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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
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Kabus: More price levels = More games
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Pheace: Doing away with DRM free stance = More Games
Doing away with the "Good" stance = more games.
Posted May 22, 2012
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Pheace: Doing away with DRM free stance = More Games
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Austrobogulator: Doing away with the "Good" stance = more games.
That they did long ago :)
Posted May 22, 2012
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Kunovski: I don't like the new price level... this game can be compared (even by age) to some of the newest Gabriel Knight games and yet they're cheaper...
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Kabus: More price levels = More games
This. :)

Great release GOG, bought it immediately. I love your multiple language installers, could we get the first longest journey with more languages too? The German actors were great...
Posted May 22, 2012
Very good game, unfortunately with some cliffhangers. There was a plan to release the next game Telltale-like as episodes, but it seems that was cancelled. Last information I got that the creator wants to make a follower, but this will take time :-/ Whatever, while it's not a classical point&click adventure like the first game it's a very good follower of the first game with an interesting story. There are a few action sequences, but nothing hard (to be honest, without them it would be better).

Edit: Btw, thanks to the latest patch the disc version is also drm-free.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by DukeNukemForever
Posted May 22, 2012
What has happened with those prices? They're killing me... :-/
Posted May 22, 2012
Only played and finished the first one. I loved that one so I guess I'll get this one too eventually.
Posted May 22, 2012
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DukeNukemForever: Very good game, unfortunately with some cliffhangers. There was a plan to release the next game Telltale-like as episodes, but it seems that was cancelled. Last information I got that the creator wants to make a follower, but this will take time :-/ Whatever, while it's not a classical point&click adventure like the first game it's a very good follower of the first game with an interesting story. There are a few action sequences, but nothing hard (to be honest, without them it would be better).
Dreamfall: Chapters (the follow-up to which you're referring) is still on the cards. Ragnar Tornquist has been busy with The Secret World, though.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by coldalarm
Posted May 22, 2012
Very nice. I'll make sure to snag it when I get some more moolah.
Posted May 22, 2012
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Onkel_Donald: I love your multiple language installers, could we get the first longest journey with more languages too? The German actors were great...
You're a lucky guy, two day ago Spellbreaker posted a patch for it:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/multilingual_gogs/post210
Posted May 22, 2012
Fifteen?

Pass.

edit: ok, it's cheaper than initial price on steam. But who buys oldies on their initial prices on steam? You need to make bigger discount for such prices, gog.

Bought it in retail for 3 bucks.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by keeveek
Posted May 22, 2012
The first game in the series was really good. This one is decent, but IMO definitely not worth the price.

Worst aspect of the game is the unsatisfying cliffhanger ending. Since there's still no news on when (if at all) a sequel will come out I definitely wouldn't replay this game any time soon. Good game, but nothing memorable.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by elvenlord
Posted May 22, 2012
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DukeNukemForever: Very good game, unfortunately with some cliffhangers. There was a plan to release the next game Telltale-like as episodes, but it seems that was cancelled. Last information I got that the creator wants to make a follower, but this will take time :-/ Whatever, while it's not a classical point&click adventure like the first game it's a very good follower of the first game with an interesting story. There are a few action sequences, but nothing hard (to be honest, without them it would be better).
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coldalarm: Dreamfall: Chapters (the follow-up to which you're referring) is still on the cards. Ragnar Tornquist has been busy with The Secret World, though.
But will it be released as episodes? I read somewhere he dropped that plan.
Posted May 22, 2012
Well... yeah. Not going to break many financial backs but a bit steep pricing nonetheless.
I bought this for less many years ago.

But it's a good game, extremely fine visuals at places,
not as in "look at the polygon count" but as in "very stylish and beautiful art".

Quite different from The Longest Journey, which was old-skool point'n'click,
this is more a mix of genres do stuff thing. Not as long either, which is either a good or a bad thing.

And it doesn't finish the story. A sequel was planned, but...
Post edited May 22, 2012 by Jarmo
Posted May 22, 2012
Cool, I always wanted to play this, but I remember having some trouble getting it to run. Not sure if my rig is powerful enough to run it, but maybe it was just the DRM that prevented me from playing it. I agree that it's not a "newer" game, regarding GOG's usual standards, and that it's therefor strange to see it priced above $9.99, but if the alternative is no DRM-free version at all, $14.99 is still good, I guess. Besides, I can wait. ;) Wishlisted for now.

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DukeNukemForever: Edit: Btw, thanks to the latest patch the disc version is also drm-free.
Whoops, I missed that. But I guess nowadays you won't find the retail version for cheaper than 10 EUR either. Still, that gives me ideas. Maybe I'll get it from the library first, apply the patch and see if I'm able to run it with the DRM out of the way, before purchasing my own copy. :)
Post edited May 22, 2012 by Leroux
Posted May 22, 2012
Awesome stuff - i love this series!

But $14.99 is outside of my impulse buy range... wishlisted until payday for now.... depending on other games that might be released between now and then might also need to wait for a sale too....
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