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.
Fallout 4
Nms
The entire elder scrolls series now that I think about it, except maybe Morrowind but also Morrowind
Fallout 3 and NV were worth it, as were 1 and 2
Honorable mention to GTA5 tho I played the story to completion in the first few weeks after release and haven't touched it since, so not really the same but similar vibe
There's a difference between playing the game is great, but it's get boring eventually or the ending is tedious. Like playing elder scrolls and just doing running around and thieves guild and dark brotherhood is enough to be a great game by itself.
Yeah, I bounced off of FO4 pretty quickly. I don't like base building, especially with random NPCs that farm or whatever? Exploration was really the only part I enjoyed. It needed more quests and memorable characters. I was also disappointed that it didn't have as robust faction system as NV. Like there's just raiders? Give them unique names based on location, quest opportunities to make them friendly.
The world of fallout never felt so dead.