I dunno if I'm proud, but can usually just tell certain games aren't going to gel with me for myriad reasons from tone to actual gameplay
All Far Cry games after 2. (The caveman one was kind of cool though)
Dragon age 2
Outer worlds
Grounded
Borderlands 2 and 3 (first one was enough)
All MMOs
Valheim
Expeditions Rome
Starfield
Horizon Zero dawn
Grim Dawn
Disco
There are a whole number of games I have held off on for a number of reasons, mostly time, but also I have plenty of....Evidence? Suspicion? Echo Chambers?...that much of the content will not sit well with me and potentially pull me out of the experience, and wasting my hard earned money and more importantly time, I've not played any and can't tell if stuff I have read is blown out of proportion:
Baldurs Gate 3 (best rpg evah or danger hair woke creampie?)
Wartales: lady soldiers, dudes get gay because they are friends. Is it's battle bros for pee pee lovers?
Pathfinder WoT whatever it's called: lots of shit slinging here has had me hold off, though I do enjoy Kingmaker.
I'm not starved for games either way, still playing everything from modded FNV to Tactics Ogre, System Shock, Elden Ring, Zomboid, CDDA, Viking Conquest, Rome 2 and Attila, CK2, Days Gone, UnderRail, Fallout EtTu, BG 1and 2, Dead State, Colony Ship, spell force 3, Balrum, many many others.
Starting an Avernum playthrough soon, didn't realize I bought ALL of that dudes games years ago, never actually played any.
I don't even feel anything when a game I looked forward to ends up being not for me (wartales) I have enough content to enjoy and ignore the crap