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Regarding Episode 2... (Spoilers)

TeethTeeth
edited December 2010 in Back to the Future
1931 again? Really?

Now I know Episode 2 or 3 is typically the "bottle" episode (Meatball, Moai, Last Resort, Strong Badia, Spinner Cay and Max's Brain) so I can forgive the re-use to an extent, as long as we get more variety in episodes 3, 4 and 5. But we're not going to spend the entire season in the same time period with the same Marty outfit and same characters, are we?

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  • KhorinoKhorino
    edited December 2010
    Don't think so. If you see the description on the launcher, at least Episodes 3 and 5 will have another periods of time.
  • WinterSnowblindWinterSnowblind
    edited December 2010
    I'm not surprised really, it was obvious we didn't see everything 1931 had to offer, so seeing it from a different perspective should be interesting.. And it seems very reminiscent of BttF 2, which I'm sure is what they're going for.

    And as has already been said, it's pretty clear later episodes are set in different time periods. I'm sure some of the later ones will even involve jumping between them to solve things.
  • bambibambi
    edited December 2010
    It is really Telltales Luck that Time Travel justifies duplicate content.

    HUUUUGE Luck.

    In general regarding the TTG Duplicate Content Issue:
    I'd rather pay 30$-40$ over 25$ for a proper Rich Content Hit the Road Sequel.

    I hope the Universal Games boost the Telltale Budget and the Company goes from Indie to a Great Adventure Game Company. (First thing they should invest in tho is their WEB-Services an Launch Staff :p)

    I also hope that they wont forget US who helped them a bit in the beginning. And that they would do us the kindness an give us proper sequels to Monkey Island and Sam and Max hit the Road. As they seemed to have managed with Back to the Future which from my point of view starts off as a great sequel to the movies.
  • BlankCanvasDJBlankCanvasDJ
    edited December 2010
    ...Tales wasn't a proper sequel to Monkey Island?
  • FarlanderFarlander
    edited December 2010
    So... let me get this straight. We return in 1931 to the same day that we just went through to fix the timeline (make Marty not disappear), and then in the episode 'Double Visions' return to 1931 again and play as the third Marty seeing two Martys running around Hill Valley in 1931?
  • markeresmarkeres
    edited December 2010
    Farlander wrote: »
    and then in the episode 'Double Visions' return to 1931 again and play as the third Marty seeing two Martys running around Hill Valley in 1931?
    I don't think so, since the episode 4 description says it takes place during the Hill Valley expo, which doesn't look like it happens in episode 2. That said, I don't know why they called episode 4 "Double Visions", then. I guess we'll find out. :D
  • TeethTeeth
    edited December 2010
    bambi wrote: »
    And that they would do us the kindness an give us proper sequels to Monkey Island and Sam and Max hit the Road.

    "Proper" sequels? Jesus, take off your nostalgia goggles, man. Three seasons that are each longer, funnier and deeper than Hit the Road don't count as a "proper" sequel? A season that redefines the Monkey Island series, cutting out the tangled, confusing, inconsistent backstory in favour of re-capturing the classic atmosphere and developing and expanding the characters, doesn't count as a true sequel?

    What on earth WOULD satisfy you?
  • terrd2713terrd2713
    edited December 2010
    if you take in a account how much they reused the bttf part one format (i mistakenly thought it was annoying at first, but by the end i was in love) and the setup for reusing part two ideas (reusing episode one with a different point of view) we can almost guess as to what will happen next... alternate timelines are in the future er present er both. This clearly is going to be done with the sport alman... er docs journal.

    if i had to guess I'd say that 1931 is going to become the point of divergence and will have to eventually returned to to fix things. There are other issues to look out for such as how teen doc deals with his newly changed views on science, ladies and his father.
  • MPittore3MPittore3
    edited December 2010
    WinterSnowblind wrote: »
    I'm not surprised really, it was obvious we didn't see everything 1931 had to offer, so seeing it from a different perspective should be interesting.. And it seems very reminiscent of BttF 2, which I'm sure is what they're going for.

    And as has already been said, it's pretty clear later episodes are set in different time periods. I'm sure some of the later ones will even involve jumping between them to solve things.

    That's right, maybe they wrote the story in order to give that feeling of BTTF2.
    I trust this game :D
  • FarlanderFarlander
    edited December 2010
    markeres wrote: »
    I don't think so, since the episode 4 description says it takes place during the Hill Valley expo, which doesn't look like it happens in episode 2. That said, I don't know why they called episode 4 "Double Visions", then. I guess we'll find out. :D

    Great Scott you're right! So much for the 'evading two Martys' idea :) But yeah, 'Double Visions' seems to be a strange name. I've re-read the synopsis, and it says that Marty joins forces with First Citizen Brown... does that mean the 1985 Doc from the first episodes will be erased or that we will work with two grown-up Browns? (I mean, in 1985A there apparently were two Martys and two Docs, I suppose in 1986A there could be two Docs, at least for some time).
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