

He, like Beth went into the past without knowledge of how his future self influenced his past, so he too repeated his own actions anytime he tried to change things. Seren rejects the idea the because his existence in the presence depends on his existence in the future and past. It's that she was unknowingly doing the exact same things her future self always did. It's not that the past was fighting back. She didn't have enough knowledge of her future self's actions to change her path, so when she tried to change things, she just repeats history. Beth tells him no because her failure to do so has convinced her it's impossible (even though her approach was incorrect. In act 5 Will tells him no because of the unknown consequence of breaking the loop. Everytime Jack suggests actually doing different something that he knows will alter the timeline, he his told not to. They either work off the idea that doing something you know is different is bad (Will), or the think they are doing something different, but end up doing the exact same thing their future self always did (Beth, Serene).

What I'm saying is no one in the game every tried to do anything different.

Now, again we do not know for sure if that is the case but at the moment we don't have any concrete information that suggest altering the past is possible. No matter what he tries any attempt to alter the past will be thwarted and events will continue as they always have. The gun will jam or misfire, a car will jump right out in from of him preventing him from getting to his past self, a tree will suddenly fall down, a phone line will be cut, etc. If you've watched that Hulu show 11.22.63 then it would be like the "past fighting back," as in that show. When I say that Paul cannot go back and kill his past self I'm not simply talking about it failing one time, I'm saying that no matter what he tries it will never work. We at the end of the game are left with this nagging question of whether we actually did change anything or simply followed the natural progression of events as they were always meant to happen. But, that is what I'm getting at the game suggests that it simply is not possible to alter history.
