For curiosity.......what game feature turns you away from purchasing a game the fastest? In my case the first thing that discourages me is a timer. Perhaps to others its graphics, sound or something else.

Hmmmmm Cherie, good question. Thinking thinking--looking around my den and wondering if anything does

Just kidding! I don't like timers and because of a hearing loss, can't do sound puzzles unless there are visual clues. I also don't like sliders though the ones you swap instead of slide are great.

But if a game gets my interest enough, I will 'try' it and depend on my KISA to get me through the parts I can't do.

Actually, I think my number one all time turn off is "save points" but you generally don't have that problem with casual games.

I don't like timers, but more than that there are certain types of gameplay I am just not interested in -- for example time management and arcade puzzles.

I don't like blurry graphics or too small objects in a HOG, but even more than that I don't like dreary graphics or graphics with weird tinting like you're wearing tinted glasses.

I don't like penalties for wrong clicks and I don't like when I click something and it registers as a wrong click because I didn't click on the right part of the object.

A bad soundtrack will also turn me away from a game. Even if you find you can turn it off, it kind of sets the tone the first time you play the trial for the game.

Yeh! those timed games are the pits, casual means casual to me so I like to take my time when I buy a game. If I'm doing the demo first then I can rush a little.

No tiney tiny graphics for me, I don't like to search for those items at all. Give anything but that.

Games that are too short, if I play the demo and its good and buy it only to find out that is very short, it make me kind of , I hate to spend my hard earned money on them.

"Paperclips"; trying to find them sometimes has me pulling my hair. One game I played had to find a paperclip 3 times in 3 different scenes in a row.

I'm also not into time management; did try one and felt like I was going into panic mode trying to satisfy customers.

I have good hearing but also not into sound type puzzles.

I really hate timers. I tend to walk away from a game when RL (Real Life) interferes and hate when the timer has gone off and left me with a scene to do over.

I do not like time management or match three games. Just personal preference for HOGs and IHOGs and I love adventure lite games.

I also do not like sound puzzles because I tend to play games with the sound down to not disturb my hubby. I also do not like the Simon like puzzles where you have to match the sounds or lights unless they are only up to four or five matches. Any more and I never remember them.

And I too, have a hard time finding paper clips, pens and needles. Something about straight line Hidden Objects that I cannot see. I like when the HOs are something normally found at a location. I do not understand vacuum cleaners or televisions being in an Egyptian Pyramid?

Good question. Thanks for asking.

My list is the same as Jenny's. I don't like
time limits, time management, arcade puzzles, sliders, blurry objects and dreary,colorless environments. I also don't like games that don't allow you to find extra hints. I don't mind small objects if they are not blurry.

I love memory type mini games and word games as well as finding 15 same item objects. That's my favorite. I also love games like Sleepy hollow that allow you to see the shape of an item before using a hint.

Kim

Don't like timers and would love the places you explore had items from that place and period of time. Don't like blurry items and things that are lighten so much it would take an eternity to find the item. Don't like arcade games in the HOGS. I like a good story great graphics and music that is soothing and a game that you can't do anything but play. And even if you stop you want to go back to playing the game so more. Games that are too short and make you feel that you wasted your money on it.
Having a great game support group like Gameboomers and Big Fish are essential which we do have.

I feel much the same as everyone else, but have an unusual dislike -- I don't like weird locations. No jungles, pyramids, deserts, islands -- "explore exotic locales" is sure to turn me off in a description.

Also don't care for sci-fi or fantasy. Just give me a good Nancy Drew or Mystery Case File (especially now that they've given up the timer) and I'm happy.

Oh yeah, and I'm over match-3 and time management. Things have changed since Azada.