>>11991514>"You won the battle not the war!">gets off scot-free every game, every gen>mfw playing a game knowing that nothing I do will have any impact on the world because the villains will just escape and start new plans elsewhere with magically regenerated resourcesThat shit works in cartoons where the bad guys aren't too threatening, they're funny enough to like seeing, or victories against them have any sense of progression to defeating them overall. Not when you're the one putting in time and effort to defeat them and you've made zero, if not a negative amount, of progression in winning the "war" in the past 15 years.