Roy Tang

I like the 12 Monkeys interpretation, which is that all alterations in the timeline aren't alterations because anything that was changed was going to happen that way anyway. If someone was going to travel back in time to do X, that is already what happened and there is no alternative timeline (this is also how it is in Summer Time Machine Blues). From that perspective, future you may have already traveled back in time, but didn't hang out with you because he didn't feel like it anyway. I like it better than Back to the Future's sloppy timeline alterations and it's more elegant than time travel just jumping between branching realities.

We've had that discussion already. I would like an open-world time travel game. One side is Skyrim, and one side is Fallout. When you do stuff on the Skyrim side, the Fallout side changes accordingly.

Ah, what I usually call the Already-Altered Timeline. And that game mechanic was explored in Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle

Maybe the future time travellers sent us 12 Monkeys to discourage us from creating branching timelines. It's just as well, Roy Prime might have been an asshole.

Oh, that's cool! Kind of like the SNES Zelda, except in time instead of a mirror world, and not as straightforward =) Yes, that would be amusing. You kill one boss and his children can't own the company that makes the power armor in the future….

But Roy Prime might be the Emperor of the Galaxy! That's what we all want anyway =)

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In one of those worlds, Roy is the king of Cambodia.

I'm trying to imagine an open world time travel game design. That would be hellishly hard to write unless the time travel is completely trivial. I can picture doing it semi-open-world in a small location, like Arkham City-sized, or like the Columbia of Bioshock, but not as big as Skyrim/Fallout.

We were planning to mock-up our GHD game in a visual novel framework, right?

Sort of! We didn't get far beyond the concept, some of the mechanics and locations, and the main guy…. You may want to get All You Need is Kill, which is a combat-focused, simpler GHD. I liked it! I'll still watch the movie, but I wish they hadn't changed the title. Also, they should have stuck with an Asian for the main guy instead of Tom Cruise.

Damn Walter Bishop…