Game too easy/ short/ lacks puzzles Thread

[Gogeta504]

WHAT !!!! easier puzzles i like challenging puzzles like in 302 of sam and max devils playhouse... oh yeah i have a question will PS3 version of this game be different then PC/MAC??? or is it gonna be the same gameplay except different graphics ???

[Strayth]

Same gameplay AND same graphics.

[Gman5852]

Yeah what made you think the graphics would be different?

[Gogeta504]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

Yeah what made you think the graphics would be different?

im just wondering because the IPAD/PS3 ver got delayed till early JAN 2011
just wondering lool

[Gogeta504]

Originally Posted by Strayth

Same gameplay AND same graphics.

k thanks ^-^

[Hassat Hunter]

Originally Posted by jaden551

This is MUCH easier than 303.

Not for me.

The first half of 303 was auto-play, and the second part had so few objects to interact... you know, even less than BttF ep. 1...

[Cyphox]

i hated 303 for all this "detective-interrogation-stuff". so much stuff i didnt understand at all, and i HAVE to understand it to complete the game. i hated it. i havent played 304 and so one just because of that....

i will... but the feeling "play it, you have to know how the story ends!!!" just wasnt there...

(or was it 303? i think it was....)

i really had a hard time with this episode

[markeres]

Originally Posted by Cyphox

"play it, you have to know how the story ends!!!"

What about "play it because you bought it"? Seems a shame to pay that much and not even play the game.

[christhn]

Hey everyone, I'm new to Telltale games, but not to the adventure gaming genre. So I was just wondering if Telltale games usually get progressively more difficult with each episode like a non-episodic game would?

Many people on these boards are complaining that episode one was too easy. While I don't necessarily agree with them right now, I could see it being a problem if the difficulty remains the same by episode three.

Non-episodic adventure games usually get increasingly more difficult as the game goes on so that the user has a chance to adjust to the controls and interface and ease into the game.

Is this usually the case with Telltale games as well?

Regardless of what happens, I'm sure this will inevitably go down as the best Back to the Future game to date (if not of all time), but it would be a shame if many people will always look back on it wondering "what if the game had been more difficult?"

[Dangerzone]

it fluctuates... one episode could be easy, the next somewhat hard. But the overall difficulty is always more-or-less the same

However, the episode before the finale is almost always the hardest (and most enjoyable) The finales themselves are always complex... but not necessarily as hard

I hope that answers your question a little, cause every game season really is a mixed bag

Edit: The best way to see for yourself is to simply play another telltale game season :P

[joseppey]

However, the episode before the finale is almost always the hardest

I disagree. I only found that to be the case with Monkey Island.

[Macfly77]

Like Dangerzone stated, the difficulty of the episodes in any given Telltale season stays pretty much the same throughout.
However, I have a feeling that things will be different this time.
Sam & Max and Tales of Monkey Island could afford to be a bit more difficult than Back to the Future, because the target audience for those games is mostly made up of adventure gamers who grew up on LucasArts and Sierra's point-and-click games.
However, with Back to the Future, Telltale has a chance to reach a much bigger audience, a lot of which probably never played a point-and-click adventure game before and the last thing they want to do is antagonize that audience by making a game that will not let them in.
Telltale's games have never been the most difficult, but if you search the Telltale forums, you will find out that even their easier games from other series provide some challenge to players who are new to the point-and-click adventure world.
I predict that the difficulty will increase gradually over the course of the season, possibly reaching a TOMI level (but probably - hopefully? - not a Sam & Max Hit the Road level) by the last episode.
I actually believe that the reason that Telltale is not going to make the free episode available before February is that they want the people who might decide to give up after one episode because it's too easy, to check out the forums (maybe to post negative comments about the lack of difficulty of the game ) and see comments made by people who played the second episode and might have found the difficulty nicely increased.
It's all speculation at this time, but that's what I'm really hoping for.

As for this:

Originally Posted by Dangerzone

The best way to see for yourself is to simply play another telltale game season :P

you might want to try a free episode, say this one, which might give you a better idea of the usual difficulty of Telltale's games.

[christhn]

Yeah, it does answer my question. Thanks!

During the BTTF preorder specials, I ordered almost every game Telltale has for 80% off, so I'll definitely get around to their other games soon. I've played Sam & Max Hit the Road, so probably playing through a Telltale season of that would give me the best indication.

[Gogeta504]

how many hours to complete episode 1 ???
im still waiting for PS3 ver and i heard from alot of people its way to easy =P

[Falanca]

Some people said 2, some people said 4. It was exactly 3 hours for me. Didn't get stumped in any puzzles, didn't miss any crucial dialouge.

[Ash735]

About 2 Hours on my first go, compared to the 4 hours per episode of Sam & Max Season 3.

[Rather Dashing]

Hours? I'm honestly not even sure I played for more than 2, but I wasn't timing myself either.

[mightypirate]

I really, really, really loved the story in the game, but the puzzles were really too easy! It was like watching a movie, and sometimes there was a pause where I had to click somewhere. I'm sorry but the best way in which I can describe this is by quoting Ron Gilbert

From http://grumpygamer.com/2152210

A great number of people in this business secretly (and not so secretly) wish they were making movies, not writing video games. Knock it off! If you really want to make movies, then go to film school and leave the game designing to people who want to make games.

The point is that I'm loving BTTFTG like a movie, but not as a game.

[Vainamoinen]

Wise quote, thank you!!

[serializer]

I found it quite a bit too hard. I'd prefer it if, for instance, I didn't even have to think about where to click my mouse. In fact, why should I have to click my mouse at all? Shouldn't the game just decide where to click it for me? That'd be kind of like a BttF movie, except on my computer screen. Wow, wouldn't that be great? ^^

Edit: haha, just read to the end of this thread