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Lisa Foiles	1 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 11:00
	Top 5 Time Travelers - Back and Back and Back to the Future Lisa lists off the best games to get all wibbly-wobbly with time. Watch Video

RealRT	2 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 11:28
	A notable omission that should not go unnoticed! Come on, you all know it, say it with me: Kain and Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series - immortal vampire demigod who saved the world to conquer it himself and his former second in command foster son turned into a soul-sucking wraith. They change history, defy fate and fight wizards and giant squids. It's fucking awesome. Of five games three (Blood Omen, Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance) feature time travel as plot points, a bit of time travel occurs in the second game (Soul Reaver) and there is also a place where time and space are kind of fucked in the head in the fourth (Blood Omen 2).

PunkRex	3 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 11:35
	Cortez is the hero the video game industry needs, not what it deserves... seriously I don't want the triple A boogie men getting their smelly, dirty, tear drenched claws on even a tachyon of my beloved Timesplitters... but I feel like he'd be good for the kids. Chrono Trigger is on my list to play.

SlightlyEvil	4 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 12:01
	I'd have given an honorable mention to Serious Sam, since he is sent back in time at the start of his game (though it doesn't really affect the game after that). Also, WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!

Pyrian	5 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 12:03
	Okay, the ending? Too adorable. I think I broke something.

templar1138a	6 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 12:23
	No mention of Link from Ocarina of Time or (to a lesser extent) Pepper from Pepper's Adventures in Time? FOR SHAME!! Also, I'm only a couple years younger than Lisa, but I never played Chrono Trigger or any of those games that are supposedly what it was like to grow up in the nineties. And I will not play them because I dislike isometrics.

Silentpony	7 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 12:28
	Where is Link?! Where is Ocarina of Time?! Seriously, its considered one of the best, if not THE best game of all time. And its about time travel, and saving the kingdom, and time travel type puzzles where you have to be a kid to do X so you can come back years later as an adult to do Y. You learn the Song of Storms as an adult, go back in time to a kid, teach it to the man who taught you as an adult so he can teach it to you years later as an adult! Its insane! Its like diving by zero, but on an N64! Shame on you Lisa! SHAME!

Rblade	8 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 12:46
	I thought this might have braid. not really a memorable character but that game is entirely about time manipulation

TheAmazingTGIF	9 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 13:13
	No Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? I think there is only the one PoP game... Right?

ace_of_something	10 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 13:15
	Craw-no? I always thought it was Crow-no. RealRT: A notable omission that should not go unnoticed! Come on, you all know it, say it with me: Kain and Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series - immortal vampire demigod who saved the world to conquer it himself and his former second in command foster son turned into a soul-sucking wraith. They change history, defy fate and fight wizards and giant squids. It's fucking awesome. Of five games three (Blood Omen, Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance) feature time travel as plot points, a bit of time travel occurs in the second game (Soul Reaver) and there is also a place where time and space are kind of fucked in the head in the fourth (Blood Omen 2). I agree those were good games. But the time travel started to make stuff REALLY confusing, so I wouldn't put them there.

Headsprouter	11 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 14:25
	Seeing Timesplitters cutscenes fills me with so many different feels at once. It got so good...I wonder if we'd be in the same spot today if HAZE didn't happen?

TKretts3	12 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 18:51
	Aww, I thought I was going to be all unique and original by bringing up Link from Ocarina. :(

Darth_Payn	13 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 20:04
	Ah, I needed some levity an giggles from the day I'm having. TheAmazingTGIF: No Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? I think there is only the one PoP game... Right? Every Prince of Persia game since Sands of Time involved time travel, except The Forgotten Sands.

Blood Brain Barrier	14 POSTED: 12 Aug 2014 23:25
	A nice surprise to see DOTT, didn't expect that but I thought the BTTF game was terribly average and boring. If Lisa thought it was awesome she mustn't have played enough adventure games or at least the right ones.

Endocrom	15 POSTED: 13 Aug 2014 01:58
	I thought for sure when she said Chrono Trigger wasn't #1 that it was because it traveled back in time and somehow became both #2 and #1. I guess I overthink things. It's time to split! ...

ghalleon0915	16 POSTED: 13 Aug 2014 02:33
	Ah Timesplitters, seeing Cortez there with Anya made me wax nostalgic for a bit. Thoroughly enjoyed Timesplitters 2, too much really. Beyond that, I only played Chrono so I have no idea of the other games, although I have heard/read people praise Day of the Tentacle, did not realize that had time travel elements to it.

Adam Stapleton	17 POSTED: 13 Aug 2014 08:11
	As you guys have already said, real surprise not to see either Kain/Raziel or the Prince from Sands of Time

Aptspire	18 POSTED: 14 Aug 2014 14:49
	Hey! Lisa didn't use time travel at the end of the video... She used MAGIC! >:(

Whytewulf	19 POSTED: 15 Aug 2014 08:21
	Dang it, now I want to play Day of the Tentacle again!

gamexpert1990	20 POSTED: 25 Aug 2014 14:50
	Sorry about the late comment, but not even a passing mention For Max and Monica, the protagonists from Dark Cloud 2 (a.k.a. Dark Chronicle)!?

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