Back to the Future Save Consistency

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Does anyone else know what the hell is up with Back to the Future's saving? First, after selecting a fake alias only one person called me by it ONCE. After that, the first three episodes had everyone calling me by some other choosable name. Then, after completing each chapter, I had to start the next one as if I had done nothing before it. I had to reset my settings and deal with people calling me YET ANOTHER NAME in the fourth and fifth chapters.
Did I do something wrong? It wouldn't let me just jump from chapter to chapter; I had to start each manually through Steam. I'm pretty sure the game didn't once try to read my save data when loading new areas.

Thoughts?

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godprobe

Probably normal, a byproduct of the game being released one episode per month, and each episode being a stand-alone game.

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Mew2

Yeah. It's probably normal since I had the same issue on my iOS version. I don't think it's a save data problem, just an oversight/technical difficulty/laziness thing.

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DropTheDodongo

Makes sense, since there were even worse glitches that prevented me from moving forward until I deciphered what was going wrong.

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Lunk

It's just a really clunky implementation. It's basically 5 different games, where as far as I know, the save files are completely isolated from each other.

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2kwik4u

I didn't have a problem with this, people called me Michael Corleone the whole time. Apparently you're not the only one with this problem though. It's not like it makes much of a difference anyway.

I'm pretty sure the nickname you choose is supposed to be stored in the game's registry files.

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DropTheDodongo

Yeah, I chose the Hollander one. After the first time (including MINUTES later in the same episode), everyone started calling me Mr Corleone. After the third episode, it was "Sonny Crocket". Still a great plot, if not rather annoying.

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dexxterger

i never understood why each episode is released as a stand-alone game oO

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2kwik4u

because they release one every month. apparently they fixed it with the Walking Dead though.

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