This is why I hate ordering my backlog, because you inevitably play a game solely for the sake of beating it.

The first F.E.A.R. was like that. I appreciated what it did for shooters at the time, but I really just wanted to finish the thing and get to the more fluid and varied F.E.A.R. 2.

I felt this way about Final Fantasy XIII, but after a while of reflection, I could see myself playing it again.

And most recently, Morrowind. I appreciate the setting and story, but strictly as a game it just wasn't any fun to play. It's not just things tied to graphics, either, like the clunky combat. It was a lot of intangibles, too, like dungeon design and quest progression. None of the quests had those "Random Epic Moments" that Oblivion had. It was always just talking to people or beating someone up.