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My most recent play-through of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 ended in failure because I literally could not get myself together enough to fight
Spoiler even though old game
the Striders.For a while I was convinced that having moved the game between PCs might have triggered some kind of anti-piracy protection and the battle was rigged to be impossible... but it's more likely that I just lost the reflexes and timing to be able to pull it off. Especially since I own a legitimate copy and was playing through Steam.
A similar story is true of the final battle in Quake 4, which I barely remember now. Pretty sure I was still on Windows at the time and I've been on Linux for the better part of a decade. It was also from a backup and wasn't through Steam, but I own a legit copy of the game and there are no in-game alarms that I remember so that might be on the reinstall and replay list at some point. Maybe.