Crusader Kings Complete

The game has crashed on multiple times now and the gameplay mechanics just seem broken to me. Idk maybe it's just not for me but I don't think this series is that great. But, this one especially just seems like it makes you wait forever to actually make moves or try to start a war. The skills your character gets seem almost useless as well. Probably will never play again. I tried this one and 3 and they both suck, now its time to try out 2 and see how that is.

Interface is very outdated and extremely inefficient in presenting information you need. Starting with one, small county isn't viable start choice, since your decisions matter way less than even minor random events. Unless you like when it hurts.

Holy moly, this game plays by itself. I don't even need to do anything. I just pick a kingdom and watch the world turn. There's literally almost nothing to do in this game. Send a gift. Give a title to someone. Build something (which only works half the time, seems bugged), read pop-ups that let you know about something that happened...somewhere. OR, RAISE YOUR ARMY AND GO CONQUER YOUR NEIGHBORS! That's it. No, seriously, that is it. That is all you can really do in this game. You basically watch time go by and can fiddle around with the small handful of options to "do something". All it does is fudge stats. The game should be called: "Stat Fudging Kings" or "King of the Stat Fudgers". Send a gift, get 1% increase from that guy you sent a gift to. Change an overly complicated law to a slightly less overly complicated law...congrats!: you just increased tax revenue by 2.05432%. Amazing that people find this "intriguing". Maybe they are playing it with some DnD dice and using their imagination too? Is that what I'm supposed to do? Was there some link for me to download some DnD dice? Candles to light? A CD of some chick belting out some garbled European language celtic-gaul-like stuff and some choir of monks howling Latin? I don't get it. In anycase, there is the "RAISE AN ARMY, CONQUER!" aspect of the game. That is really the core game if you think about it. The fake "core game" that is presented is this utterly boring mess, where literally the game plays itself. I kid you not. As a result, the player becomes unnerved. The player desires to get "involved" with what they are watching. Stats are boring, but slaughtering people vis a vis WAR is "action". The game makes players desire "some action". Because it's so pathetically boring. So the real challenging gameplay, is the challenge of raising an army to destroy, conquer, expand, without pissing off all the world. It has to be done tactfully. And theirin lies the true game. CK2 is better but DLCs broke it.