The Longest Journey part 2: Dreamfall

[FrostyBoy]

My first was Zak Mckracken. Then Monkey Island.

So you can see why I am hooked on Adventures.

Nothing thus far has surpassed the greatness of Monkey Island.

And it strikes me as odd that Lucasarts has not created a Star Wars adventure game.. (not that I am into Star Wars..)

[Quillan]

Originally posted by Sn00py
One of the major reasons TLJ:1 took so long is because of the long long ass dialog. I remember the one you get right when you enter Arcadia and this guy starts telling you this humungous story; it was so long, I got so bored and couldn't care enough to listen to what he was saying.

I had the same trouble with TLJ over the last week. However I solved that problem by enabling subtitles and just ending the dialog when I finished reading. I read very quickly, so that cut out a lot of time.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Garfield.

Hey, I was a kid back then

But it was defently a weird game...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Sn00py
One of the major reasons TLJ:1 took so long is because of the long long ass dialog. I remember the one you get right when you enter Arcadia and this guy starts telling you this humungous story; it was so long, I got so bored and couldn't care enough to listen to what he was saying.

I loved the long dialogs, it made it feel like it was real, everything had a story... and for those who didn't care about the story, they could just skip them

[Adagio]

Hmmm... just had a look at an old preview of it on Gamespy (from E3 2004)

A little quote from the article:

One interesting element was that the [water] wheel made almost musical sounds when Zoe turned it. When I pointed that out to Tormquist, he replied that yes, many of the puzzles in this area are musically based

This game sure has changed a lot since then... The "many" was changed to "one"... and the water wheel didn't make any musical sounds when it was turned

[Quillan]

I heard music when I turned the control wheel: 4 notes in sequence, and I had to use the symbols just afterwards to duplicate those 4 notes in order to open the portal. There was another later that played music, but it wasn't integral to the process of opening the door in question.

[Datajack Franit]

I bought the game yesterday (what a ripoff! 25 Euro ) and of course, I finished it in 2 days. I didn't like the ending (BLARGH) and the whole Silent Hill- atmosphere (I abhorred the whole sneaking-around-hotel-packed-with-drug-addicts- noise-will-kill-you-thing)


Now, if they don't release the 3rd episode, Tsunamis should hit Norway

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
I didn't like the ending

Welcome to the club

[DrSpike]

From the previous posts I am waiting till part 3 comes out to play them together.

[El_Cid]

Re: The Longest Journey part 2: Dreamfall

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
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Ok they turned April into an anti-G8 demonstrator AND goth

Goths are people too you know

Oh and being an anti-G8 demostrator is kinda cool - the problem i have with its use in a game is it might trivialise the political message?

I've enjoyed The Longest Journey over xmas/new year, so will probably be getting this soon, bad ending none withstanding.