Eh, I never even installed Evolve. Having played Parasite, Metastasis, and all the variations thereof in WC3 and SC2, I knew a AAA game would never hold up to that standard, and from what I've heard - yeah, not a damn chance. One of the biggest pulls of that game; The 'Mafia' game aspect where you don't know who is the alien and who is a human - was removed, probably because then players would have to think too much, and its basically just a cat and mouse arena shooter. Yay. Was never going to be on my Hard Drive like that. Gimme mystery, multiple alien types you can evolve to in a single game, and a bunch of stuff for the non-aliens to do during the build up to the final confrontation and maybe it'd be a decent game. From what I've heard of it? Yeah, no.
As for my experiences with games like that... I don't think there's been anything I've dropped straight off the bat with no real time spent with it, but Dishonoured was one of the faster games I've dropped. End of first mission, after trying hard to be stealthy because the game punishes you for not being, end up dying. "Oh well, I guess I'll just re-do this guy's house...". Nope. Back to the very start of the level, because who uses autosaves these days? Spent 5 minutes trudging through the same shit I'd already done and dropped it because it was boring, and there was going to be a whole lot of boring on the way to the end of the level again. Never neglect autosaves. These days they're an expected feature.
Meridian; New World or whatever its called I also dropped damn quick. Got into the first mission, and a bug somewhere meant that it just didn't progress. It wasn't all that engaging to begin with, so I dropped it. Might try it again one day, but too many other games to play ATM for that to be the case.
Vanilla Civ V, before they fixed it. Started a game. Horrid FPS compared to previous civ titles, for not a huge improvement on graphics. In fact, in some cases they were worse, where I was in 'plains' that looked like desert. Little depth to mechanics, stupid ass AI, and brokenly unbalanced systems... Dropped it before finishing my first game. With all its expansions and some mods that actually balance it, its good, but vanilla... Oh god that was horrid.
Probably a bunch of other games, but I don't really remember them.
The only time I've ever had a straight off the bat "WTF is this" drop moment was with an anime called Excel Saga or something. Halfway through the first episode it had failed to produce a single likable character, anything that wasn't a caricature, even the slightest semblance of a coherent plot, and all it really consisted of was a series of nonsensical skits that weren't even funny. Only thing I haven't finished at least 1 part of before dropping, whether it be level, chapter, episode or whatever other metric you could measure other mediums by. That was just... No.
