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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 day ago by Swaus01@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wouldn't say hated, but I've sunk almost 500 hours into Diablo IV and just feel like it's meh. Nothing particularly special about it.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I put 130 hours into it at launch and enjoyed the grind to endgame with my first build but the endgame grind was just way too much for me and I haven't picked it up since.

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 day ago

Quit after 9 hours.

I probably sunk at least that much into D2 (and more) but just fell out of love with D4 so quickly. It felt so repetitive and dull.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I just started playing this and question what the hype was.