Forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me. 

Finally getting around to this, about 1/3 of the way in I think.

Nice game but way too much driving/boating till now. 

If I counted all the times every game I've ever played has crashed, it still wouldn't add up to Timeshift's. This thing crashed probably every 2-3 minutes. It wasn't a game stopping crash, more a graphics crash and it would spit me to the desktop. But the game would still run so I'd just have to alt-tab back in.

During installation it gave me errors that my drivers are out of date and need updating. My drivers are approximately five years newer than this game, so there's no way they're out of date. What it really wants is for me to backdate my drivers to probably something from 2007 for it to be compatible. That's not happening; so I'm forced to play with the desktop popping up every few minutes.

That being said, the fact that I still persevered and finished this game while thoroughly enjoying it, must mean even more than normal. Indeed TimeShift could be considered slightly under-rated when you look at it's many mixed and average reviews. What I'd compare it to most is F.E.A.R. Sure it's missing the dark horror scares and a story, but the gameplay is very similar. While in F.E.A.R. you're forced to use bullet-time constantly during combat, TimeShift takes bullet-time one step further and turns it into proper time control. You can slow time down, completely pause time or, at some points during the game, reverse time - which is very, very cool. To balance things out from being too easy, your ability requires recharging so you can't just use it constantly. But you do need it all through the game in order to survive. The gameplay is fun and well-balanced, although the enemies and weapons could have done with some more variety.

On the other side of board, the 'looks' of the game hold up well. And this respect it completely demoralises F.E.A.R. The art direction, textures, level design all look great. The engine is well up to 2007 standards; not the best around, but adequate enough. There's also enough variety in settings that it never becomes repetitive. You battle through the usual military sci-fi settings with a bit of snow and outdoor areas thrown it, capped on either end by a city setting. All good looking with the occasional set-piece.

Overall a good looking game, decent gameplay. It's just a shame it runs so poorly with it's constant crashing. 

and I dont remember too many crashes. Patched up kona? 

Has anybody tried it? I hear it's pretty crap. 

wait for it to hit the bargain bins :) 

My main issue with ME3 is that it appears to be a Halo game.

"We fight or we die! That's the plan". 

Good game. No crashes. Boring enemy but good gameplay with meaty-feeling weapons IIRC. 

S'okay - I've been playing it. It's actually kinda cool and fun. It has great environmental effects. 

Timeshift was a decent, solid game. Had no issues with crashing though. I played it during xmas last year, it had been sitting on my shelf for years and decided to give it a spin after Singularity. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some of the quirks here and there.

Talking about crashing, anyone here getting problems with BF:BC2? It get several random crashes whether its hangs the PC and need to reboot, or it'll CTD without any errors. Othertimes during gameplay the performance will drop considerably out of nowhere. (And I even have everyone on low just to get optimal results during MP...) I checked the official forums and it seems there are many who also suffer from this.

As a result I probably won't even bother with BF3 if this isn't looked at, doesn't guarantee BF3 will perform any better... 

Could be an overheating issue perhaps, with sudden degradation of performance could be a symptom of a hardware piece throttling itself to avoid exploding :) Could explain the system hangs etc also. 

Lots of screaming. However, the game could be good. It's... novel.

TR's gameplay mechanics are solid gold at the core (no pun intended), but it doesn't always shine :-/

The only "new" TR game I'd totally recommend is Anniversary. But then that's a remake.

Lose the quicktime events though, Crystal. And I fucking hope I can BIND JUMP TO A MOUSE BUTTON THIS TIME. YOU KNOW THAT THING THEY HAVE ON PCs. 

Also, fuck publishers that wreck games. Ahem. 

seems like the whole trend of bigger teams for fancier graphics and such just means publishers get more weight when it comes to design decisions. :( 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWLT0QVPzw 

so how does one play Lost Coast? Finished HL2, but that doesnt seem to unlock anything. 

You add it form your steam Library tab. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. 

It's its own seperate game on steam. 

download Mission Improbable from Planetphillip.com 

started amnesia -the dark descent, so far its impressive 

Comes out on june 14 (in north america)! Not sure if i want it in the pc or 360. 

I must be an idiot, can find the page etc but nowhere can I see a link do download/purchase/add.

Drew, thanks for the tip. 

I mean torrent :p. I was just informed by a friend that alice: madness returns comes with a code to download the first game on whatever platform you buy it for. Nifty. I'm getting it for thw 360, i don't have the hd space for the game. 

HL2 custom map recommendations?

Minerva and the one drew mentioned are in the queue. 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/340/

Minerva series is by far my favourite hl2 sp release.

Research & Development is also fantastic but is far more puzzle and environment themed.