Time Machine...?

adenp9070 · 07-04-2009

yer but i would imagine you just dissapear coz if i went back 20 years and killed my dad i would be able to i would just dissapear or something, although theres allways the reason we cant have a time machine because if there was one somebody would have came back and we would allready have it

sirgage0 · 07-04-2009

Alternate timelines are impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I won't dwell on the topic....A time-machine would be a little bit Sci-Fi for a Fable game, wouldn't it? Unless you used "Hal" as a way to bring in the technology, but I am pretty sure Hal will never be a big-time character...A steampunk-ish Time-Machine wouldn't be SO bad, but it's still a little bit Sci-Fi...

Tsuyu · 07-04-2009

You can't really kill your dad.

Because your mom and dad having you predates your trip to the past. Catch 22 right there.

adenp9070 · 07-04-2009

haha its one of them things that will allways be speculation and never proven :/ i would just keep going back 5 mins 99 times so there will be an army of 100 of me

Daemon300 · 07-04-2009

Omg. Stop confusing me! XD And what's the Butterfly Effect?

adenp9070 · 07-04-2009

it means that in the past even something as insignificant as crushing a butterfly can cause the biggest repercussions, using hitler as an example again

if you kill a butterfly that was supposed to be eaten by a lizard, (wierd i know but hey) the lizard could then die from starvation, the dead lizard could have been supposed to bite hitler and he should have died from infection, now because you killed that butterfly hitler lived and caused ww2

Daemon300 · 07-04-2009

ok... WHATT??????!!

I get it.

Ryu_the_fox · 07-05-2009

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Originally Posted by Tsuyu

You can't really kill your dad.

Because your mom and dad having you predates your trip to the past. Catch 22 right there.

dude you can kill your dad, assuming he had already made love to your mom.

But it turns out you lived life without a father. You caused yourself to not have a father and you were supposed to go kill your dad.

EgoAlchemist · 07-05-2009

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Alternate timelines are impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I won't dwell on the topic....A time-machine would be a little bit Sci-Fi for a Fable game, wouldn't it?

No.

Use your will to make a powerful Culis gate and you maybe can create one! Who now, maybe Theresa would make one with the spire or something. Master chife could when he go back in time and you could when you go back to okvale in the new expansion, remember? And you could also look at the future in "See the future" expansion.

AimlessCleric · 07-06-2009

Alright, enough of this headache-causing arguement!!!!!

TJ Griffin · 07-06-2009

time machine? no. but what I would like to see is a Fable game taking place in the Old Kingdom (a long time befor Fable 1 for those who dont know). that would be awesome, since the Old Kingdom had conciderably better magics and technology befor it was destroyed. youd probably get to play as one of Archons children since he had good and bad ones. but I dont think it shold play up to the point were the old kingdom is destroyed, that wouldnt leave mutch choice in the end and wouldnt allow you to play after compleating the main quest.

the time machine is an interesting idea, but it gets a bit to complicated in the end. I didnt read all the posts but Im sure someone mentioned some of the many problems with time travel.

D3m190d · 07-16-2009

I believe that, when you go back in time, you can literally ANYTHING you want. whatever you do has a certain impact on the timeline. Do whatever you want! Try it! I think that it won't change the past. It makes it just so we end up in this present. Go ahead and kill Hitler. Your attempt at doing so will activate certain things that make the timeline as it is. You CAN'T escape! it is all determined! Well, not like 'destiny'. But that all your actions trying to change the past will fail. Whatever you do will result in exactly what the present is right now...

Well, back to Fable. Uhm... According to what i tried to explain above, maybe you won't go back in time as a side quest. But as the MAIN Quest. Since whatever you will try to do, will make it so that the time from where you left is exactly that. You may be sent back in time to prevent the Archon's children from dominating the world, but one of to things may happen: 1, you fail. 2, You succeed at certain actions, but eventually, you see that everything you did, trying to prevent it, actually CREATED it! It's your own fault!

Or an even more Wacky theory: You decide to go back in time to meet William Black(/the Archon/Scythe) and kill him. When you are in that time, you decide to have uhm... 'intercourse' with some women. Then, because you seem to have these 'Will-Powers' (but nobody knows it yet) your child inherits those powers, and actually is William Black! Then, something happens what makes you disappear from there (maybe you died, trying to kill Jack of Blades, as he entered Albion. Or you didn't have the power to kill your own child, so you left) and William is the first person in history, known to have the 'Powers of Will'.

Ryu_the_fox · 07-18-2009

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Originally Posted by D3m190d

I believe that, when you go back in time, you can literally ANYTHING you want. whatever you do has a certain impact on the timeline. Do whatever you want! Try it! I think that it won't change the past. It makes it just so we end up in this present. Go ahead and kill Hitler. Your attempt at doing so will activate certain things that make the timeline as it is. You CAN'T escape! it is all determined! Well, not like 'destiny'. But that all your actions trying to change the past will fail. Whatever you do will result in exactly what the present is right now...

Well, back to Fable. Uhm... According to what i tried to explain above, maybe you won't go back in time as a side quest. But as the MAIN Quest. Since whatever you will try to do, will make it so that the time from where you left is exactly that. You may be sent back in time to prevent the Archon's children from dominating the world, but one of to things may happen: 1, you fail. 2, You succeed at certain actions, but eventually, you see that everything you did, trying to prevent it, actually CREATED it! It's your own fault!

Or an even more Wacky theory: You decide to go back in time to meet William Black(/the Archon/Scythe) and kill him. When you are in that time, you decide to have uhm... 'intercourse' with some women. Then, because you seem to have these 'Will-Powers' (but nobody knows it yet) your child inherits those powers, and actually is William Black! Then, something happens what makes you disappear from there (maybe you died, trying to kill Jack of Blades, as he entered Albion. Or you didn't have the power to kill your own child, so you left) and William is the first person in history, known to have the 'Powers of Will'.

Lol, is that why they call it Will powers? Cuz his name was William?
And can you explain t me who William Black is cuz i dont know, due to my lack of fable 2.

Anyway, back to topic, Thats really what i meant, you go back in time but your efforts are useless, either you fail to stop something from happening, or you cause it to happen. But i never understood why people who cause something to happen dont go back in time to stop themselves from causing it.

Flee4me · 07-18-2009

I believe this would make a great sidequest =)

for example, screwing something up in the "main" quest (which you HAVE to do, no matter what), even though at the time it doesn't seem like a bad thing to do.

later finding out that you like brought misery upon a whole town (flooding with bandits, swamps, balverines, -10000000 economy etc...) and then some1 (wacky professor who lives there, hidden?) complains about once a person (you) doing something to cause this all and that he would want to go back in the past to fix it (but he's feeble, old an weak) so you take his place, go back in time, see yourself as a kid and undo what you did back then =D

after doing so, you'd return to the current time and the town would be all pretty and nice!

how does that sound?

and for all those saying "kill hitler", I do hope you guys mean like before the 1938's? because actually a sniper squad (in 1941 I believe) had the opportunity to take him out, but they aborted. because if they would have shot him, he would have turned into a martyr, causing far more damage, hate-feelings, facism etc...

Tsuyu · 07-18-2009

I'd find it hilarious if you went back in time, had a smoke, and accidentally dropped a match in the grass of Oakfield which in turn torched the village, which in turn drew the attention of some local bandits there, thus setting the stage for the first game.