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Games you fell out of love with. (piefed.social)
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Anybody have any games they really liked on a first play through and then fell out of love with it later on? I'm going through it right now with the city builder game Workers and Resources. I've got 26 hours in it on Steam. Most of those hours came years ago when I first tried the game. I had a good grasp of it then naturally hopped off it when something else caught my eye. Every time I try it now I just can't get past how janky it is. It truly is Eurojank the city builder game.

My biggest issue is relearning the build order. Set up a village, import some power, setup water, build a bus depot. I think I've got all the boxes checked off for what I'm supposed to do but nothing happens. Busses take no workers to the coal plant. Everything is still on warning that I'm missing resources. Then I get into the weeds and can't find what's wrong. I give up. This is the last few times I tried the game. I'm prone to jumping off a game if it's too complex but knowing I used to have this one down and it's all different now has me really souring on it.

That's the shame of it. I know I liked the game at one point but there's been too much time between first seriously getting to know the game and it's systems and now. It's the probably the only city builder I've ever played that's not a pick up and play type game. This is my genre of choice going back to SC2000. This one stings.

Anybody else have anything like this happen to them?

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[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I could write a book on eve online. That one is insidious. The hook is that you dream of getting the upgrade, which takes real world time to get, both in farming and in "skill training" time that's passive and works while you're offline but measured in real world time and can only be boosted but still takes months to do. So you sit there and think "oh boy it'll be so cool when I finally can do X" and then you get it and it's pretty much the same you were doing before, but bigger numbers.

It also got community and then you have friends and don't to leave your friendgroup

And the devs? Deliver banger shows that show what they're planning. Planning being sort of the catch, because in the nearly 15 years I've been watching what they're doing, they did things I would call "correct", one which they reverted (because the players were running away) and the other which they nerfed.

More recently skilksong. All the elements for a fantastic game are there, art, especially the music are unbelievable. But upgrade system, the placing of where you can get them, what they actually do, some of the resources and currencies. That part just sucks.

And for some reason, the game and the community ship the main character and a mass murdering psychopath? Just wild.

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