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.
Marvel's Midnight Suns.
Supposed to be a tactics based card battler. I played 10 hours and I think I did 3 or 4 battles. So much talking and relationship stuff where saying just the right things out of 3 random options will help advance your status. Just really not what I wanted but too late to refund once I realized that the real game wasn't coming.
Oh yeah and so much running through the forest looking for shiny things.
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.
Game devs keep on trying to make games for everyone. But then they end up being for no one.
I really enjoyed the game, but I may have just gotten lucky with the timing. I wanted a slower paced decision-making game.
I do think the game would benefit hugely from a Quickplay and/or Challenge mode. The combat was a blast once it got going. That's the biggest thing keeping me from replaying it
Exact same boat. Endless enemies unless you manage to defeat all enemies fast enough is a bullshit design.