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Yes. I would really really love these games (KCD1&2 are good examples) until the enjoyment fell off a cliff. My advice is ignore most side quests and focus the main story to maximise your enjoyment before burn out. And yeah, its kind of a 'where were we again?' feeling of requiring effort to get back into it that turned me off picking them back up.
It's not so much that the game itself made me burn out on it. I guess I didn't make it clear in my post, but what I'm really criticizing is my own neuroses and weaknesses of insufficient energy/capacity combined with insufficient flexibility. There's nothing about KCD2 that says I can't play it for 30-60 minutes at a time, a few times per week. It honestly doesn't have to be a "2-3 hours every day" type of deal. There are a few long cutscenes but you can always save and quit in pretty short order. The aversion is not a logical one. When it shows up simply because, for reasons unrelated to the game(s) itself, I was away from a game for a while, it's clear to me that the problem is somewhere inside my own mind. There's some emotional pain related to the concept of combining the type of gameplay you get in an RPG, with the emotional and moral decision making, with work or other more work-like things, in one block of time (e.g. an afternoon). Civ is easier to fold into a regular day, easier to relate to because it is strategy and it is isometric in perspective. More involved types of gaming evoke more of an all-or-nothing mindset for me. shrug
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