I think LE stands for "Light Edition" or something like that, so I guess it's a quite weak graphics card even for the time of its release; not really fit for a modern gamer PC, just basic stuff (good enough for most GOGs though)

I'm in the same boat with huge backlog so I try to add selectively to my unplayed list. That said, I sometimes buy some high profile games even if I have reservations about them (such as Oblivion that I recently bought for $5), I will make do with reviews and gameplay videos if I can't play a demo (for example for Wii games), and I still buy Humble Bundles mostly blindly.

The days when I could blindly purchase a game based on a neat box and interesting concept for $10 and be thoroughly satisfied are long gone. I don't think it's me that's changed, either - it's the games. PS2 was the king of blind purchase gaming because even its shovelware was better than a lot of the triple A titles being pushed out nowadays.

And you expect official reviews from GOG to be more critical than those of their customers? :D

Of course not all reviews are helpful but most of the time you can get a good idea by reading and comparing several here, on mobygames and other sites with reviews that you can google. And I suspect it's only a minority of GOGs that you can't find a gameplay video for, on youtube or somewhere else.

I feel the greater issue is the lack of PC demos for certain games from a technical point of view. You can inform yourself about what kind of game a given title is and how the chances are that you'll like it or not, but you can never be 100% sure whether it will run on your system at all (info on system requirements is often not enough in my experience, and not always easy to read and compare - even worse when the game contains DRM).

I tend to trust developers, like I trust directors when it comes to movies (or show-runners with TV shows). Sometimes that can burn you, like Ridley Scott's last decade of work or Dragon Age 2, but for the most part it's a fairly reliable system.

Past that, if a game is right in my wheelhouse, like a cyberpunk RPG or a massive open world game, then I will usually be more up for a risky blind purchase than normal. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing... EYE: Divine Cybermancy, for example, was a time I got screwed.

Thanks for that information, so now it maybe will work on my old desktop. I decided I will get it wether it will work or not. I already spent too much time for research and I know myself that at the last day of sale I will nevertheless buy it.