters and unique factions, several of which being basically factions from Attila in their earlier incarnation, such as the Sassanids, Saxons, and Goths (which haven't yet split into the Ostrogoths and Visigoths yet).

Or, for a better comparison, Age of Charlemagne for Attila. The Roman Empire is gone (at least in the Westt. There is the Theme of Sicily, a province of the Byzantine Empire, that exists as an unplayable faction and has so. many. mods. to make it playable), and the DLC's narrative is about the rise and consolidation of what would later be the kingdoms of Medieval (Western) Europe, such as Saxon England, Muslim Spain, and, of course, the Carolingian Empire.

Even Mandate of Heaven, whose period is the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which only has a few remnants in the main campaign and doesn't add any new units either, iirc, has that setup appeal, as this is where all the notables of the era, such as the tyrant Dong Zhuo, get their start, and the ball for the decline of the Han Dynasty and the later conflict gets rolling. Think of it as having an A Song of Ice and Fire game, taking place at the time of the books, and making a campaign about Robert's Rebellion campaign, and you get the idea, to do the cringy thing and compare history to a Fantasy IP.