Ok... I love games where you watch things.  Not in the sense of MGS4.... here's 50 cutscenes heres what i mean.

Creating "Make-your own" wrestlers in wrestling games then simulate shows of wrestling.

Make teams of Create a players in MLB Power Pros and watch the Continental Congress take on the US Presidents.

Setting up a game of Romance of the 3 kingdoms to watch mode. 

Setting up two sides in Advanced Wars and watch them go at each other.  

Age of Empires 2 was a great one because you could set up everyone as AIs and then quit the game and watch the AI's fight each other.  They even had contests where the games AI's would fight each other.  This was the peak of such "gaming" for me.

Does anyone know of any sort of games like this that actually cater to this sort of thing rather then it being a side unintended mode?

No one?

Anyone know any good side modes for this at all?

Really this is one of the reasons i'm going to have to learn how to program.

Well Gears 2 has some nice watching parts after my rapid death. Sometimes you can watch some great matches after death, it can be very tense, especially in a guardian game, when I am the dead leader, and my team is fighting to get me closer to that achievement, it can be very tense!