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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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keeveek: Research shows (comparing how many games steam is selling, gamersgate is selling compared to GOG) , that most people don't give a flying duck about DRM-free.

Drm-free factor is a very good thing, but not a factor that would make you biggest steam alternative.
You are correct on that point. But GOG is still cheaper than either Steam or Gamersgate on this title, so I think that in this case, GOG is an alternative to either one.
I think that people expect GOG to be a Steam "killer". That is like expecting any new MMO out there to "dethrone" WoW as the biggest MMORPG there is. It is not going to happen.
I use both Steam and GOG to get my games. Before it was just Steam. Now GOG offers some games that I haven't seen in almost 20 years that are not in Steam and even when they are, GOG has them cheaper. THAT to me is an alternative. I don't understand why people are so concerned about whether GOG is a Steam competitor or not. It is not.
Posted May 22, 2012
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beliar: I fuckin' love you GOG! The only reason I haven't bought it long ago on a disc was because of the stupid Securom, that, from what I heard, makes the game unplayable on some DVD drives.
I loved both TLJ games when I played them years ago. It's a shame Dreamfall ends with a cliffhanger with no sequel in sight.
It was Starforce (even worse), but it was patched out.
Posted May 22, 2012
If you guys compare GOG price to Steam price, please note that 15$ is normal GOG price, and it should be compared to normal Steam price (20$).

If you take into consideration Steam promo price (-75% off) = 5$ then please compare it with GOG promo price (50% off or sometimes 60% off) = 7,5$ or 6$.

In this case the difference is almost not noticable. And it's DRM-free, which for most users here should be worth more than 1$.
Posted May 22, 2012
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hucklebarry: This is kind of bizarre :/
Sneaky one, thank you :)
Posted May 22, 2012
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hucklebarry: This is kind of bizarre :/

SX6X-Q3PY
missed
Posted May 22, 2012
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TheRustBelt: This is no "research" at all.
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keeveek: The word "research" was used as a joke, dude.
Sorry!
Posted May 22, 2012
How did you decypher that code, guys? ;P

SLP2000 , fair enough. We will have to wait and see what GOG promos will be now.

Because with "we have higher prices now, but hey, we're still DRM-free!" they will not gonna be an alternative to anything :P
Posted May 22, 2012
Decent game, nowhere near as good as its predecessor though. Not sure what the beef is with the pricing, $15 seems fair. *shrug*

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hucklebarry: SX6X-Q3PY
... the hell?
Posted May 22, 2012
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Gonchi: Decent game, nowhere near as good as its predecessor though. Not sure what the beef is with the pricing, $15 seems fair. *shrug*

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hucklebarry: SX6X-Q3PY
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Gonchi: ... the hell?
not hell, part of a code
Posted May 22, 2012
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keeveek: Because with "we have higher prices now, but hey, we're still DRM-free!" they will not gonna be an alternative to anything :P
It is rather a matter of for how many users it will be an alternative.

For those who prefer to pay 10$ more for DRM-free than to buy a game on Steam (like me for example) GOG will always be an alternative to Steam.
Posted May 22, 2012
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Roman5: wow, haha, what a pleasant surprise to see this here

I remember buying this game cheap back in 2007 with the artbook and soundtrack but the game would not run on my system due to the DRM it had in it, that moment was when I truly learned what was DRM and why I need to fight against it

Needless to say...this game was the one that started it all

Will pick this one up for sure someday
The DRM was removed in an official patch. >.>
Posted May 22, 2012
Hey, I'm curious. How did you obtain the rest of the code?
Posted May 22, 2012
Terrible stealth/combat but one of the best stories in all of gaming. Opinion, of course. I'll be picking this up soon. Wishlisted!
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keeveek: Because with "we have higher prices now, but hey, we're still DRM-free!" they will not gonna be an alternative to anything :P
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SLP2000: It is rather a matter of for how many users it will be an alternative.

For those who prefer to pay 10$ more for DRM-free than to buy a game on Steam (like me for example) GOG will always be an alternative to Steam.
Yup! I'd rather pay a few bucks extra and be able to play as I please, rather than play as Valve and/or Steam pleases.
Post edited May 22, 2012 by fortune_p_dawg
Posted May 22, 2012
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SLP2000: If you guys compare GOG price to Steam price, please note that 15$ is normal GOG price, and it should be compared to normal Steam price (20$).

If you take into consideration Steam promo price (-75% off) = 5$ then please compare it with GOG promo price (50% off or sometimes 60% off) = 7,5$ or 6$.

In this case the difference is almost not noticable. And it's DRM-free, which for most users here should be worth more than 1$.
As mentioned before though, for $6.24 you can pick up Dreamfall + Last Journey bundle on other distributors.

Ignoring the bundle, on sales that still leaves GOG more expensive, and that's simply not right.

Yes, GOG is different, but should that mean you need to pay more for the game? (discounting currency variances). Because that's the issue mentioned. Unless the average GOG sales go up, GOG in the long run is more expensive than the other distributors. Ideally, they'd be equally priced (with sales), and have the advantage because they are DRM-free and provide a good service etc.
Posted May 22, 2012
I own this game on Disc, but it refused to work on Vista without me having to download something that ultimately almost destroyed my computer. So I've never played the game.

I'm assuming this will have been updated to work on current versions of Windows. Might have to wait for the price to go down a bit before buying.
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