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

**johnhughthom** · 08-01-2009, 22:29

Bioshock was stupidly cheap on Steam, £3.49 or something, and The Orange Box for a great price on a Steam sale. Never actually downloaded either....

**caravel** · 08-01-2009, 22:50

Thief II - Never actually installed. I got burnt out on Thief (which is a good game but some of the later levels get too frustrating) and decided not to take it further.

Morrowind - Walking and walking and walking, then running up to someone and rapping on the keys as fast as possible in what is apparently referred to as "combat". Then talking and clicking through line after line of pointless dialogue wondering if I should be remembering any of it.

System Shock 2 - Wandering about aimlessly with weapons that break after three or four uses etc. (yes I know it's a classic but this game depressed me.)

Medieval 2: Total War - For me this was the worst TW game so far. RTW was bad enough but this thing has so little to redeem it. I've not played ETW and probably won't now. I probably played M2TW two or three times before uninstalling it and throwing it on the shelf.

Unreal Tournament III - For some reason I've never felt inspired to take this out of the box. It seems like it might be UT2K4 with a makeover and I don't play FPS much anymore anyway (I picked this up in the 'bargain bin').

**econ21** · 08-01-2009, 22:51

Good to know I am not alone. I just want to put in a plug for Ghost Recon I - not a great game, but well worth perservering with.

Originally Posted by Whacker

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.

The first mission is not that great and you probably need more than 1 hour to get acclimatised to the unforgiving stealth based game play. The strengths of the game are:
(1) the tactical aspect - things like carefully setting up your three squads to perform a deadly cross-fire assault on the enemy camp in the first mission are fun.
(2) the variety of missions - it really is extraordinarily good, from night time prison break to urban evac to armoured assault to night time recon etc etc. The first mission is perhaps the most bland and not characteristic of the game.
(3) selecting, upgrading your squad after XP and kitting them out with gear makes a nice SP hook to the campaign.
The more recent Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter sacrifices all these virtues.

Originally Posted by Monk

Ghost Recon (PC)
The original was an interesting game that built on the pretty successful formula from the rainbow six series. The only problem? The AI was a cheating . Instant headshots from over 500 yards with an AK is not my idea of a fun time. The only way you could make it through a mission without casualties would be to get extremely lucky. I heard the later expansions fixed this, but honestly I didn't care by then.

The later expansions made it worse, to be honest. The first game is easier. You have to play it like a stealth game - he who sees first, wins. The AI is no more accurate than you, I think. It's just very accurate and bullets are very lethal. The one shot one skill aspect of the game is the worst feature, IMO, as it just makes it not fun for most mortal players like me. You have to save and reload. And you eventually learn the map, so that you predict the AIs position. These things are particularly egregious in the timed missions and similar where you need quick and near perfect play to progress. Both things are bad and stop the game being great. (As does never being able to see your gun, grrr). Still it is one of the few games on my shelf I would consider replaying in the near future.

**Craterus** · 08-02-2009, 02:41

Got Civ IV lying around somewhere. It was a gift but I don't have a computer capable of running it.

(Not sure if it's a great or highly-rated game and I'm not a huge fan of RTS games but it comes to mind as one that's never been installed).

**Krusader** · 08-04-2009, 08:58

Half-Life 2 Never got into it...but bought it for the mods, which ironically I never ended up playing anyhow.

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Dunno, just something that put me off.

Medieval 2: Total War I hated how generic the armies were (after Rome, but also I felt MTW1 had better unit lineup) and most of all the lack of immersion/believeability. If I had good relations with another faction it did not matter, they would attack you anyhow even if they had 3-4 other enemies. Think I played more Broken Crescent than M2TW vanilla.

Empire: Total War Spent 10-15 hours on the campaigns total. And that was before the patches.

Crysis: Shiny graphics, good enough UI, but just wasn't interesting.

**Fragony** · 08-04-2009, 09:04

Have yet to touch Fallout 3, keeping it for the dark days, too restless when it's sunny.

**A Terribly Harmful Name** · 08-04-2009, 09:16

Empire Earth and Age of Mythology back some years ago.

**rajpoot** · 08-04-2009, 10:47

Medal of Honour Pacific Assault. Bought this when I finished playing Medal of Honour Allied Assault, which I'd gotten as a gift. Never got around to playing it though, by the time it was shipped, I was back to AOE2 and AOM.

Loki. This one was available cheap, so picked it. Installed it, but didn't like it, so removed it within the hour.

And finally ETW. It just won't work. Tried everything.....literally. Finally I came to the conclusion that it's due to my dual core processor which is 2.0 GHz insted of 2.4 GHz.....so I'm waiting until something comes out to optimise it for Dual Core.