Temple of Elemental Evil w/Circle of Eight mod: I might try again, but after 7 or 8 attempts to defeat Balor without anything approaching success I gave up. This is a glitchy game and I found that the Co8 patch/mod only seems to fix scripting errors while upping the difficulty. Maybe I'll load that save game next year..

Meh, from my experience, I have never ended-up enjoying a game after forcing myself to play it enough to "get" it. (Which is not to be confused with games that simply have a large learning curve, though.)

Edit: Same goes with games that I drop due to boredom or frustration. When I come back to them later, I am always reminded why I dropped them in the first place.

That game is pissing me off because it's almost as hard when I first tried it close to release and I knew nothing of D&D mechanics and now after playing a few I still can't make any progress. Next time I try it I'm going to take a fcking lesson from a master of that game before I even touch it.

there is a glitch at character creation, randomizing like 200 times and then advanced -> drag & drop the 200 number let's say to strength

Empire Total War - it runs like shit on my computer and it's just boring compared to other Total War games > so had to uninstall game

FTL - the game is very half ass, too hard and the game play annoys me > so had to uninstall game

Guns Of Icarus Online - the maps for this game suck and ships aren't allowed to have enough crew and that makes the game less fun > so had to uninstall game

Omerta - combat mode runs like shit on my computer and that pisses me off -> so had to uninstall game

Saints Row 2 - runs funny on my machine and the graphics bother me and the world is too silly > so had to uninstall game

XCOM - Enemy Unknown - this game is way too fucking hard for me and makes me rage > so had to uninstall game

Prototype 2 - runs like shit molasses on my PC so > so had to uninstall game

Crusader Kings - boring after 30 minutes so > so had to uninstall game

COD Modern Warfare 2 - too many hacked servers and cheaters > so had to uninstall game

Call Of Juarez - Gunslinger - too hard > so had to uninstall game

I got that way from the demo. Obviously I managed to save a few bucks.
BTW we are in an extreme minority not digging that title.

I know. It is a good game but the game HATES YOU. All the aliens are like elite snipers while your soldiers shoot like kids playing paintball for the first time... And all the countries in the world, act like little bitches. WAHHHH, you've been ignoring us lately, SO WE ARE GOING TO CUT YOU OFF!!! And once in awhile, you have to watch your favorite soldier get killed in a horrible way by an alien that comes out of nowhere.

I guess I need to write another one down, as it looks like I'm only wasting my time with....
McPixel. Umm...okay? What's up with this game? Random puzzles that you need to solve with no hints in just a few seconds, or else a bomb explodes and you need to try again later? And by solve I mean "try everything until that one thing you tried is actually the one you needed to try", because you can't really predict what happens until you try it. The music in the stages consist of just one short loop, and it is...not good. And while I understand the graphical style is a design choice, it's just too pixelated even for me. PewDiePie might like this crap but I certainly don't...

HAve you tried looking up the 'STALKER complete series of mods? Apparently they go a long way to dealing with all the bugs and crashes.

Had it installed before even trying Clear Sky vanilla
It did well for 20 hours then just seemed to start crashing a lot

I have a steady stream of games to try so I'm abandoning all of them at some stage to try the next but ones which I feel that I officially abandoned even though would have like to have finished?

1. Pudding Panic

The click and drag interface just couldn't keep up with the speed and challenge the game presented. The title looks like a casual game for kids but I'm a forty year old adult from the Odyssey 2 era and wanted to throw my PC out the window.

2. Pound of Ground

Some segments of the game slap you with a "Driver 1" level of difficulty. This normally wouldn't be so bad but the load times for this game are unbearable.

I think the closest I have come to ditching a game as of late has been Diablo 2. And I only ditched that because I found out just how much more AWESOME TES: Oblivion is.

I pretty regularly pick up games, drop them for a while, and come back some time later, but one recent game that sticks out in memory is Crysis 2. The game runs fine most of the time, but fairly frequently, and seemingly at random, it will suddenly drop to 1 frame per second, becoming completely unplayable. The only solution I have found is to restart the game and hope it doesn't happen again - and since the game uses stupid checkpoint saves, this means losing progress, making this problem essentially no better than a random crash to desktop.

Eventually this became too frustrating to deal with, and I gave up. Oh well, it wasn't as good as Crysis 1 anyway.

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess that you aren't very old? This isn't meant to criticize you in any way, it's just that many of us older gamers used to wait more than 10 minutes for a game to load, back in the tape days. As such, we probably have more patience than people who grew up with hard drives. To me, 10 seconds doesn't sound like a ridiculously long time to wait for an AI turn, but I can easily imagine that someone who never had to wait for a tape drive would feel otherwise.

I've played the last three games, but no expansions on the newest Civ game. Once all the land gets gobbled up, the AI does start taking a long time. In Civ4 there was an option to disable viewing some of the AI's moves. Perhaps Civ5 has the same options and you have it set to view all combat.
I stopped playing Civ5 for an entirely different reason, it sucks. I still have Civ4 installed and play it on occasion.

Civ5 for me was abandoned, but I think it was last year...two months after it came out whenever that was.