Overlord

I just stopped playing Overlord.  An interesting game by CodeMasters. The  game mechanic being that you control a bunch of minions. You go around the world controlling those minions. It's a fun mechanic. 

The biggest issue I have with this game is that  the more you fail the harder the game becomes.  When you die, you have to start from scratch, but since there are less resources since you've destroyed the world, when you go back, it takes longer. You grind through whatever is left. You get back to your original challenge and you have less than what you had.  Back in the old days you'd reload from some previous save game. 

There are other issues with this game. But it's not as important as its biggest failing the spiraling hardness.

For me what is sad about this game is that I'm not going to buy it. I'm not willing to go through pointlessness to play a game. What is sad is that they made this decision, to punish crappy players. Maybe you're thinking what a wimp. But there are better games to spend my small game-time budget on. For example Civilization Revolutions.