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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?
(media.piefed.social)
I've been revisiting anno 2205, infamously the ugly duckling of the Anno series of RTS games. I don't mind so much the fact that it's different, lacks customisation and random map generation - I'm bothered because the game is so slow to progress through on challenge settings, and it feels like a game designed just to artificially waste your time; in other anno games, you can always pull tricks to dig yourself out of economic crisis - selling off assets and surplus goods, completing quests for other parties, or taking loans. 2205 is very very confined in terms of what you can do to financially recover in the early game and forces you into a lot of military events.
I always felt Midnight Suns was let down because of how it was marketed. It was sold as that tactics battler and wore the studios XCOM games and I avoided it for ages even though the mystic sci-fi setting was right up my alley. Turns out the game is one of my favorites.
If they had said "It's Fire Emblem but less grid" I think it would have landed much better.