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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it? (media.piefed.social)
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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.

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[-] lumpyluggage@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It's easier to create a game around combat than science and philosophy though

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Then I guess I'll have to keep playing Fallen London instead

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh wow a fallen London reference in the wild. I played that like ten years ago, and picked it up fresh this year as something to do during the workday.

The current festival is interesting. I missed the "hell is missing" story when it was new. Turns out climbing into the furnace is a bad idea, even in a dream!

Currently annoyed that I didn't bring the right thing into the waswood to get a particular item, and I can't draw the dream card to get one of those pearls. But it's a very interesting game.

It could also descend into total "pay for power" nonsense, but I have resisted.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Here, I have a present for you!

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**GCO**
-one of a variety of T8s - A Reverie of Heroism + Singed and Stained Work Gloves
-free - Sturdy Pick, Prelapsarian Speaking-Tube, that book with all the Underscores, Polythreme Drinking-Vessel, Poisoned Pen, Wax-Hardened Boots

**Starved War**
-3 Parabolan Orange-Apples - London Horticultural Society
-free - Strange Aeronaut, Hard-Earned Knack for Repair
-an Oneiric Pearl - Rank of Flight-Captain

**Coilheart Games**
-a Parabolan Parable - Distinction of Waking Fire
-Vital Intelligence and 2 Blackmail Material - Huffam's Good Graces
-an Oneiromantic Revelation - Coilbreaker's Prints
-free - A Fierce and Terrible Warmth

**Museum**
-a Vitreous Almanac, 75 Sightings of Parabolan Landmarks and 10 Memories of Light - Miniature Museum
-a Viric-Filled Mirrorcatch Box, 3 Emetic Revelations and 250 Venom-Rubies - Perfumer's Arts
-another Oneiric Pearl - Gebrandt's Address Book

**Hell is Missing**
**Presumably this is all, possibly not though:**
-1 Searing Enigma + 1 Oneiromantic Revelation - Gang of Outlaws
-Climbing into the Law-Furnace when offered - Dream of Law-Glass
-Oneiric Pearl + Baited Riddle - Urchin formerly known as Mister Dinners
-Free - Elephant to be Refuted
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