"You j-JERKS!!!!","You made us live the last year and a half all over again." - Best time travel gag I think I 've ever seen. lolmaninahat said:
Chris...inspiration, entertainment, representation of us all indeedPremonition said:
Speaking as a game designer I think the best way to implement time travel is to have it effect the current scenario. Lets say the your time traveling machine can only take you 3 minutes in the pasts, and 3 minutes into the future, and the scenario is, A group of about 2 swat teams consisting of 4 people rush into a large warehouse from the 2 different doors while you were looting the place for important documents around the middle of area were its easy to get flanked, and killed. Now if your a good level designer you'll make it so there are many ways to get out of this dilemma. One of which would be to go back in time to warn your self about to attack, tell him exactly where the documents are, and form an attack plan to take out the teams since there are now 2 of you able to fight them off, or form an escape plan that requires both of your selves to reach a window that would require a boast to reach. Now what I just described was a relatively generic action scene commonly found in games, but I wanted to give a simple example of how to use time travel to effect the scenario's set up, but now you have to think about all the awesome things that changing the levels outcomes would have on the story, I mean you could have how you use your powers subtly, or majorly effect the plot as it flows. Let me explain. This version of time travel makes it easy to accidentally clone your self, and within all the confusion of doing that way to often would cause the main character to have an identity crisis which could effect his combat performance due the the anxiety he/she would feel from thinking he/she just the memories of someone else who inadvertently duplicated him/herself. This would also effect the characters motives, and course of actions that would greatly change the outcome whatever was happening in the plot. This kind of design would also leave room to make a less linear game which many time traveling games seem to lack which is ironic because wouldn't time travel effect the whole flow of things? I think the main flaw with a lot of these games is that time travel is often just used as a way to fix mistakes, or slow down time to get a shot into someone before they have time to pull the trigger.The Noble Shade said:
The third game Timesplitters: Future Perfect does use time travel as a mechanic. There are several bits of the game where your future self gives your past self a key or useful device or weapon... and in some levels you actually team up with yourself to protect yourself! (There are some levels that have 4 versions of yourself all at the same time!) There's also a level that features time disruption grenades that cause anyone caught in the blast to go into slow motion bullettime.EightGaugeHippo said:
TimeShift is quite fun, and a must-have if you like bullet time or time manipulation etc etc. It's starts off so-so (not bad but not great), but gets better when you're about an hour in.Loonerinoes said:
WOW, as if I actually forgot about all that!your evil twin said:
Actually they did have one effect on gameplay that I recall(roo many years since I last played), The special boxes that required a certain pendant to open would have different items in them depending upon which time period you opened them in. The later the time period the better the item and if you opened them in an earlier time period they would not be available in the future time periods.Sir John The Net Knight said:
