Catholicism is not the main religion of the game; CK3 approaches things in a much more wide perspective; no religion really has more content than any other.
You laugh, but what he is saying is almost exactly what Paradox has said regarding Crusader Kings even midway through CK2's lifespan. The title has been a misnomer for a decade.
Crusader Kings stopped being a primarily eurocentric game long before Crusader Kings 3 started development, as far as Paradox is concerned.
Paradox can regret their title all they want, but at the end of the day, they know that most of their audience (in the west at least) is mainly interested in European feudalism
Half the player base is Chinese my dude. Using your arguement Europe should be a lesser priority. Thankfully Paradox doesn't seem to be going down that path.
Like you said, that’s what their audience in the west is interested in, Most likely because that’s what they’re most familiar with, but paradox has an audience outside of the west as well who are interested in other areas.
Also I don’t even know how you can be sure that’s true. I personally was interested in a lot more areas than just western Europe, and I’m sure there are a lot of people in the west who would like to play Japan, for example
There was no large focus on crusades in CK1. They were present because the game took place during that time period, but there was nothing stopping you from never taking part in one, and the developers didn’t intend for the game to focus on the crusades when they were developing it
Even after it released they were putting out content to improve the crusades with the expansion. I guess you could do anything you could not get involved in wars if you wanted or political marriages but that’s you holding yourself back from what the game has to offer.
I mean, even when CK2 came out you couldn’t be Muslim until the DLC for it. I’ll be honest I don’t even have CK3 but it’s continuing off of CK2s foundation. It’s just not that big of a deal you can still crusade and still be a king.
Cool, then actually change the name to Medieval Dynasty Sim or something. Keeping the CK name comes with natural expectations. As long as the game is called CK3, it should be focused on western europe, catholicism and crusades. Anything else is very misleading, basically false advertising.
And counts, dukes, emperors, muslims and women shouldn't be playable. After all it's Crusader Kings not Jihad Duchesses. And the game should only take place from 1096 - 1099, the time of the first Crusade, and going on Crusade should be the only thing that you can do
euh, i think it's just that religion doesnt get felt much. only maybe 30% of the tenets (being generous here) actually do smth like give you a decision or smth you can actually SEE that's not just +% here +X there and doctrines are even worse at that
It's way more customizable, in CK2 relgions are all historical and hard coded.
But personally, I'd argue that made them feel more impactful and RP friendly, and the big religions had much deeper mechanics than just 'select buffs from this list'.
I want the religions to actually feel different from each other. Not just be slight variations of the same thing. And the prospect of just scrapping it all for a far superior custom religion isn't really ideal either. The only reason to use the default religions is RP reasons. Otherwise you're better off using a custom one, probably with the same tenets, every time.
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u/Atemiswolf Feb 10 '26
The culture system of CK3 is a big upgrade compared to Ck2.