Games you gave up on.

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The Division 2, Fallout 76, No Mans Sky. Too many games that promised too much and gave us none of it.

I put in hours to complete or adequately play all three of the games, but after they had updates to their game I never really came back from just how hollow the first experience was.
 
I'm ready to piss off a lot of people lol

Bloodborne: I'm a big fan of Fromsoftware but bloodborne never clicked with me and I gave up at this big electric dog, mostly due to the onshot old ladies that grab you in the prison area before the boss.

Sekiro: I enjoyed Sekiro but the zombie gorilla got the better of me, I hit a wall and eventually other games came out. I might go back but probably not.

Witcher 3: This was my first witcher game and after spending about 10 hours in the first little village and the surrounding area I was overwhelmed with content and I put the game away to play when I had more time. This was at launch and I haven't touched it since.

Honorary mention to fallout 4: I had about 10 different characters and never went beyond killing Kellog with any of them, I have no regrets.

EDIT: I forgot about Persona 5, gave up on the stupid cruise ship palace where you run around as mice, not fun.
 
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Mafia III. The repetitive mission structure just to get to the bosses was tedious and humdrum.

Basically for the chunk of the game, you have to take over districts in New Bordeaux (New Orleans in the 60s). To do that, you have to go to a market to a territory, destroy stuff and kill the enemies there to claim it. It's locked behind damage so once you do that enough times, you unlock the boss to take out that's overly protected with enemies. Sounds alright the first few times, maybe even as a side mission.

But try that ~34 times as the ONLY missions to progress. I was so bored, I just watched the playthrough on YouTube. Great story, horrible gameplay loop.

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Monopoly. I keep getting stuck on the corner by the jail. It's either landing on the hotel, or getting sent to the slammer. Either way I'm poor and mortgaged to hell and back.
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Lol, I actually persisted on that until I got all the online achievements for it before the server closure. It didn't help that the online community was practically a ghost town. And games last a half hour at best. All that waiting.
 
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I love Luigi's Mansion.

Luigi's Mansion 2 was a pile of dog shit. I gave it so many chances and it was nothing at all compared to the first game. They completely botched the controls and the nature of the game's environment. There was no giant mansion to freely explore! I thought the art direction and visuals were excellent.

Luigi's Mansion 3 looks better. But I'm really fucking worried it's not going to deliver.
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I feel the same way, Luigi's Mansion is one of my favorite games and I was stoked for the second, but it didn't recapture what was so great about the original. I've tried to go back and play it but it always just makes me want to play the original instead. I really hope the third is good but I might still wait until it's been out for a while and people start talking about it.
 
Pretty sure I've never finished a JRPG after I was a child.
I've given up on every Elder Scrolls as well.
Gave up on FO4.

I don't know, as I get older I just prefer to play more casual stuff like shooters and not care if I even do well. Just throw on a podcast or some music in the background and relax.
 
For me? Dark Souls.

Not because it was hard or frustrating, but because I played Demon's Souls so much. Sooo, so much that when I started playing Dark Souls... I was just disinterested. It was like "oh, well, it's this again." I just set it down most of the way through the first undead area and never went back.
 
The persona Q games
Between the recycled snow queen quest story, shit gameplay and tedious dungeons i just couldnt take it anymore
And it didnt help that they flanderised even futher the only nu persona cast that i liked
 
I rarely finish any game these days, but special mention belongs to Fallout 4 which was like, really boring. It had it's very specific moments but they were just too few and far in between to keep me going.

Stellaris is another one. Keep coming back to it, pirate the latest DLCs, install some promising mods and hope it's good now. It isn't. It never is. I really want to at least get once into the late game but somewhere mid-game it just turns into a slog. How people keep playing it over and over and actually finish their games is completely beyond me.
 
I gave up on Elder Scrolls III and it was right near the end as well.

It was right around the point you had to become the Hortator for the 3 houses. I can't even remember which one I got stuck on, but I basically had to either barge in to a restricted area or convince someone to vote for me (I think? It's been years). Now my speech skill wasn't high enough so I figure that I would barge in and kill someone. That's when I found that I couldn't even do that because the guards were strong as shit.

Now I could have gone out and explore to find cool shit to make myself stronger, but I had dumped something like 40 hours in and getting stonewalled like that was demoralizing. I should go back and beat it since it's the only Elder Scrolls I actually like.
 
Evil Genius.
I played it when it came out, was charmed by the idea and aesthetic, dropped off of it, and spent the next decade or so falling on and off of it, convinced I was missing something.
Then I watched some video about it from some youtube guy called tehsnakerer or some shit, and I realized, no, this game is actually bad. The game simply had such a unique concept people WANTED it to be good, and therefore everyone decided it was good, but it just didn't work on them. I base this on the fact that anyone I know who played it used cheats or only played like, an hour or so before also putting it away, vowing to go back to it, but never doing so.
 
Majora's Mask. I like the story of the game and I like watching people play it but I personally hate playing that game. Like, fuck those time travel mechanics.
 
I'll finish the story of a game I don't care much for more often than not but I'm a trophy fag and right now the bane of my existence is Emily Wants to Play.

I'm stupid for being as annoyed with it as I am and it's stupid for being as shit as it is, but I play an embarrassing amount of awful indie horror games and this one just makes me irate. Past the first couple nights you're just fighting random spawns with conflicting mechanics no matter what you do. Like there's an enemy where you have to freeze and an enemy where you have to run and the game loves to drop them within five seconds of each other so your only option is to start the night over and hope it doesn't happen again. I uninstalled it.

There are some games I've loved but just do not have the energy or inclination to 100% them and it's a thorn in my side. Metro 2033 and Arkham Knight come to mind. I'm slowly working my way through trying to 100% all possible Fromsoft games but I'm feeling like Sekiro might be one of these, too. I only bought it after seeing Dear Leader rage and while it's fun and challenging I just enjoy Soulsborne gameplay much more.

I haven't beaten the DLC for The Evil Within or RE7 either so they're both incomplete despite the time I soaked into the main games and it activates my almonds. I'll get around to RE7 on a sale but after Akumu TEW can just go fuck itself directly off.
 
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