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Dr Who is garbage

I vaguely recall there being some old bootleg that was half decent.

>>15337077

The Legacy of Kain series(minus Blood Omen 2) all have time travel in them, Soul Reaver 2, being the most complex with it's time traveling plot.

There's also the Prince of Persia trilogy(Sands of Time, Warrior Within and Two Thrones) use time related abilities in the gameplay, and WW has an interesting plot involving time travel as well.

The British are so fucking gay

Is the doctor a black lesbian Muslim yet?

>>15337910

X was built to keep the peace, not be a pacifist.

Pacifism shies away from violence, peacekeeping uses violence when necessary.

>>15337910

>Maybe Doctor Who would work as a Lego game or something.

http://lego-dimensions.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor

>>15337351

Last I checked they turned him into a current year white woman

>>15337077

Radiant Historia. Emulate it for DS, don't even touch the current year remake. It takes Chrono trigger's concepts and expands on them while fixing concepts from Chrono Cross. Choice and consequence elements are very strong within the narrative but the gameplay itself is bog standard JRPG stuff.

>>15337910

A character that doesn't handle his situations with violence is an interesting concept to build a game around. We have way too many shooters these days.

>>15337097

Nu-Season 1 to Nu-Season 4 + Christmas Specials are the only good thing on British Television

>>15337087

I have all the SSs on my Steam, but is time travel just a plot device or an actual game mechanic?

>>15340919

Would love to m8 if Nintendo hadn't kamikazed all remaining Rom sites.

>>15337077

>time travel

does time manipulation work for you? then play Timeshift

Literally timesplitters.

>>15341629

This too, history hates a paradox.

I don't like the white man. I don't like the white man so much I'll stop being one!

>>15337910

>Thinking this hard about a milked to death franchise about a robot killing 8 robots then the final boss

>>15341618

>Would love to m8 if Nintendo hadn't kamikazed all remaining Rom sites.

They never did that. They sony'd two romsites and a bunch of other sites didn't want to get financially raped. There's still shitloards of romsites out there. Just look at the share thread.

>>15341618

>being an RTD pleb

Black and white era is best era.

>>15337910

They actually made a shooter Doctor Who game. This wasn't such a problem before the new series made him a puritanical anti-gun nut. Classic Doctor Who was more like a Star Trek protagonist. He'd try to solve things peacefully, but he wasn't above picking up a gun and blasting shit, should the situation arise.

>>15337077

The Doctor doesn't function well as a playable character. He's interesting because he's older than you and smarter than you, with a viewpoint and thought processes that you can't understand. It's fun to watch him work and see the solutions he comes up with.

All the good things about the Doctor are good because he's so eminently not you. As such, controlling him in a video game would remove a lot of the good things about him. Any decent Doctor Who video game would be a generic game with a Doctor Who skin on top.

>>15345674

only because so many episodes from then were lost, so fans can fanwank them as being far far much better than they really were.

>>15348835

So make a game where you play as his companion. Problem solved.

>>15348215

Watch the avoidingthepuddle playthrough

>>15345674

Tom Baker is the best era, when they went full b-movie hammer horror style, up from the super-low quality of the previous eras. He's also the best doctor, bar none.

I wish more games did like Superhot did, where time moves when you do, that was a neat way to play, too bad the game was short and the story was kinda bland

>>15349506

Shadwen does that but it mostly feels like a crutch for being bad at stealth. It's sort of a neat gimmick but I could see it becoming cancerous if it ends up in too many games. It might be an interesting way to deal with strategy games and the like though, being somewhere between real time and turn-based.

Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego

>>15337077

Time travel makes you gay.

>>15348867

A lot of it did survive. Go watch it. It's great.

>>15349176

>KtzzKL7/ GO 2

haha whatafuck?

>>15349456

At that point, you might as well just watch the show.

>Are all Doctor Who games garbage

Yes, just like the source material.

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>>15352648

Dude…

>>15351990

I'm not a time traveler so I was never gay to begin with.

>>15352260

>>15352293

>cuts a Dalek with one swoop

Yeah I ain't buying it. Got anymore though?

Ghost Trick

>>15352792

Daleks used to be much bigger pussies.

The issue with time travel (unless it's really short term) is that if it is a dynamic game mechanic then the game has to remember everything you do and when you do it, imagine the bloat of making a permanent save every single second of a 10+ hour game and the problem becomes pretty apparent. The only ones I can think of have you travel to preset points in time like in OoT/MM and Ghost Trick. Apparently Titanfall 2 and Dishonored 2 both have a cool time travel level where you constantly switch between the present and the past, but I have not played them. The Zero Escape series is well known for its branching plotlines based on its time travel mechanic but I haven't played it either.

>>15352802

I'll second this, it's not exactly a game mechanic but the whole game is centered around it.

>>15349176

sports games suck