I read it all.
I think I may have had an even more unpleasant install experience, too. I once spent something like three days, many hours a day, working on a game to get it to a level I considered playable. I think, in the end, I actually spent more time trying to make it worth playing than I did playing it. That was a miserable week. The game? Oblivion.
Now, I should mention that there weren't any glaring technical issues causing the problem. There were just so very, VERY many aspects of that games design that I find abhorrent that I just couldn't bear to play it. There were, however, a number of mods out there to fix all these problems. Of course, even just finding the mods is an adventure in itself, and then installing them in such a way that they don't cause conflicts that fubar the game on top of that...
The worst part of it all, though, was at the end. Having logged maybe 15 hours in game, I realized that it wasn't my kind of game. All plot, and exploration, no real character development to speak of. I should have expected that going in, as I never got into Morrowind 3 for the same reasons.
