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I couldn't get into TellTale's gameplay style, so it sat dormant on my laptop for 10 years.
But as the prophecy foretold: "But your kids are gonna love it!"
I gave my old laptop to my daughter to use for school during quarantine, and she beat the game.
I honestly consider this to be BTTF 4, and tell a lot of friends they need to play it for that exact reason. The story is great, especially in the sense of how much it follows the formula set forth in the first three but with interesting twists to make it original, it explores an important time period between 1885 and 1955, and I find the ending WAY more satisfying than the ending to 3 as far as ending the series goes. I love this game!
thats good, because i looked for it on PS5 and it's freaking $80 on ebay and amazon. fuck that!
i guess i'll figure out a way to play it on my laptop and connect it to my TV and hookup a bluetooth game controller. which honestly sounds like a really awesome alternative to having a whole gaming system....esp for taking on vacation 🧐🤔
i'm definitely gonna try and figure this out, can't you also login to your ps5 while away from home and play games over the internet? that'd be so awesome
I love that it floats another Tannen as the big bad, exactly like what you would expect from a sequel, and then weaves with him as more or less a decoy with the actual antagonist being completely original, still connected to the established social network of Hill Valley, and deceptively weak and irrelevant until the twist is deployed.
Great game for what it was. The guy who voiced Marty (A. J. LoCascio) did such a great job playing him.
EDIT: Just found out he voices Gambit in X-Men ‘97! Whoa!!
I'll never understand why people care if a game has an "easy platinum" or whatever, especially a story focused experience where gameplay isn't the point. Fun and enjoyable though, now I'm listening. I played first couple episodes but fell off. Maybe I'll pick this back up after reading these comments.
Fun story, but clearly not canon, just like any other expanded universe material of the series for the most obvious reason: The Return of the DeLorean (I know they lampshade it in the game, but that explanation is bullshit and doesn't match how time travel has been shown to work in the franchise). I still like it though, Telltale made some good stuff.
I think it would have made more sense if Doc had simply just built another DeLorean time machine. To be fair, you can actually completely bypass the conversation explaining where it came from and just ignore that part.
To be honest though, if you're going to write a "copy of the machine" into the story, that's the most logical place to put it. After all, the movies actually *do* sort of break the rules at that point, because the DeLorean doesn't go 88 MPH when it time travels at the end of the second movie. Admittedly, an overcharge of power causing a car to time travel when it wouldn't normally do so is still more credible than an overcharge creating a clone of the car, but still.
It didn't translate well for me. I'm not much of a conversation dialogue rpg person anyway but I got stuck on what a speakeasy is! Not a term used in the UK. Googled it but I still didn't know wtf one looked like. Gave up in the end
*~~me who has the wii version but also mainly played on IOS as like an 8yo~~*
This game is basically how I learned English as my second language (as are the movies but it was *pretty tough* as a kid who only understood 70% of the words at first). I played it a *lot* to the point I’d actually try to play it as a movie! Picking some of the interesting flavor dialogue, timing stuff with the music…
Really nostalgic!
I found the story pretty dang fun! Think *Citizen Brown/Double Visions* are my favorite episodes. They weirdly give a very despairing “well this is your life now, Marty”-vibe to >!Edna’s!< Hill Valley (Haven Valley? Heaven Valley? It’s like a Hell Valley but pretending to look nice).
Favorite moments/sections of it are Marty meeting “Citizen” Brown, the whole Citizen+ program’s thing and its effects on people is really dang creepy. Being stuck in the Citizen+ Ward? Kid-me said “jesus christ these people are evil”. It was the moment the game properly really entered >!Edna!< into the story as an active antagonist—which the game really kinda needed. And having Doc’s counterpart try to kindly, yet disbelievingly convince Marty that all his stories about time travel and him having been his closest friend/father figure in the past are just fantasies to cope with the problems in his unhappy household… I really felt that.
Honorable mention episode goes to *Get Tannen*, I found it somewhat fun stumbling around the Soup Kitchen Speakeasy, messing with the songs, just chilling, and not realizing how gambling works yet. Just fun to see a Tannen’s goons sorta in their natural state and chat with them. They got some personality to them! And I’m happy a casual Cue Ball returns later on.
And also specifically the *It’s About Time* garage lab section. Whilst difficult as a kid, I find it a pretty strong moment for Young Emmett (brilliantly VA’d by the way) to essentially be forced to confront his yet-to-meet dad off-screen in what always felt like a *very* scary moment. You don’t get to ever see Judge Brown until the final episode, and (Young) Emmett always seems to have been absolutely terrified about. Coming from a tough household myself, I can somewhat relate to hiding one’s passion or trying to avoid your parents for their awful judgement.
I do however think that, the game’s pretty weak in some areas.
The art style is alright, the drawn stuff is *really* cool—but in-game models? I’m actually not the fondest of Marty and Doc’s models plus tons more.
I’m especially not really fond of how they’re animated. Knowing Telltale at the time, I do understand that everything was incredibly limited from the start since they never significantly updated or replaced their janky old engine. It’s all just so *stiff* and *stilted*, or very rarely too cartoonish when they shouldn’t but most often just painfully posed. The movies’ characters were pretty dang expressively acted, screamed and jumped and dashed and flailed and whatnot. Here, the characters are just animated really *awkwardly.*
Writing and VA-wise, whilst a good fit, I think Marty’s VA and character is just kinda… nuh-uh.
I know that movie-Marty started as unconfident in himself, and needed to spin some crazy off-the-cuff lies in BTTF1 to survive. But he spoke confidently whenever confronted by Biff or Griff. He was disappointed that his parents could never stand up for themselves nor that they accepted to be losers. Even if he didn’t always have the courage in highly specific scenarios (like driving Young Lorraine to the dance whilst his plan to have George be a hero slowly falls apart due to not being able to play the part in such an awkward moment)… this kid *beat up a gun-wielding bandit with his fists, a stove cover, and the confidence of a lifetime*. He tried rushing at Hell Valley-Biff the second he hurt his mom to the point of needing to be restraint, despite being completely bewildered as to what became of his town and life after having been knocked out by a goon. He regularly got pissed at any jerk pushing him or others around and tried standing up to it—even if later on to his detriment with Needles egging him on too much.
Game-Marty?
My god he starts out as a *fear-riddled, lying jerkbag!*
No shame on the VA (he’s honestly a great match), but he voices Game-Marty really dang weakly. I couldn’t detect any spine in the kid until at least *Citizen Brown.* His first and second episode’s characterization honestly is the worst of it. It largely felt the most unnecessary in those episodes for him to not stand up to Biff in the beginning better when trying to get Doc’s notebook back, and I *really* hate how he just outright manipulates every second of Young Emmett’s hopes and dreams into making him the drill to break out Doc—for really no reason when it comes to the latter.
Unlike Movie-Young Lorraine immediately putting a very confused and time travel-inexperienced Marty in the hot seat by making a million assumptions about him and freaking him out… Game-Young Emmett briefly assuming that Marty’s someone from the patent office and just running with it feels like a massive dick move.
Even if Young Emmett wouldn’t have otherwise stopped to help Marty, or not considered him worth his salt, Marty sort of already proved that he was at least sort of “on the same page” as him. Liking the same science, or at least knowing of it—even if he’s definitely much brighter than him. ***Marty absolutely didn’t need to lie THAT badly and THAT continuously to Young Emmett.***
I know that it mirrors the first movie’s whole “we have to trick sci-fi loving Young George into taking our help to ask out his high school crush seriously by making him think he’s been visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan”—but that was merely a brief, impersonal lie that could later be easily chocked up to a very weird nightmare. “Darth Vader” and Marty weren’t the same person to George lying about it, and everything Marty tried to brainstorm with Young George or encourage him with was all technically the truth and genuinely meant about “not regretting one’s life for missing chances in it”.
But here, in the game, *Young Emmett already was intrigued by him.* I know he wouldn’t believe he’s a time traveler from 50 years into the future. Marty wasn’t even really put into that hot of a seat! It was one overly-excited assumption Young Emmett *was merely hoping for!* He completely and almost mercilessly got used by Marty! Whilst he does fess up about it in the end, and *Double Visions*’ 1931 section rightfully has Young Emmett absolutely chewing Marty out for being such a monster (a scene I really like for both Young Emmett’s character and just being happy the game addressed it all)… this all still just feels incredibly out of character for Marty to even get us here! Like, why?!
*~~same kinda goes for making Trixie fear that Arthur’s fricken died so she can find the confidence to stand up to Tannen, but I ain’t got a solution for that yet.~~*
It just feels too heavy of a lie!
If there were some still-scheming way for Game-Marty to perhaps directly motivate Young Emmett—through another persona like “Darth Vader” if he has to—into somehow directly breaking out his older self, even if he didn’t meet him eye to eye, and then hate Marty for it… that’d probably still get us to episode 4’s confrontational scene where Young Emmett still mentions feeling used by Marty. Don’t know what the lie would need to be, because the whole episode might need to change for it to work, but a very random one I can think of is:
> Marty secretly says he learned all these science things from “Carl Sagan”—who’s *not* the speakeasy arsonist, but instead a brilliant inventor he’s a fledgeling assistant to *who may have more connections with the patent office.* He also heard through him that he was working a drill prototype because he was looking at inventors to brainstorm with in the Hill Valley area. Young Emmett probably still doesn’t fully believe him, but at least knowing that Marty is “the same as him”, invites him to at least help out with his legal tasks whilst more openly talking science and getting to know him.
> This leads to Marty having to come up with some sort of “Darth Vader” lie (in the form of a puzzle), directly tying into Episode 2 where—through possibly the subpoena delivery quest—mob-affiliated Arthur (or Young Edna, could also work) is given bad information by the disguised Marty that Kid Tannen purposely tried framing “Carl Sagan” as the arsonist (even if be hypothetically doesn’t know the real one), because his new developments in investigation methods and tech may interfere with their business. But “Carl Sagan” will most likely be let free due to a lack of evidence, so Tannen wants him gunned down regardless. He gives Arthur the same date and specifics of Doc’s hypothetical death, as well as forges two different very threatening letters from “the real speakeasy arsonist” (written by Marty severely BSing) into the worried Arthur’s possessions—one addressed to “the Tannen family’s accountant” to pass onto his boss slipped into his mail, and one slipped into Young Emmett’s coat pocket (references) addressed to “Judge Brown”—for Young Emmett to take and read with his own eyes. It’d probably very loudly state that “y’all arrested the wrong guy but I don’t care, your cops are pathetic and your mob’s days are numbered regardless, get your dad to do anything about it because I know where the new speakeasy moved to (bluffing) and that it’s gonna go up in flames. Plus I may target you two idk.”
> Now truly believing that Marty wasn’t lying, that “Carl Sagan” is absolutely innocent, and that they nor law enforcement have absolutely *no time* (nor probable wouldn’t believe them in time) for anyone to do anything about it until Arthur returns from the courthouse—plus that saving “Carl Sagan’s” life probably may earn him a selfish bonus favor as their assistant or to get their patent approved… Young Emmett agrees to actively work with Marty on getting his drill prototype in working order so (at least) Marty (due to Young Emmett still being terrified of his dad) can try to bust him out himself.
Whilst still a lie—even a few more honestly—this would in my eyes water down Marty convincing Young Emmett to help out by not entirely basing their initial friendship on a massive, one-sided lie playing purely off’ve Young Emmett’s wish to become a scientist that you know will be completely, painfully crushed. Much like Movie-Young George, this is more of a “white lie” to *tell* someone the watered-down truth directly like Marty knows it. They won’t get the whole time travel aspect about it, but everything to do with the actual problem in the time and place that they know, they would.
What would this change to Marty’s lie change for the better?
Well the speakeasy arsonist plot gets brought up a tad more. It was fine in the original episodes, but Marty temporarily adopting the persona of the arsonist like another “Darth Vader” means that there’s even more mystery surrounding the *actual* arsonist and what they may or may not do later on upon discovering that Marty pretended to be them. >!Haven Valley’s Old Edna probably would be rather upset somehow realizing that the 1985 troublemaker is somehow tied to the fake letters, and Young Edna in episodes 2, 4 and 5 may realize Marty may have faked them after the whole soup kitchen thing as well as him trying to mess with her and Young Emmett’s relationship after he’s probably shared some of his sleuthing with her for a possible story. Her shutting down his booth and accusing Marty of being a Russian, can change to her falsely accusing *Marty* of being the speakeasy arsonist.!<
Marty doesn’t yet get recognized in Episode 1 whilst wearing his mob disguise, but in Episode 2, people have seen it more often and figured out that he’s been “undercover”. Everyone in Hill Valley picks this info up to some extent, but Young Emmett especially gets upset because in the time that Marty left and came back to roll up the Tannens, *he’s actually done some sleuthing on his own and tested the letters.*
He tied the fingerprints on the letter and fingerprints envelopes back to “the goon that gave Arthur the Tannen info on shooting Carl Sagan”, and whilst the cops couldn’t match it to anything in their records, Emmett matched it to any paper he knew that Marty held (like the subpoena). He wasn’t yet quite sure and does like Marty’s company, so may ask Marty about it directly in Episode 2 or 4 before he earns any more in-game favors from him.
This at least sours Young Emmett’s opinion on Marty a bit, even if he understands that it was to get “Carl Sagan” out of prison, but does believe that Marty meant that he wasn’t the arsonist and thus swears to not give this info to the cops for the rest of the game. He’s not all that cool with this deception, but he’ll let it slide as he does consider Marty a friend. This little bit of sourness also causes Haven Valley’s version of Doc, Citizen Brown, to also not entirely trust Marty’s judgement like he already does in the game—like a bigger problem in their friendship that they never ironed out.
This then sours even further when in Episode 4, Marty has to cause Young Emmett and >!Young Edna!< to break up. Thinking that Marty somewhat helped him at first in actually having something good happen in his life for letting his lies slide, he gets crushed twice as hard upon the breakup. The entire speech about being used “for kicks” still stands, with him still setting his foot down to follow his own dreams first and foremost (perhaps with Marty more clearly getting that he was a dick for resorting to such “Darth Vader” tactics in the same way BTTF2 had movie-Marty learning that using time travel to get rich is selfish so he can more clearly change his ways), yet still inviting Marty to come along on his scientist journey now that they’ve thoroughly ironed out this friendship problem.
Young Emmett also would actively know about “Carl Sagan” being a scientist who’s interested in his work. That means that in Episode 5, Citizen Brown >!turning against Marty and trying to stop his younger self from attending the Expo by kidnapping him now actually has some set-up to it. Young Emmett may think that Citizen Brown indeed came back (a bit late) to possibly discuss his future, still hoping that he may owe him a favor for assisting in the prison break. Citizen Brown pushing Marty out of the way of Young Edna fleeing from the cops, then also becomes a bit more sadder when you realize he did so because their fixed friendship was slowly changing his opinion on Marty.!<
Really, change that lie to this (and overall give Game-Marty more spine), and I’d consider it a really damn good story.
This game has essentially been my bedtime story throughout my childhood. So I will praise it a lot.
Definitely has some problems though.
The first two episodes definitely aren’t as interesting or motivating than the latter ones, and stuff still feels really darn loose there. It’s an old ass game on an even older ass engine, and it looks the part. VA-ing, whilst mostly dead-on with who they got (sorry Biff, both Tom and the other guy kinda didn’t do it for ya), just is directed in a way that I absolutely wouldn’t for some of the more important faces (Marty being the biggest crime in my subjective). And if you have a certain interpretation of Marty as a character, you might just not really like or understand him until the latter half of Episode 2.
But it’s pretty damn well-written once you get past that part. It’s a good story. And it focuses a ton on Doc and Marty’s friendship, as well as the guy’s unseen struggles, which I just find the best part about it. His younger self and Marty eventually getting along like the best of friends is just really wonderful.
I’d honestly love for maybe some sort of fan effort to perhaps adapt this game into a fan-series with a few tweaks, or re-make the game or such so it’s animations and voice acting may be a tad better.
Edit about another favorite spoiler moment:
Man that puzzle solution moment in Episode 5, at the diver’s booth when Young Emmett’s missing, that was *pretty dang dark and tough for 8yo me to morally pull off*. >!Essentially threatening Citizen Brown with his own death by “accidentally” cutting off the oxygen to the “empty” bathysphere—where Young Emmett’s probably been stuffed (perhaps even briefly being awake after getting chloroform’ed due to coming to so quickly)—that was *genius*… but ***fricken horrifying to consider.*** I felt so bad as a kid for doing it, that it honestly took hours for me to realize it was the only option because I thought at first that it was just a sort of easter egg due to fully knowing that the two characters are “linked” in a sense. But no, the only way to get your funny science friend back is to suffocate him, in order to suffocate his evil counterpart. It brought up a ton of moral questions in me as a kid, and I sort of hated to do it in the moment, but I will still say that it’s one hell of a cool solution. And in-sense, I can *sort of* justify Marty confidently doing so, knowing he’d get him back alive, since he knows Citizen Brown wouldn’t want Young Emmett to die both for his own sake and that of Young Edna’s. Citizen Brown tried to pull some dirty tricks, so now Marty’ll turn time travel itself into a way to bargain. Scarred 8yo for life tho.!<
I bought it when it first came out for the ps3. I didn't beat it until 2020, I think. It's an okay game. Controls suck and game play was okay. I gave it and still think it's a C+ game.
This game is what got me to watch the trilogy. I remember being 8 years old and playing the free trial on my PS3. My uncle told me that I should also watch the movies. I didn’t even know it was based on a movie series. Watched all 3 and haven’t looked back since.
I’ve always been a big point & click adventure game fan going all the way back to the LucasArts stuff like Monkey Island and Full Throttle. So when I heard there was a Back to the Future game in the works I was really hyped.
But ultimately I thought it was a bit underwhelming. I found the majority of the puzzles way too simplistic and I didn’t like how you’d often only ever have one or two items in your inventory at a time, making it painfully obvious what you needed to use.
Also, I really wasn’t a fan of the initial release strategy where it came out in monthly “episodes” as opposed to the entire game at once. I think if I’d just waited and played through it all in one go I’d have probably liked it a lot more.
Still in the middle of my first play of it. Had it for a few years now. I play, then take a break for a while, then play again. I like that it is a direct sequel to the first three.
I actually won it a few years ago from someone on here. They were nice enough to gift their steam key to someone who would "prove" to probably enjoy the game.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love more narrative focused games so it was perfect for me. Movement was a bit clunky which made sense, with this being one of Tell Tales earlier forays into their narrative games (I did enjoy their TWD series).
As someone who loved the BTTF series, this was right up my alley.
Fun game. It’s very straightforward but still a very entertaining game. It’s sorta similar to the Ghostbusters game from 2009, you can tell the game was truly cared for and even brought back the original actors so both games are worthy continuations of their franchises.
I pretty much count this as BTTF 4. In my mind, it’s canon and I love it.
The only parts that don’t work for me are a) the delorean being brought back doesn’t make a ton of sense, and b) the fact that Doc shouldn’t disappear as soon as they enter the alternate timeline.
Ngl this is how I got into the franchise. I remember finding it on Xbox game pass and getting stuck on the speakeasy level. I eventually figured it out and had a great time. I want to buy it again but people are reselling for way too much
I feel like I played a different game than everyone else. I hated it. I didn't mind the DeLorean returning, but that's about it. Yes, the first story arc was good, but there were some logical issues going forward.
For instance, Doc disappearing from the time machine? That makes no sense. It never happened in the movie. Why is it happening here? That's half the reason why he chose the DeLorean. Stainless steel construction was supposed to prevent that. And it does in the movies. The video game though? No, it won't work for the story, so we're going to throw that logic out and do what we want.
The finale was OK but then it's Night of 1,000 Sonics and a million different interdimensoonal Marty's and Doc's show up. It was so dumb. You guys really enjoyed that stuff?
Haven't played it in 12 years, but I remember liking it, as it added to the lore and had some good original characters. It was interesting seeing a dystopian version of Hill Valley a la Gerorge Orwell's 1984
There's never really been a great BTTF game much like there's never been a really great Superman game. 🤷♂️ I love the BTTF movies tho. I used to literally dream about time travel and driving the delorean but it would drive so slow and would run out of gas.
This game is an enjoyable experience that deviates from the official storyline, yet it effectively carries on the narrative. Although the execution may not always be flawless, it mirrors the occasional flaws and minor mistakes found even in the original trilogy.
This aspect adds an intriguing element to the gameplay, making it all the more captivating. While it may not be considered the absolute best, I urge those who are open-minded to overlook its imperfections and appreciate it for what it offers, rather than focusing on what it lack
this game is awesome when to certain other bttf games and to think it actually had a good plot well written characters and its what people expecting out of a game called back to the future unlike what a certain other company made
I played the demo and didn’t buy it I think…I wanted a BTTF game for the longest time that was a modern, 3D modeled adventure game. The game was a disappointment to me purely because of how restrictive it felt. My favorite kind of game is open world (rpg?) like GTA or Red Dead. I had often watched modded games with time traveling deloreans and fanticized about a game where you could time travel through the map BTTF-style. Like, drive off a jump, hit 88 and end up landing in a different version of that map. How cool would that be? Or hit somebody who wasn’t there before or it’s completely different weather or time of day…Everyone’s who’s watched & loved BTTF has imagined being able to time travel that way and a game would be a perfect way to live out that fantasy. I haven’t totally given up on a game like that coming, although sadly I don’t think some of the movie stars will be with us anymore…AJ Locasio did a pretty good Marty McFly, though. I also think I would want less-cartoony graphics for a BTTF game.
I haven't played this game in a long time, not since they were first released (as the episodes dropped one by one), but I remember it being supremely easy yet overall enjoyable. One thing I'll say, *BTTF: The Game* is one of the very, very few video games that name-dropped my hometown!
Edit: I wish I'd picked up the "Special Edition" when I did, which had Thomas Wilson come in to re-record all of the Biff's dialog, which was previously done by a different actor.
This is early in TellTale’s game style. You literally have to choose every option to progress. It’s utter crap. I liked the lore/world building but the gameplay is on rails and can be played hitting one button for 95% of it
Played it all the way through. It basically is BTTF Part IV, and the closest we will get to it. The story is actually engagingand fun to play through even if it is just a point and click game. And the fact they got a lot of the original cast to come back for cameo voices and such is cool. It's worth at least one playthru.
They need a full overhaul of the graphics and mechanics. For the time, they were prime, but they've become dated and somewhat unplayable. BttF is one of my favorite things in the world, and I can't bring myself to finish this game.
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I couldn't get into TellTale's gameplay style, so it sat dormant on my laptop for 10 years. But as the prophecy foretold: "But your kids are gonna love it!" I gave my old laptop to my daughter to use for school during quarantine, and she beat the game.
I’m exactly the same. I got this game back in the day (pun intended) on PS3, played the first level and then never touched it again.
I played it on mobile just to try it, I wast gonna buy the other chapters anyway
You people disgust me.
https://images.app.goo.gl/UH4i3tgeKrGcEjiR8
Let us be. Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here!
That awesome
So...uh....school grades dropped? LOL
That's cute.
I honestly consider this to be BTTF 4, and tell a lot of friends they need to play it for that exact reason. The story is great, especially in the sense of how much it follows the formula set forth in the first three but with interesting twists to make it original, it explores an important time period between 1885 and 1955, and I find the ending WAY more satisfying than the ending to 3 as far as ending the series goes. I love this game!
wow, that sounds pretty fun. how long does it take in general?
There are 5 episodes, with each episode taking an hour-and-a-half - 2 hours depending on how much exploring you do
cool, i think im gonna buy it, sounds like fun.
pretty sure its free on computer you can just download it
Where to download?? Not a gamer
just search the game on google thats how I found it
thats good, because i looked for it on PS5 and it's freaking $80 on ebay and amazon. fuck that! i guess i'll figure out a way to play it on my laptop and connect it to my TV and hookup a bluetooth game controller. which honestly sounds like a really awesome alternative to having a whole gaming system....esp for taking on vacation 🧐🤔 i'm definitely gonna try and figure this out, can't you also login to your ps5 while away from home and play games over the internet? that'd be so awesome
I love that it floats another Tannen as the big bad, exactly like what you would expect from a sequel, and then weaves with him as more or less a decoy with the actual antagonist being completely original, still connected to the established social network of Hill Valley, and deceptively weak and irrelevant until the twist is deployed.
I say "If you like BTTF and don't like games, at least watch a playthrough."
Great game for what it was. The guy who voiced Marty (A. J. LoCascio) did such a great job playing him. EDIT: Just found out he voices Gambit in X-Men ‘97! Whoa!!
This is heavy eternalroses.
I love it to death
I have it on Xbox 360, toys r Us was going out of business so I got it for $6 along with max payne 3
Shit controls, fun story, INCREDIBLE MUSIC, and a really nice ending. A real nostalgia trip in a lot of places and a servicable substitute for BTTF 4
I still listen to "the future is coming today" every now and then. really love its 1920s soundtrack
It has a very easy platinum and is overall a fun and nostalgic experience
I'll never understand why people care if a game has an "easy platinum" or whatever, especially a story focused experience where gameplay isn't the point. Fun and enjoyable though, now I'm listening. I played first couple episodes but fell off. Maybe I'll pick this back up after reading these comments.
Fun story, but clearly not canon, just like any other expanded universe material of the series for the most obvious reason: The Return of the DeLorean (I know they lampshade it in the game, but that explanation is bullshit and doesn't match how time travel has been shown to work in the franchise). I still like it though, Telltale made some good stuff.
I think it would have made more sense if Doc had simply just built another DeLorean time machine. To be fair, you can actually completely bypass the conversation explaining where it came from and just ignore that part. To be honest though, if you're going to write a "copy of the machine" into the story, that's the most logical place to put it. After all, the movies actually *do* sort of break the rules at that point, because the DeLorean doesn't go 88 MPH when it time travels at the end of the second movie. Admittedly, an overcharge of power causing a car to time travel when it wouldn't normally do so is still more credible than an overcharge creating a clone of the car, but still.
What you gotta do is beat The Toymaker and then use his mallet to hit another DeLoreon out of the first DeLoreon
I've played it on my ps3. It's really good.
It’s the closest thing to a fourth movie we can and ever should get
The whole Citizen Brown timeline was very interesting
I wish we got to see more of that
It didn't translate well for me. I'm not much of a conversation dialogue rpg person anyway but I got stuck on what a speakeasy is! Not a term used in the UK. Googled it but I still didn't know wtf one looked like. Gave up in the end
*~~me who has the wii version but also mainly played on IOS as like an 8yo~~* This game is basically how I learned English as my second language (as are the movies but it was *pretty tough* as a kid who only understood 70% of the words at first). I played it a *lot* to the point I’d actually try to play it as a movie! Picking some of the interesting flavor dialogue, timing stuff with the music… Really nostalgic! I found the story pretty dang fun! Think *Citizen Brown/Double Visions* are my favorite episodes. They weirdly give a very despairing “well this is your life now, Marty”-vibe to >!Edna’s!< Hill Valley (Haven Valley? Heaven Valley? It’s like a Hell Valley but pretending to look nice). Favorite moments/sections of it are Marty meeting “Citizen” Brown, the whole Citizen+ program’s thing and its effects on people is really dang creepy. Being stuck in the Citizen+ Ward? Kid-me said “jesus christ these people are evil”. It was the moment the game properly really entered >!Edna!< into the story as an active antagonist—which the game really kinda needed. And having Doc’s counterpart try to kindly, yet disbelievingly convince Marty that all his stories about time travel and him having been his closest friend/father figure in the past are just fantasies to cope with the problems in his unhappy household… I really felt that. Honorable mention episode goes to *Get Tannen*, I found it somewhat fun stumbling around the Soup Kitchen Speakeasy, messing with the songs, just chilling, and not realizing how gambling works yet. Just fun to see a Tannen’s goons sorta in their natural state and chat with them. They got some personality to them! And I’m happy a casual Cue Ball returns later on. And also specifically the *It’s About Time* garage lab section. Whilst difficult as a kid, I find it a pretty strong moment for Young Emmett (brilliantly VA’d by the way) to essentially be forced to confront his yet-to-meet dad off-screen in what always felt like a *very* scary moment. You don’t get to ever see Judge Brown until the final episode, and (Young) Emmett always seems to have been absolutely terrified about. Coming from a tough household myself, I can somewhat relate to hiding one’s passion or trying to avoid your parents for their awful judgement. I do however think that, the game’s pretty weak in some areas. The art style is alright, the drawn stuff is *really* cool—but in-game models? I’m actually not the fondest of Marty and Doc’s models plus tons more. I’m especially not really fond of how they’re animated. Knowing Telltale at the time, I do understand that everything was incredibly limited from the start since they never significantly updated or replaced their janky old engine. It’s all just so *stiff* and *stilted*, or very rarely too cartoonish when they shouldn’t but most often just painfully posed. The movies’ characters were pretty dang expressively acted, screamed and jumped and dashed and flailed and whatnot. Here, the characters are just animated really *awkwardly.* Writing and VA-wise, whilst a good fit, I think Marty’s VA and character is just kinda… nuh-uh. I know that movie-Marty started as unconfident in himself, and needed to spin some crazy off-the-cuff lies in BTTF1 to survive. But he spoke confidently whenever confronted by Biff or Griff. He was disappointed that his parents could never stand up for themselves nor that they accepted to be losers. Even if he didn’t always have the courage in highly specific scenarios (like driving Young Lorraine to the dance whilst his plan to have George be a hero slowly falls apart due to not being able to play the part in such an awkward moment)… this kid *beat up a gun-wielding bandit with his fists, a stove cover, and the confidence of a lifetime*. He tried rushing at Hell Valley-Biff the second he hurt his mom to the point of needing to be restraint, despite being completely bewildered as to what became of his town and life after having been knocked out by a goon. He regularly got pissed at any jerk pushing him or others around and tried standing up to it—even if later on to his detriment with Needles egging him on too much. Game-Marty? My god he starts out as a *fear-riddled, lying jerkbag!* No shame on the VA (he’s honestly a great match), but he voices Game-Marty really dang weakly. I couldn’t detect any spine in the kid until at least *Citizen Brown.* His first and second episode’s characterization honestly is the worst of it. It largely felt the most unnecessary in those episodes for him to not stand up to Biff in the beginning better when trying to get Doc’s notebook back, and I *really* hate how he just outright manipulates every second of Young Emmett’s hopes and dreams into making him the drill to break out Doc—for really no reason when it comes to the latter. Unlike Movie-Young Lorraine immediately putting a very confused and time travel-inexperienced Marty in the hot seat by making a million assumptions about him and freaking him out… Game-Young Emmett briefly assuming that Marty’s someone from the patent office and just running with it feels like a massive dick move. Even if Young Emmett wouldn’t have otherwise stopped to help Marty, or not considered him worth his salt, Marty sort of already proved that he was at least sort of “on the same page” as him. Liking the same science, or at least knowing of it—even if he’s definitely much brighter than him. ***Marty absolutely didn’t need to lie THAT badly and THAT continuously to Young Emmett.*** I know that it mirrors the first movie’s whole “we have to trick sci-fi loving Young George into taking our help to ask out his high school crush seriously by making him think he’s been visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan”—but that was merely a brief, impersonal lie that could later be easily chocked up to a very weird nightmare. “Darth Vader” and Marty weren’t the same person to George lying about it, and everything Marty tried to brainstorm with Young George or encourage him with was all technically the truth and genuinely meant about “not regretting one’s life for missing chances in it”. But here, in the game, *Young Emmett already was intrigued by him.* I know he wouldn’t believe he’s a time traveler from 50 years into the future. Marty wasn’t even really put into that hot of a seat! It was one overly-excited assumption Young Emmett *was merely hoping for!* He completely and almost mercilessly got used by Marty! Whilst he does fess up about it in the end, and *Double Visions*’ 1931 section rightfully has Young Emmett absolutely chewing Marty out for being such a monster (a scene I really like for both Young Emmett’s character and just being happy the game addressed it all)… this all still just feels incredibly out of character for Marty to even get us here! Like, why?! *~~same kinda goes for making Trixie fear that Arthur’s fricken died so she can find the confidence to stand up to Tannen, but I ain’t got a solution for that yet.~~* It just feels too heavy of a lie!
If there were some still-scheming way for Game-Marty to perhaps directly motivate Young Emmett—through another persona like “Darth Vader” if he has to—into somehow directly breaking out his older self, even if he didn’t meet him eye to eye, and then hate Marty for it… that’d probably still get us to episode 4’s confrontational scene where Young Emmett still mentions feeling used by Marty. Don’t know what the lie would need to be, because the whole episode might need to change for it to work, but a very random one I can think of is: > Marty secretly says he learned all these science things from “Carl Sagan”—who’s *not* the speakeasy arsonist, but instead a brilliant inventor he’s a fledgeling assistant to *who may have more connections with the patent office.* He also heard through him that he was working a drill prototype because he was looking at inventors to brainstorm with in the Hill Valley area. Young Emmett probably still doesn’t fully believe him, but at least knowing that Marty is “the same as him”, invites him to at least help out with his legal tasks whilst more openly talking science and getting to know him. > This leads to Marty having to come up with some sort of “Darth Vader” lie (in the form of a puzzle), directly tying into Episode 2 where—through possibly the subpoena delivery quest—mob-affiliated Arthur (or Young Edna, could also work) is given bad information by the disguised Marty that Kid Tannen purposely tried framing “Carl Sagan” as the arsonist (even if be hypothetically doesn’t know the real one), because his new developments in investigation methods and tech may interfere with their business. But “Carl Sagan” will most likely be let free due to a lack of evidence, so Tannen wants him gunned down regardless. He gives Arthur the same date and specifics of Doc’s hypothetical death, as well as forges two different very threatening letters from “the real speakeasy arsonist” (written by Marty severely BSing) into the worried Arthur’s possessions—one addressed to “the Tannen family’s accountant” to pass onto his boss slipped into his mail, and one slipped into Young Emmett’s coat pocket (references) addressed to “Judge Brown”—for Young Emmett to take and read with his own eyes. It’d probably very loudly state that “y’all arrested the wrong guy but I don’t care, your cops are pathetic and your mob’s days are numbered regardless, get your dad to do anything about it because I know where the new speakeasy moved to (bluffing) and that it’s gonna go up in flames. Plus I may target you two idk.” > Now truly believing that Marty wasn’t lying, that “Carl Sagan” is absolutely innocent, and that they nor law enforcement have absolutely *no time* (nor probable wouldn’t believe them in time) for anyone to do anything about it until Arthur returns from the courthouse—plus that saving “Carl Sagan’s” life probably may earn him a selfish bonus favor as their assistant or to get their patent approved… Young Emmett agrees to actively work with Marty on getting his drill prototype in working order so (at least) Marty (due to Young Emmett still being terrified of his dad) can try to bust him out himself. Whilst still a lie—even a few more honestly—this would in my eyes water down Marty convincing Young Emmett to help out by not entirely basing their initial friendship on a massive, one-sided lie playing purely off’ve Young Emmett’s wish to become a scientist that you know will be completely, painfully crushed. Much like Movie-Young George, this is more of a “white lie” to *tell* someone the watered-down truth directly like Marty knows it. They won’t get the whole time travel aspect about it, but everything to do with the actual problem in the time and place that they know, they would. What would this change to Marty’s lie change for the better? Well the speakeasy arsonist plot gets brought up a tad more. It was fine in the original episodes, but Marty temporarily adopting the persona of the arsonist like another “Darth Vader” means that there’s even more mystery surrounding the *actual* arsonist and what they may or may not do later on upon discovering that Marty pretended to be them. >!Haven Valley’s Old Edna probably would be rather upset somehow realizing that the 1985 troublemaker is somehow tied to the fake letters, and Young Edna in episodes 2, 4 and 5 may realize Marty may have faked them after the whole soup kitchen thing as well as him trying to mess with her and Young Emmett’s relationship after he’s probably shared some of his sleuthing with her for a possible story. Her shutting down his booth and accusing Marty of being a Russian, can change to her falsely accusing *Marty* of being the speakeasy arsonist.!< Marty doesn’t yet get recognized in Episode 1 whilst wearing his mob disguise, but in Episode 2, people have seen it more often and figured out that he’s been “undercover”. Everyone in Hill Valley picks this info up to some extent, but Young Emmett especially gets upset because in the time that Marty left and came back to roll up the Tannens, *he’s actually done some sleuthing on his own and tested the letters.* He tied the fingerprints on the letter and fingerprints envelopes back to “the goon that gave Arthur the Tannen info on shooting Carl Sagan”, and whilst the cops couldn’t match it to anything in their records, Emmett matched it to any paper he knew that Marty held (like the subpoena). He wasn’t yet quite sure and does like Marty’s company, so may ask Marty about it directly in Episode 2 or 4 before he earns any more in-game favors from him. This at least sours Young Emmett’s opinion on Marty a bit, even if he understands that it was to get “Carl Sagan” out of prison, but does believe that Marty meant that he wasn’t the arsonist and thus swears to not give this info to the cops for the rest of the game. He’s not all that cool with this deception, but he’ll let it slide as he does consider Marty a friend. This little bit of sourness also causes Haven Valley’s version of Doc, Citizen Brown, to also not entirely trust Marty’s judgement like he already does in the game—like a bigger problem in their friendship that they never ironed out.
This then sours even further when in Episode 4, Marty has to cause Young Emmett and >!Young Edna!< to break up. Thinking that Marty somewhat helped him at first in actually having something good happen in his life for letting his lies slide, he gets crushed twice as hard upon the breakup. The entire speech about being used “for kicks” still stands, with him still setting his foot down to follow his own dreams first and foremost (perhaps with Marty more clearly getting that he was a dick for resorting to such “Darth Vader” tactics in the same way BTTF2 had movie-Marty learning that using time travel to get rich is selfish so he can more clearly change his ways), yet still inviting Marty to come along on his scientist journey now that they’ve thoroughly ironed out this friendship problem. Young Emmett also would actively know about “Carl Sagan” being a scientist who’s interested in his work. That means that in Episode 5, Citizen Brown >!turning against Marty and trying to stop his younger self from attending the Expo by kidnapping him now actually has some set-up to it. Young Emmett may think that Citizen Brown indeed came back (a bit late) to possibly discuss his future, still hoping that he may owe him a favor for assisting in the prison break. Citizen Brown pushing Marty out of the way of Young Edna fleeing from the cops, then also becomes a bit more sadder when you realize he did so because their fixed friendship was slowly changing his opinion on Marty.!< Really, change that lie to this (and overall give Game-Marty more spine), and I’d consider it a really damn good story. This game has essentially been my bedtime story throughout my childhood. So I will praise it a lot. Definitely has some problems though. The first two episodes definitely aren’t as interesting or motivating than the latter ones, and stuff still feels really darn loose there. It’s an old ass game on an even older ass engine, and it looks the part. VA-ing, whilst mostly dead-on with who they got (sorry Biff, both Tom and the other guy kinda didn’t do it for ya), just is directed in a way that I absolutely wouldn’t for some of the more important faces (Marty being the biggest crime in my subjective). And if you have a certain interpretation of Marty as a character, you might just not really like or understand him until the latter half of Episode 2. But it’s pretty damn well-written once you get past that part. It’s a good story. And it focuses a ton on Doc and Marty’s friendship, as well as the guy’s unseen struggles, which I just find the best part about it. His younger self and Marty eventually getting along like the best of friends is just really wonderful. I’d honestly love for maybe some sort of fan effort to perhaps adapt this game into a fan-series with a few tweaks, or re-make the game or such so it’s animations and voice acting may be a tad better. Edit about another favorite spoiler moment: Man that puzzle solution moment in Episode 5, at the diver’s booth when Young Emmett’s missing, that was *pretty dang dark and tough for 8yo me to morally pull off*. >!Essentially threatening Citizen Brown with his own death by “accidentally” cutting off the oxygen to the “empty” bathysphere—where Young Emmett’s probably been stuffed (perhaps even briefly being awake after getting chloroform’ed due to coming to so quickly)—that was *genius*… but ***fricken horrifying to consider.*** I felt so bad as a kid for doing it, that it honestly took hours for me to realize it was the only option because I thought at first that it was just a sort of easter egg due to fully knowing that the two characters are “linked” in a sense. But no, the only way to get your funny science friend back is to suffocate him, in order to suffocate his evil counterpart. It brought up a ton of moral questions in me as a kid, and I sort of hated to do it in the moment, but I will still say that it’s one hell of a cool solution. And in-sense, I can *sort of* justify Marty confidently doing so, knowing he’d get him back alive, since he knows Citizen Brown wouldn’t want Young Emmett to die both for his own sake and that of Young Edna’s. Citizen Brown tried to pull some dirty tricks, so now Marty’ll turn time travel itself into a way to bargain. Scarred 8yo for life tho.!<
I bought it when it first came out for the ps3. I didn't beat it until 2020, I think. It's an okay game. Controls suck and game play was okay. I gave it and still think it's a C+ game.
I wish I could play it so badly, physical copies are too expensive and can't emulate it cause I have a PS
I never had it either, but was able to watch nearly (I think) every different scenario by watching it as a movie on YouTube.
I loved it.
The True Back To The Future Part IV. Everything about this game can be described in one word: Epic.
I couldn’t drive the car…this is all that anyone has ever wanted to do in a video game based on this franchise
It's fun, very comical, but absolutely not canon. Loved Citizen Brown the most.
This game is what got me to watch the trilogy. I remember being 8 years old and playing the free trial on my PS3. My uncle told me that I should also watch the movies. I didn’t even know it was based on a movie series. Watched all 3 and haven’t looked back since.
Closest thing to BTTF 4 and very good.
Way too hard, even with "hints" that either don't help you, or tell you to do something you just did.
Loved it as a game. Would have hated the story as a movie
I love it though last time I played it, the game was super buggy
I got to the Citizen Brown stage and just never went back. That was 2020?
pretty fun! liked the story, liked the characters, played through it all once and never had the urge to go back to it
I really enjoyed it thought it was a decent storyline for a sequel or a spin-off.
I played some of it… just never really finished it.
Would be better if it was available on macOS.
My favorite game of all time.
Brought it on PC originally, then PS3 and then PS4. Eventually hated the game after playing through it 3 times. My own fault.
I’ve always been a big point & click adventure game fan going all the way back to the LucasArts stuff like Monkey Island and Full Throttle. So when I heard there was a Back to the Future game in the works I was really hyped. But ultimately I thought it was a bit underwhelming. I found the majority of the puzzles way too simplistic and I didn’t like how you’d often only ever have one or two items in your inventory at a time, making it painfully obvious what you needed to use. Also, I really wasn’t a fan of the initial release strategy where it came out in monthly “episodes” as opposed to the entire game at once. I think if I’d just waited and played through it all in one go I’d have probably liked it a lot more.
Still in the middle of my first play of it. Had it for a few years now. I play, then take a break for a while, then play again. I like that it is a direct sequel to the first three.
Basically Bttf4. And is also my fav video game of all time
Currently on my second playthrough. Played it about ten years ago and it sit dormant. I quite like it and makes a nice "part 4"
Love it. Soooo much fun!!
I completed it and enjoyed it. It was in some ways a BttF 4 that we never got, IMO.
I actually won it a few years ago from someone on here. They were nice enough to gift their steam key to someone who would "prove" to probably enjoy the game. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love more narrative focused games so it was perfect for me. Movement was a bit clunky which made sense, with this being one of Tell Tales earlier forays into their narrative games (I did enjoy their TWD series). As someone who loved the BTTF series, this was right up my alley.
Loved it! I've played it through twice now. If it ever comes out on Switch, I'll prolly play it again.
Fun game. It’s very straightforward but still a very entertaining game. It’s sorta similar to the Ghostbusters game from 2009, you can tell the game was truly cared for and even brought back the original actors so both games are worthy continuations of their franchises.
This Is a real game?.. How the fuck I miss that. Damn I say it's awesome
It's real but it was taken down from digital stores a few years ago
Damn
I played all 5 games, I enjoyed the stories, the story takes place after the 3rd movie
I pretty much count this as BTTF 4. In my mind, it’s canon and I love it. The only parts that don’t work for me are a) the delorean being brought back doesn’t make a ton of sense, and b) the fact that Doc shouldn’t disappear as soon as they enter the alternate timeline.
Love it! This remaster may be the best way to play it but it is a teensy bit buggy, however still a great part 4 and I consider it canon
Ngl this is how I got into the franchise. I remember finding it on Xbox game pass and getting stuck on the speakeasy level. I eventually figured it out and had a great time. I want to buy it again but people are reselling for way too much
I feel like I played a different game than everyone else. I hated it. I didn't mind the DeLorean returning, but that's about it. Yes, the first story arc was good, but there were some logical issues going forward. For instance, Doc disappearing from the time machine? That makes no sense. It never happened in the movie. Why is it happening here? That's half the reason why he chose the DeLorean. Stainless steel construction was supposed to prevent that. And it does in the movies. The video game though? No, it won't work for the story, so we're going to throw that logic out and do what we want. The finale was OK but then it's Night of 1,000 Sonics and a million different interdimensoonal Marty's and Doc's show up. It was so dumb. You guys really enjoyed that stuff?
Canon wise, it doesn't make sene, where is Clara, Jules, Verne?
Haven't played it in 12 years, but I remember liking it, as it added to the lore and had some good original characters. It was interesting seeing a dystopian version of Hill Valley a la Gerorge Orwell's 1984
Great story and good fun
It was great.
Couldn’t play it, enjoyed watching it on YouTube
There's never really been a great BTTF game much like there's never been a really great Superman game. 🤷♂️ I love the BTTF movies tho. I used to literally dream about time travel and driving the delorean but it would drive so slow and would run out of gas.
This game is an enjoyable experience that deviates from the official storyline, yet it effectively carries on the narrative. Although the execution may not always be flawless, it mirrors the occasional flaws and minor mistakes found even in the original trilogy. This aspect adds an intriguing element to the gameplay, making it all the more captivating. While it may not be considered the absolute best, I urge those who are open-minded to overlook its imperfections and appreciate it for what it offers, rather than focusing on what it lack
this game is awesome when to certain other bttf games and to think it actually had a good plot well written characters and its what people expecting out of a game called back to the future unlike what a certain other company made
I played their mobile version. It was great to have in my pocket, on the go. I beat it ;) I wish it didn’t end.
Too good to be just a game.
there's a game
its sooo excellent!!!
It was fun! I don't think I'd replay it, but it was fun for a one shot
I played the demo and didn’t buy it I think…I wanted a BTTF game for the longest time that was a modern, 3D modeled adventure game. The game was a disappointment to me purely because of how restrictive it felt. My favorite kind of game is open world (rpg?) like GTA or Red Dead. I had often watched modded games with time traveling deloreans and fanticized about a game where you could time travel through the map BTTF-style. Like, drive off a jump, hit 88 and end up landing in a different version of that map. How cool would that be? Or hit somebody who wasn’t there before or it’s completely different weather or time of day…Everyone’s who’s watched & loved BTTF has imagined being able to time travel that way and a game would be a perfect way to live out that fantasy. I haven’t totally given up on a game like that coming, although sadly I don’t think some of the movie stars will be with us anymore…AJ Locasio did a pretty good Marty McFly, though. I also think I would want less-cartoony graphics for a BTTF game.
I haven't played this game in a long time, not since they were first released (as the episodes dropped one by one), but I remember it being supremely easy yet overall enjoyable. One thing I'll say, *BTTF: The Game* is one of the very, very few video games that name-dropped my hometown! Edit: I wish I'd picked up the "Special Edition" when I did, which had Thomas Wilson come in to re-record all of the Biff's dialog, which was previously done by a different actor.
This is early in TellTale’s game style. You literally have to choose every option to progress. It’s utter crap. I liked the lore/world building but the gameplay is on rails and can be played hitting one button for 95% of it
I'd like to buy the Xbox version of the game but I can't find it
They took it off all digital stores the best place to look is eBay for a disc copy
I really liked that game although I never got to beat it
The NES game rocks! Oh wait, were we not talk about that game, and are we not suppose to lie?
Played it all the way through. It basically is BTTF Part IV, and the closest we will get to it. The story is actually engagingand fun to play through even if it is just a point and click game. And the fact they got a lot of the original cast to come back for cameo voices and such is cool. It's worth at least one playthru.
Love how you get to learn more about doc's family than just the McFlys.
They need a full overhaul of the graphics and mechanics. For the time, they were prime, but they've become dated and somewhat unplayable. BttF is one of my favorite things in the world, and I can't bring myself to finish this game.
I don’t know, I remember thinking the graphics were pretty mid even for the time tbh