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.
Same. It was so boring. There was so much empty space, and when you got somewhere it was just a copy paste you'd already been through. Then there's the basic ass story that's capped off with the dumbest final boss I can think of.
It's not empty space, it's called the lands between.
Well it can kiss the lands between my buttcheeks because I want by $40 back!