would honestly be better than EU4 if not for cascading alliances making your life miserable and turning every border dispute into proto-WW1

Ohhh I'm getting spicy with this one. EU IV was a downgrade and I'm proud to say it

i am too stupid for this game, still managed to have fun with it tho.

I played this game as a kid back in the late 00s and what I enjoyed the most was that menu, where you need to choose the start year and your nation on the global map. This was basically something like an interactive "the history of something every year/timelapse"-type video from YT. Apart from that, the actual gameplay wasn't that fun for me though. Especially after the total war games.

Amazing game!
Good game content.