I agree about the lack of urgency.
I don't agree about the voice acting being wooden and uninspired but that might be because I was using the German voices.

Yeah, I was using the English voices.

Most Daedelic games have awful English voice acting. Even if you don't understand German I would recommend playing with the voices turned to german.

Oh yeah! I guess my brain blocked that one out.

A good point. A benefit of waiting is that you see more of what the game is like in videos and such, and are less likely to be disappointed. In other words you know what you are buying, or at least the risk vs investment is much less.

Much of people's regret comes from the disappointment of how they imagined what the game would be like and what the actual game was like. A significant factor in this is the interpretation of what the developers are communicating and the availability of information about the game (videos etc). Another factor is the (mis)information, (mis)interpretation and bias given by our "lovely" Gaming Media.

Oh, I remembered another one: Sir, You Are Being Hunted! Not that it's bad, it's just that I don't really enjoy this kind of game, which is ironic since I was the one who put it on GOG's wishlist, thinking it was a delightfully quirky idea. Maybe because of that I felt some obligation to buy it soon, without waiting for huge discounts, but it's unlikely I will ever play more than the half hour or so after which I had enough of it ...

And Mass Effect 2's Arrival DLC. Not just overpriced, but it forced a tough moral decision on my character without giving me a choice. You make that choice by playing or not playing the DLC, if you do, it's part of your character's history, even before you know what it's about, and I hated that.

Skyrim for me.

I waited the Legendary Edition down to $20.00 and finally caved on it given how much I thoroughly loved Morrowind and Oblivion.

I've put 20 hours into it and most of those were painful ones. The game severely penalizes you for how you build your character. Put points into sneaking, lock-picking, persuasion... lol, jokes on you, now mudcrabs can one-shot you because you were SUPPOSED to put points into light armor and archery. I loathe how the skill tress work in this game as well.

IMHO, this rips the game right out of the franchise. It would be like removing stealth from the Thief games. The devs trying to "fix" how people played the game is the exact opposite of a game where you can play however you like (the whole point of the ES series, again, IMHO).

There were also some story and gameplay elements that either bothered me or bored me. I'll likely try again, but I've stuck at 20 hours for months now with little desire to pick it up.

For all I know, it's just a quirk with my particular system. Those things happen. <shrug> Had a similar problem with Space Rangers 2 but found a disk version (an updated version that gOg later acquired) at a store and that took care of it.

Defender Of The Crown

Non-game mechanics aside I'll say one word: Mods. :)

Well, I'm at the opposite side! I really liked it. I've put nearly 200 hours and I'm still enjoying it.. Not playing vanilla though as I'm using some mods (mainly graphics/ sound/ UI). Still, after so many hours I haven't progressed in the story as I've completed only 2-3 missions so I can't comment on it's quality.

I love the TES games for the exploration rather than the stories so that must be the reason why I enjoy them without getting bored.. Don't get me wrong though, I don't mean they are perfect games (far from it to be fair!). Each one have it's problems and it's virtues.

Story and most characters are terrible, IMHO. However i love Skyrim for the exploration aspect of the game. And mods enhances the gameplay experience significantly. :D

I would agree with that. The story, most characters (and in my opinion, most quests) are pretty awful in Skyrim but it's great for exploration (even despite the level scaling) and mods can fix whatever issues you have with the game (including adding in decent NPCs and quests).

My only GoG regret:

Lone Survior. The reviews caught my attention. I just posted a write up in the other thread (good surprises) about what I consider an impulse buy - less impulsive, more a game in a genre / style I don't usually enjoy, but that catches my attention and which I follow for a while (reviews, forum mentions etc).

So Lone Survior is in a genre I never played nor had much of a desire to do so (old school Resident Evil style). I also don't generally like pixel art (those Wadjet eye games look great - they seem to make it work and get a lot out of them - the style "fits" and doesn't become a detraction, it adds to a game. I find most, for me, end up being a distraction).

So the reviews suggest Lone Survior has a few "extras" (branching paths, a reactive world, characters and situations the player may totally miss) and for me the pixels were right about in the "middle" of what I thought I could tolerate - it might be ugly; or it might actually work with the dark atmosphere and end up leaning toward a good fit.

I pull the trigger during a sale, start up the game and immediately have to restart it five times, because the on screen instructions to enter my name don't seem to work. Uh-oh, bad sign. I hate terrible / cumbersome interfaces. Never do find out how to actually enter my name, guess I'm just unnamed, which the game has a pre-written response to. Was I never meant to actually be able to enter a name? Is this some pseudo-deep form of reflection? Is this just shitty coding where the button the first screen told me to press to enter a name doesn't work? I don't know.

I last less than half a night of real world play time. It's slow, it's cumbersome, it's stupid, it's not scary and it's not fun. I feel like I'm playing a game on my calculator, but with pretty graphics. The calculator games were more entertaining. To this day I don't know where I was supposed to find the fun, and I wish I could have just given it to someone who would have enjoyed it. Sometimes I'm glad I tried something and found out I didn't like it. This time I just wish I had never bought the thing.