Anybody have any games they really liked on a first play through and then fell out of love with it later on? I’m going through it right now with the city builder game Workers and Resources. I’ve got 26 hours in it on Steam. Most of those hours came years ago when I first tried the game. I had a good grasp of it then naturally hopped off it when something else caught my eye. Every time I try it now I just can’t get past how janky it is. It truly is Eurojank the city builder game.
My biggest issue is relearning the build order. Set up a village, import some power, setup water, build a bus depot. I think I’ve got all the boxes checked off for what I’m supposed to do but nothing happens. Busses take no workers to the coal plant. Everything is still on warning that I’m missing resources. Then I get into the weeds and can’t find what’s wrong. I give up. This is the last few times I tried the game. I’m prone to jumping off a game if it’s too complex but knowing I used to have this one down and it’s all different now has me really souring on it.
That’s the shame of it. I know I liked the game at one point but there’s been too much time between first seriously getting to know the game and it’s systems and now. It’s the probably the only city builder I’ve ever played that’s not a pick up and play type game. This is my genre of choice going back to SC2000. This one stings.
Anybody else have anything like this happen to them?
Destiny 2.
Started playing it shortly after launch, then they completely fucked it up. Stuck around for a few years playing with friends from time to time, but the latest Diet Star Wars expansion completely killed any vestige of enthusiasm I had for it. Refunded it after two hours when I realised it…just wasn’t fun.
I played some destiny when it came out, but they never seemed to figure out what you should be doing in the endgame aside from making number go up. Here, do these 4 specific activities over and over and over again and hope you get a bigger number.
I never touched it again after they decided to throw content I paid for in the garbage. I understand their reasoning, I read their apology-thing and I get it. But here’s the thing, their technical debt is not my problem. It sounded to me like they should just make Destiny 3 instead of chucking content I paid for out.
Played Destiny 2 when it went free to play (or shortly beforehand, they gave it away a while before they went F2P on Steam).
Had a lot of fun for a while but eventually it was just… always more of the same all the time.
And nowadays they apparently don’t want me playing as I switched to Linux (unless they changed their stance, don’t know, I’m not keeping up with it anymore).