I figured out the game timeline

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  • Just because the Camera looks like a Flip Camera doesnt mean it IS one.

    Also the flat screen Tv anyone could have had in 2003. Considering these people lived in a mansion too it makes it very likely that they owned one.

    but my points are pretty fucking solid.

  • no i'm saying no one had them because they were developing them. they weren't being sold then or in 2003-2004. the camera is so obviously a flip cam it hurts.

    You didn't respond with the Kirkman quote, good. In 1958 they looked like that but what about in 2003/2004? Also many older flip cams

  • that doesn't mean anything... most digital cameras looked like that back then

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    because it looks just like a flip cam.

  • because it looks just like a flip cam.

    Jewfreeus posted: »

    the only considerable one is the camera one but even so how do you know that it is flip? its just some camera and flat screen tvs did exist in 2003

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    there doesn't have to be too much logic.

    I would like if it did, though. Having more logic is a good thing.

    yeah true but its fiction so why not? anything is possible because its not real. there doesn't have to be too much logic.

  • Like I said good theory but I disagree.

    We can never truly say when the timeline is unless Kirkman tells us.

    no i'm saying no one had them because they were developing them. they weren't being sold then or in 2003-2004. the camera is so obviously a flip cam it hurts.

  • my reply isn't appearing so i am commenting again

    that doesn't mean anything... most digital cameras looked like that back then

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    because it looks just like a flip cam.

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    yes you're right about the t.v. but i don't think they looked like that.

    trust me that isn't a mansion. its just a really big house. yes it costs a lot but its not a mansion anymore. it was by 1800s standards but not by today's.

    Poogers555 posted: »

    Just because the Camera looks like a Flip Camera doesnt mean it IS one. Also the flat screen Tv anyone could have had in 2003. Considering these people lived in a mansion too it makes it very likely that they owned one.

  • ...But weren't they in a neighboring house to the mansion? They easily could've been upper class as well.

    but weren't common place until a couple of years ago.

  • flat screen tv 2003:

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    not really like the one in the picture at all huh?

    Poogers555 posted: »

    Just because the Camera looks like a Flip Camera doesnt mean it IS one. Also the flat screen Tv anyone could have had in 2003. Considering these people lived in a mansion too it makes it very likely that they owned one.

  • If you own a house like that you are wealthy. Also

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    flat screen tv 2003: not really like the one in the picture at all huh?

  • ...But regardless of such, it was still an upper class house, no?

    yes you're right about the t.v. but i don't think they looked like that. trust me that isn't a mansion. its just a really big house. yes it costs a lot but its not a mansion anymore. it was by 1800s standards but not by today's.

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    those aren't mansion like you think. they're Victorian mansions so they're just really big houses. i know this because i'm Macon( not lying) and my godmother owned one and i went over there often and its just a big house thats it. tho some are bigger than others.

    ...But weren't they in a neighboring house to the mansion? They easily could've been upper class as well.

  • Looks like the one in the house. The time line is same as comics. It is 2003

    uh..ok?

  • yeah pretty upper class. i've been in one.

    ...But regardless of such, it was still an upper class house, no?

  • uh..ok?

    Poogers555 posted: »

    If you own a house like that you are wealthy. Also

  • he is saying that tv looks like the one in the house and it does you can't deny that

    uh..ok?

  • i can't see your comment but ok if that's 2003.

    Poogers555 posted: »

    If you own a house like that you are wealthy. Also

  • yeah it does true.

    Jewfreeus posted: »

    he is saying that tv looks like the one in the house and it does you can't deny that

  • So it's like George Romero's movies - Night Of The Living Dead was meant to be a contemporary story rather than a 1960s period piece, hence why the movie "Diary Of The Dead" was both modern and meant to show the same zombie outbreak that occurred in earlier movies. The date shifts as real-life goes on.

    yes i know but robert kirkman has said: "[The Walking Dead] is set in modern times ... but the book started in 2003 and only a year has p

  • yeah i think that's it. thanks for understanding.

    Bokor posted: »

    So it's like George Romero's movies - Night Of The Living Dead was meant to be a contemporary story rather than a 1960s period piece, hence

  • In real-time, George Romero's zombie quadrilogy spanned almost 4 decades. Within the story itself, the timeline's much more compressed.

    Night Of The Living Dead (1968) showed the beginning of the zombie rising

    Dawn Of The Dead (1978) began approximately three weeks after the zombie rising, and ends around six months later.

    Day Of The Dead (1985) is set one year after the zombie rising.

    Land Of The Dead (2005) is three years after the zombie rising.

    Kirkman's point is that the setting is meant to be contemporary, making exact dates pointless. The series could be said to be set in 2003 because that was the year when Kirkman started writing it, but like most comic-book continuities the date is fluid. 2003, 2013, it doesn't matter. Batman began in the 1940s, but he's definitely not a grandpa.

    Far as I'm concerned, Season 1 of The Walking Dead was set in 2012 (the year it was released) and Season 2 took place in 2014 (two years later), and this doesn't conflict with them existing in the same timeline as Kirkman's comics because of the aforementioned time fluidity.

    yeah i think that's it. thanks for understanding.

  • exactly! this is all i'm trying to say but no one is hearing me out. its fiction so they can be in two different years but still be in same universe because anything can happen in fiction it doesn't always have to make perfect sense.

    Bokor posted: »

    In real-time, George Romero's zombie quadrilogy spanned almost 4 decades. Within the story itself, the timeline's much more compressed.

  • Haggling about the timeline doesn't make sense to me, so long as I don't see i-Phones and other technological markers of our 2014 suddenly poking up in this game.

    exactly! this is all i'm trying to say but no one is hearing me out. its fiction so they can be in two different years but still be in same universe because anything can happen in fiction it doesn't always have to make perfect sense.

  • oh yeah having that kind of stuff popping up would be weird. people keep saying the game starts in 2003 and i just disagree.

    Bokor posted: »

    Haggling about the timeline doesn't make sense to me, so long as I don't see i-Phones and other technological markers of our 2014 suddenly poking up in this game.

  • Because absolutely nobody would think about that minor detail when designing the levels, especially since level design is done by a different team than the writing :/

    how jolene have that camera or the couple have that tv in 2003? theres no way unless there's time travel which there's not.

  • Back in 2004 I've seen flat screen which were exactly like the one on the photo.

    yes you're right about the t.v. but i don't think they looked like that. trust me that isn't a mansion. its just a really big house. yes it costs a lot but its not a mansion anymore. it was by 1800s standards but not by today's.

  • oh i don't remember flat screens at all back then

    Back in 2004 I've seen flat screen which were exactly like the one on the photo.

  • No, because the apocalypse in the show started in late 2010 (if you go by the air date of 101).

    yeah but they started selling 2013 car models in 2012 so it works.

  • oh

    No, because the apocalypse in the show started in late 2010 (if you go by the air date of 101).

  • You did some good research, but I still believe it's 2003.

    1. There are no mobile phones around (I know they existed but not quite as often).

    2. The gas gas prices in 400 Days are very early 2000ish.

    3. Even if the picture with the camera is true, that could be because most digital cameras looked like this back then. It's just a coincidence.

    4. Flat screens existed in 2003 and looked like in-game.

    5. Also remember Crawford saved their recordings on tape and not digitally, pretty unusual in 2012.

    6. I believe Kirkman just doesn't care about his own canon anymore.

    7. Only thing that indicates it was in 2012 is Duck's mention of a comic that was first released in 2012 in 101. But guess what? It's written by Kirkman, therefore we can savely say it was just advertisement.

  • hmmm good point about the tapes.

    You did some good research, but I still believe it's 2003. * There are no mobile phones around (I know they existed but not quite as of

  • i like to think kirkman,amc and telltale mix technology and whatever from both decades so you can't guess when its happening.

    You did some good research, but I still believe it's 2003. * There are no mobile phones around (I know they existed but not quite as of

  • Well this isn't the same as our Earth it's a post-apocalyptic Earth, it doesn't HAVE to follow the same timeline as ours.

  • good point

    prink34320 posted: »

    Well this isn't the same as our Earth it's a post-apocalyptic Earth, it doesn't HAVE to follow the same timeline as ours.

  • This issue was actually put to rest a long time ago. Season One begins in July of 2010.

    Poogers555 posted: »

    Just because the Camera looks like a Flip Camera doesnt mean it IS one. Also the flat screen Tv anyone could have had in 2003. Considering these people lived in a mansion too it makes it very likely that they owned one.

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    Gangolas posted: »

    This issue was actually put to rest a long time ago. Season One begins in July of 2010.

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