Games you own, but have no desire to play.

[thejackyl]

Little Big Planet 2: I bought it to play with one of my co-workers, and the way she described it it sounded like it could be a fun little way to kill time. Bought it and played it for about an hour and never touched it again. Guess I've fallen out of platformers unless there's some nostalgia involved.

Vanquish: As much as I want to love this game, I just don't. I played up to the first(second maybe, the guy on the jetpack) boss, and was just bored with it.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: This is the odd one of the list. I played it through on Hard and beat it, and I have 2 achievements left to get. However one requires me to go through the game a second time, and the other one is to pick 10 of every herb. Neither would be difficult, just time consuming, but I whenever I start the game up I end up shutting it back off before I even start a new quest.

Arkham City: I loved Arkham Asylum, and I figured I would love a much larger version of Arkham Asylum even more. Turns out I was wrong. I managed to beat Hugo Strange, but after that I got bored and stopped playing.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I bought the GTA Collection last year. I haven't finished any of the games it came with.

Heck, I'd say the only game I enjoy in the pack is San Andreas. Vice City is pretty fun, but I played it yesterday and just couldn't stomach the awful controls and camera. And don't even get me started on GTA III. Everything in that game feels so god damn outdated and clunky.. it just feels and looks like a mess when compared to the sequels.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

As for FFVIII I downloaded it back in the summer, when I really wanted to get some use out of my Vita. I actually started playing it, but the cast of characters is so completely unlikable that I have no intention of finishing it. Which is odd, because I liked Squall just fine in the Kingdom Hearts games '''(where he was christened 'Leon')'''. I guess it's just who he's paired up with. The voice-acting probably helped a bit, too. Whenever I read his dialogue, I always made it sound like a huffy teenager. Can't be bothered to finish it when I have absolutely no interest in what happens to the characters.

Canonically speaking, his name is still Squall. When he introduces himself he says he's renounced his original name and is going by 'Leon' as some sort of atonement for losing his homeworld. I suppose that's how FF dudes roll.

 

[GrymShip]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance.The game is what I expected it to be but the controls just don't feel as intuitive as the PS2's ones for Kingdom hearts 1 and 2.Then again it is on the 3ds. I'm sure they tried their best at adapting the controls but for me it just doesn't work and I most likely will never finish this game.

 

[sageoftruth]

Black Ops 2 in my case. I got it as a freebie thanks to an investment my father made in Activision. The truth is, I'm interested in trying it, but I let my friend try it first, and I cannot start a new game without erasing his progress. Thanks to 2012's great releases this year, I've got plenty of much better games to engage in until I've invited my friend over enough times for him to get to the end of the game.

 

[Waddles]

The Orange Box(it was five dollars), Oblivion(I have SKYRIM!)

you have no desire to play some of the best games of all time?!?!? Oblivion I can kind of get, you are missing out on a kickarse game, but the orange box??? You've got half-life portal and tf2 in there man.....

For me, devil may cray 4. Didn't make it past the opening cutscene.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Supreme Commander series. I have 1, Forged Alliance and 2, i tried 2, lasted about 5 minutes till it bugged out on me, i was so bored by then that i was actually glad. If a game bores me inside of 5 minutes to an extent which dissuades me from giving it another chance, that ain't a good sign.

 

[sageoftruth]

Morrowind, Oblivion and possibly Skyrim. I've played all three to completion a number of times, but after playing Far Cry 3, I don't think I could go back very easily. With characters like Vaas, it makes Bethesda's dull wooden characters almost unbearable, and the leveling system feels hollow when the enemies just level up with you. Most importantly, I've already played Skyrim enough times that nothing surprises me anymore. I may get sucked back in when they release Morrowind with the Skyrim engine. On the other hand, I like games with an enchanting narrative or exciting game mechanics, and I can at least say that Oblivion and Skyrim lack both of those, mainly because of their apathetic characters.

 

[sageoftruth]

Also, Half-Life 2, only because I get motion-sickness playing it.

 

[sageoftruth]

The Orange Box(it was five dollars), Oblivion(I have SKYRIM!)

you have no desire to play some of the best games of all time?!?!? Oblivion I can kind of get, you are missing out on a kickarse game, but the orange box??? You've got half-life portal and tf2 in there man.....

For me, devil may cray 4. Didn't make it past the opening cutscene.

Who on Earth plays Devil May Cry games for their cutscenes?

 

[TheMann]

There are a lot of games that I got in Humble Bundles that fall into this category. Usually I buy them with the intention of only playing a couple of games from them, especially because a lot of them are in genres that simply don't interest me (puzzle games, for example).

Exactly this. Usually I buy an indie bundle for two, or maybe three of the games. $10 for five games of is still cheaper than buying the two I really want by themselves. For instance, one bundle I bought I got purely for Braid and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. The other three games I didn't give a shit about. I installed them anyway because they were pretty small in size so I figured "What the hell, I might be presently surprised." I wasn't they really weren't that interesting to me.

 

[Easton Dark]

Maybe shocking to some:

Medieval 2: Total War

I just... I don't. I don't want to start it up again. It's not fun... I liked empire more than this!

I also have a whole list in steam titled "do not install". It's mostly puzzle games and stuff I got from a previous bundle.

I kiiiind of see what you mean.

But then I downloaded the Westeros Total War mod.

Gives it a badass ASOIAF spin, and as an added bonus, cuts out the Pope's fist shaking entirely.

I didn't mind the Pope, keeping him happy was easy (I played Spain twice and England once).

But the game is so slowwwwwwww. And the unit match ups are so clear cut that there's really no strategy in combat except where to position.

Not only that, but it seems like the enemy merchants can always eliminate mine, but mine have 0 chance to take anything of theirs. I tested, I saved and my merchant had 40% chance to take the others business. I reloaded maybe 30 times and not once did he take it. I let the other merchant move, and he takes mine in one try with the same 40% chance. Bullshit.

So what does that mod do?

 

[Solo-Wing]

I have many games that I just can't get worked up enough to play.

Ace Combat 5 is currently the only one that is making me feel really guilty. But I still can't bring myself to play it... Hell I am staring at the case right now.

I also got Lollipop Chainsaw, Infinite Undiscovery, Jericho, Endwar, And Lost Odyssey. And those are just the 360 games.

 

[White_Lama]

I don't get why I would waste money on a game I wouldn't be interested in playing, so no, I have no games that I don't want to play.

Well, maybe Halo 4, but only because 343 Industries/Microsoft are being such huge c*nts about not releasing all of the specializations for everyone, technically I want to play it but I ain't touching it again until they release them.

 

[xplosive59]

Any games my brother buys (mainly FPS's) and Driver: San Francisco.

 

[EHKOS]

All of my PS2 games. Shit looks awful on an HDTV.

snip

Wow, thanks man. I wasn't aware a PS2 could output 480. Just bought one

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

None for hipster reasons, but there's some games I never play nor have I ever attempted do so so and yet I bought them because...

NEED A CO-OP OPTION (these are mostly sports, racing and fighting games)

THE SAKE OF VARIETY (stealth games and a few RTS. Hardly touch 'em)

CULT CLASSIC STATUS (some RPGs like Suikoden or Shadow Hearts which I grew weary of before I got to play through them... in fact if anyone has played through I would appreciate a word of motivation, if you please?)

Actually Shadow Hearts is kind of a love it or hate it thing. If it's not clicking with you then it isn't going to get any better.

Suikoden however gets much better once you get some freedom providing you search for recruits yourself rather than looking it up online. Suikoden 2 is has a genuinely interesting story once it gets going (once you get the castle essentially)

Yeah I got those vibes when I checked out Shadow Hearts... also I should've mentioned I own Suikoden III. It looks good but I got prematurely weary when I heard there's 108 somethings you can collect to get the super mega canon ending and some of them are missable? I'm a completionist and it just looked like I would be condemning myself for good with that one.

 

[Kapri]

Chaos Theory. Soooo over the top it makes me laugh and cry simultaneously. Don't think I'll ever finish it but oh well, it was good for a few chuckles.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - I played a bit of the beginning, stopped playing it and never really wanted to play it again.
I'll probably muscle my way through it eventually.

The Binding of Isaac - I played a bit of it, but can't really get into it.

Darksiders

Dead Space and Dead Space 2 - I'm a huge chicken. I'm waiting to work up the courage or for my husband to finally play them, so I can watch instead. It took me forever to finally stop chickening out past the first splicer scene of Bioshock. I'll play them eventually when I've stopped peeing my pants at all the jump scares.

Hard Reset - 20 minutes of play-time, never finished it. Didn't really want to.

From Dust - That was a huge mistake of a purchase.

Rage and Risen

I'll probably end up going back and trying to beat the games at least once to justify the purchases, but probably not today or tomorrow.....or even the next day. Maybe next year...mid-year....we'll see.

 

[Tallim]

None for hipster reasons, but there's some games I never play nor have I ever attempted do so so and yet I bought them because...

NEED A CO-OP OPTION (these are mostly sports, racing and fighting games)

THE SAKE OF VARIETY (stealth games and a few RTS. Hardly touch 'em)

CULT CLASSIC STATUS (some RPGs like Suikoden or Shadow Hearts which I grew weary of before I got to play through them... in fact if anyone has played through I would appreciate a word of motivation, if you please?)

Actually Shadow Hearts is kind of a love it or hate it thing. If it's not clicking with you then it isn't going to get any better.

Suikoden however gets much better once you get some freedom providing you search for recruits yourself rather than looking it up online. Suikoden 2 is has a genuinely interesting story once it gets going (once you get the castle essentially)

Yeah I got those vibes when I checked out Shadow Hearts... also I should've mentioned I own Suikoden III. It looks good but I got prematurely weary when I heard there's 108 somethings you can collect to get the super mega canon ending and some of them are missable? I'm a completionist and it just looked like I would be condemning myself for good with that one.

Every Suikoden has 108 Stars Of Destiny (characters) that you need to recruit to get the best ending. It's one of the series defining features.