The Future Soon
Obviously we're much closer to the 'future,' 2015 than we are to the 'present' of the films, 1985.
Anyone else a little curious about how they are going to handle this? I mean, there's no getting away from the fact that BTTF's future is way more advanced in some ways (flying cars, hoverboards, cyborg style implants, weather control, Mr. Fusion, Jaws 19!) and less in others (Display technology, 3D effects and fax machines... really?) than the real 2015 is realistically likely to be.
It would surely have to be the case that they take BTTF's 2015 as canon, in my opinion. But how are they going to do it in the game, I wonder... is it going to be set in the present day, but one which is close to the 2015 of BTTF? Is it still going to centre around 1985? Will we get to see even further into BTTF's future? How are they going to explain that weirdness to newcomers to the franchise?
Of course, there's no way of knowing... but fun to speculate after I watched part 2 again last night.
Anyone else a little curious about how they are going to handle this? I mean, there's no getting away from the fact that BTTF's future is way more advanced in some ways (flying cars, hoverboards, cyborg style implants, weather control, Mr. Fusion, Jaws 19!) and less in others (Display technology, 3D effects and fax machines... really?) than the real 2015 is realistically likely to be.
It would surely have to be the case that they take BTTF's 2015 as canon, in my opinion. But how are they going to do it in the game, I wonder... is it going to be set in the present day, but one which is close to the 2015 of BTTF? Is it still going to centre around 1985? Will we get to see even further into BTTF's future? How are they going to explain that weirdness to newcomers to the franchise?
Of course, there's no way of knowing... but fun to speculate after I watched part 2 again last night.
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Sure - that makes sense, but I wonder if they should even try to gloss over the fact that BTTF's 2015 is very different to what the real 2015 is likely to be. I would kind of like them to embrace that. After all, the ridiculous future of BTTF2 doesn't stop it from being a kinda cool film.
And I'm still holding out for one of those pizza hydrators.
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The BttF games present HAS to be the 80s. I think it would lose a lot of it's charm if it uses a character from around 2010
Besides, don't worry about it just yet. We know pretty much nothing about the game.
:eek: BURN IT!!! :mad:
Unless it's 1925 and it's Marty's great great grandfather.
I kind of like the idea of having somebody from 2010 going back to the 80s, and they reenact the "who's president of the US in 1985" gag, but instead it's "who's the governor of California in 2010." Just because the situation is so similar it'd be a funny throwback.
There could have been a time machine in our universe's 1985 where someone went ahead or worse back and changed things. We could be on a split timeline and the temporal disruption either missed us or is on it's way. Either way we have no idea whether a time machine has ever been built or has been used because the "changes" would only be noticeable to the traveler and not us. Heck, our reality could change and we'd never know it. Man I've been watching and reading too much Science Fiction. lol Great thread BTW.
But really I would love to see a variation of The Day of The Tentacle where you have to manipulate objects from different times and use them in other times and back and forth. It makes for great thinking puzzles. And of course I would hope they would have a driving sequence.