Started messing around with my copy of FATE this morning only to realize the damn thing has been installed on here for over two years now and I never so much as fired a shot with it. :P

This thread is a plea for empathy. Please tell me some of you have does this! XD

I know I have done this.

I believe I installed Quest for Glory on some machine, but never got around to playing it.

Also, I have a few physical games that I have bought, opened, but never actually played. (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, for example.)

Edit: This isn't counting games that didn't work properly on my system, like the Humble Bundle version of Legend of Grimrock.

Windows default games.

We're living in really weird times, don't we? Ten years ago we would have said "bought but unplayed". Because that would have been crazy, spending a shitload of money and then NOT PLAYING THE GAME. Today, you have a backlog of hundreds of games (well, when you use Steam and/or have a twitchy mouse finger during sales). You have to install it for it to be weird.

...don't think I ever did that though. But don't worry, it's because I didn't yet arrive in the new millennium. I think it's quite natural for this to eventually happen. :)

Is that the new Rockstar release?

I heard it was kind of a add on DLC for GTA V.

Nah, I think he means his brain, installed but never used. Fitting name for his brain by the way, he knows what he is.

Neverwinter Nights 1 is the game that is installed on my PC for more than 2 years but never started playing it.

I have done it a few times, though I tend to play things once at least when I install. Slain recently, installed played about a minute, moved on. Nothing on the game, its just I have too many to play.

I installed Fallout Tactics a year and a half ago, and still have not played it. It's not even near the top of my backlog :P

Buying games does become an addiction after all.
Hence the huge backlog. Fortunately I cured mine.

I installed Deus Ex: Invisible War three months ago. Haven't played it yet because of other better games.

I don't think I've ever discovered an installed game I forgot about, but perhaps that's because I don't have a very large hard drive.
Well, come to think of it, I did once discover my Warcraft 3 game folder, which I forgot I had copied from my old desktop pc before it had a heart attack. Surprisingly, and very luckily since my dvd drive is broken, the game runs without the disc. However that's not quite the same because I've often 'fired a shot' at the game. Only fairly recently did I manage to finally beat the campaign on hard, which I had been struggling off and on with for years. Turns out a crapload of basic nightelf archers are all that's need to keep back Archimonde

Installed but never played? I don't think so. I mean, there's The Stanley Parable, which Steam advertised as having a Linux download, but which wouldn't start because the binary itself wasn't actually there until recently (now, Steam says I have about 75 minutes in the game). Then there's Tabletop Simulator, which isn't so much a game itself as an application to play games in, and which pretty much requires friends to have any fun with, so that's been sitting pretty much unused beyond an initial launch to get a feel for the application.

Beyond that, no, I think I've played, at least for a while, everything I've installed (though there are, of course, a bunch of games I have yet to install, and some I likely never will).

A few? I think I have at least several dozens, maybe even hundreds, of such old PC retail games. Never installed nor played them, they've been in my backlog for a very long time.

With console (Playstation and PS2) games I've had this problem less, probably because it was always much easier and faster to pop in a console game CD into the console and fire it up, than installing an old PC game, trying to find the latest patches for it, maybe mess up with DOSBox in case it was a DOS game, etc. Console games at least used to be much easier to try out quickly.

I have several though that I have installed and only barely touched after that.

For instance, I am just now thinking of installing Fallout (GOG classic version), and some of the recommended mods for it. I already did that all on another PC which I am not using anymore, so now I'd need to redo it all on this PC so that I could finally play Fallout properly. I only played it barely out of the starting cave on that other PC.

Same for Icewind Dale 2, I was still stuck on that other PC creating my party, trying to understand the different aspects of the ADD system in IWD2 (different than in IWD). Mainly I tried to create a similar party that I had earlier in IWD, but ran into some problems understanding how to achieve that, due to the differences.

You know what bugs me about your avatar? I mean apart from it not making sense mathematically :)
I felt it reminded me of something. But now I know: Mace Windu's lightsaber!

How is it when Anakin jumped out of a speeder in the middle of nowhere in a city he'd never been to, he somehow manages to find somewhere safe to land, but when Mace gets thrown out the window of the building he works at, and has for years, he falls to his death?