Ice_Mage: I liked the first game a whole lot, and loved the second. So I'm wondering if you played the games back in their heyday circa 1999 or more recently.
Both, and actually a bit more back in the days, but never really far. Not quite when it came out though, maybe 2 or 3 years after. I think it's just the whole genre in my case. I like being sneaky in RPGs, just for the fun of it, but I don't like it if my character's life depends on it and being discovered is as good as game over. Though tbh at this point I don't really know how the first Thief plays anymore and whether that even applies to it, it's more spoken in general, about other games in the genre.
kai2: Looking at this thread I keep thinking of more games that I "couldn't get into," and that has started me thinking that... the majority of games I play I just don't "get into." Still, for me, there was a "sweet spot" during the PS3/X360 generation where I found many titles extremely engaging and "got into" a lot of them.
I confined myself to popular series, because otherwise there would be no end to my lists, heh. I guess for every game I get drawn into, there are, like, ten I've tried that left me cold. Many aren't even all that bad, just not exciting enough that I feel I have to play them either. And there are many that I enjoy for a little while but never finish (including almost all rogue-likes and -lites I tried).