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.
This one for me too. The definition of “needlessly complicated”. The combat system is so annoying, the upgrades, every character plays differently. I’m only motivated to finish it because I paid full price for it. At this point I’m playing in story mode and searching for a mod to auto parry, so the fights don’t drag on.
My friend told me it has a great opening. So great, that by the time you get past it and realise you don’t like it, you’ve already played too long to return it on steam. And it was only surprising if You haven’t seen Logan’s Run.