"Double Visions" REVIEW Thread

[Marty Mcfly III]

Honestly, I'm not sure if this the best one but it's definitely up there. Although I'm one of those people who kinda watch it as a movie and get frustrated when the puzzles get to hard. Luckily they weren't to hard (although I did get really frustrated when I couldn't find the slide switch for the mental alignment meter because it was really small) The gameplay was good and I was kinda glad to be able to explore somewhere new as the 1931 town square was getting a little boring.
The thing I liked the most about this episode was the friction between FCB and Marty. I thought this was a great idea for the story and I loved the fact that Telltale games was able to take their relationship to a new level.
One thing I would say is that the climactic scene wasn't exactly climatic enough and when it ended i was like 'Oh. Is that the end?' I thought we were at least going to build Emmetts new rocket car, but thats just in my opinion.

[coolguy721]

episode 2 was the best so far

[EverydayNormalGuy]

Originally Posted by PrivateJoker

They should have put a scene in Episode 3 where Marty attacks FCB with a toilet seat, hitting him over the head. Would have made for big lawls and massive fan service.

That would have been a really bad direction to take Marty's character in. He's not the most brilliant person, but he's smarter than most and that would just be straight out stupid. Hilarious, LOLworthy, and pure fanservice, but ultimately stupid.

[farchondo]

Originally Posted by bttf4444

I agree. I think he should have done that much.

In response to a few others, I've had enough sadness to deal with in my personal life - so, whenever I read or watch something, I want to get away from all that. If I want to feel depressed, I could just turn on the news. It's not to say to say that I don't like any sadness in what I watch or read - but I prefer for things to turn out fine, at the end.

Do you like Brazil the director´s cut? do you like blade runner when Ford has to run away with her loved one for being terminated?? do you like seven?? do you like Fight Club?? how about most horror films like the Exorcist with the dead of the priest? do you like Requiem for a dream? how about some time travel films... do you like 12 monkeys? in a way... memento? how about Terminator 1 when you know the apocalypse is coming at the end despite all the main characters efforts... well...

sometimes a happy ending is not enough... you gotta keep your mind open for all kinds of movies. Wanna change Chinatown´s ending and ruin it for all it is? Otherwise you will end watching just romantic comedies to protect yourself from all the pain in the world and let me tell you, that´s not too prolific.

Happy endings when the movie needs it like BTTF. Happy or sad, anyways, good movies for everyone that´s what I say.

[bttf4444]

Actually, I'm not really a big movie person. I'm more into rock music, really. I listen to the radio much more often than I ever watch anything on the screen. I mostly enjoy movies that are either about time travel or alternate realities, and I've also watched most movies that Michael J Fox was in. I also enjoy comedy movies like Freaky Friday, Mrs. Doubtfire, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and stuff like that - and some of those I've only watched, when I was in a group setting.

I have read A Series of Unfortunate Events, where the books don't quite end happily - but you're not left completely without hope. The series ends on an ambiguous note - so you can decide from there what, ultimately, happens to the protagonists.

I guess I'm just tired of the "anti-happy-ending crusade" that so many people, nowadays, seem to be jumping on.

[PrivateJoker]

Originally Posted by EverydayNormalGuy

That would have been a really bad direction to take Marty's character in. He's not the most brilliant person, but he's smarter than most and that would just be straight out stupid. Hilarious, LOLworthy, and pure fanservice, but ultimately stupid.

It's not a bad direction. He beats Biff in BTTF 2 by throwing an ash tray at him. And "HEY LOOK OVER THERE!!!" seems to work on all people. lol

[oberlerchner123]

I dont think Marty would hurt anyone unless it is in his or somebody elses defense.
Unless of course you were thinking FCB chased Marty into a bathroom stall and with the intention of fighting him, but that would make him look like a pervert. lol

[PrivateJoker]

Originally Posted by oberlerchner123

I dont think Marty would hurt anyone unless it is in his or somebody elses defense.
Unless of course you were thinking FCB chased Marty into a bathroom stall and with the intention of fighting him, but that would make him look like a pervert. lol

Why would Doc go into a bathroom stall with Marty?

Oh wait, BrokeBack To The Future!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uwuLxrv8jY

[crfh]

I did like it. The mind map puzzle was absolutely annoying, tho! I was so frustrated I had to close the program for a while.

I like the story very much. I'm a big fan of TTG now, it seems that the movies were never this complex and had so many deep characters.

[Anarion]

Originally Posted by farchondo

I just finished it. I am really surprised. It wasn´t too easy. The big puzzle with the Emmet´s helmet got me thinking but I figured it out with a smile.

I get a sense that the storyline won´t please everyone but in my case I really felt this episode, got me emotional about Marty´s and Doc relationship. It took a little commodities that with a longer episode could it have been more interesting but I really felt the emotional complexity of this episode! because that´s what it is, this one is not about the thrills but the human connections between the characters and that is pretty rare for a computer game. Great job telltale, eager for the next and final chapter where I think, with all the setting, will be a roller coaster. OUTATIME will get us where no BTTF story has lead us before. At least it will be different and daring, just like science right?

you must've been rollin' ur balls off when you wrote this.

emotional complexity?
human connections between characters? and rare?

DV was quite possibly the single-most dull, superfluous, and frankly rather annoying- the MAM puzzle in particular -episode of anything that's come out of any of BTTF, TOMI, or SMAX. I won't speak to the games I haven't played -I stick mostly to those series I already knew for years, with BTTF being the obvious exception, to which I'm obliged to state, for the record, that TTG knows their market is a niche, and they're taking the movies we all watched growing up and turning them into the type of old-fashioned Adventure games of that same time, a la Monkey Island, Sam&Max, and for many I'm sure the Quests' series from Sierra (my favorite being QFG).

It's a sound business plan, for the short term and provided the product meets a quality standard. This episode, I'm sorry to say, does not meet that standard. This was mindless droning back and forth 'twixt screens with a big fat WTF of a puzzle thrown in for good measure.

Man, I hate to say it, but for a time there I felt like Guybrush on Flotsam Island; how much I hated the recycled background and the (once-again) mindless droning back and forth listening for noises of pigs, birds, monkeys, wind, and, fittingly, bees.

Sorry TTG, this one was a piece o' garbage.

[Anarion]

Originally Posted by PrivateJoker

It's not a bad direction. He beats Biff in BTTF 2 by throwing an ash tray at him. And "HEY LOOK OVER THERE!!!" seems to work on all people. lol

That 'ash tray' was supposed to be akin to the frisbee, and the pie pan.

On a side note, I actually never thought of it as an ash-tray before, simply a thin metal display 'rack' for the matchbooks, but the ash-tray does make sense.

[PrivateJoker]

Originally Posted by Anarion

That 'ash tray' was supposed to be akin to the frisbee, and the pie pan.

On a side note, I actually never thought of it as an ash-tray before, simply a thin metal display 'rack' for the matchbooks, but the ash-tray does make sense.

Still it would have been funny if you could whack FCB over the head with a toilet seat and when he came too he would be thinking of the flux capacitor.

[Rtboh]

Originally Posted by PrivateJoker

Still it would have been funny if you could whack FCB over the head with a toilet seat and when he came too he would be thinking of the flux capacitor.

Agreed Future Boy!

[Ciremi]

Love what Telltale did with messing with the player's head.

Honestly, I started this out dead-set on going through the puzzles, but about halfway through when Young Doc pulls out the ring it really messes with your head that you're about to sabotage this guy's happiness.

It's even more difficult to face when FCB asks you what Edna is like in Marty's timeline, and you have to choose to lie or tell the truth.

Telltale threw me on my head with this one, and from an emotional standpoint I'd say I was a lot more invested in this than the other episodes. Telltale did here what they did with Morgan in Tales of Monkey Island, and it's great.

That aside, the whole FCB (the non-scientist) being able to fix the Delorean, time circuits, etc. and understand the concept of time travel felt a little weird, and that's really the only problem I have.

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

Originally Posted by Ciremi

That aside, the whole FCB (the non-scientist) being able to fix the Delorean, time circuits, etc. and understand the concept of time travel felt a little weird, and that's really the only problem I have.

But FCB has always been a scientist, it's only that he uses his science for Edna's purposes

[farchondo]

Originally Posted by Anarion

you must've been rollin' ur balls off when you wrote this.

emotional complexity?
human connections between characters? and rare?

DV was quite possibly the single-most dull, superfluous, and frankly rather annoying- the MAM puzzle in particular -episode of anything that's come out of any of BTTF, TOMI, or SMAX. I won't speak to the games I haven't played -I stick mostly to those series I already knew for years, with BTTF being the obvious exception, to which I'm obliged to state, for the record, that TTG knows their market is a niche, and they're taking the movies we all watched growing up and turning them into the type of old-fashioned Adventure games of that same time, a la Monkey Island, Sam&Max, and for many I'm sure the Quests' series from Sierra (my favorite being QFG).

It's a sound business plan, for the short term and provided the product meets a quality standard. This episode, I'm sorry to say, does not meet that standard. This was mindless droning back and forth 'twixt screens with a big fat WTF of a puzzle thrown in for good measure.

Man, I hate to say it, but for a time there I felt like Guybrush on Flotsam Island; how much I hated the recycled background and the (once-again) mindless droning back and forth listening for noises of pigs, birds, monkeys, wind, and, fittingly, bees.

Sorry TTG, this one was a piece o' garbage.

Sorry... I differ.

I liked it. You are entitled to your opinion. Go play other games then.

Oh by the way... in case you are worry. My balls are just fine.

[Ciremi]

Originally Posted by Javi-Wan Kenobi

But FCB has always been a scientist, it's only that he uses his science for Edna's purposes

But this is a man who never went on to invent the time-traveling Delorean in this timeline, and yet somehow knows all its inner-workings and bells and whistles. Unless, have I missed something?

[bttf4444]

Well, it did take him six months to figure out how the time machine works - and it didn't go without a hitch.

[JGennaro]

Seriously, this better not go in the bad ending route....in my opinion going further back into the past and steering doc off the path of science or doing ANYTHING that makes the events of back to the future 1 and any time travel at all NOT happen because doc has always said interfering in the course of events is wrong and if he thinks none of it ever should have happened will totally tick off probably every single fan in the world...it almost seems as if every single event and preview about doc saying it was *science* that was the problem has been pushing in that direction and no there are no other seasons planned i really REALLY wish there were but there aren't - so telltale, don't make it have happened only in a "memory" or something ridiculous or none of it to have ever happened..don't ERASE all the movies by doing that...it would be paradoxical to every fan out there...

[farchondo]

Originally Posted by JGennaro

Seriously, this better not go in the bad ending route....in my opinion going further back into the past and steering doc off the path of science or doing ANYTHING that makes the events of back to the future 1 and any time travel at all NOT happen because doc has always said interfering in the course of events is wrong and if he thinks none of it ever should have happened will totally tick off probably every single fan in the world...it almost seems as if every single event and preview about doc saying it was *science* that was the problem has been pushing in that direction and no there are no other seasons planned i really REALLY wish there were but there aren't - so telltale, don't make it have happened only in a "memory" or something ridiculous or none of it to have ever happened..don't ERASE all the movies by doing that...it would be paradoxical to every fan out there...

That... is not going to happen... not likely.