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Can we do the unthinkable? This video explores the idea. Victoria 2 is everyone's favourite game, but Paradox doesn't care for it; they departed drastically in the sequel and took the franchise in a bizarre anti-war, building queue simulator direction. Despite having a great vision, Vic2 suffers from many flaws, exploits and bugs that Paradox couldn't fix. Would it be possible to reverse engineer the game and create our own Open Victoria 2? While I introduce the idea, I also mention a couple of other similar games which are in development, so check out Symphony of Empires & Bismack 1. I also provide a brief history of Paradox's track record of licensing out their engine to development teams of modders to make games, such as Darkest Hour and the not-so-successful East vs West. The best case study for a successful open-source remake or a game is OpenTTD. If we can replicate that in any way, then this will be amazing. I want to hear what everyone thinks of this idea. Nothing is
