Games with good in game timers?
6 years ago
Florida, USA

So I have been watching AGDQ2018 and during the horror block Silent Hill was highly praised for its great in game timer. So i was wondering if there are any other games out there with such great timers or even just comparable?

I think, Type:Rider and Uncharted Series

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West Sussex, England

The Resident Evil series are good for in game timers.

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Ohio, USA

the Time Attack timers from Shadow of the Colossus are great, but unless you're running IL's instead of the NTA category you don't use them :/

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Valhalla

DeadCore timer is quite good, don't even need livesplit

United States

Metroid: Other M is an example of what NOT to do with an ingame timer. Twilight Princess has a decent IGT, the only issue is it's (h)h:mm (no seconds on the file select screen) and it doesn't show after the final boss. I know the Primes use IGT for their runs, some of which have higher accuracy than others.

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Florida, USA

Thanks for all these great replies! I completely forgot about uncharted. You would think after playing them so many times i would remember they have actual speed run modes. I've never done any speedrunning but year after year i watch the GDQ marathons and get more and more interested in getting into running and figured if i could find a game with a good ingame timer that would make it easier to start.