A Documented List of Minor Annoyances That Have Kept Me From Replaying Games I Genuinely Enjoyed the First Time

I'm not usually a one and done kinda game player, usually I replay games multiple times after beating it the first time. Sometimes in rapid succession, other times over the course of several years but either way I typically revisit the games I've finished on at least one more occasion. There's always a chance though that the second playthrough stops cold due to one specific reason. Maybe some of these make sense to you, maybe some just seem ridiculous, but I'm gonna be completely honest with each one.
(I want to make clear, since I'm not fond of being all that negative, that I truly did enjoy all of these on my 1st playthrough. If someone asked me if they should play any of these my answer would be "Yeah, go for it!")

The game doesn't tell you which cars you've already bought when browsing a dealership and I have a shit memory
(Need for Speed Heat does this too)
There's a sculpture stealing mission that alternates between excruciatingly boring and incredibly frustrating
map too big, horse too slow
map too big, horse too slow
map too big, Aloy too slow
I've never thought of any musou game I've played as particularly difficult, but Persona 5 Strikers can be so trivialized I don't really hold an interest in playing it again.
A bug softlocked me about halfway through a 2nd playthrough and instead of turning the game off and back on, restarting from a checkpoint or something else I just kinda uninstalled the game and moved on
the same thing you've heard about a million times from a million other people, Batmobile
I started again after my first playthrough to try 3rd person mode, got lost in the village and just didn't have the drive to keep going
bemoaning the lack of a new game plus where you can start with all the agents unlocked
map too big, horse too slow
2 playthroughs of the original, 1 of this one, I just didn't have the steam anymore. Maybe if I got a portable version like I have for 3 & 4
one day I was playing this one again and maybe I was in a weird mood or something, but hearing Guns & Roses for the thousandth time just tugged the wrong wire in my brain, I groaned, and turned my ps3 off
every time I try this again I fail at the Shop class and just stop playing for some reason
If you're playing the career mode you have to simulate matches on the card you're not involved in which is done by watching health bars slowly deplete on the menu and it's excruciating.

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