I think it's Die by the sword. I can't simply set the controls into anything enjoyable. I know it's a "getting used to" kinda thing, but it turns into a "getting frustrated" kinda situation much quicker than a "getting used to" one. It quickly became a "getting uninstalled" one before any kind of fun had a chance to set in.

Problem?

Not sure what's not computing, I had no interest in the games and wouldn't have picked them up if GOG hadn't used the horrible scaling discount system for the sale. Both games were widely regarded as mediocre and under normal circumstances I wouldn't have bought either.

The only ones I've regretted buying are the ones that won't work properly.

The best way to get used to controls is arena mode. I haven't played the campaign much, but ARENA MODE is just great ;D If you can't get used to mouse controls, use that based on numeric keypad instead. It's much easier to swing a sword with force then, but more difficult to block, i think.

There's nothing better than chopping orcs head off his body.

One of my favourite games ;) (but still damn hard in campaign)
I'm just surprised how many people dislike the games I liked much :P For example, Dragonshard gave me many hours of fun, a nice mixture of Warcraft 3, Spellforce and Battle for middle earth (well, sorta), and some simple D&D mechanics. I personally really like this game ;)

Demon Stone, i haven't played it yet, but I definitely will, after my winter exams.

Stronghold, which I've tinkered with enough to realize it's a fine castle sim, but I don't have any talent for it. I really don't know what I'm doing and the tutorial was no help. This was just getting a sustainable economy off the ground; I didn't even bother with a military campaign. So it's no fun, which all games should be on some level, no matter how deep-buried. I was a big Castles 1/2 fan growing up as a kid, but I guess I understood the mechanics of those games better, or they were simpler, or both.

Divine Divinity, which I originally bought in a brick-and-mortar store but never was able to play due to its curmudgeony SecuROM which hated my computer's virtual drives even with the disc in the CD-ROM. Finally got the opportunity here on GOG, and after toying with it for an hour I realized how burnt out I was on Diablo-esque gameplay after all (I hadn't just imagined it).

Blood I, which I played the shareware version of a long time ago in the dial-up dark ages as a teenager. I had some fond memories of it as a mindless timekiller, but buying and loading it up again was a good lesson in gaming nostalgia; sometimes you can't go home again. I was confronted with just how primitive and crude it was, unforgiving in its difficulty level, and a programming leftover from a previous gaming generation that didn't even have the de rigueur freelook yet. Not all of Monolith's games have aged well.

That's about it; thankfully not that many, and they were cheap disappointments. So if I had to be underwhelmed, better on GOG than at some overpriced software boutique or website.

I am happy except for that pinball package that was supposed to be so great. It downloaded, but has never worked right. Tried all the different machines, but none of 'em work right. Well, it was cheap and no big loss. I used to play real pins back in the day, and I was pretty good. The virtual ones are not the same, but still fun for me. Blast from the past, and all.

I've just got to ask, is this the pinball package you are referring to: Pinball Gold Pack? I only ask because I purchased it during the sale and it works perfectly for me through DOSBox.

Or are you referring to one of the other pinball games on here?

In my case it's not so much dislike as it is disinterest. RTS and Hack 'n' Slash action games just aren't my cup of tea.

I could have bought so many games here (particularly in the last sale, in the end I only got 3 after missing the Zork/KingsQuest titles) but haven't because I simply don't have the time to play them even if I'd like to. (So of the 17 I have, 7 were free + 1 gift)

I think the game I didn't get on with was Psychonauts. I heard many great things about it and I liked the previous games he had created / worked on at Lucasarts but something didn't click. It may be because it felt too like a console game, or that its performance wasn't the best on my computer or that its story didn't grab me quickly enough but whatever the reason it soon got removed to make way for another game. At some point I will return to it and try again but I'll probably be 10 years older by that point.

After that its probably the remastered Broken Sword simply because I didn't like the changes, nor though the game needed them. I was immensely grateful that GOG were allowed to release, as a bonus, the original version. I really should have picked up BS2 in the sale to see what the remastered version was like.

You have to. Stronghold is one of the best 2D RTS games ever made.

Of the ones I actually tried I'd say:

Aquanox (horrible controls)
Expendable (horrible controls)
Ishar (too old-school for me, I guess)

IIRC Blake Stone movement is not any more choppy than Wolf3D's, if you've given it enough CPU cycles. Also, try turning off the floor / ceiling textures - they can contribute to the illusion of choppiness.

Myself, I've got a mapper file for a 360 controller which I use for BS :)