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Woah, this is heavy. and awesome | |
Does no one learn from the past?! | |
"What is it with you people from the future and weight? Is there increased gravity in the future?" "What?" "Never mind..." | |
Great scott, that was a clever reference. | |
I'm excited to play this, what if it has multiplayer? That would be sweet...except I don't want to mess with no refer addicts... | |
This is great news! Telltale are an amazing developer with true episodic game structure. I cant think of a better dev to carry such a franchise. I'm gonna be first in line for the pre-order. | |
I never really liked the movies... *Enters flame bunker* Still, the games might be interesting. Though, as movie games go there's not much hope. | |
This game better feature some serious shit, or I'm not going to be pleased... In all honestly I'm a bit weary, I mean it sounds great on paper... or rather in my head as I read it off my monitor... I mean we know how most video-games based on movies usually end up? I guess I'll just have to wait and see... Or build a time machine... Now I have the urge to watch the movies... | |
Awesome. | |
Telltale made an experiment with time travel based gameplay in the last Sam and Max episode. It worked nicely, so I'm confident they could make a serviceable game out of Back to the Future. | |
Awe...Awes...AWESOME!!! I love the Back to the Future series. Great movies. Absolute gold. If anyone hasn't seen them, they must surrender 100 cookies to appease the DeLorean God. | |
The movies were pretty silly although definitely fun to watch. Video games based on established retro movie series don't do well. Look at the Ghostbusters video game. You'll just have a bunch of fanboys fanwanking the original material and saying "oooh, look how closely we're following the original movie! And yet it's not a complete copy because characters have different names!" Shit, basically. | |
Way to go against my argument in the Overrated Movies topic. I am referring to this line: | |
How would you make a videogame out of Back to the Future? I don't get it. | |
Just one question, what kind of game is it? Will it go by the movie, or will it have the player going through different time frames then just future, 1955, and the year "Fist full of Dollars" took place on? | |
This will not end well. How can you possibly translate it into a game anyway? | |
It's been done before. Also note where it said "new content". Fact is, Telltale has few peers when it comes to good writing and solid adventure gaming. I've high hopes. | |
"Hannah Montana" has also been turned into a game. How did that turn out? (not degrading the quality of Back to the Future here, just saying it's not fit to be a video game, it's been done before, and it's failed, just because something can technically be made into a game, doesn't mean it should be (as is the case with "Hannah Montana" (which frankly shouldn't exist in any form))) | |
The BttF game on the SNES, (never released in America) was pretty cool, it had the music, and marty doing backflips on a hoverboard. Cant wait for this. Between this and the Mortal Kombat remake, this is shaping up to be a good year. | |
This reminds me of the fact that down the road from my neighborhood, an old man has a mint condition DeLorean just sitting in his driveway. I'm so tempted to make an offer for it... | |
dont ruin my favorite trilogy!!! | |
Goddammit... I wanted to say that. OT: Hopefully it's better than the other Back to the Future game. | |
Want to do it right? HERE is the engine to use!!! | |
I'm super psyched for this. I hope it will be like Ghostbusters with crappy gameplay. | |
the only thing im worried about is that the current generation of game consoles cannot put out the required 1.2 Gigawatts of power needed to time travel. i guess im going to have to rustle up a Mr. Fusion | |
you know, there's a REASON that alot of people don't like remakes. It's coincidentally the same reason that alot of people who "read the book" don't like, or refuse to watch the movie. | |
Well, I know this won't be sandbox but they can still get it right... I'm afraid I don't hold out a lot of hope for this. I suppose I hope it's at least as fun as the Crysis mod. | |
I was kind of happy when I read the article, but now that I think about it, the first two movies would be pretty bland in the video game world. All you'd be doing is running around trying to make your parents meet, then run around trying to get an almanac back. The third might be okay, but even then, you don't get to fire a weapon (in theory) amongst other downfalls. Hopefully, they'll somewhat rewrite what went on, as blasphemous as that sounds. Leading Biff into the cow and horse shit would be fun though. | |
Um, I don't think this series is going to translate to game format at all. | |
Im gonna make like a tree and get outta here. And head straight to my local game shop to look for this on the used wall. 5 hours after release...then probably return it. unless its soo bad its awesome. If the original cast doesn't do the voicework then this is pointless. Unless the perv boy on the train Jewels is an unlockable playable character. sweet. | |
It has the potential to suck hard, but here is hoping it won't! And now i'm in a pissy cuz we're nowhere near hoverboards yet, ah well, still got 5 years to go. COME ON SCIENCE! YOU GAVE US SLIDEY DOORS LIKE IN STAR TREK! NOW I WANT MY DAMNED HOVERBOARDS! Also:
Seriously? You ARE joking? | |
I don't know how you could possibly make this into a game... | |
I don't get the excitement over this. I don't see the why we'd want the stories monkeyed with, certainly not in a game (what's been done gamewise is in the past, leave it.) And since when do any of us get excited over a licensed-movie-game? Haven't lifetimes of seriously craptastic flops taught us to stay away from them no matter who makes them? I'm also a bit confused by Tom Goldman's comments that every human being should see this trio of films (he's certainly right there) but then later laments that Back to the Future has "sadly been absent" from being remade/relaunched. While that can occasionally be a good thing to do to a franchise it more often than not proves to just shit on the original it's trying to hard to "relaunch". Back to the Future is a great series of movies that should be left as they are instead of potentially given a black eye by a related game franchise. | |
Guys... I loved Back to the Future as well... but uh... did you play the old NES game, it was terrible. Fact is there is not much to make a game out of here. They need to go really bonkers with it to make it work. Marty didn't shoot people or tear around for half the movie in the Delorian. I don't think these movies translate well to a game. At least ghostbusters could be made into a 3rd person shooter without fealing like a total "pulled from your ass" job. What are you gonna do in this game? Maybe they could make it kinda like Zork, where its more exploration and story progression, and some puzzles involve going to diffrent time periods to solve. I dunno, I wish em luck, theyre gonna need it. No way this is getting a preorder though, then again niether is War for Cybertron and that looks fairly promising, hoping for a demo. | |
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New Back to the Future Games Appear With Flame Trails
The movie franchise that introduced the world to the damage a sports almanac can do is returning in a new videogame series.
Jurassic Park isn't the only classic property Telltale Games has signed a deal to revive in videogame form. The episodic adventure game developer is also bringing back a franchise that's much closer to my heart: Back to the Future.
Don't know what Back to the Future is? I feel very, very sorry for you. It's a series of three movies released in the late 1980s starring Michael J. Fox as fun-loving time traveler Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as wacky DeLorean time machine inventor Dr. Emmett Brown. They're must see movies for every human being.
It turns out that Telltale's deal with Universal for Jurassic Park is really a two-title deal that includes Back to the Future. This means that the company will be developing a new episodic adventure game series that will add what Telltale is calling "compelling new content" to the Back to the Future universe.
They'd just better get it right. Hoverboards don't work on water, Telltale, please remember that. We'll also be expecting a mini-game where we play as Biff and smack McFly on the head while saying: "Hello... McFly?!"
Back to the Future is a very popular retro franchise that has sadly been absent from the modern remake train, so this could be the most amazing videogame announcement I've heard of since sliced bread. Telltale plans to have the first episode of Back to the Future ready to go in winter 2010. Hopefully it won't be late for school and have to hitch on the back of a pickup truck.
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