OBEY - PRE-ORDER - CONSUME - DO NOT THINK: millennia.paradoxinteractive.com/PotatoMcWhiskey

@sintanan469

3 ай бұрын

I do not pre order.

@betin731

3 ай бұрын

Yes... spudlord... will... pre-order...

@archindar5665

3 ай бұрын

AFTER I PREORDERED I STARTED THINKING, i canceled my preorder at that point.

@elonwhatever

3 ай бұрын

BAD spud BAD

@jokehr3955

3 ай бұрын

I feel oddly compelled to consume.

51:38 - "I wish i could rename that" Me: Immediately notices that pencil button next to the city name in it's info panel... (Without knowing if the function is fully implemented)

@willcaine1208

3 ай бұрын

😂 When I saw he changed it I LOL'd hard

@ivantumanov1015

2 ай бұрын

Dont forget noticing the little campfire button when he asks for a button that makes the unit wait for the next turn.

Every new game that comes out you literally cant stop playing, then you actually stop to play it

@greedowins2917

3 ай бұрын

He is in a superposition!

@JacobusNr1

3 ай бұрын

Lol this is very accurate.

@Cruor34

2 ай бұрын

LOL the most hilarious part of this comment is the full release has been out 3 days and he is already tired of the games flaws. Now he isn't WRONG about those flaws, I agree. But I didn't say "I can stop playing this game, it's so good" No, the new ideas are indeed very interesting. For a day. Then you see all the flaws as you pass turn 150ish.

@Kingcloudii

16 күн бұрын

he gets paid to play them, then the money runs out and he stops playing it lol

I love watching you play games that you don't fully understand and seeing you explore the mechanics in real time, it's absolutely facinating

@IKerensky

3 ай бұрын

You misspelled Frustrating....

@DeeevTV

3 ай бұрын

@@IKerenskyCompare him to sips!

@Elidan1012

3 ай бұрын

that's all about mindset@@IKerensky

By the way Ctrl+click on any button (like an ability or improvement) will set a reminder for when you have enough resources.

If you haven't tried the +1 culture initial civ bonus, it's pretty crazy. It allows you to ride the +50% yields bonus culture power for a while early game. Focus on getting 2 base science and improvement points per turn early on to get those yields to 3. Your infrastructure gets crazy.

Yall let Potato get paid. He has given ua hundreds of hours of entertaining videos for no cost to us. Let him make his bag on this elongated commercial. Go get it Potato.

Honestly, I think this game is really interesting in its 4X approach. Super interesting resource and growth/settling mechanics. Not a huge fan of some of the UI elements, feels like it was designed for mobile (too big and bubbly for my liking, I think they should’ve made it look more like Civ 5 UI) but the game has a lot of potential!

Every age adding gradually new game mechanics is really interesting!

The way luxury/goods work here is an interesting take on the ANNO formula, just without worrying about logistics.

Paradox? Yeah, I'll wait a few months then check reviews

@frankiecedeno3724

3 ай бұрын

It’s a brand new IP from a relatively new studio that’s also pretty small. If it’s $40 it’s more than reasonable even if it’s not 100% of a game. 4x is such a static genre that it’s nice to see people trying at all.

@arandomuser6665

3 ай бұрын

@@frankiecedeno3724 counterpoint: Paradox

@bandaro1234

3 ай бұрын

@@frankiecedeno3724 They already announced DLC for nuclear power, and it's not even released game yet, so this small IP actually learned Paradox tricks pretty quickly

@pallingtontheshrike6374

3 ай бұрын

@@frankiecedeno3724what not playing indie games does to your brain

@frankiecedeno3724

3 ай бұрын

@@bandaro1234 and maybe it’s entirely reasonable we don’t know until the game is out and people are actually playing

Love that Paradox saw Humankind sort of flop and said "no, it's ok, we got it, ssh, go back to endless legend"

@Hamstorian

3 ай бұрын

Yeah Humankind was an ABSOLOUTE Civilization Rip-Off, alot of the games are.

@therexbellator

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say HMK flopped, I think it was a modest success considering the support its received. Also HMK was published by Sega not Paradox.

@IKerensky

3 ай бұрын

Well at least Humankind try something new, Paradox just took Civilisation IV a pair of scissor and decide it invented something because it reorganised the techtree in tiny bits and move the worker assignement on a special screen...

@cyberiankorninger1025

3 ай бұрын

I like the game concepts in this game way more than Humankind they just would have needed some cash from PDX and an added year for better graphics/art/presentation. As they did not this feels too barebones and cheap.

@velyurong9513

3 ай бұрын

@@IKerensky I mean, Civ IV still kicks ass, so that's definitely not a downside (not in my book anyway) Also, resource chains and the absence of doomstacks (through unit limitation) are rather nice. I saw implementations of similar concepts in Civ IV mods, but Millenia gives it a new spin, and that's appreciated

Wait wait wait. "Converts rice into wine"? Are you saying they put sake in this game? Well, damn. Count me in.

@robertnomok9750

3 ай бұрын

sake is not wine. its a weak rice vodka

2:51:01 France founded Islam in Nice. My sides are in orbit. You can't make this shit up.

@cyberiankorninger1025

3 ай бұрын

Historical authentic PDX game :)

@GestaltCipher

3 ай бұрын

@@cyberiankorninger1025 it's not a PDX game

@GestaltCipher

3 ай бұрын

Standard stuff in a 4x. Civ V had the same kind of religion starting mechanic. Humankind would just magic you into another civilization with all its art every new age.

@jira6423

3 ай бұрын

That happens in civ 6 and civ 5 too

It's mind-blowing how many of the comments under this video are just people complaining about you playing a game that's not finished yet that they can pre-order if they want to. I mean it's not like this is the exact brand of game you play on this channel pretty much all the time so I would expect you to end up playing this at some point anyways but it's not like you're telling people to go out and pre-order the goddamn thing. You're literally just playing it and you've even made it abundantly clear that you've been paid for the time spent playing it, just because you're paid for your time doesn't mean you're paid to say the game's good or to try to convince other people to buy it. It's not like you're giving a review on the damn thing and beyond that you've even criticized several aspects of it so I'd say you're being pretty fair. Making a video saying Hey guys so this game exists or is being made and the company making it paid me to play it for a little while so I did here's some gameplay footage and some of my opinions about it just doesn't feel like some kind of glowing review or advertisement to convince people to pre-order it at least not in my opinion. The game seems pretty fun now I'm definitely not going to pre-order because I've never pre-ordered anything because I'm not willing to but I'll keep an eye out for when it gets released now that I know it exists.

@neonmoose315

3 ай бұрын

Personally I dont have anything against Potato Iove his videos. What I am fed up about is Paradox’s inability to make a good game and their scammy business model. All of their new releases suck. The only successfull new release was Crusader Kings which stayed dormant for 4 years finally getting the plague dlc which at this point I dont even care about. I played their games for thousands of hours and seeing how both their design and pricing sucks the only reason they are still relevant is that there isnt a game with the same scope. I believe paradix is going to fall off just like Maxis when someone releases a game like what CS was to SimCity.

@Da__goat

3 ай бұрын

The problem isn’t Potato, the problem is Paradox

@GestaltCipher

3 ай бұрын

​@@neonmoose315the devs of this game aren't PDX. PDX is just the publisher. Actual content/bugs/etc is being made by different people, the indie studio who came up with this game and made a deal with Paradox for publishing.

@CidTheDude

3 ай бұрын

@@neonmoose315 I Don't Know Jack schitt about the company Ben Franklin I don't care that much about the company, people can dislike the company all they would like but I'm talking about the people who are leaving comments that legit read like they are mad at potato for even having played this game and the people who are upset about the fact that he enjoyed his time playing the game. Like feel free to dislike a kind of shity company but that's no reason to come at potato sideways. The dude played a game he would have likely ended up playing at some point anyways except he got paid to play it now and I think that's an incredibly smart fucking decision call Mom dude has bills to pay same as the rest of us. Potato has even spoken out before about how typically he doesn't receive nearly as much money when he does things like this as he should have given how much spread his videos typically end up getting so it's not like you got rich off of making the video and I don't even recall him telling anybody to go pre-order the damn thing so it's not like he's trying to convince people to pre-order it either.

I'm really eager for this game, it's got a lot of interesting design choices that tbh I think the genre needs way more than the whole 'but Civ is prettier' arguments I've seen in some communities. Obviously yea I wish some stuff like the battle screen looked nicer but...hell I've been playing Dominions so maybe I'm just used to kinda clunky looks.

There's something darkly comedic about replacing a Burial Mound with a Trash Heap

battle scene looks like one from those poorly done free mobile game apps, like they literally took it from there and integrate here w/o any changes

@Oosh21

3 ай бұрын

It detracts from the game for no good reason.

@ALifeOfWine

3 ай бұрын

The game in general looks like a modded CivV. The battle scene looks like a modded CivII.

@haukionkannel

3 ай бұрын

Luckily you can togle battle scene off!

You've definitely slept on how busted Forced March is. In the last demo (where it limited you to Iron Age techs), I had managed to use that in conjunction with Raiders in a super-aggressive campaign that allowed me to conquer an 8-player Medium Pangaea world a number of turns before the demo ended.

@piotr7805

3 ай бұрын

I guess it's going to be fixed before release, developers mentioned players conquering maps in 30 turns in demo, and it should be pretty easy to analyze those games to find what's over tuned.

@roguewisdom8742

3 ай бұрын

@@piotr7805 Hopefully they have some way of recording those metrics. As it stands I don't think there's a single unlock in the Raider tree that isn't broken.

I know the game needs more polish but the mechanics are really interesting. A big problem I have with Civ is how it's very "uneven" development because you have food and production and that's basically it for on map stuff and production is so powerful. I like how you get a bit towards everything, workers, settlers, military, etc but can choose where to really specialize in.

@velyurong9513

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget about science though! I'm pretty sure that in Civ (4,5,6 - doesn't matter) great production without adequate science is rather useless. At least in my experience that is Soo, I personally would say that Civ is food + production + science (and other parameters that surely exist but aren't as relevant). I see your point about "uneven"ness though - and I agree with you. Just thought that it's production+science that is OP, and production alone isn't that great 🤔

@WWFanatic0

3 ай бұрын

@@velyurong9513 In civ 5 science was king for sure, but in 6 it's been production. You just never come close to having enough nor will you have enough gold to compensate. High tech with lack of production means you struggle to build what you need to capitalize on the benefits of that tech. This is one of the problems civ has that millennia might improve on. Having multiple ladders and systems that all provide short and long term value gives you a lot more dynamism.

@velyurong9513

3 ай бұрын

@@WWFanatic0 thank you for this insight! I haven't played a lot of Civ 6, I must admit, so that's an interesting take to hear 🤔. My opinion was/is influenced by a youtuber that's used to say something along these lines: "in Civ 5 you can actually defend yourself from cannons with knights, and with muskets/cannons/siamese elephants from artillery - but in Civ 6 you can't do that due to power scaling". So that's why I was thinking science is a big factor there (if you're behind, you auto-lose)

Early video: "Our people are pious crusaders who solemnly inter their dead in sacred burial mounds." Late video: "We have replaced our sacred burial mounds with literal piles of garbage"

@Nickunparalleled

3 ай бұрын

Too realistic a Sim, huh? 😂

Crashed my computer trying to figure out how much money Potato could have saved by spending one of those culture actions so he didn't have to keep buying out the chaos events

@PotatoMcWhiskey

3 ай бұрын

Its only -10 chaos

Yea feels like for optimizing cities, you need to preplan town expansions. With some import and export to maximize, with game added production lines. A district>towns and trade route>production goods overhaul compared to civ games. And its all very flexible, since you also get to customize your goverment as you go. And the fact outpost and vassal towns, are a flexible tool also based on your age up goverment paths . I feel like this game has far less of a rng issue, if your skilled enough to preplan your empire. Through event resource reveal pivots, and endgame victory goal. Also chaos system needs scaling to buy it off. Its a nice gating system against domination snowball.

The Demo for this was awesome, now they have my money but I wait for the game to launch... Time, move faster darn it. Also good to see Potato nearly do what I did first time out which was get units deleted from negative gold... tough lesson to learn.

Thanks for the playthrough! This games looks like a lot of fun!

This was great. Looking forward to the next runs when you know more about the details of the game.

Damn he really said 3 hour video but to see the last 30 minutes see part 2 😭 And I'm gonna be right there too

I would love to see another video on this game when it releases 1.0 as I feel you can go so many different ways with any civilization. Love this content Potato!

This game looks very promising and I am looking forward to it. Those production chains just do it for me, that is such a good idea.

So many features that I wish were in the civ games already.

Really appreciate the slower pacing in this video, potato!

Gotta say, I'm looking forward to getting into this game at some point. Aside from getting the PMW seal of recommendation, it's looking pretty hype. I love all your content brother, keep up the good grind 👍

This made me start looking for a different game that wasn't civ since it crashes like crazy on my Xbox and I found humankind and it's pretty fun and haven't had any crashes at all

you could have just used the undo function when you placed that farm at 11:00

cutting edge IS fun; local reforms are ALLWAYS objectivelly better, while you are still tall in one region compared to other integrated regions. Also allways better than a 5 science eureka (you get at least 5 science to from local reforms).

This game looks freaking awesome!! Please keep playing it on your channel!!

I first saw this with DasTactic. But it is so much better to watch with someone that understands the game on your level. I am honestly not sure if it is trying to fix issues in Civilisation or in Humankind. But there are clear Paradox influences across the board. - the combat system reminds me of Civ Call to Power. That was the non-Sid offshoot by Microprose. But that one had 9 unit tiles, too big. 3 might be a better number, at least at the start. I wonder if and how far it increases? - the whole "build your nation by choices" and "region" system is very clearly humankind. But I am worried that the nations are purely skins, with no personality. That was one inherent design mistake in humankind - making a lot of the resources into mana you can spend for instant benefits or save for lasting is ones is interesting. Kinda like EU4. Or gold rushing/faith buying. Also means gold is not tte most important resource - the region view reorganizes tiles by yields. So that makes it a lot easier to manage large regions with lots of terrain and improvements - improvements points replace worker micro or improvement micro. A good change. - national spirits are a mix of HOI Focus Trees or EU4 mission trees and idea groups

@Cris1Mac

3 ай бұрын

Call to power and ll. I forgot about that game still have the strategy guide somewhere for that game.

@SteinerNein

3 ай бұрын

It’s not a design mistake, but how humankind went about it was.

@christopherg2347

3 ай бұрын

@@SteinerNein "Nations that are purely skins" is probably a inherent design mistake. That means the game setup has no impact on gameplay. I cannot think of any modern 4x game where pure-skin factions worked.

@SteinerNein

3 ай бұрын

@@christopherg2347 You need to actually point out why it is a design mistake. A design mistake happens when your design does not match your intention; look at the actual game and think for a moment, the entire theme is creating a nation from scratch so it would be a design mistake to make nations have an identity before you even start crafting its history. Also, the design is to make you adapt and deal with chaos which means the more you frontload a civilization the less you're able to adapt as now you're running into a bunch of balance issues such as playing a coastal civ and then being landlocked etc. As for your quip about modern 4x, try Stellaris, try every AoW/Planetfall game, try every game that basically has custom races which is essentially pick your starting bonus and go.

@christopherg2347

3 ай бұрын

@@SteinerNein I will answer that with a counter question: Can you think of a successful game, that made the historical nation purely skin choice? I doubt it. Because people already know it is a bad idea.

game looks great, love the commentary and mechanic explanations, i love how tech works and innovation is cool

Im really excited to see where this game goes. I played the public beta a while back and really dug it. Takes What Humankind does, and just made it better. Great Video Potato!

City management is really interesting and "mana" points seems to work towards the fun part

@ALittleMessi

3 ай бұрын

Can't be a Paradox game without a mana system

@TheAderwolf

3 ай бұрын

i mean it works decently enough in most of their games@@ALittleMessi

@ALittleMessi

3 ай бұрын

@TheAderwolf in their announcement for EU5 they said there won't be mana or abstract concepts so they've definitely felt the push to move away. You're always going to need some abstraction in grand strategy but I think games should push to at least come up with something other than mana

Dolmen are a typical bronze age burial praxis in central europe. You can find quiet a lot around Germany especially in a big bronze age settlement culture in central germany where they found the "Himmelsscheibe" (sky plate). Pretty neat they included it.

@robertnomok9750

3 ай бұрын

Incorrect. Europasian contenet. Dolmens exist in far east region as well

Great video, it looks like a fun game!

1:13:45: Should have called it 'the obelisk of observation'

That k response was one of the things that made me giggle ;)

This game has so many interesting new takes for a 4x game so many different ways to go towards different ages for new stuff it seems so cool!

Did you just cliffhanger me?! --- I love it.

Can you turn off the battle scenes?

@lemon-lime6270

3 ай бұрын

No

@KonaSuba

3 ай бұрын

@@lemon-lime6270 that is disappointing

@DavidSmith-mt7tb

3 ай бұрын

You can fast forward them quite a lot though.

@KonaSuba

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidSmith-mt7tb the initial pop-up was the biggest issue for me, feels very jarring

@fidelisraphael

3 ай бұрын

Iirc from the demo you can at least dismiss them immediately by hitting ESC.

The game looks nice will probably buy it once it comes out.

Can't wait for it, played like 8 runs of the demo.

47:42 me after telling my GF I'm going hiking with my buddies this weekend

"literally can't stop playing" lol and here I though you were being figurative

Town - Bad Ems. Where I went to high school. Cool,

I was sold on this game since the next fest, but this look at it sold me harder.

I am more interested now that i've seen some later eras. its really cool how the game unfolds introducing new currencies and powers as you go later in the era. really feels like some tabletop boardgames i know of

Its a half baked potato 🥔. I'll be back with the butter when its done cookn

I enjoyed the demo. Looking forward to playing this one when it releases.

Thanks for doing this video. I had no idea this was coming out and now I'm going to be watching it tomorrow with keen interest. btw the thumbnail is really misleading, I figured this was a tiny game with no art budget... because all you're showing is the minimap.

I really like this game - especially it is different and has a great, nearly unique, mechanics. Lovely greetings from Dortmund 😊😅

I'll have to wait for the full release! (Uni student life and being broke) Otherwise this game looks really fun~!

@PotatoMcWhiskey

3 ай бұрын

Get it on sale!

You DARE to develop a coffee resource? Spiff will go full Ghandi on you when you eventually play this with him.

reminds an old game called "call to power"

Get that bag Mr. Potato

Those combat animations look like something out of an adobe flash-player browser game from '08.

Maybe it's just that I'm old but I really don't get the complaints about the graphics. You don't play 4X for the pretty anyways.

@ALifeOfWine

3 ай бұрын

A commentator above said it looks like a 20 year old game. I quite like the graphics so I went to Google to find out when Civ4 came out to say "well ackshually" and found that it came out 19 years ago. So yeah we're just old now I guess.

@emilsoderman3691

3 ай бұрын

@@ALifeOfWine Speaking about being old: I've gotten a Shetland Sheepdog, and when I described it to a person in their 20's I was like "Well, she looks like a smaller Lassie" and they had no idea who Lassie was...

I blinked and it was 3 hours later

Long term, I don't see a point for the combat pop up window. There is no interactivity, no planning, or am I missing something. I suppose eventually I would just turn it off, nothing to see there.

somehow the Millennnia city view in the Worker's tab has solved how a Stellaris planet should look!!

Looks fun, if a bit easy to get rolling

I like the game and liked the demo, a middleground 4x taking a lot of good old world concepts. I think this is like playing Civ on prince however, none of your decisions mattered all that much because it just wasn't very hard. You basically ignored burial mounds until after their significant early boost was wasted but it didn't matter. Many things deleted or destroyed because the opportunity cost hardly exists when you don't need to play a tight game. Game will quickly become obselete to me if play with so many unchallenging meaningless decisions.

I feel like the word 'like' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that video title

The game does look incredibly good (gameplay wise). I dont really care bout the graphics but what i'm a little bit concerned about is that they're trying to add a little bit of everything from the other GS games into this one and pack it as a 4X. If this actually does turn out to be good then i'll be incredibly delighted to play a game like the other Grand Strategies in a Civ like style but i really do hope they dont unnecessarily bloat it and make it too complex without reason. I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong but Paradox and game releases always seems to me like an unstable combination lol.

potato nice video and all, but i'm really not a fan of the "we'll promote our half-developed game and just hope people pre-order it so we can finish the rest" game model. I do not need to make my money magically disappear into the void, no thanks

@PotatoMcWhiskey

3 ай бұрын

Totally fair!

@LucianNF

3 ай бұрын

Okay BUT you aren't obligated or forced to buy the game, you can just enjoy watching the game play videos :)

@xerielsodyssey8112

3 ай бұрын

yeah same, it looks fun but I am gonna wait for the full game to come out first and decide from there

@CidTheDude

3 ай бұрын

Well I mean it's not like it's a AAA company that has the money to invest massive amounts of funds into advertisement and whatnot at least I don't think it is. I feel like having people play the game and give their opinions about it even if the game isn't finished yet really isn't that bad. I don't think this kinda video convinces that many people to pre-order but it does let a lot of other people know to keep an eye out for when the game is in fact finished. It spreads the knowledge of the game beyond the Die Hard kind of fans who would have already known about its existence and already pre-ordered most likely. I've never once pre-ordered any game in my life because I am perfectly fine with waiting until after the game comes out in many people play it to hear whether it's worth the money or not but if you're a massive fan of the genre then you're more likely to pre-order so I don't think the average person is going to pre-order the game even if they see this video.

@ElderGod4

3 ай бұрын

To be fair , you’re not obligated to buy the game , and you can support him getting his income by him advertising. And its a new game for us to get content to so why not

I already pre ordered the premium edition. How am I addicted to a game that I didn't play yet😅

Hi, beautifull video 😊 i don t undestand the reason behind not converting vassals in to cities. Is not worth it?

I think you might struggle to get anyone preordering paradox interactive games for a while after they deliberately mislead players on the state of Cities 2.

The first town you find being a Zulu name was so unfair xD

Contrary to most people, I really like this game and have preordered already. There were a few things that frustrated me about this playthrough but then again, I'm not the one playing so who am I to judge. Thanks for the full playthrough potato!

I just want to unlock all crisis ages - the age of blood in the demo was bomb and I was thinking about Dshengis Khan, the sea people and troy while killing dozens of units and ransacking every town in a 40 tile radius ... I'm a simple man

Maybe a minor issue, but I really hope they alter the UI to look more distinct from Civ. Looking at the game, there are times in menus when it could be mistaken for Civ Vi and times outside of menus it could be mistaken for V.

Millennia is looking a lot better - I really like the economics of it

potato getting a lot of vassals and then being like oh the feudal monarchy (that gives a lot of buffs to vassals) doesn't make as much sense as empire

You have an undo button. No need to reload

I'm curious how development continues, The UI already looks better than last time

I feel like this is a really cool game.

Roger Have complied. I preorder rarely (like BG3 and GC4 Supernova), but couldn't help myself

I need more, ASAP

You are a good man Charlie Brown.

We want the next one!

This game has interesting ideas, but feels like it needs polish. Few more quality of life things to smooth the experience out. The graphics look like a mixture between old computer games and board games to me, which is neat, but not to my tastes. The eras idea is really cool though. Do they expand out like a tree deviating further and further from real history, or are the options the same for each era?

I played the demo, it seemed like an amazing concept that needed some polishing (specially diplomacy), I'll def buy this, but I'm assessing if right now or along the way after patch X where the game gets to the point it was envisioned by the developers, and not by the execs.

The two dudes practicing twerking in the main menu, having no clue what effect this will have on civilizations in a millennia.

We're all learning together.

That game looks amazing By the way, how are you able to pronounce the german city names so good? Usually non-german speakers tend to butcher them hard.

Seems interesting. Cant wait to (possibly) play the game

I bought the game. Looks amazing and very complicated but immersive

The ideas this game has are nice, I especially like how you can change history with the different ages. however during the beta i played I disliked the combat mechanics and the animations around unit movment....leave a lot to be desired.

I feel like the designers looked at Faith as like a Wildcard resource in Civ and were like "Ok, but what if More."

How am I just finding out about this game just now?

Potato are you playing this on quick animations? Strategically it looks interesting, but the animations look very janky. I hope that gets polished if that's the release version of the game's animations.

Some of the journal entries in the comments are making my toes dig well up into the soles of my feet