Copied the film "The Butterfly Effect"?

[laura.macbeath]

From episode 1 the game reminded me of the film, but I didn't mind it as there was no obvious copying, just sort of ideas to the film crossing over, for example the nosebleeds and headaches. Does anyone else agree that both the time hopping through pictures power and the 'everything is better but I'm in a wheelchair' alternate timeline is just so similar to the film it must've been copied? I guess I won't mind if the game goes in a different direction to the film plot from this point, but I have a feeling it will end in a very similar way now also.

[elsie]

LiS didn't "copy" TBE. The devs are fans of many different Sci-Fi shows like Twin Peaks and others, which inspired them supposedly. It's shown throughout the game in the form of easter egs. The plates of Chloe's truck read "TWNPKS." TBE may have inspired certain elements in the game....IDK. But I wouldn't use the word "copy" in this case. :)

[muff]

For Gods Sake i don't must see Ashton Kutchfield in that game.

[Von_Kalev]

OP is retarded

[MorningLightMountain]

Originally posted by laura.macbeath:

From episode 1 the game reminded me of the film, but I didn't mind it as there was no obvious copying, just sort of ideas to the film crossing over, for example the nosebleeds and headaches. Does anyone else agree that both the time hopping through pictures power and the 'everything is better but I'm in a wheelchair' alternate timeline is just so similar to the film it must've been copied? I guess I won't mind if the game goes in a different direction to the film plot from this point, but I have a feeling it will end in a very similar way now also.

Not especially while certainly there's certainly an influence from Butterfly Effect the ideas in that film would need to be original in the first place for them to be directly copied, which they aren't.

You could just as easily argue that they took the idea from the Red Dwarf episode Timeslides which also involves the use of photos to change the past and the consquences that occur and how it can change the present.

[Separa]

It involves time travel... There's only so many ways you can depict it. There's backwards and there's forwards and there's it standing still. Not a lot of room for innovation there.

[Avalanche]

The whole chaos theory is quite possibly true, which is why i would never change the timeline like Max did, cause i know it would cause just as much bad as it does good, its cool how the universe always balances itself out.

The question is, can using your power to rewind time just enough to prevent a death within a few hours going to make the same change, like saving someone years and years ago in the past? I guess you would never know since it would be affecting your future, which in our point of view hasn't happend yet, but changing the past, changes our past and present.

It makes my mind implode.

[Separa]

Originally posted by Jamie:

The whole chaos theory is quite possibly true, which is why i would never change the timeline like Max did, cause i know it would cause just as much bad as it does good, its cool how the universe always balances itself out.

The question is, can using your power to rewind time just enough to prevent a death within a few hours going to make the same change, like saving someone years and years ago in the past? I guess you would never know since it would be affecting your future, which in our point of view hasn't happend yet, but changing the past, changes our past and present.

It makes my mind implode.

I do think that the... Powers that be have a way of balancing things out. But in a work of fiction, if one were to allow for the possibility of time travel without the existence of a higher power; some rather interesting things could occur. But yeah; I don't think that time travel is a power that was meant for man. There would be too much room for temptation and catastrophic error, and either alone would be bad enough.

[obliviousmassacre]

As my mom loves to say, "Everything under the sun has been written." So every story we read can be interpreted as a copy of another story. In my opinion, though, I honestly didn't make any connections to TBE other than the time travel aspect.

[DeadIgnition]

The Butterfly Effect is it's own thing, the movie took this concept and made a story out of it. This has also been used in Back To The Future, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Flashpoint Paradox (DC's The Flash), Primeval Season 1 cliffhanger, Fringe (to some extent), Heroes (pretty much every season except for the last), hell even the original Planet Of The Apes series tried to reference this idea.

The Butterfly Effect was just one of the many movies in the last 20 years to actually use the name of the theory as it's title. Chaos Theory is more unique but can be connected to anything that has a reaction, especially with something as large as time travel.

[TargetLost]

I might err but I believe to have read an article or saw a youtube where the devs said that the butterfly effect was indeed the main inspiration for this Game.

The end of EP3 makes this very obvious to me that it is most probabily indeed like that. I was a bit dissapointed seeing the same thing as in the movie.

But that aside I love the game.

[Ну я убил и что?]

lol what, so If there was a movie about science term "chaos theory" so nobody else can use this stuff in their games/movies?

[Ну я убил и что?]

So this LiS and TBE copied back to the future, there also was chaos theory and time-traveling stuff. SHAME ON U DONTNOD AND THAT GUY FROM TBE.

[laura.macbeath]

I'm not saying they are similar because the theme is chaos theory, I'm saying the way in which she can go back time through a photo, and the consequence of being wheelchair bound is the same.

[Ну я убил и что?]

LOL, as I said "NOONE CAN USE PHOTO TIME-TRAVEL CAUSE THAT FILM(which wasn`t even good) USED THAT STUFF" lmao, this logic needs some patches.

[laura.macbeath]

Didn't say it was. I'd say the same if the story involved a time travelling DeLorean car or TARDIS also.