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[Koyuga]

Would much rather have a season 2 of this than a new bttf movie.

 

[MaverickHunterX]

Ign says a listing just appeared on Amazon Canada as well:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08/19/telltales-back-to-the-future-may-be-coming-to-ps4-xbox-one

 

[jond76]

Bought. Fo sho.

 

[giancarlo123x]

I bought this day one and never played it for some reason. I know it won't be cross buy so that's a shame.

 

[not_so_special]

The BTTF game was okay. It dragged in the middle and I remember episodes 3 and 4 being really buggy and sloppy feeling (I remember a bug where characters kept phasing through a bugged out Delorean that was in a place it did not belong)

buggy and sloppy on a telltalle game? thats news


on a serious note..im still amazed how these hacks can still use their horrendous engine and no one on the gaming press is calling them for that seriously,you see things like life is strange or the new king quest from more modest studios and is a night and day difference

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Also up on Amazon US too now.

Amazon link

 

[Azure Dream]

I liked the game, other than the tacked-on ending that tried to be BTTF1/2 (when they had a perfectly good moment to go out on), and the weird art style they had that made Doc Brown look like a zombie.

The Marty soundalike they got was fantastic. Not perfect, but as close as you could hope for. (Michael J. Fox does voice a character or two, but couldn't do all the recording for Marty required.)

I hope the new version includes uncompressed audio (or less compressed), because on the PC version you could really hear how they crunched the audio to save space.

 

[dolabla]

Definitely getting this. Glad it's getting a retail release on the current gen. I played a little bit of it on the PS3, but never beat it.

 

[Alec]

I got all the trophies in each individual episode, but there was no Platinum. Then they released a retail version with a Platinum and a different trophy set...I might just go back and double Platinum it when it comes out.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

So what's with Telltale ditching Nintendo completely? Earlier Telltale games were all on Wii, including this one, and the Wii was at least a few times billed as the primary platform. Seems a bit weird that none of these newer Telltale games would be on Wii U this whole time, particularly this. I can't believe the sales wouldn't be enough to cover their porting costs and then some.

Whatever, I'll be getting it on Xbox One anyway. Just weird. I hope some other older titles, like SBCG4AP make the jump too.

 

[Revolutionary]

Cool. It wasn't amazing but as a life long BTTF fan, it scratched that itch.
Also, Season 2 please. That ending...

 

[MulderYuffie]

Nice! Another easy platinum.

 

[Reset]

I played the first chapter and thought the game was awful and ended up dropping it.

Sort of unnecessary considering any computer can effectively run that game nowadays. But hey, that's cool.

I forgot everybody prefers to play games on their PC now. Cool.

 

[Hyrule Warrior]

Ugh, no thanks...I really hated this game. It started out with the right intentions, but I really did not get a fun BttF feel from the story of this game in the slightest. If anything, I feel like it got too dark and weird for BttF.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

buggy and sloppy on a telltalle game? thats news

I must be really lucky because I've never actually had any significant problems with Telltale games besides BTTF

The only major complaint I usually have is crummy lip sync

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Cool. It wasn't amazing but as a life long BTTF fan, it scratched that itch.
Also, Season 2 please. That ending...

Yea. I still long for a season 2. First was awesome.

I must be really lucky because I've never actually had any significant problems with Telltale games besides BTTF

The only major complaint I usually have is crummy lip sync

The only real major bug I ever encountered was the game breaking glasshouse bug when that episode released. Some of us on the forums worked with Telltale and eventually we all got it figured out and they re-released that episode a few days later. Other then that my play throughs of the games were always fine.

 

[GamerJM]

No Wii U?

 

[Slaythe]

One of the worst game i have ever played.

Cant believe actual bttf fans are defending this.

 

[Industrialist]

One of the worst game i have ever played.

Cant believe actual bttf fans are defending this.

You can't have played very many games then.

It isn't that anyone is "defending" anything. It's that some people have different tastes to you.

 

[brickarts295]

Boxart looks great.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I bought this day one and never played it for some reason. I know it won't be cross buy so that's a shame.

I hope it is cross buy.

 

[brickarts295]

I hope it is cross buy.

I doubt it, I owned both WDS1, S2 and Wolf Among Us on PS3 digital, no cross buy for PS4 :/

 

[BHK3]

game fell apart on the end of episode 3, episode 4 felt like a chore because everyones personality practically changed and never put more than a minute into episode 5. Someday I'll finish it

 

[Finaika]

So looks like A Wolf Among Us Season 2 isn't going to come out anytime soon...

 

[jmizzal]

The Walking Dead collection for WiiU was leaked for Oct too and now this, hmm I wonder when Telltale is gonna announce this stuff

 

[Shift Breaker]

I enjoyed it. Hope it gets a platinum trophy this time, I think the boxed PS3 version had it but not the episodic digital version. I'll probably buy it, just to support more PnC Telltale games.

 

[MaverickHunterX]

The BTTF game was okay. It dragged in the middle and I remember episodes 3 and 4 being really buggy and sloppy feeling (I remember a bug where characters kept phasing through a bugged out Delorean that was in a place it did not belong)

Season 2 would be okay. The game did technically end on kind of a weird cliffhanger, but not the kind it seriously felt like they ever intended actually continuing (it was more of a "haha, time travel is WEIRD, huh?" note)

Really? If anything, the scene where

Spoiler

the corrupt Doc comes down hard on Marty the first time they meet even sent chills down my spine.

Maybe because the scene betrays my nostalgia...?

 

[Bjoern the Smexy]

Nice.
I hope this leads to a Season 2 soon.
Really loved Season 1.

 

[Azure Dream]

I must be really lucky because I've never actually had any significant problems with Telltale games besides BTTF

The only major complaint I usually have is crummy lip sync

In the first episode, I had a hard time triggering a very specific event in the soup kitchen. I felt like I'd done everything, multiple times over, and it just wasn't happening.

 

[StillEdge]

Played it on the Wii and regretted trying it on that console. Bought it on Steam and kept putting it off, will finally be able to play it on my Xbox One and enjoy it.

 

[Nudull]

Eh. Wasn't quite at their best with this one. Same with Jurassic Park.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Boxart is too damn good. Will probably buy even though I have 4 more episodes to play on PS3 >_>

 

[xrnzaaas]

Nice, I didn't play the original version. And how about a re-release of Sam & Max Seasons 1-3?

 

[Lionheart]

I just played and finished this game on PS3 for the first time last month haha. Cool for those who haven't played it yet. It's very enjoyable still. Wondering what improvements they'll include if any.

 

[Haganeren]

I must be really lucky because I've never actually had any significant problems with Telltale games besides BTTF

The only major complaint I usually have is crummy lip sync

I remember having a lot of problem starting with the second season of Sam & Max. Some cinematic was kinda sloppy, a lot of time, the first seconds of a cinematics was cut off which made the whole thing really messy.

... But i still loved it. (And i would love to see a fourth season of Sam & Max)

I didn't knew that many people loved the Back to the Future game, i remember people saying "it wasn't all that great" when it was first out. (Or maybe i'm confused with Jurassic Park ?)

 

[Azure Dream]

I didn't knew that many people loved the Back to the Future game, i remember people saying "it wasn't all that great" when it was first out. (Or maybe i'm confused with Jurassic Park ?)

People were pretty down on Jurassic Park. I never got to play it myself.

I think Back to the Future was where people started to say "Hey, this is getting kind of formulaic", and it started to show their budget a bit (there's a late-game sequence that's restricted to a tiny area, that seems like something they wanted to make into a longer, bigger area but didn't have time/money for).

 

[RedAssedApe]

Probably the least interesting ttg I've played despite being a fan of the movies. :/

 

[jesu]

I never did get round to buying it for my PS3, I'll likely get it this time around.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

People were pretty down on Jurassic Park. I never got to play it myself.

I think Back to the Future was where people started to say "Hey, this is getting kind of formulaic", and it started to show their budget a bit (there's a late-game sequence that's restricted to a tiny area, that seems like something they wanted to make into a longer, bigger area but didn't have time/money for).

I know it's not really the same, but with Telltale games it might as well be -- but I watched somebody play Jurassic Park: The Game.

It's BAD. Really bad. It tries to be more action-oriented so it goes in the "Heavy Rain on an Extreme Budget" direction with lots and lots and lots of crummy QTEs.

The writing is atrocious. Character development only comes up when its convenient to the plot and then those traits are immediately discarded and never mentioned ever again. This also applies to how dinosaurs act, who will do completely nonsensical things in service of keeping a scene "moving."

Like, maybe I'm just a super picky Jurassic Park nerd, but there's a scene where to escape some raptors, the characters climb up on some scaffolding about 20 feet up. Despite the fact that the raptors watched them climb up, and are agile creatures with climbing abilities of their own, they mysteriously stay on the ground, circling the scaffolding and growling.

Eventually, like two scenes (5-10 min.) later, they start trying to climb up after them, after our characters have had enough time for a chat.

Later on in I think that same episode, this Rambo lookin' dude stalks and kills a raptor with nothing but a knife because that's "so badass." (It's not. The setup and the execution is laughable. It's like a teenager wrote it.)

It also leans hard in to the "A T-Rex can't see you if you don't move" thing from the first Jurassic Park movie, even though that's really dumb and the sequels were like "Yeah, no, Grant was just wrong about that one."

It is probably far and away the worst thing Telltale has ever put out.

 

[Son Of D]

Not really surprised at this. What with it being BttF's 30th anniversary and all.

So what's with Telltale ditching Nintendo completely? Earlier Telltale games were all on Wii, including this one, and the Wii was at least a few times billed as the primary platform. Seems a bit weird that none of these newer Telltale games would be on Wii U this whole time, particularly this. I can't believe the sales wouldn't be enough to cover their porting costs and then some.

Well there was that listing for TWD Seasons 1 and 2 on Wii U.

 

[Peltz]

How is this not the first post? For shame GAF.

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Eh, this game was okay. Wouldn't play this a second time.

So what's with Telltale ditching Nintendo completely? Earlier Telltale games were all on Wii, including this one, and the Wii was at least a few times billed as the primary platform. Seems a bit weird that none of these newer Telltale games would be on Wii U this whole time, particularly this. I can't believe the sales wouldn't be enough to cover their porting costs and then some.

Probably because the Wii U has much lower install base.

 

[Shanlei91]

So what's with Telltale ditching Nintendo completely? Earlier Telltale games were all on Wii, including this one, and the Wii was at least a few times billed as the primary platform. Seems a bit weird that none of these newer Telltale games would be on Wii U this whole time, particularly this. I can't believe the sales wouldn't be enough to cover their porting costs and then some.

Maybe they figure if WiiU users really wanted, they could just play the Wii version...which is also the worst port of any game I've ever played.

 

[EBreda]

One of the worst TT games. Buggy, slow, weak character progression, bland, formulaic.

And I'm a complete sucker for BTTF (like all of us probably).

 

[Danlord]

My brother is a huge fan of BTTF and he enjoyed these on PS3, so I hope I can buy this for him. All I ask is that it's 1080p60 and it works bug-free*. that's it. It's not too much to ask for - for a PS3 game remastered for PS4 unless it's gone some asset overhaul, which I doubt it has as I think it'll just be a regular remaster for the anniversary.

* to a point, no game can be bug free.