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

[Husar]

I feel the need to comment on some of those, some of it is about taste of course.

Hidden and Dangerous 2 - having enjoyed the original Ghost Recon, I figured this tactical shooter sounds my cup of tea, but I have never installed it. It's reputation of being knee-cappingly hard may have something to do with it.

If someone says H&D 2 is knee-cappingly hard then they haven't played H&D1.

The Witcher - supposed to be a good recent RPG (and boy, do we need those), but has not grabbed me enough to install it. Something I read about mixing herbs to poison your weapon to beat a boss just made me think "bleurgh".

That's actually pretty much the reason I never tried The Witcher either.

Gothic II - I really want to play a massive fantasy type RPG, but could not engage with this one at all. Just seemed too clunky and give me a mouse cursor please!

Heresy! I've never really missed a cursor and it would ruin the immersion, admittedly the game has it's own style but when they tried to make it more mass market compatible with part 3 it really lost a lot of it's charm, one could even say all of it, resulted in a big desaster and reputation hit etc. It's perfectly possible though that the german version has far superior voice overs and a lot of the charm could be lost in translation.

As for my personal list:

FarCry 2 - Was really looking forward to this one but it turned out unbelievably lame and shallow. I played it to the end just to see the outscome, which was even more lamerer than the game itself but I could have saved some money there.

Cossacks 2 - I know some here liked it but as a big fan of the first part and American Conquest I didn't like it at all, you have to micromanage every single formation, the AI steamrolled me in every skirmish attempt I made and combined with the performance problems it had at the time I just dropped it. Later learned it had Starforce so I won't ever pick it up again either.

If they won't patch ETW to improve the campaign AI and diplomacy it could make it onto this list as the TW game I spent the shortest amount of time with. Even though it's a pretty good game in many respects.

I've also suspended playing ArmA II, but I hope they will patch it to the point where it's worth picking up again so i wouldn't consider this a closed case yet.