Essentially, the beauty of Crusader Kings 2 is that it's a story generator. I guess that's what bluetooth-microphone-wearing marketing execs call 'synergy'.
This intersection of two different expansions adds new dimensions to the storytelling that couldn't really be achieved alone. Suddenly, my learning is boosted to over ten, and I now qualify for membership of the Hermetic Order - the society of astrologers and alchemists. Anyway, one thing led to another as it often does, and I'm handing over a bag of shekels somewhere in Persia for a copy of the Necronomicon.
Not really a learned man, he wanted to do something useful with his latter years. I have the Way of Life DLC, so my character, a Duke of Georgia, chose the scholarship focus. But if you add a scoop of The Old Gods, your viking leader has Hel Worship as a new society to fraternise with, and Sword of Islam lets you play a muslim leader who becomes seduced with the Brotherhood of Assassins and all their hiding-in-hay-cart shenanigans. So the big new thing with Monks and Mystics is the introduction of societies - from monastic orders to the brotherhood of alchemists to dark cults of demon-worshippers, there are new and interesting gangs of oddballs to which your character can dedicate his life. Let me make my main point right now: Crusader Kings 2 expansions work best as components of a complex whole. Twelfth expansion! Even more if you count Sunset Invasion and the ruler designer. Getting the chance to review a new DLC for CK2 is always a pleasure, even if for no other reason than that it allows me to immerse myself back into the core game. is addicts too harsh a term? Zealots? Suffice to say, this is a game that has garnered some serious fans over the years, and I count myself proudly among the faithful. True, it's a complex beast, but if you can't get the hang of it in the length of time that many people can do a PhD, you're probably not interested in the twelfth DLC pack for said game anyway. But from the perspective of a reviewer, it really means we can stop talking about probably the one main complaint that people had about CK2, and that's the steep learning curve. Of course, it's a testament to the sheer love that the Paradox devs have for their own games, and to the potential success of a model whereby a game is lavished with love over a period of years rather than rushed to market and forgotten. This tells us a couple of interesting things. Both Dishonored games have come out since Crusader Kings 2 was released, and they're still bringing out new content for it. If a successful game doesn't have a sequel in the works in five years, people start to get antsy. Five years! It might not seem a long time in the grand scheme of things but in the fast-moving world of videogames, it's a lifetime.
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