the good things about the film's is that marty explores times that are completely alien to him. im agreeing with the people who mentioned 1935. that or meet up with the dudes who founded america
65,000,000,000 B.C., 12,000 B.C., 600 A.D., 1000 A.D., 1999 A.D. and 2300 A.D.
i'd love to visit all time periods from the movies at least for a bit. 1955 and 1985 obviously because everything revolves around both those years. 2015 because it's so awesome. and the old west... hey, why not?
I'd like them to go back in time and meet the founding fathers, and 200 years in the future when evil aliens have overtaken the Earth and force Humans to enter beauty contests! The game would start off at Doc's mansion though, of course. And Marty's girlfriend could be a playable character! And maybe give him a lovable loser friend, a roadie type for his band? That'd be cool.
This.
Why not call it "Day of the Tenuous Plot Reference" ?
Yep. Nothing like the 80s. It was the next phase of people wanting to be *futuristic*. The threat of people with their hands too close to "The Button" which would cause a nuclear holocaust, quickly subsided in our minds when some hot new Nintendo game was about to come out, or a great fantasy movie was ready to take us on some journey. We had our big stars, all over the place, and the sensations of the times (entertainment) was the big healing factor. Anything to take our minds off the cold war, for a bit.
I mean, you could be here watching as the drama of U.S. and Soviet relations unfold, listening for whether you should worry about finding a shelter to hide in. Or you could put on some parachute pants, go out and party. Watch as colorful (and perhaps a little flamboyant) outfits became the *trend* for the next two weeks. But if you had it, you were 'IN fashion' for the time. Contemplate the 'chic' aspect of getting watches that left out various Numbers on the face. When getting a Guess (or Swatch) watch actually had the meaning, "Guess what time it is, because I'm not gonna tell you. It's somewhere on this artistic triangle on the face, and it won't point to a number for hours." (Analogue watches, before then, always had proper clock markings across the entire face.) And life or death depended on getting that Zelda, Pacman, or Mario game, that was announced months prior, and you *had* to have it on release. Top 40s hits talking about a major videogame was cool. People had "Pacman fever" and "Did the Donkey Kong". We all wanted to know 'Where's the beef'? Most musical groups got known for using some unusual sounds in their music, to make them sound unique. Often due to the discovery of so many waveforms that could be created with Keyboards, at the time.
Ahh yes. And while that's just a snippet of what it was like to be in the 80's, they were mandatory parts of it.
How many different Biff incarnations could they use ?
Pirate Biff ? Dark Night Beef ? First life cells ever Biff ? Hitler Biff :eek: ?
That's actually a crucial question for the game to be believable. The movies had MJF play Marty, one of his ancestors and two of his siblings, that's about as far as this should ever go. Tom Wilson played Biff, Griff and Buford (and Griff was already pretty much of an exaggeration). If every single time period has the same Tannen stereotype, the game might feel far too much like the animated series.
As for the time periods I'd like to see, Telltale will get rather close with 1935-1945.
From there, I'm blanking. It would be nice to revisit 1955 and (the movies'!) 2015, but that would be mere repetition. What is the time period that hasn't been visited to death in the BTTF movies, but also from other time travellers in other time-travel franchises? Where can Marty actually go where no time-traveller has gone before?
Also, consider the following limitations: When was Hill Valley established? Would it ruin the mood if they went to a time when the city did not even exist? How far into the future could they go and still make sense?
Well 1985 and roughly 1945 are probably guaranteed to be in it judging from the character designs.
I'd like to explore two timeperiods that are really close to eachother like a week or so or visit one period two times..
Then there'd be two Marty's and we'd know before-hand what he's going to do since we played that already and the puzzles are solved by taking advantage of this situation.
Also I'd like to have one or two time periods included that are really waaaay back or waaaay into the future and will exploit the 'fish-out-of-water' situation to the fullest.
I dont really care about which time period, only wanted the 80s for sure,
I just hope the times, have coherence with the characters and the story, not just a travel in time random thing...
I love to play with a same time in differente moments, trying to stop yourself from doing what you did in last episode...jajja
Really dont make the game disney or like the animated series...please... kill clara and the kids...please...kill the train...make it more like the first movie, with things of the second...
I dont care about stopping WWII i have 100 games about that...please...be close to martys personal life, his family, high school, parents, girls, rockstar...
his truck, explode 80s cool stuff like hair metal, mullets, lenguaje, slangs of the time...make it personal...not like a universal time travel with a excuse to search for doc, that ends saving the world...fuck the world i want only martys life!
As Bob and Bob constructed their time-machine as a vehicle that can travel through time but not space, the likelihood of Marty shipping the DeLorean to Europe to get involved in some jousting is kinda unlikely. I mean it's possible, but, yeah unlikely.
Personally, I am really excited about the idea of 1930's Hill Valley.
An in-movie-timeline 2010 would be great, with a time shift that put the timeline into actual 2010 for extra giggles.
If you're suggesting what I think you are, I think this would be a really good idea.
Marty and Doc doing something that leads to a shift in the timeline to account for the over the top part 2 version of 2015 changing to a more likely one.
Taking into consideration that the game starts out in 1986 (October 1985 + 6 months - 1986 ) and that I think that each episode will have a new unique time period (maybe not, but who knows?), also taking into consideration where Marty already has been, here are years of Hill Valley I would've liked to see:
1986 (obviously )
1936 (obviously It's a very unique period)
2006A or 2016A (well, our 'realistic' 2006/2016, with the 2016A being closer to our 2010 than the BTTF2 variant. With the future always changing, I see this as a totally plausible variant to go to the future, plus Marty can always be surprised at how many things are different from the last time he actually was here)
1976 (Marty meeting his younger self, anyone?)
2086 (I agree about going 100 years into the future. Besides, it's not 30 years later, most of us will be dead by the time it comes so nobody will care if it will come true or not )
1906 (seems like a good on-the-edge period to choose between 1885 and 1936, it's pretty distinctive too, historically)
Then Sammun-Mak gets an update where if you look in the background, you can see Doc and Marty running around. Then, the entire episode is completely different, and the following S+M episodes fade from the site....
Then Sammun-Mak gets an update where if you look in the background, you can see Doc and Marty running around. Then, the entire episode is completely different, and the following S+M episodes fade from the site....
no, they will all change and we have completely new episodes to play. YAY!!
Times like 10.0000 bc will probably not happen. It doesn't fit on the time cuircits. And really, what is there to go back to. >.>
Maybe there's no more than one visitable point in history before 999 BC (per episode, at most), and the time circuits just show the year as -999. Marty could joke about the limitations of the displays and the possibility of a millenium bug in Y10K.
And as for what there is to go back to, two words, buddy: Jurassic Era. Although you'd have to watch for continental drift, since the time jumps only take the car through time and not space.
Well it depends whether the world is mainly involved around the BTTF character's or not.
if it is i say make a date where the very last of the "McFly or Browns" will exist.
That way that would be a cool story to keep the McFly or Browns alive even longer. Say like the year 2100 - 2400 or so.
Same as part 3 movies where u see the very first McFly family.
And if its not character based then well you basically just could go anywhere i guess.. from -9999999BC till 99999999.. It just depends on how far the imagination goes.
At one point in the game, Doc mentions that he plans to visit Marty and Jennifer in 2011,which is approximately the same time that was visited in bttf part 2 . Could this be a time period visited in a later episode? If so, do you think they will show the high-tech version of the future that was seen in Bttf part 2 or will it be a more accurate version?
I assume to keep in with continuity, it'll be the BTTF2 version, because present day in the game is 1986 so they should still have that "oooh by 2000 and x we'll have flying cars" motto.
What if avoiding that car accident has caused Marty to create the timeline as we know it for us?
Yes, I'm guessing that 2015 Marty's life won't be so bad after the events of the third film...but something tells me that events in these games are going to change the future in much more drastic ways anyway.
We'll probably see a completely different version of the future based on our actions in the 1930s (or whenever).
In BTTFII, yes. In the game, Doc says he's planning on visiting Marty and Jennifer in 2011. Marty questions him, but Doc quickly says something like "Never mind that!".
Not to mention, that
a) Doc said in the end of BttFI that he'll go 25 years into the future, so he could still visit them in 2010/2011
b) We don't know what chain of events led to the BttF2 2015, but with the past being constantly tangled with, it's no surprise if a small change in the timeline would lead to 2010-2015 being as we know them now (which I think will most likely be the case in the game if we'll ever see the 2010s... and I think it was actually confirmed by someone from TT, but I can't say for sure).
What time periods would you like to see Marty and Doc go to in the series? I think Ancient Rome could be interesting, with Emperor Biff, or maybe some alternate reality eras. America if we had never won the War For Independence, or the world under the rule of an aged Hitler of the future. All sorts of possibilities are open when you're dealing with time travel. So what would you like to see?
BTTF meets Gladiator. I got a semi... my two favorite movies rolled up in to one, ohhhh.
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Agreed.
This.
Why not call it "Day of the Tenuous Plot Reference" ?
Games with a proper 80's atmosphere are really rare, GTA Vice City does this really well.
2010 could be funny for the 1985 characters to go to.
I mean, you could be here watching as the drama of U.S. and Soviet relations unfold, listening for whether you should worry about finding a shelter to hide in. Or you could put on some parachute pants, go out and party. Watch as colorful (and perhaps a little flamboyant) outfits became the *trend* for the next two weeks. But if you had it, you were 'IN fashion' for the time. Contemplate the 'chic' aspect of getting watches that left out various Numbers on the face. When getting a Guess (or Swatch) watch actually had the meaning, "Guess what time it is, because I'm not gonna tell you. It's somewhere on this artistic triangle on the face, and it won't point to a number for hours." (Analogue watches, before then, always had proper clock markings across the entire face.) And life or death depended on getting that Zelda, Pacman, or Mario game, that was announced months prior, and you *had* to have it on release. Top 40s hits talking about a major videogame was cool. People had "Pacman fever" and "Did the Donkey Kong". We all wanted to know 'Where's the beef'? Most musical groups got known for using some unusual sounds in their music, to make them sound unique. Often due to the discovery of so many waveforms that could be created with Keyboards, at the time.
Ahh yes. And while that's just a snippet of what it was like to be in the 80's, they were mandatory parts of it.
First thing ill check is when earth will be destroyed
That's actually a crucial question for the game to be believable. The movies had MJF play Marty, one of his ancestors and two of his siblings, that's about as far as this should ever go. Tom Wilson played Biff, Griff and Buford (and Griff was already pretty much of an exaggeration). If every single time period has the same Tannen stereotype, the game might feel far too much like the animated series.
As for the time periods I'd like to see, Telltale will get rather close with 1935-1945.
From there, I'm blanking. It would be nice to revisit 1955 and (the movies'!) 2015, but that would be mere repetition. What is the time period that hasn't been visited to death in the BTTF movies, but also from other time travellers in other time-travel franchises? Where can Marty actually go where no time-traveller has gone before?
Also, consider the following limitations: When was Hill Valley established? Would it ruin the mood if they went to a time when the city did not even exist? How far into the future could they go and still make sense?
I'd like to explore two timeperiods that are really close to eachother like a week or so or visit one period two times..
Then there'd be two Marty's and we'd know before-hand what he's going to do since we played that already and the puzzles are solved by taking advantage of this situation.
Also I'd like to have one or two time periods included that are really waaaay back or waaaay into the future and will exploit the 'fish-out-of-water' situation to the fullest.
I just hope the times, have coherence with the characters and the story, not just a travel in time random thing...
I love to play with a same time in differente moments, trying to stop yourself from doing what you did in last episode...jajja
Really dont make the game disney or like the animated series...please... kill clara and the kids...please...kill the train...make it more like the first movie, with things of the second...
I dont care about stopping WWII i have 100 games about that...please...be close to martys personal life, his family, high school, parents, girls, rockstar...
his truck, explode 80s cool stuff like hair metal, mullets, lenguaje, slangs of the time...make it personal...not like a universal time travel with a excuse to search for doc, that ends saving the world...fuck the world i want only martys life!
Great Scott! Marty, it's the Black Knight!
Personally, I am really excited about the idea of 1930's Hill Valley.
If you're suggesting what I think you are, I think this would be a really good idea.
Marty and Doc doing something that leads to a shift in the timeline to account for the over the top part 2 version of 2015 changing to a more likely one.
Might lead to the hoverboard disappearing though
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1986 (obviously
1936 (obviously
2006A or 2016A (well, our 'realistic' 2006/2016, with the 2016A being closer to our 2010 than the BTTF2 variant. With the future always changing, I see this as a totally plausible variant to go to the future, plus Marty can always be surprised at how many things are different from the last time he actually was here)
1976 (Marty meeting his younger self, anyone?)
2086 (I agree about going 100 years into the future. Besides, it's not 30 years later, most of us will be dead by the time it comes so nobody will care if it will come true or not
1906 (seems like a good on-the-edge period to choose between 1885 and 1936, it's pretty distinctive too, historically)
no, they will all change and we have completely new episodes to play. YAY!!
egaaaaad I hated that movie. So wanted to be Apocalypto, so failed.
sorry, back to topic, back to topic
Maybe there's no more than one visitable point in history before 999 BC (per episode, at most), and the time circuits just show the year as -999. Marty could joke about the limitations of the displays and the possibility of a millenium bug in Y10K.
And as for what there is to go back to, two words, buddy: Jurassic Era. Although you'd have to watch for continental drift, since the time jumps only take the car through time and not space.
Well it depends whether the world is mainly involved around the BTTF character's or not.
if it is i say make a date where the very last of the "McFly or Browns" will exist.
That way that would be a cool story to keep the McFly or Browns alive even longer. Say like the year 2100 - 2400 or so.
Same as part 3 movies where u see the very first McFly family.
And if its not character based then well you basically just could go anywhere i guess.. from -9999999BC till 99999999.. It just depends on how far the imagination goes.
Yes, I'm guessing that 2015 Marty's life won't be so bad after the events of the third film...but something tells me that events in these games are going to change the future in much more drastic ways anyway.
We'll probably see a completely different version of the future based on our actions in the 1930s (or whenever).
a) Doc said in the end of BttFI that he'll go 25 years into the future, so he could still visit them in 2010/2011
b) We don't know what chain of events led to the BttF2 2015, but with the past being constantly tangled with, it's no surprise if a small change in the timeline would lead to 2010-2015 being as we know them now (which I think will most likely be the case in the game if we'll ever see the 2010s... and I think it was actually confirmed by someone from TT, but I can't say for sure).