Shack Feature Preview: Dreamfall
Remember adventure games? With its sequel to the acclaimed The Longest Journey, Funcom and designer Ragnar Tornquist are attempting to innovate within the once proud genre. Check out my preview and interview on Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, heading to PC and Xbox this spring. Also, check out this recent trailer on FileShack if you missed it.
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The Longest Journey told the story of heroine April Ryan, who embarked on, appropriately enough, a rather long journey that straddled contrasting worlds of science and magic. The game was released to rave reviews and gained a devoted following. In the years following its release, Funcom has mainly been known for the MMO Anarchy Online. In 2003, however, the developer started working on a followup to The Longest Journey, fully titled Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Dreamfall is set for release on Xbox and PC this spring. Having seen the game in various stages of development over the last couple years, I recently had the opportunity to pick the brain of designer Ragnar Tornquist to hear his general thoughts on the game as well as some of the reasoning behind the significant changes between the first installment and its sequel.
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I wonder how well my system will run it?
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Im still loving Momment of Silence...totally old school adv game. Love it...i still remember scenes from indy and the fate of atlantis..(well besides spending time editing the autoexec.bat and config.sys to free more base memory..haha)
But yes, great read and i cannot wait!
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Spread your legs!
And doooooo the moooooonkey!
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Loved every second of them except the black mirror ending..
I never tried the Longest Journey.. is it a must have or not ?
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Very annoying.
We need more old-schoolish adventure games.
Indigo Prophecy was a piece of shit.
That is all.
For new games it seems like a no-brainer, though. Don't they want more software sales from people who only own a 360?
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-contrived twitch events
-import horribly cliched moments from the designer's favourite movies
-unnecessarily complex and over-the-top plot that ends with the protaganist saving the world
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It's been a long time since I've played a kickass adventure game. The last awesome one I played was TLJ.
Please don't suck.
Also in order not to spoil the story for myself I really should stop reading any other previews about it. Thanks for the warning.
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this game looks not only interesting but beautiful. I will be checking this out.
You are right - the genre is stale and over-written. I think that it takes fresh games like this to force other developers to pull their heads out of their asses.