kt21: Have bought a few games in my life that end up crap after start playing it but never regret one at all.
But there is 1 game I ever regret pre-ordering is the recent release, Omerta.
I avoid games Like Omerta LIKE THE PLAGUE also both syberia 1 and 2 AVOID I played the demos and you walk around for three Fucking hours wondering what the hell to do games like Myst I try to avoid I find the puzzles in these even mid game Far to friggin confusing MOST of the time Most times they are totally illogical take normality for one such game I basically walked around trying everything there was a puzzle where you needed to use debris on the vibrating bed to knock a guard out I tried everything even the debris (peices of wood) on the bed IT DIDN'T WORK I was going around for 5 fucking hours trying everything I thought FUCK THIS playguide time when they said put debris on bed I thoughtto Myself "I ALREADY TRIED THAT AND IT DIDN'T WORK" so I tried it a second time and LO and Behold it finally worked And I could progress in the game Finally!
Genre's to avoid unless you like ending up in a Mental hospital!
RTS/TBS (e.g Age of Empires, Kingdom:TFR, Conquest Of the New World E.C.T.) Too Fucking TEDIOUS
Point and Click "adventure" games (MYST, Normality, Tex Murphy E.C.T.) Illogical and Hint-less Puzzles.
The ENTIRE ULTIMA SERIES EXCEPT (Underworld 1 and 2) Confusing, ASCII everything WEIRD!
Text based "adventure" games (zork and the ILK) ONLY TEXT, Too Confusing
ALL SIM GAMES Especially MANAGERIAL and flight (tycoon series, Caesar series, APACHE and HAWX series) tedious tweak everything games and Flight games with DERANGED keyboard controls ONLY! The only good sims are PINBALL GAMES!
Erm.. GOG the Descent series are NOT sims they are First Person Aerial Combat games and freespace 1 and 2 are third person galactic Combat, They are also SCI-FI you can't actually have SCI-FI and Simulation in the same sentence it's contradictory.
Survival and Sirvival Horror are some of the BEST TITLES (except silent hill 5) Why oh GOD WHY did they mess with the formula WHY!!