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I haven't got to the outside yet but my worry is the restrictive time system.  If it's going to force me to sleep every 14 seconds that's going to be annoying.

Yes.

Bully- I didn't finish it, but everything runs to a clock. I guess you have to make choices about what you're doing, but it seemed like if I was supposed to be going out into town to take a girl to the fair or do some missions, before long it would be time to get to a bed, or 1am would come round and render me unconscious. It's like those frustrating underwater breathing time limits but strung out longer.

I never finished System Shock 2. Or Thief, or Thief 2, or even really started T:TDP. Vampire Bloodlines I started over with again last year and ran out of enthusiasm, despite it being cool. Partly I think because this time round I installed it on my media PC and ultimately that's a pain to use, even if the big telly is cool. I might stand a chance of playing it through if I put it on my laptop...

Psychonauts kept crashing so I had to give up on that. Maybe I should get the XBox version.

Planescape Torment I never quite finished, but I went through enough that I can't figure out how many years I'd have to dedicate to redoing it if I could get it to run (or find the CD even). STALKER I never got past the first mission, despite liking the look of it. Similarly, I really enjoyed the original Operation Flashpoint (plus expansions) but never made much progress.

As for games I didn't even buy- Shadow of the Colossus. I wanted this game so much, having loved ICO, but I never got round to buying it. I don't think I have the attention span for most ooh shiny thing!

ATM:

Resident Evil (Cube):  I know it's broken, annoying and stupidly obtuse, but my, is it gorgeous, and it's still (along with SIlent Hill 1 & 2) the best of its type.

Fallout:  It's like Fallout 3, with cruder visuals and more talking.  The biggest thing they have in common though is that they seem so huge and overwhelming that the megre gaming time I get these days feels wasted on playing something I will never, ever, see the end of.

Duke 3D:  Still one of the most fun FPS's ever, with some utterly superbly designed levels.  I'm probably one of the few people on the planet that is geniunely pained that DNF has been canned.

Metroid Prime:  Don't like the controls.  Sorry, I know it isn't supposed to be a FPS, but the entire set-up just feels so unnatural that I can't get my head to work around it.  Shame, cause it seems really atmospheric.

TimeSplitters 2:  Not sure how I managed to miss this first time around, it's Goldeneye, but smooth, with little of the po-faced twatting around of current tedious shooters. 

I also have a three quid copy of Wave Race: Blue Storm awaiting a first (re)play (though I didn't enjoy it as much as the N64 game), Burnout 2 to come (and I'd still say Stu's article sums up the decline of this one fantastic series far better than I ever could), and intend picking up Pikmin 2, I thought the first one was great but never played this.  Cheap GC gaming FTW all the way with me at the mo.

uhm... maybe Overlord.

I LOVE all the timesplitter series   have them all and they are fab! MONKEY CURLING

I remember trying 2 way back when and not really getting along with it, can't imgine why though, now.

My mum used to play it with us and always want to be the monkey she used to not be able to get to grips too well with the gun angle and stuff and kept going in circles and shooting the floor, !! Used to proper crack me up, hehe.

I love the story mode aswell as you get some great characters to play and the co-op is great fun, just not with my mum XD

My favourite character is probably Gretel I think. I have unlocked most of the characters, but haven't played it in AGES! **I'd love to be able to play it online with friends as it's just one of those games you can have great fun playing in a group with. When mum bought me a multitap I was so pleased! Mum, me, Rae and my friend used to play for hours-ahhh-nostalgia! :'(

Plus the main guy looked like Vin Diesel! *drools*


Snipering the watermelons off the monkeys heads were ace aswell! I have never played a game so anti-Mimi in my LIFE, I love the damn thing!

** You obviously can, but I couldn't at the time... anyone got it and want to play?!!?!?!

Ah Timesplitters. I had one of those. I didn't complete it because it gave me bad motion sickness though.

It does make me vaguely queasy, which is odd given that I've never experienced it with any other shooter.

I've read that there are to be Wii updates of both this and Resident Evil Zero; at which point I might actually play them.  The first five minutes of the first two games are all that I've ever played - I just can't get on with them.  Silent Hill 2 on the other hand, scared the willies out of me.

Maybe not today.  Maybe not tomorrow.  Probably not soon, but hopefully at some point during the rest of your life.  The good thing about Fallout is that as a DOS game, it's runnable from a number of systems now that can run DosBox.  It won't be long now before every decent DOS game you ever wanted to play, will be playable from your phone.  Hoorah!

There's already a "Resident Evil Classic" on Wii that I assumed was a shameless rebadging  like the "Wii" versions of Pikmin and Mario Tennis.

Yeah, I think that's all the Wii versions are.  You really should try it though CUS, the controls are broken, the logic is fucked, it's stupidly hard and badly designed in places... I could carry on all day, but for some reason it just hangs together.  The graphics certainly help, it's still a stunner.

I never got around to this, and sold it instead.

I now have no DS at all.

One day I will get around to playing Mass Effect. One day meaning "sometime in the next century." Blame Fallout 3 for keeping me away from it. 

Regarding Resi, Eurogamer just reviewed the Wii version and for once it's bang on.

Have a few energy drinks ready.  And maybe put some cartoons on in the background.  It's... really dull.  To quote my girlfriend, with a slightly perturbed look on her face, "Is... is this a game then?"  Even if you try and race through the duller bits as much as you can, it's still... slow.

Bioshock.  I was very excited about it, and bought it (actually, I didn't buy it, and if anyone cares there's a story here...), but erm, wasn't really  very keen.  I bought it again recently, keen to rectify what previously was surely a mistake by me.

I still don't like it tooo much.  The killing of the splicers is really repetitive.  The Big Daddys are so bloody tough, that frequently the Little Sisters have scampered off by the time I've killed their protector.

What I DO like is the story and the background - the notes you find and history you uncover are very interesting.  I know that commercially it wouldn't have been so viable, but I think if it had focused more on exploration and adventure, and had far, far less combat, it would have been a more rewarding game.  As it is, it's a fascinating tale and set-up, that seemingly is merged with Quake 2.  Hmm.

Buh?  You realise you simply CANNOT DIE in Bioshock?  If you run out of energy you jut get respawned, and get to wail on the Daddy again, as he doesn't regenerate.  Bioshock was an amazing game, although the end was a bit of a letdown.  More for the setting, story, and art than the gameplay, granted; I very much enjoyed my playthrough though.

To be honest, that realization of "enough suicide runs will get them" kind of made me feel meh about bioshock. I did enjoy it very much though.

I don't know how you've assumed that.  I just said that they were rather tough, and the Little Sisters would often have run off and hid in the wall, by the time I'd killed their protector.  And at this point, another Big Daddy will come along to fetch the Little Sister from out of the wall again, vexingly.

Also, there's an achievement for not using any Vita Chambers, that I've been trying to get, in any case.

Bioshock was a dull FPS with a brilliant setting and story, a real missed opportunity and a case of mags falling over themselves to praise something that really didn't deserve the hype.