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What do we want? Time Travel! When do we want it? That's irrelevant!

Back to the Future: The Game an episodic adventure that will have you blasting through time at 88 miles per hour, is now available for up to 70% off on GOG.com! You can have it for as little as $7.49 until Thursday, September 6 at 10:59 AM GMT.

When you have the technology allowing time travel, the matter of "when" becomes slightly irrelevant. But just for the sake of introduction let's say that the events we're describing take place "after" Doc Brown and his family departed in their hovering steam-train time machine to a destination unknown. Marty McFly only started resume his normal life in 1985, when the empty DeLorean suddenly appeared outside Doc's lab with a recording of the eccentric scientist explaining that the timeline is once again in jeopardy. Once again (or is it the first time, chronologically speaking?) Marty sets off into the past to make sure that there is a future to get back to.

Back to the Future: The Game features all five episodes produced by Telltale Games: It's About Time, Get Tannen!, Citizen Brown, Double Visions, and Outatime--the episode concluding the whole series. With a classic point-and-click interface, characters and places based strictly on the movies, and some of the original cast voicing their animated counterparts (Yes! Christopher Lloyd is Doc Brown!), this game will satisfy adventure gamers and movie-maniacs alike.

Jump in the DeLorean and save Hill Valley from a terrible time paradox in Back to the Future: The Game, with a discount up to 70%! Head to the promo page for details.
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spindown: I love how you keep making up complete BS like this while acting like you know what you're talking about.
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anjohl: Time is the observable movement of atoms, nothing more. As such, there is nothing to "go back" to. Sorry if I burst your scifi geek fantasy.
I actually agree that time travel is impossible, but not for the bullshit "reason" you mentioned. Time is a force, not a place? What the hell is that even supposed to mean? You are simply talking out of your ass as usual.
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anjohl: Time is the observable movement of atoms, nothing more. As such, there is nothing to "go back" to. Sorry if I burst your scifi geek fantasy.
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spindown: I actually agree that time travel is impossible, but not for the bullshit "reason" you mentioned. Time is a force, not a place? What the hell is that even supposed to mean? You are simply talking out of your ass as usual.
No, I am talking rationally, and expositing known facts. How exactly does one "return" to a past "time"? How do you undo acts already done? You cannot. Time is a human concept, to represent the natural change due to atomic movement to living things and systems. Time is an illusion, repent, repent, repent.
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anjohl: Time is a human concept, to represent the natural change due to atomic movement to living things and systems. Time is an illusion, repent, repent, repent.
God is laughing at you right now.

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anjohl: How do you undo acts already done? You cannot.
Well, now, actually your own statement provides an answer: by reverting physical and chemical prcesses. See, that's what the sands of time and the flux capacitator do. They invert the processes of everything in the universe except for the user (and in case of the flux capacitator the DeLorean too). Of course this does not explain why both in PoP and Back to the Future there's suddenly two copies of the same person but... well, it's just science fiction after all...
Post edited September 01, 2012 by F4LL0UT
I've just noticed that these release threads degrade into foolishness faster than usual. But I suppose that's expected when noone actually plays the games they've bought.

I blame you, GOG. :P
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adamzs: I've just noticed that these release threads degrade into foolishness faster than usual. But I suppose that's expected when noone actually plays the games they've bought.
See, everyone's getting older and more mature. We're getting too old for video games and yell at each other instead just like all old people do. Only that being gamers we do this online.
Post edited September 01, 2012 by F4LL0UT
Great game and promo.
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anjohl: Time is a human concept, to represent the natural change due to atomic movement to living things and systems. Time is an illusion, repent, repent, repent.
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F4LL0UT: God is laughing at you right now.

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anjohl: How do you undo acts already done? You cannot.
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F4LL0UT: Well, now, actually your own statement provides an answer: by reverting physical and chemical prcesses. See, that's what the sands of time and the flux capacitator do. They invert the processes of everything in the universe except for the user (and in case of the flux capacitator the DeLorean too). Of course this does not explain why both in PoP and Back to the Future there's suddenly two copies of the same person but... well, it's just science fiction after all...
I suppose it could in theory to return all particles moved by atomic movement to a position from 5 seconds ago, but the energy requirement to do so on even a local level would be so vast as to be unimaginable. Also, the perception of time would not have been changed.

That is a straw man, what we are talking about is time as a river, where one can go back in time, kill their mother before their own birth, paradoxes, and all that rubbish. Time is simply a way to describe atomic movement.


And where does a fictional standin for human birth come in to this?
Okay, what the hell. I might as well jump into the fray.

Anjohl, I was just about to write long paragraphs in order to point out the falseness of your confidence in saying that timespace is irreversible. However, I've found a nice Wikipedia article listing a bunch of the most prominent flow of time scientific theories out there, and I believe just reading through that list should give you an idea of how advanced (and volatile) our understanding of time really is.

So I'll just step aside and let Wikipedia make my point for me.
Heh, I wasn't gonna buy this game during the release promo, but I still caved in. I'm glad I did, though. I've played through the first four episodes, and I'm loving it so far. :)