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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?
(thelemmy.club)
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.
PGA Tour 2K25 and EA Sports WRC - both iterations of previously released "sports" games. I know not everyone's cup of tea for "gaming".
I play both cross-platform with my family in other locations and it's a nice way to stay connected with them.
But for the golf game, forcing us all to buy new versions that don't improve on anything (or arguably make it worse than the previous release) while shutting off access to the previous is maddening.
For the rally game, similar sentiment, but also for not living up to the potential of the license/previous releases, not fixing issues that have been around since first release, killing off codemasters, and squandering the WRC license just to abandon the title.