Which games come to your mind from that definition? Games you really like / liked, but which contain awful / boring scenes or parts which either almost or completely made you stop playing.

Can't think of any specific ones atm, but there have been several console/handheld games that I never actually played. I started the game, spent 10 mins hitting 'A' waiting for the characters to shut the hell up and let me play, then said F~ this and never went back to it. Long intros/cut scenes that you can't skip are my major pet peeve, if I wanted to watch a movie, I'd go get a movie.

Final Fantasy 9! Though I did play that until the end, but I know what you mean

Warcraft III falls in that category for me, or at least been the last game I played which enter the description.

WarIII is nothing more than a ripoff of "Myth; the total codex" and warcraft 2.

BOoooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnggggggggggg!

Oh, and I dislike the graphics too... I would have prefered them a little worse... (I hope I don't sound too stupid saying that, but it's true)

What I absolutely hate are mazes in Adventure games. Their sole purpose is to make a game seem longer while providing not the slightest bit of entertainment! I stopped playing Zak Mc Kracken because of the maze-flood (yes, never finished it). I stopped playing Indy 3 because of the mazes temporarily and finished it over a year later. And as a more 'current' example: I stopped playing The Riddle of Master Lu (which wasn't a good game to start with) when I encountered the first maze in there. A real 'killer-feature'

I know what you mean EoF... I really liked the idea behind War3 and such and in my eyes it could have been a great game but it's just way to easy and I would have prefered real movies to relate the story in stead of the in game movies which I think suck balls... I really like the multiplayer games though (even though the maps are too small for my taste)...

Besides, the fighting with enemies is very annoying. You lose energy which you can't get back other than with a rare first aid kit...

Even though I love these types of games like pq ans sq etc. Games like those where you can die for no apparent reason, and if you happen to have not saved for a while it really shits you

That was one of my major peeves in the quest for glory series... I used to get really absorbed by the story and thus I would forget to save and then I would meet one wrong monster on the way to something and die which would ussually mean doing about half the game again just because it didn't autosave... I usually dislike autosave functions and turn them of from the moment I spot them but in sometimes they do come in handy...

Another annoying thing is games that have no save function. Having to go through level 1 400 times just to get to lever 8 is extremely monotonous.

Dying a stupid death in a Sierra adventure is something that would happen to me once in a while, but then I'd be all traumatized and saving every thirty seconds for the next few days...

Remember: save early, save often...

Ugh! King's Quest 4 or something, the one with Rosella. Dying by falling off that damn cliff, dying in the cave, dying at ogres, dying at the island, dying dying dying! I just got so sick of dying I quit.

Tuss

Death Quest....

Personally I think King's Quest 3 was the worst... There was this evil sorcerer, whatever his name was, who was constantly hunting you down and sending you back to his house on top of a mountain with cliffs that were extremely hard to get down from...
Sometimes he got me even before I was at the foot of the mountain...
Eventually, after weeks and weeks of this game of hide and seek, I found out a spell to stop him, but still; he must have been the biggest pain in the ass ever...

hehehe - I'd love to give this Sierra crap negative reviews (because they're always praised everywhere), but I haven't even played them enough for that. Even when I seriously tried to play them, I was always put off immediately again, so these details always escaped me

Well, some of them were more enjoyable than others... I really liked the Leisure Suit Larry series, although those (especially the first episode) had plenty of this 'random dying' in them...
But of course after Larry 3 it all went steeply downhill

I liked the larry-series, the space quest series and the quest for glory-series a lot... I just found the Kings quest serie lacking in humour and such and therefor not enjoyable...

Only played Larry 1 (both versions) and Larry 6 - both were unplayable

Arrrrggg... yeah, I hate that! Like in Freedom: First Resistance where when you die you have to listen to some a**ehole at the beginning of the level telling you what you have to do, and you can't press space to hurry him (or the conversation) up, let alone skip it!

Police Quest 1 was the first game I ever finished that had one main annoying dieing part in the old version especially. Driving that damn car one wrong move and you crashed and died. KQ3 with the sorc I didn't really mind and SQ1 in the last sequence with the sairans and the rock part arrrrgg how annoying we're they.
But still the best random dieing thing has to be from the lesiure suit larry series number 1 with the taxi running over you and better still the guy beating you to death if you moved one screen too far:P