Timeshift steam series#

Lots of flat textures and the colors are mostly grey. The graphics are pretty good although the environments cna look very bland.

Timeshift steam series#

The game is very much like the Half Life series as it blends puzzles in with action and genuinely tried something innovative with the time control mechanics which work very well. IвЂ™m not entirely sure if this is an вЂњofficialвЂќ Blaugust post or not.While I find the still $19.99 price tag a bit much for a 7 year old game I still found this very enjoyable. This is my Blaugust post for July 29th, 2019, the second day of Prep Week.

Next Up: Lord of the Rings: War In The North! I should probably do one of those вЂњstream scheduleвЂќ things all the kids are into. Next time I will be implementing some measures to deal with loud games like this in the future. The loudness of the game is reflected in the stream, by the way, because itвЂ™s basically just 55 minutes of noise that grates on the ear drums. Stream viewers probably would have liked VHS more than Betamax too. Still donвЂ™t get why streaming became a thing. Streams look and sound like utter garbage by comparison. ItвЂ™s so much easier to record games locally than to stream them. I think this particular game was difficult for OBS to capture, so there was a lot of stuttering on the stream (although OBS claimed there were 0 dropped frames).ДЄnyway, IвЂ™m still tweaking the settings. I dropped the stream resolution down to 1280Г—720 but even that didnвЂ™t help. In any case it didnвЂ™t capture consistently at 60 fps by a long shot. I think it was using up too much CPU, if thatвЂ™s even possible for a game from 2007, or else the hooks that grab the gameвЂ™s frame buffer werenвЂ™t working very well. Unfortunately this game had a lot of trouble streaming. Stream Production Notes: I ditched Streamlabs OBS and just used OBS Studio. Games donвЂ™t do that anymore, and IвЂ™m thankful for it. It was just a cacophony of noise, with environment, gunfire, and yelling NPCs all mashed together at maximum volume so you couldnвЂ™t hear much of anything.

One last thing: The sounds were hard to take. While the cut scenes were somewhat intriguing, the story was not compelling enough for me to be interested in seeing how it turns out. or Metro: Lots of rust and concrete and rain and urban decay. Aesthetically it reminded me of Eastern European shooters in the vein of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Just like it was in F.E.A.R.Д«eyond that, it appeared to be a standard shooter from the 2000s. ItвЂ™s great fun though to slow time and run up to shotgun the bad guys and watch them ragdoll in slow motion. ItвЂ™s kind of neat, but also kind of gimmicky. There is also a mechanic that lets you вЂњreverseвЂќ time, though its in pre-defined areas and it basically tells you when to do it. Basically you press a button to slow down time so you can run over behind the bad guys and shoot them in the head without getting hit. (which came out in 2005, two years earlier). I might have given up on it as a totally generic shooter copy if not for the time-shifting thing, so it seems like it would have been to their benefit to push that as early into the game as possible.

You donвЂ™t get to that system for a good 30 minutes, which is kind of a disappointment. WhatвЂ™s different is a system for вЂњslowing downвЂќ and вЂњreversingвЂќ time. The mechanics of the game are pretty standard for a shooter: You point at things and shoot them, with various weapons, which generally fall into the standard categories: Pistol, Assault Rifle, Shotgun, and variations thereof. The size of the game was measured in Megabytes-3000 of them, roughly. In fact, since itвЂ™s so old, it took almost no time at all to install. I tried out a shooter called TimeShift from my Steam backlog.

It doesnвЂ™t seem like a game from 2007 would be that вЂњold,вЂќ but it sure is. Steam Backlog Bonanza вЂ“ TimeShift 29 July, 2019