Telltale Games has added a new survey on their site asking fans what they want in the company’s upcoming Back to the Future game.
The company says the results of the 10-15 minute survey will help their team learn what interests fans the greatest in developing this game, although they make no promise that any suggestions will make it into the finalized game. The survey can be found here.
Unfortunately for seasoned fans like myself who’ve been involved with the series since the very beginning, the company is looking for “respondents who fit a different profile.” So just a heads-up: 45-year-old males need not apply!
[Thanks to Stephen Francis for the link! - via Facebook]
It was a long and detailed survey — they asked a lot about what you considered most iconic in the trilogy. They also wanted to know who you would like to play AS and you you want to interact WITH. Finally, they gave 4 examples of plot ideas for the game and asked for input on which you considered the best.
I’m thrilled that they are looking for so much input, though I don’t understand the age block.
Yeah, you’ve gotta have some of the systems and play them at some point in time to take part in the survey. I don’t own any of the systems they have listed but my DS… which I never use. Filling out that I own a 360 (because I do, however broken it may be) allowed me to take the survey on the second attempt.
Their game options for possible game ideas are interesting. So taking the survey does give you some sort of an idea as to what they are going to do with it and where they want to take it as a game.
I am sure my answers to their questions will probably throw them for a loop. Being loopy and all.
Completed the survey, enjoyed the four scenarios they had for possible game ideas…..I’m getting excited to play whatever gets released.
I like what they are trying to do. It’s going to take BTTF to a whole new level! That is however, some of those questions seemed a little bit out of place considering how big of a fan you really are. The whole time I was thinking was, (do you know that there are die hards that are laughing at you?) Overall, i think it’s going to be a great game!
And Remeber, the future i s what you make it!!!
I hope the release it on multiple systems/consoles. This will be a must have for me! I’m sure it will blow away the crappy 80′s nintendo games.
Seems that the survey company messed the target group up. Telltale IS indeed interested in the opinions of the age group 40+, and they have created a thread in their forums specifically for those who can’t take the survey because of their age. Granted, a lot of the BTTF fans readily admit to have entered a false age to get into the survey. No one seems to mind, though.
Well, 16 year old girls can fill in the survey! Although, as happy as I am I can fill in the survey I think it’s daft that the original fanbase can’t.
When they asked what i thought of their examples i tore them apart. Not that they weren’t good ideas, but their were complications with their plots interfering with previously established history. Someone is going to hate reading my survey, but i am SOOOOOOOOO glad they decided to do this. Great idea!
I wasn’t crazy about any of the scenarios. Some didn’t make much sense. For example, taking us to the 30′s sounds awesome, but I’d much rather fight against an Al Capone type Tannen than a gold digger that could make Doc not be interested in science anymore. The Tannen time police one? Where did the time police come from, and why is one of the Tannens a law enforcement officer? They’ve always been trouble makers, right? The Biff Jr. getting into a fight with the Mcfly kids? Way too animated series for me. The only intriguing option scenario, at least for me, is the 60′s scenario where Marty meets his Mom the day before he is born. I like the scenario, but not the potential gameplay options. Hunting for missing pieces of the time machine? Lorraine wearing the flux capacitor as a pearl necklace? I’d much rather see them take an approach similar to what the Ghostbusters game did. Make it like a 4th movie. Keep the style the same, but have them visit different time periods. Add new characters, but don’t go overboard. Just my two cents. Should be fun no matter what though.
I like the idea of Doc and Marty in 2010, but Temporal Preservation Squadron!!. I mentioned it to them that the time travel was always a secretive element in the trilogy. So having a organization dealing with time travel and timelines, even if they are from the future doesn’t seem fitting in the BTTF Universe.
Don’t want to see Marty traveling back to his younger parents and perhaps being a rehash of Part I, with him fixing his own childhood in 1968.
Continuing things in 1986 seems like a good idea; get to keep all the characters and scenarios from the movie in 1985 and good to have Biff Jr since has never been explored atleast in the movies.
And if they provide a convincing back story as to why and how Young Emmett Brown got around to give up his scientific expeditions in exchange for a relationship and engagement.. I can get behind this storyline.
But for each storyline it doesn’t feel natural and organic, sounds too fictional and made up even to be considered in the BTTF Universe.
Hey Volveralfuturo, did you read my survey? LoL! I have the same concerns and desires! I don’t want a cartoony BTTF game, I want what happened to the Ghostbuster game! I want to fly the Delorean, not click on a destination on a map like in Sam and Max, another game Telltall created.
The only way I’m going to buy the game is if it’s a full 60 dollar game [that's worth 60 bucks] not an episode with rushed models and the like.
Hmmm. Very neat little survey. Hope they read all of these thoroughly. This game MIGHT be worth the time …. never know ….
Survey is already closed.
Has anyone seen the Hill Valley Mod for GTA? That looks amazing. The DeLorean looks great.
I mostly want Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox and Tom Wilson.
I personally wanted them to follow the storyline of the movies which I threw in a few times.. but I suppose it would be cool if they tried to create a new senerio. But I felt like their ideas were kinda random and not really any good for what the movies were about. I have to say when taking the survey when they asked how many times I have seen the movies I laughed really hard.. because seriously.. I’ve been watching them for 18 years.. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen them. Enough to know all the words… haha.. silly game makers… Just because I’m only 22 doesn’t mean I haven’t enjoyed my fair share of 80′s movies and television shows..
Not a problem at all Steve!
i completed the quiz but was dissapointed that they didnt specify what the graphics might look like, i love BTTF including the cartoon but i really hope they dont go down the sam and max path…it would be nice to see it like there CSI Game.
I got here too late. What were the different storylines?
I definitely think the recent Ghostbusters game should be used as the framework for all future movie sequel video games. It stays true to the original films, has a realistic look and feel, includes all the original actors as we remember them, etc.
I think the best way to handle a game of this scope, and the concept of time-travel, is to make a game based solely on the entire trilogy itself. Put the film series in YOUR hands, and decide the fate of the past and the future; I liked how the concept of the sequel game on the NES by LJM had you going back into 1955, planting a seed, and coming back to 2015 to see it as an oak tree.
The results would be way too awesome, dark, and good fun. I want to play a scenario in 2015 where Biff’s reign still remains, and wild stuff like that, man. No joke. Play as Marty Jr./Sr. [young or old], Griff, Biff, Doc, Jennifer, George, Lorraine – you name it. Just… give me the whole effin’ fan-service you can provide me.