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Posted May 22, 2012
A Triumphant Return of Wonderful Storytelling

Dreamfall, the sequel to The Longest Journey, is a beautiful third-person adventure game for only $14.99 on GOG.com.

The Longest Journey, with its epic story and fantastically portrayed world and characters, was easily one of the best adventure games ever made. Dreamfall, a long-awaited sequel, never fails to deliver a similarly fantastic experience. Taking you a journey through another 13 chapters across the twinned worlds of Stark and Arcadia. However, Dreamfall breaks the expectations with brilliant visual style, breathtaking soundtrack, great voice acting, and challenging game mechanics that require you to think outside the box to complete difficult--but not frustrating--challenges and puzzles. The game offers much less 'action' than most of today's games, but satisfies with mature and intelligent dialogues, gripping story, and and characters who elicit authentic emotions to fascinate and engage any adventure connoisseur.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey follows three adventurers: Zoë Castillo, a 20-year-old resident of Casablanca in 2219, April Ryan, the main protagonist in the original game (and now the Rebel leader), and Kian Alvane, an Azadi soldier and skilled swordsman in two parallel worlds: the technologically advanced Stark and magical Arcadia. An international conspiracy to introduce lucid dream-inducing technology that could be potentially used to brainwash and control the whole population of Stark needs to be stopped, and it falls upon Zoë, April, and Kian to wright the world’s wrongs.

Dreamfall is a multi-threaded, believable, and engaging adventure with amazing presentation and unique attention to details, and is available now on GOG.com for only $14.99 with wallpapers, avatars, the soundtrack, and 30 gorgeous pieces of digital art.
Posted May 22, 2012
15 bucks? You're kidding right?
Posted May 22, 2012
It has been on my gog wishlist for years but I'll probably wait for a sale.
No hurry since I played it in the past.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by MrFunkyFunk
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: I just saying, that the majority of potential buyers here won't buy it for $15 now. I don't know what's the purpose of those releases as long as GOG.com didn't change their sales/promos policy.
Well, GOG hasn't yet had a sale that includes their more expensive games, have they? We'll have to wait and see what they do.
Posted May 22, 2012
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photoleia: I bought it retail for $40 (complete with Starforce before I knew better) and it was worth every penny.
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keeveek: I just saying, that the majority of potential buyers here won't buy it for $15 now. I don't know what's the purpose of those releases as long as GOG.com didn't change their sales/promos policy.
They have significant sales 3-4 days out of every week every month, and they put the whole catalog on 50% off for the entire month of December. I'm not sure how much more you want. they couldn't do much more without having stuff on sale all the time ... which is not a the best of business models since it devalues the original product.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by photoleia
Posted May 22, 2012
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photoleia: which is not a the best of business models.
I don't know, maybe for GOG it isn't. Valve proved "constant sale" is the best business model for Steam.

with prices above 15-20 bucks, they will have to do some -75% promos...
But yeah, "daily deals' probably wouldn't be good for gog, because they would have entire catalogue on sale through a single year :P
Post edited May 22, 2012 by keeveek
Posted May 22, 2012
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photoleia: They have significant sales 3-4 days out of every week every month, and they put the whole catalog on 50% off for the entire month of December. I'm not sure how much more you want. they couldn't do much more without having stuff on sale all the time ... which is not a the best of business models.
It's the 50% he takes issue with I think. According to GOG their average sale is 40-50%, and they'd like to keep it that way. But those percentages don't match up to other retailers sales percentages.

And I don't think it was the whole catalogue last december.
Posted May 22, 2012
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summitus: Too expensive, if gog are going to be doing more releases like this they need to get realistic price points for certain games. That being said its not often they get it wrong ! :-)
I'm sure it has been mentioned already, but Steam and Gamersgate are selling it at least here in Europe for 19.99€ (= $25,36) against GOG's $14.99, so this doesn't sound so bad, especially considering it is DRM-free.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by timppu
Posted May 22, 2012
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bouncedk: 15 bucks? You're kidding right?
yeah... still cheaper than steam tough.

still too expensive.


but such a great game. love it so much.
Posted May 22, 2012
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photoleia: which is not a the best of business models.
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keeveek: I don't know, maybe for GOG it isn't. Valve proved "constant sale" is the best business model for Steam.

with prices above 15-20 bucks, they will have to do some -75% promos...
The key word here is "for Steam." GOG is not, nor has it ever been, Steam. They are their own company with a completely different set of values. Interviews over the years have made it clear that while GOG's people may be on good terms with Newell et al., they are not trying to be Steam, and therefore they should be judged on their own merit. GOG has a very clear no-DRM stance. They bend over backwards fro their customer base, and they do their best to provide a quality service (and do their best to make up for things when they don't go quite right). GOG is GOG. It is about time that people started realizing that. If you like Steam's practices so much then stick with them. No harm, no foul.
Posted May 22, 2012
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photoleia: This is a very good price point compared to competitors AND for what you get. The only way you can ge the soundtrack anymore is by purchasing the GotY edition which is still running for 26+ dollars on Amazon (and is almost out of stock for good). The soundtrack is no longer available separately, and the Steam price point (which is more expensive I might add) does not include the soundtrack.
I wondered if, sometimes, we pay a few extra bucks for the extras (soundtrack, mainly); it might be a 9.99 game with a $5 soundtrack. Is the music any good?

Even if extras cost extra, I can't really "take back" my wishlist request. ;) I suppose GOG could start selling the extras separately, but then we might not get ANY free extras. :P
Posted May 22, 2012
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Pheace: And I don't think it was the whole catalogue last december.
It wasn't the whole catalog either this year or last year, but it was pretty darn close.
Posted May 22, 2012
So what happened with their "we are going to be the first major alternative to steam" annoucement? ;-)

Without -75, -85 , they will never be an alternative for anybody big.

PS. Gamersgate also makes "promos all the year", because they know it's good.
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tfishell: I wondered if, sometimes, we pay a few extra bucks for the extras (soundtrack, mainly); it might be a 9.99 game with a $5 soundtrack. Is the music any good?

Even if extras cost extra, I can't really "take back" my wishlist request. ;) I suppose GOG could start selling the extras separately, but then we might not get ANY free extras. :P
Soundtrack for Dreamfall is GREAT.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by keeveek
Posted May 22, 2012
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tfishell: I wondered if, sometimes, we pay a few extra bucks for the extras (soundtrack, mainly); it might be a 9.99 game with a $5 soundtrack. Is the music any good?

Even if extras cost extra, I can't really "take back" my wishlist request. ;) I suppose GOG could start selling the extras separately, but then we might not get ANY free extras. :P
I was just coming to post this. The soundtrack is AMAZING. Its an orchestral quality that many would buy the entire CD on Itunes for $9.99. I drop the files from both games (TLJ & Dreamfall) into my Oblivion music folders for exploration/battle and it fits beautifully in that game.

I doubt we really pay extra for them, I think they were standard with the original games (may not have said "includes soundtrack" but the files were easily found in the game files).

But in this case, the value they add are pretty high.

P8DR
Post edited May 22, 2012 by user deleted
Posted May 22, 2012
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gameon: I never played kings quest either. The only kind of point and click games i played have been Broken sword, discworld and myst. And myst was so difficult it wound me up.
If you managed to play through Discworld, you can consider yourself a point-and-click veteran. ;)

(I loved it, but it's probably one of the most frustrating adventures regarding puzzle design.)

Whether you will like The Longest Journey is a matter of taste; lots of people love it. I'm not so convinced myself yet. At times it's very interesting, regarding the setting and also the characters, and you definitely get your money's worth if you consider the "long" from the title a quality in point-and-click adventures. Still, the puzzle design is probably jsut as bad as that of Discworld, there are some really silly conversations to be had and "long" also applies to the time you have to listen to or click through linear dialogues without much choice. Anyway, YMMV.
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: So what happened with their "we are going to be the first major alternative to steam" annoucement? ;-)
there is a difference between being an alternative and trying to *be* someone else.

GOG provdes an alternative. They provide a DD service that people want, without all the things that people dislike about Steam.

Origin, however, is trying to BE Steam. They may have some different features, but they do not set themselves apart enough to actually make themselves an alternate. Instead they are a painful requirement that just makes customers wish they were using Steam instead.

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tfishell: I wondered if, sometimes, we pay a few extra bucks for the extras (soundtrack, mainly); it might be a 9.99 game with a $5 soundtrack. Is the music any good?

Even if extras cost extra, I can't really "take back" my wishlist request. ;) I suppose GOG could start selling the extras separately, but then we might not get ANY free extras. :P
That is indeed a valid point. I have picked up a couple games with rather "meh" soundtracks before. The good has certainly outweighed the bad though. Soundtracks are one thing that I really, really love and video game soundtracks (especially one for slightly older games) can be near impossible to find legally. I know that I am not everyone, but for me it is certainly worth the risk. As far as Dreamfall goes, I do happen to remember it have a rather well done "contemporary" soundtrack. I *almost* re-bought it as GotY (despite the DRM) just for the soundtrack.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by photoleia
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