Great games you own but don't like or never even installed

[Whacker]

Thief II - Same. Couldn't get into it as much. Thief I was great and a classic but had little replay value for me.

Mass Effect - I'm going to see if I can't force myself to play this one again, and maybe end up liking it.

Earth 2150 - $5 budget game, just never installed it. Meh.

Ghost Recon - Huge stinker. Hated this, it paled next to Operation Flashpoint, which was a bugfest. It was installed for maybe an hour total before being promptly uninstalled, never to see the light of day again.

Call of Duty 4 - Disappointingly shallow game. Crysis blew this away hands down in every category. I made it through one playthrough, forcing myself, and that was it. The only thing that made me not regret buying it was the AC-130 mission. Sad, huh?

Star Wars Empire at War - Poster child for how NOT to make a stupid RTS. Glad I bought this as part of that budget SW game pack for $30. I tried it when it was released and said screw it after 30 minutes.

Far Cry - Doom 3 far outshadowed this. The gameplay was boring as snot. Lasted a total of 15 min on my HDD. Thank god for budget games

Splinter Cell - Horrible, awful port to the PC of what's probably a great console game. Again I forced myself to play about 2 hours and it got uninstalled. This one was free, so no regrets.

[Hooahguy]

Age of Empires 3
i loved AoE2. i hated AoE3. the reason? the time period. the game flouts having huge battles and the like with cannons and muskets and such. but, when you have cannons that can reach a third of the map away, infantry that know no tactics, and a 200 population limit, i found it hard to like. there is no real tactics in the game. if you have a lot of cannons and some anti cavalry units, you can defeat everyone. and i mean, everyone.
so, it sits in my shelf.

Ghost Recon Advanced warfighter
paid $60 to get the collectors edition. dont know why, mayve because i got a $70 gamestop gift card and i didnt know what else to buy. well, i got it then found out it couldnt run on my computer. put it away until last year. played the frst two missions, got stuck, uninstalled when my hard dive got wiped, played a bit of it a few months ago, uninstalled it to make room for ETW.
it was a tactical, but kinda lame, game. the tactical options were limited, and your stupid teammates always got themselves killed. i hte the non rebounding health meter becase there are some places where you get killed very quickly, or your health gets really low and you end up restarting because if you dont have full health for the enxt mission you would die in the next stage. as i sad before, tactical options were limited, and the multiplayer is the definition of lame.

[Reverend Joe]

Far Cry - Doom 3 far outshadowed this. The gameplay was boring as snot. Lasted a total of 15 min on my HDD. Thank god for budget games

Doom 3?! Wow, Whacker, you just lost 20% of your Nerddom.

[Crazed Rabbit]

ARMA I
Occasionally I try to play it and enjoy it, but I just end up hating it more and very seriously considering using it as target practice.

CR

[Hooahguy]

ARMA I
Occasionally I try to play it and enjoy it, but I just end up hating it more and very seriously considering using it as target practice.

CR

thats what i did with my Empire Earth 2 cd. shot it to hell with BBs.
i would have put it in my list, but its not considered a great game.

[Whacker]

Doom 3?! Wow, Whacker, you just lost 20% of your Nerddom.

I liked Doom 3 a lot. In fact I just got done re-playing it last night. id Software is one of the few dev houses that I've been essentially 100% loyal to over the years. Only game they co-dev'd and I didn't buy or like was Quake Wars.