Video Game Timeline 2.0

SpeedySwaf

Synthesis wrote: »

In the last timeline thread, I managed to calculate the years for Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive (one through four), and the Hitman games.

I guess I'll try and find them again.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=95896 There ya go.

MindLib

Woah, I didn't realize there was such a disparity between KoTOR and Star Wars.

Edit: Do we know when Mech Warrior (reboot) takes place?

MarioG

I had no idea the Ace Attorney games were set in the future.

Fort1tude

why?

-Loki-

You missed a few Warhammer 40,000 games, even disregarding expansion packs.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate
Warhammer 40,000: Final Liberation
Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command
Space Hulk
Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels

There's a few Warhammer games too.

Blood Bowl
Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
Warhammer: Shadow of the horned Rat
Warhammer: Dark Omen
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos

slash000

I could have sworn we put Serious Sam into the time line in the last iteration of this thread

Now I can' t remember the date on it.

slash000

wait

This Timeline 2.0 is missing a lot of good stuff from the first iteration of this thread

Why did you take things out? Like 1378 BC for Serious Same TFE?

edit: You've removed a ton of stuff... what for?

Tig

Perfect Dark and Half Life 2 are set in the same year



for some reason this info blows my mind

Synthesis

slash000 wrote: »

wait

This Timeline 2.0 is missing a lot of good stuff from the first iteration of this thread

Why did you take things out? Like serious 1378 BC for Serious Same TFE?

edit: You've removed a ton of stuff... what for?

Yeah, that has all the dates I contributed too.

TubularLuggage

Perfect Dark Zero - 2020

Gorblax

Too many weird things were going on with the old timeline, so I decided to start from scratch.

slash000

Too many weird things? Isn't something like this going to be chock full of weird things no matter how you end up doing it? :P

At least put serious sam back in!

Gorblax

I can't really find a source for it I trust...

slash000

For Serious Sam!??!

1378 BC came straight from the game's intro sequence, iirc..

VThornheart

Awesome list!

One I'd add to it would be "Street Fighter 2010": the year in which it happened of course can be easily guessed.

slash000

Serious Sam TFE's intro says the world is attacked in 2104. Sam Stone warps back in time to Dayr el-Bahri, Egypt, 1378 B.C.

If you don't believe me watch the intro for yourself here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnB5kbJC3s


Skip to 1:36 and watch the text at the bottom if you're feeling impatient.


Or just look at this screenshot taken from the intro:





Honestly I'm quite surprised how high your burden of proof is for this timeline if this kind of source isn't reliable enough to include in the time line.. :?

Lilnoobs

hahhaa, that's an awesome OP.

I wonder where the Final Fantasies would land? Might be impossible, fantasy and all.

If I think of any, I'll let you know. I'm sure the AvP games have timelines.

slash000

Since you took down my other suggestion, Gradius V, as dated the year 8010, I will suggest that one for the second time.

If you still don't believe me, here is a photo taken from the manual:

You also took down Robotron 2084, set in the year 2084. Obviously.

To me it seems like you just trashed all of the suggestions made in the last thread. Why I have no idea, because it makes it seem like the last thread was a huge waste. Because now we're spending time sifting through the list to find good timeline suggestions from before so that we can re-suggest them all over again, and go through the trouble of finding additional support for the dates included.

Which makes me wonder why you're bothering with this at all. Are you going to make a timeline V 3.0 in a year and tell us that the suggestions from this thread aren't any good, and have us suggest stuff all over again?

I guess you could say it bothers me that we're trying to help you with this fun project and then you just threw out all the suggestions we came up with.... That's a slap in the face.

Gorblax

Sorry. Things just got complicated because I wasn't double checking anything, and forgot which sources I could trust. This time I'm keeping things more well documented. I understand it's kind of a bummer to have to start over, but I really want to keep at this. At any rate, thanks for continuing to help.

slash000

If you want to make sure to keep track of reliable dates, you could put little notations to yourself as to where the source of the date comes from. For example, you could note to yourself whether a date comes from a manual, a game intro, a game title, a developer's statement, etc. That way if there's ever some dispute as to a date you'll know where to look to verify it.

Gorblax

slash000 wrote: »

If you want to make sure to keep track of reliable dates, you could put little notations to yourself as to where the source of the date comes from. For example, you could note to yourself whether a date comes from a manual, a game intro, a game title, a developer's statement, etc. That way if there's ever some dispute as to a date you'll know where to look to verify it.

And that's exactly what I've been doing for 2.0.

SmokeStacks

I found a couple by running through some instruction manuals.

Martian Gothic - 2019
Battle Hunter - 2089

One of the flashback missions in Syphon Filter 3 is labeled as taking place in 1999, and it occurs during the intro to the first Syphon Filter.

So if Syphon Filter takes place in 1999, you can find someone who has the original game and you can check the age of the main characters in the manual and compare them to the age of the main characters in the SF2/SF3/etc manuals to determine what year those games take place.

In the Syphon Filter 3 manual Gabe is listed at 37, Lian at 31, Mujari at 39, Maggie at 35, Hadden at 59, and Aramov at 34

edit: Syphon Filter lists Gabe Logan as being 35, and Syphon Filter 2 lists him at 36, which would tell us that Syphon Filter 2 take place in the year 2000 and Syphon Filter 3 takes place in 2001.

Also,

Tomb Raider - 1996
Tomb Raider II - 1997
Tomb Raider III - 1998
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation 1984- 2000
Tomb Raider Chronicles 1995- 2000

But I think Legend/Anniversary/Underworld might retcon the years a little bit.

Resident Evil: Survivor - 1998 (Survivor takes place right after the Spencer Mansion incident).

Gorblax

Screw it. Tomorrow, I'm going to work on importing all of the dates from the original timeline to this one. Or at least most of them.

Fort1tude

yea, why reinvent the wheel?

Gorblax

Added the missing Warhammer games, the three Syphon Filters, and RE: Survivor. I don't think there's a source for the main Warhammer continuity, and Tomb Raider is kind of wonky.

Gorblax

Added the first two pages worth of updates from the first thread.

Gorblax

Added Page 3 updates from first thread.

Gorblax

Page 4 updates have been integrated.

Gorblax

Took some doing, but I filtered through all the updates from Page Five.

Tamin

I will have to check when I get home tonight, but I'm pretty sure Hybrid Heaven gives an actual date.

Gorblax

And now we get to the Parkingtigers updates. This is going to be tough...

Fort1tude

what do you do for games for chrono trigger and assassins creed where the game takes place in multiple years?

badger2d

I like this thread.

There is no possible way it would ever have occurred to me to look at games in this way, and none either that I would have followed up on the idea even if I'd had it. But somehow, it makes me happy that someone did.

And in particular I love the end of the list, where EVE and WH40k just completely wreck the scale of the timeline. It's like the developers of those worlds were going "Yeah? Well mine is futuristic, plus infinity!!!"

Tamin

Hybrid Heaven's introduction shows that it starts on 19 December, 2000.

It ends just prior to midnight on the 24th.

I do wish that Homeworld could be put onto this scale, somehow.

Gorblax

Thanks for the HH tip. Yeah, I tried with Homeworld. No luck yet. Thanks for the support guys.

As for games with multiple dates, they're usually listed by their main date, with other dates in brackets.

DaveTheWave

Stop posting things about Hybrid Heaven. It makes me depressed because I know there'll never be a sequel or another game like it.

What about the Stinko Man platformer on homestarrunner.com ? It's called 20X6 which is also when it's set. (pronounced twenty exty six)

Gorblax

XDDD

Fine, I guess I'll post it after the 2090s. For the sake of completion.

Zek

Gorblax wrote: »

Good question. According to Star Wars Timeline Gold, one can conceivably place the events of A New Hope in the year 1798 AD, based on the events of the Star Wars Tales comic "Into The Great Unknown." I extrapolated everything else from that.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Into_the_Great_Unknown

Han is killed by native americans and his corpse is later discovered by Indiana Jones. You're really calling that canon? Two centuries is not "a long time ago" in space years.

SmokeStacks

Multiverse.

It's the timeline equivalent of "A Wizard did it".

EvilBadman

I still maintain that yearly installments of professional sports should be stricken from the list. They really don't need to be continually stated on chronology project consisting primarily of fictional or alternate history events.