Thread 717401561

Theres not a single game where time-travel doesn’t feel like a hamfisted or contrived plot element.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIbnfoY_1Pg
Kino soon.

>>717401561 (OP)
Ghost Trick.

>>717401561 (OP)
I liked it in endwalker
and of course chrono trigger is great

>>717401561 (OP)
Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped

>>717401561 (OP)
outer wilds

>>717401561 (OP)
dark souls

>>717401827
Chrono Trigger’s time travel only works if you don’t think about it
Then again that’s true of all Square games with time travel

>>717401827
To be fair, it felt contrived as shit
>Elidibus swears you won't be able to do anything because he sent you there with his last fumes
>You enjoy that for 5 minutes till you're able to do shit because Emet is just broken even for Etherian Standards
>You're stated to be 1:1 to Azem even as a Lala, but none of the surviving Ascains happen to remember how they actually looked
>Your shitty Azem lie also lasts 5 minutes because Venat can just tell?
>You also seem to describe the future with enough precision that Venat doesn't fuck anything up
>They pull out of their ass that "oh when you are in the Aetherial Sea you just remember shit, for no particular reason"
I do like that both Venat and Zenos happen to ask you the same thing about enjoying life even at the face of adversity though

>>717401561 (OP)
Does your vidya even have an in-universe physics paper describing how the game's save system (and by extension time travel) works? Didn't think so.

>>717402267
If anything I'm really pumped to learn what Power is in 3 years

>>717401561 (OP)
Steampunk time traveling rpg coming soon. At 1:24:20 the studio head says the game has true time travel reactivity https://youtu.be/tjeRn2eA3y4?si=ORr5des6XdMlprVc

Time travel was fun in Titanfall 2 and Chrono trigger

It feels contrived and unexplained in LiS but in a very wink-wink-nudge type of way, it indulges you to roleplay as a insecure teenage art hoe with time travel powers.

>>717402103
Name 1 piece of media about time travel with no logical inconsistencies.

>>717401561 (OP)
Ocarina of time and majora's mask did it good, no?

>>717402267
yu-no suffers a lot from narrative/gameplay separation
i think there's basically one moment in the game where he basically doesn't lose his memories from you using a gem after kaori tricks him into stealing something I remember because it was like "holy shit wait a sec so he's actually canonically meant to retain his memories after all?" when he just doesn't whenever you use a gem normally
also forcibly getting sent back to the beginning after finishing a route... kinda contrived

I should replay this it's been ten years now

>>717401561 (OP)
Majora's Mask.

>>717401561 (OP)
I like it when it's a Groundhog Day or All You Need Is Kill style loop since it removes a lot of the wibbly wobbly timey wimey horseshit inevitable in time travel franchises where it's more easily accessible since it staves off the kind of
>well why not kill [antagonist] as a baby
arguments that never end well from a storytelling standpoint.

>oh, destiny...
>is this...
>the world you wish for?

>>717402490
Anything with a closed loop. Haruhi for example

>>717401561 (OP)
Chrono Trigger.
>b-but that's not how time travel works
Shut up, faggot. It's a fantasy world and it fits well within its own constraints.

I dread that the next Half-Life game will go hard on the time travel stuff after Half-Life Alyx opened the floodgates.

>>717401561 (OP)
Radiant Historia

>>717401561 (OP)
In the 90s, we said a show ran out of ideas when they introduced time travel or Nazis, because they can just handwave story elements or character motivation.

>>717401561 (OP)
FFX

>>717403521
>FFX
Yeah, Galo Sengen

>>717401561 (OP)
Prince of Persia

>>717401561 (OP)
Dishonored 2 and that one portal mod made fun use of it if I remember right. Warframe also has it but it's more confusing there (the early version not the time loop flop). For none of these examples though is it majority part of the game. What's wrong with Prince of Persia I guess?

>>717401561 (OP)
Play more games.
Also Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

>>717401561 (OP)
What do you think of this?

>>717404232
this one was wild

This thread just shows me that you have to have time travel be the main focus of the game for it to work out decently. A game can't just hamfist time travel in the middle of its plot.

>>717401561 (OP)
What kind of media has done time traveling correctly asking for a friend, preferably a book

Astlibra?

>>717404780
>>717403761

>>717404240
>>717404298
a gacha game is doing the radiant historia time travel thing but better

>>717404780
I've yet to get very far into it myself because my book backlog is years long and I'm very bad at chipping into it, but I hear good things about 'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle'

>>717401561 (OP)
Kingdom Hearts 1. Yes it was in 1. Merlin can time travel like in his movie and did before the game happened.

>>717401561 (OP)
Day of the tentacle
Sonic CD

>>717403521
That game doesn't have time travel

>>717404780
Primer

>>717401676
Pathologic is so fucking good, wrote about it on my university thesis

>>717401856
Thats cause it treats it like a silly, cartoon joke about mad scientists whos arch enemies are silly talking marsupials.

>>717401561 (OP)
In the Drifter the time travel is basically simply a respawn, but I think it's implemented pretty well in the story. I really like the game. It's this sci-fi thriller point'n'click without much of annoying puzzles.

>>717404780
Jak 2
>characters travel to the future
>they only find out halfway through the game
>main characters goal isnt going back but killing the man who ruined his life
>at the end when presenter with a chance of going back he realizes history was meant to happen this way and embraces the future

>>717405281
I watched it and still have not idea what is it about.

>>717401561 (OP)
Ape Escape
check and mate

>>717404741
Dragon Quest V

>>717401827
>and of course chrono trigger is great
sadly it isn't
it's just normie ass shonenslop

>>717403096
brown shitskins like you is why nobody takes /v/ seriously

>>717401561 (OP)
OoT
theres absolutely NOTHING wrong with it. it fits everything

>>717401561 (OP)
Uma Musume has plenty of time-travel fuckery.
Including inheriting genetic from yourself.
So does any Roguelike, actually.

Theres time travel in every single game you've ever played.
Forward time travel at normal speed, that is.

>>717401561 (OP)
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>>717401561 (OP)
:^)

>>717401561 (OP)
The coin is still turning

>>717402036
> Game about exploration
> If you explore too much, the game teleports you all the way back
Worst part of the game.

Time travel is an inherently contrived concept because no matter what rules you set off for it, causality takes it up the ass for it to work

time travel is garbage when it makes the player go back and forth in time. only time it works when it's some other character in the story doing time travel. witcher 1 has cool time travel plot element.

>>717402141
>because Venat can just tell
It was because she recognizes the blessing that makes the WoL immune to primal influence as one of her own spells, and that combined with the already shaky excuse about being Azem's familiar was enough for her to figure out some fuckery was afoot.

>>717405947
God Jak is so hot

>>717401561 (OP)
Time travel is really what makes this game kino

History abhors a paradox.

>>717404780
EDF6

>>717401561 (OP)
There are two games that do it well but telling you which would be a major spoiler

>>717411165
KAIN IS DEIFIED

>>717410918
Layton games are something else with their batshit insane plot twists.

>>717401561 (OP)
NOT SO FAST

>>717401561 (OP)
Sonic cd does it well imo because it fits the themes of the games and character, too bad the later sonic games do it badly and gimmicky (06 and generations).

>>717411165
The story in this game is great but they do just constantly go "oh yeah and time travel also did THIS" in every game

>>717413294
Fag

>>717404842
This, time travel in Astlibra was both unique and executed pretty well.

>>717401561 (OP)
Outer Wilds

The time loop is integral to the game design, it's why you have a solar system that constantly evolve with time.
It's also part of the themes of the game as you are meant to explore everything you can, face your fears, then face your fear of death itself, the ultimate mystery.

>>717402418
>picks up pregnancy test on ground
>Umm Max, that's not for you. You're just nosy!
>Oh, maybe I shouldn't have looked at her pregnancy test...
>rewind time
>do it again