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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2224352" data-attributes="member: 15651">I'll admit i have had my problems with temporal railroading.&nbsp; You want the game to be dramatic, you also want the party to have a chance.&nbsp; I tried running a game once where time really mattered, I thought it would be great to have real consequences for delaying.&nbsp; I ended up getting so bogged down in timekeeping, the rest of the game suffered and it didn't turn out to be great for anyone.[hijack] on the topic of video games and temporal railroading -&nbsp; I had a game a long time back with an interesting twist on this.&nbsp; The game was a third person 3/4 perspective.&nbsp; The hero walked to whereever you pointed and clicked the mouse.&nbsp; He always moved the same speed no matter what.&nbsp; There were several scenes in the game when I and my friends would scream at the guy &quot;Run, you idiot!&quot; and commented how much better the game would be if you could choose a speed to move.&nbsp; Little did we know the programmers understood this as well.&nbsp; In the final scene of the game, once you got the macguffin, the perspective changed to a straight-on and a timer appeared at the top of the screen reading 2:00.&nbsp; Suddenly the hero could run and (to a really cool soundtrack) you had 2 minutes real time to maneuver him through the ship to the shuttle bay and escape before the countdown reached 0:00 and the ship you were on self-destructed.&nbsp; Loved that game... [/hijack]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 2224352, member: 15651"] I'll admit i have had my problems with temporal railroading. You want the game to be dramatic, you also want the party to have a chance. I tried running a game once where time really mattered, I thought it would be great to have real consequences for delaying. I ended up getting so bogged down in timekeeping, the rest of the game suffered and it didn't turn out to be great for anyone. [hijack] on the topic of video games and temporal railroading - I had a game a long time back with an interesting twist on this. The game was a third person 3/4 perspective. The hero walked to whereever you pointed and clicked the mouse. He always moved the same speed no matter what. There were several scenes in the game when I and my friends would scream at the guy "Run, you idiot!" and commented how much better the game would be if you could choose a speed to move. Little did we know the programmers understood this as well. In the final scene of the game, once you got the macguffin, the perspective changed to a straight-on and a timer appeared at the top of the screen reading 2:00. Suddenly the hero could run and (to a really cool soundtrack) you had 2 minutes real time to maneuver him through the ship to the shuttle bay and escape before the countdown reached 0:00 and the ship you were on self-destructed. Loved that game... [/hijack] [/QUOTE]

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